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Richard Scotti
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7/31/2024 12:44:51 PM
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First impressions
1)What was the first cover song you ever learned how to play?
2)What was your first instrument?
3)What was the first song you ever wrote and describe the circumstances.
4)What was the first concert you ever attended?
5)What band or artist was your first obsession?
6)What was the moment you knew that music would be a lifelong love?
7)What was the first love song that you associate with someone you love?
8)What was the first time you performed in public?
9)What was the first home equipment you used to record an original song?
Pick the question or questions you like and go for it!
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Father Time
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7/31/2024 4:13:56 PM
that's a lot of good questions.
1. I can't remember what the first cover song I learned to play was but I remember being really happy when my piano teacher put My Love by McCartney on my piano stand.
2. My first instrument in school was a flutophone, then a snare drum.
3. I wrote a song called Kris about my friend and debate partner in school, who I was also secretly or not so secretly in love with.
4. Chicago
5. I loved both Elton and Wings
6. I knew music was something special upon hearing Up Up and Away for the first time in my sister's boyfriend's car on the way to my first major league baseball game.
7. My first real girlfriend Sue Schneider was in my junior year. Songs I associate with her were Some Kind of Wonderful and Surely off Carole King's Music album (I have a cover of Surely on my page). Second Avenue by Garfunkel, Wishing You Were Here by Chicago also
8. I played a drum solo in church to my friend Cass Young's piano - Onward Christian Soldiers. Moreso I remember my first piano solo in church was a song about Calvary (can't remember the exact title though oddly enough)..
9. I used one of those little cassettes to record Kris. My real recording was done on a Tascam 4 channel portastudio..
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Richard Scotti
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7/31/2024 5:53:48 PM
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1) House Of The Rising Sun on organ
2) organ, guitar, piano lessons
3) Riverboat Pilot (inspired by Thin Lizzie)
4) Rolling Stones
5) Beatles
6) Seeing Dylan live
7) when my first girlfriend (Ann) moved to another state, All My Loviin’ by the Beatles was our song.
8) I played with my band at a high school
“Hootenanny” that was supposed to be acoustic only.
We came on with amps, drums and electric guitars. Almost got suspended! We were threatened with a bad statement on our permanent records! But I took the blame since it was all my idea. The students loved it! The conservative teachers and administrators were
totally freaked out. I laugh about it to this day!
9) Four track Tascam Portastudio changed my life
10) Eventually I married Ann! No not that one,
Anne with an “e” my present wife. It all comes full circle!
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Jeff Allen Myers
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8/1/2024 11:52:12 AM
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1 This Land is Your Land— Elementary School
2.Guitar
3.Simple Blues song about the Beatles and Stones.. it was horrible!
4. The stage show “ Beatlemania” in 76 or 77
5.The Beatles
6.When my Band “Revolver” played for our high school… we wore white shirts and skinny black ties… we killed it!!!
7.Not sure… I think a song by Bread or the Carpenters.
8. On a dare I performed Neil Diamond’s “ Play Me” alone on a stool with an acoustic guitar.
9. Fostex X-15 four track cassette recorder!
Regards,
Jeff
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Father Time
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8/1/2024 11:59:36 AM
Jeff, I'm a huge Neil Diamond fan. I used to buy all his hits from the 3 for $1 cutout bin at Woolworths. Love Play Me, and Stones, and Thank the Lord for the Nighttime and so many others.
Bread and the Carpenters to me are at the top of the soft rock foodchain.
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Larree
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8/1/2024 12:40:13 PM
First impressions
1)What was the first cover song you ever learned how to play?
Not sure which was first, but it could have been the James Bond Theme or The Lonely Bull.
2)What was your first instrument?
Voice
3)What was the first song you ever wrote and describe the circumstances.
I dabbled a bit before this one, but the first substantial song was Never Gonna Work. And as my description says, "I wrote this song for my mom. The first time I sang it for her she chased me around the house with a rolled-up Better Homes & Gardens magazine. it eventually became one of her favorites."
Never Gonna Work
4)What was the first concert you ever attended?
I went to a few classical concerts as field trips in grade school, but my first real rock concert was Canned Heat, John Lee Hooker, War, Sugarloaf, and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, with Wolfman Jack as MC, at the Hollywood Bowl for 99¢.
5)What band or artist was your first obsession?
Julie Andrews
6)What was the moment you knew that music would be a lifelong love?
Birth
7)What was the first love song that you associate with someone you love?
Your Love is Like a Pizza
8)What was the first time you performed in public?
Summer Camp when I was in single digits. I sang Take Me Out to the Ball Game a Capella
9)What was the first home equipment you used to record an original song?
Sony Superscope cassette recorder.
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Monicka Ferens
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8/2/2024 12:00:39 PM
1)What was the first cover song you ever learned how to play? - My Immortal by Evanescence
2)What was your first instrument? - flute
3)What was the first song you ever wrote and describe the circumstances - I was 18 and I wrote a song called ''Falling Into History''. It was months into my music major and the moment I learned basic songwriting techniques, I sat at the piano and began composing. I recorded the song, but never managed to finish it because of lyrics. The song is still waiting for the story.
4)What was the first concert you ever attended? - Bloodhound Gang in 2006.
5)What band or artist was your first obsession? - Green Day. The moment they dropped American Idol, I was hooked. Not to mention it happened right during my rebelious years so they became a natural soundtrack to my life.
9)What was the first home equipment you used to record an original song? - audacity and my phone recorder. Oh the sound and quality of these songs haha.
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Richard Scotti
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8/5/2024 10:21:15 AM
Thank you FT, Jeff, Larree and Monicka for those interesting and revealing responses! I love getting to know my wonderful IMP colleagues.
Monicka, I love the title of your song: Falling Into History. I hope you eventually finish the lyrics. Sounds epic!
Jeff, it may interest you to know that the members of the original cast of Beatlemania
sing on several of my songs including She’s An Angel and Everything About You.
It’s also fun to see how so many of us started
recording on 4 Track cassette recorders. What a brilliant invention!
I hope more of you will answer some of questions. The more we share, the more we care!
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Father Time
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8/6/2024 6:32:19 AM
Speaking of the 4 track cassette recorders, I saw this yesterday about the making of Springsteen's Nebraska. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSpRrQFNUjw
Especially exciting and inspirational to me personally was seeing the machine he used, that Tascam, was the one I bought for myself as my first multitrack studio on one of the most important days of my life, when I took my first savings of US Postal Service money and went to music row in the big apple to equip myself at Sam Ash and Manny's. I loved that machine. Was so technically not proficient at first that I literally accidentally erased 100 or so good takes. I wore down that thing more than anyone ever did I'm certain. Got a big fix once but eventually it was so broke all over I held a ceremonial burial and threw it into the Atlantic Ocean.
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The Rhythm Kings
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8/6/2024 12:50:22 PM
1)What was the first cover song you ever learned how to play?
Wonderful Tonight by Eric Clapton
2)What was your first instrument?
Acoustic Guitar. a 57 Harmony Arch top. Still have it! Was my Moms
3)What was the first song you ever wrote and describe the circumstances.
A song called How can I open your Eyes. A High school Crush.
4)What was the first concert you ever attended?
Very Young Porter Wagner with a Young Dolly Parton. the Northern Wisconsin Fair Grounds!
5)What band or artist was your first obsession?
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band. So Tight!
6)What was the moment you knew that music would be a lifelong love?
10 Years Old with My Moms Guitar. Sitting on my bed Just figuring out basic chords. The sound was Magic
7)What was the first love song that you associate with someone you love?
Still... Wonderful Tonight!
8)What was the first time you performed in public?
15. I was in Swing Choir. Mainly because of the Chicks. All the Pretty girls where in Swing Choir!
9)What was the first home equipment you used to record an original song?
A cheap Radio Shack Cassette recorder. Ironiclly It was the song "How can I open your eyes". Maybe I need to try and reconstruct it????
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