How and why did you choose this path? by Richard Scotti on The Pipeline at IndieMusicPeople

How and why did you choose this path?

What started you on the path of making music? Was there a single event or performer that inspired you in the moment of that experience? Did you appreciate music at at early age or later on in life?
Did you listen to your parent’s music when you were growing up? What draws you to music in general?

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BLINDMAN ZERO

1/20/2021 12:46:29 AM

My Wife bought a gift certificate for me to do a bit of recording for some songs10 years ago at a studio, if it were not for that, I would have never done anything. That started the ball rolling. Just uploaded a new one today, or was it last night, who knows too old to remember things like that, cause I am losing my mind, and walking around in a daze this days, zombiefied PLANETARY DISCIPLINE

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Richard Scotti

1/20/2021 10:33:09 AM ---- Updated 1/20/2021 10:36:43 AM

God bless the spouses who are often the muses who inspire artistic greatness! I’ve added your song to my station: “Instrumentally Yours” because it’s a rock guitar masterpiece. We owe your wife a debt of gratitude for helping to launch your musical journey into the cosmos and beyond.

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Larree

1/20/2021 12:36:05 PM

Whipped Cream and Other Delights - and the James Bond Theme.

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Steve April

1/20/2021 3:20:25 PM

I met well-known musicians like John Phillips, Richie Havens, Dave Mason, Rick Danko, Shawn Colvin, Steve Forbert (remember him??), Jerry Jeff Walker, in a club setting, and enjoyed their performances up close and personal...in a jam, at the sound board during the show... the weather was outrageous, in the winter...co-managing a music club with a college friend in ups New York in mid-late 80s...

Began songwriting , inspired by the atmosphere there at the club...before starting the direction of teaching high school English...

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Tom O'Brien

1/21/2021 3:02:58 AM

My parents both have really nice voices, and I was lucky enough to hear my mom singing often to me as a child, and to hear my dad sing in church. But it was when I was about 8 that my family went to a restaurant where a guy was singing and playing the guitar on a small stage in the bar/waiting area. I liked what he was singing and I felt his connection to the crowd, and it was magical. I asked my mom if I could put a dollar in his tip jar. As little me went up and put the dollar in, the singer nodded and winked at me as he sang. I never forgot that. I wanted to affect people like that.

And later, when I got a guitar at 13, I was visiting my sister, away at college, and we came across a guy in the park sitting on a sunny knoll, playing and singing for a couple of people who had gathered. He played a song called "Shadow," that he'd written. I didn't know that normal people could write songs. I was so impressed that I started to write songs of my own. It's almost as if he gave me permission. He showed me what was possible.

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The Rhythm Kings

1/21/2021 8:24:00 PM

My Mom had a old Harmony arch top. She got it at a concert that Bobby Vinton was playing at the Caterac dance hall in Wisconsin. Bobby said on stage this guitar is crap and gave it to my mom who pressed herself to the front row. So the story goes from mom who is now 80. The old arch top of press board hangs in my studio. The are I learned GC & D on. The thing really needed a set up even 40 years ago. But I played it till I bled. My first concert was Bob Seegar and the silver bullet band. I was hooked fully then and really started trying to play better. Then I met ol Don. He took me under his wing and well here I am at 57. Still picking.

Peace

Bruce

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Father Time

1/22/2021 7:20:07 AM

Steve, I am a huge Steve Forbert fan, saw him numerous times in tiny clubs.

how I ended up where I am in music is an odd story.

I would sing with the kids after Sunday School, at 3 I would stand in front of them and conduct them like a meistro.

In sdhool I started by playing drums, was good, made special band. Director wanred me to learn to play a trap set and be drummer for their stage band. but I had started taking piano lessons and my interest went there, also joined the choir in 6th grade. Started in musicals in 7th grade and was lead in Oliver and Once Upon A Mattress.

anyway when I went to college I was trying to become a critic for Rolling Stone. but I boughr my first acoustic guitar, wrote a batch of songs and soon found I didn'r want to pursue my major which lasted past the time I got my degree. Pretty soon after i graduated I sold my baseball cards and bought my first Strat. and from that point forward i worked shitty jobs wanting to be an artist.

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