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Noah Spaceship
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9/14/2009 2:03:06 AM
Top 5 - influences - CHIME IN!!
To keep this blog ball rolling, I will start out simple.
This may be tough for some of you, but it will be good for you to simplify and narrow your influences to the top 5. When I say influences, I am refering to specifically what inspires you to write music, etc. What lights a fire under your ass, who are the artists that motivate you to create.
This post is directed at musicians here, but feel free to list your top 5 favs if you are a non musician.
here's mine;
#1 - REM
#2 - Led Zep
#3 - Nirvana
#4 - Father Time (Scott Stambaugh - beleive it or not)
#5 - (last but certainly not least) Stevie Wonder
the only rule is you keep it to 5, expound to your contentment. ramble as long as you like(bryon, heh).
if you choose to not participate, you risk the wrath of my severe and pointed judgement.
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Hop On Pop
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9/14/2009 2:24:35 AM
My top 5 current influences?
Nick Lowe
The Kinks
Roy Wood/The Move
Tom Ze
Brian Eno
But, throughout the years?
Judas Priest (inspired me to pick up a guitar in the first place)
Meat Puppets (inspired me to dig beyond commercial music)
Uncle Tupelo (Got me thinking about writing songs)
and then some more...
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Noah Spaceship
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9/14/2009 2:46:28 AM
@larree - are you bullshitting? did you really take lessons from Andy?
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9/14/2009 7:03:20 AM
Well thanks, Noah, I'm honored. People often list their favorite artists at IAC and I am never on any of those lists so this was nice.
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Jilly
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9/14/2009 7:13:50 AM
Well being influenced by someone doesn't necessarily mean they rate you as a favourite artist, sorry to be pernickety. Maybe he listens to you in order to stop himself going down that road :)
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HunkaFunk
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9/14/2009 7:43:17 AM
1. Pink Floyd
2. Santana
3. Cream
4. The Police
5. Steely Dan
Yep, and of course The Beatles. I had a Beatle haircut in 1965, and remember when they fished out the windows of The Edgewater Inn (in Seattle-hometown).. The Beatles made us all think we could be rock stars...Ahh, memories.
TF
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Magnetfisch
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9/14/2009 9:16:59 AM
Simple Minds
The Cure
And Also The Trees
Dire Straits (Mark Knopfler)
Beth Gibbons (Portishead)
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Jeff Allen Myers
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9/14/2009 10:20:48 AM
The Beatles
Pink Floyd
Peter Gabriel (Genesis)
ELO
Bowie
There are many current artists that I take in for inspiration, but none specific enough to list. The ones listed here figure prominently in my development as a Songwriter and Singer.
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9/14/2009 11:49:11 AM
This should be pretty easy for everyone else who has heard my music, However...
Mine are;
Jimmy Buffett
John Prine
Jerry Jeff Walker
Delbert McClinton
Roger Waters
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Noah Spaceship
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9/14/2009 3:26:18 PM
@larree - I am speechless, that is so wicked cool
@jilly - that was not nice
@scott - you barely beat out kate bush
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Phlegm
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9/14/2009 3:47:00 PM
---- Updated 9/14/2009 4:09:36 PM
urrr.... Here's a quick list it's a few more than 5... but that's 'cause I'm kind of all over the place, when it comes to music:
Simon And Garfunkel
Howlin' Wolf
The Beatles
The Pixies
The Breeders
The Sex Pistols
The Ramones
The Velvet Underground
Nirvana
Bob Dylan
Ministry
Rage Against the Machine
Les Claypool
The Rolling Stones
The Fall
Operation Ivy
System of a Down
Guided By Voices and Mr. Pollard
Harry Nillsen
Tom Waits
Propaghandi
and LAST, but certainly not LEAST,
Jello Biafra, and The Dead Kenedys
My influences are OH so Many more, but that's a good start.
cool-ass thread, and sorry for breaking the rules...got a problem with authority, you know.
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Auset
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9/14/2009 4:01:39 PM
goodness, where in the world would one start....
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
ah, forget it.
Larree... you're just too cool. ; )
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Noah Spaceship
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9/14/2009 4:19:38 PM
@phlegm - you best respect my athoritah
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Product Recall
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9/14/2009 4:29:17 PM
#1. Nirvana
#2. Rancid
#3. NOFX
#4. Alice Cooper
#5. Green Day
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Phlegm
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9/14/2009 5:37:47 PM
You just had to prove you could follow the rules, eh School?
He said 5 -- you gave him 5 --- but I happen to know, from talkin' with ya, and listenin' to yer musak all too frequently, there's SO MUCH MORE you could list here !!!!
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Product Recall
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9/14/2009 7:46:58 PM
ok so there's a whole heap of bands and acts i could list, as we discussed but i dont want every one to know about my youthful fascination of
Shakin Stevens, or Adam Ant.
Fuck it my secondary 5 would be
The Offspring (before they turned extremely shit)
Less Than Jake
The Wildhearts
Ash
Weezer
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SILVERWOODSTUDIO
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9/14/2009 11:56:57 PM
5 more!
Dylan Bob
Morrison Jim & Van
Joplin Janis
Zappa Frank
Finn Neil
Oh and
Zevon Warren Lennon John Withers Bill Mitchell Joni Waters Roger
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Paul groover
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9/15/2009 12:32:59 AM
Mine are
Buzz Tracker&Fender Precision&Telecaster&Vox pukeshadow&Native Instruments
Musically
Another day of music from dawn till dusk and the night beyond meandering into the dawn
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Joe Dumpe
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9/15/2009 1:08:03 AM
Hmm...
Jordan Rudess (Dream Theater)
Jem Godfrey (Frost*)
Benn Jordan (The Flashbulb)
Hans Zimmer
Justin R. Durban (Edgen)
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Noah Spaceship
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9/15/2009 2:09:22 AM
whatever, go ahead, hijack my thread, punk rock scum!
thanks to everyone else who have RESPECT for my topic and don't stomp all over it like it's their own personal hotel room.
ehh, me hotel su hotel, but you aint real punks unless the tv exits through the window
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Bob Elliott
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9/15/2009 6:49:58 AM
Charles Schulz
the free school I attended 2nd through 4th
pussy
herb
the music of 68-74
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Noah Spaceship
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9/15/2009 8:12:38 AM
Bob, you're a badass, I aspire, dude.
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Steve Ison
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9/15/2009 10:08:16 AM
1....Beatles
2...David Bowie
3...The Kinks
4...Love
5...Velvet Underground....
I think its 'cos they've got my top 5 musically creative people i aspire toward..Lennon,Bowie,Ray Davies,Arthur Lee and Lou Reed...Woh,its all 60s early 70s too..Bolan,Nick Drake,Neil Young,Dylan in there too...
Its weird most of them were at their peak at 25 or something..Thats pretty scary...
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Bryon Tosoff
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9/15/2009 5:50:54 PM
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1 Sleep
2 Food
3 Shelter
4 Work
5 Sex?
other five
6 Beatles 4 sure.....but really liked the Animals and the Stones Moody blues. Orbison.....
7Floyd Cramer
8 Beethoven
9 Chuck Berry
10 Jimi hendrix/the doors. Ray manzarek is way good /Chick corea /
too many so I guess my mom's musical influence and example was what gives me what I got
was that what you was after......
Lately it has been
1. Gardening
2. Hiking in the great outdoors camping.
3 looking up in the sky on a clear moonless night surverying the glory up there mind boggling
4 working with people
5 being a cool guy that I am
hahaha
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Sly Witt
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9/15/2009 7:46:21 PM
Beatles
Burt Bacharach
Fats Domino
Joni Mitchell
Neil Young
...and many more...
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Hop On Pop
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9/15/2009 8:06:52 PM
I think that, in this case, the more-interesting question is not WHO your influences are, but WHAT ABOUT THEM influences you?
Getting back to my list:
Nick Lowe
and
The Kinks
It's their pure craft, tunefulness and insight into the everyday human condition. The way they incorporate their own influences, while still creating their own voice.
Tom Zé
Brian Eno
In the case of these artists, it's the way that they have (in many cases) completely thrown away the rules -- in their own way -- and play their own game. Each are entirely unique. While you can find influences, if you dig hard enough, there are really their own muse. In Eno's case, he has created his own rules... LITERALLY (see: Oblique Strategies).
Roy Wood/The Move
Is something of a hybrid of the two camps above. More of a traditional rocker/tunesmith, but with a rogue streak a mile wide.
What is it about those folks that you mentioned that inspires you?
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Noah Spaceship
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9/15/2009 10:06:10 PM
@todd
I'm glad you expounded. I ve heard several people (in my dad's circle of friends mostly) reference brian eno, and I just can't stand his tunes,.. BUT, I have an enourmous amount of respect for him like you say, Eno uses a different set of rules.
I guess my major influences have very little to do with technical ability and more to do with sincerity.
Brian Eno, Frank Zappa, King Crimson, Steely Dan,.. all that stuff to me is smeared in technical fluff. (not ripping on you personally) there is no emotional substance. I guess it just seems extra clear to me after reading some of these replies, how different styles stem from different possible motivations.
technical vs. emotional,..?
hmm,.. interesting
thanks, for your comments.
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