Author Topic: Let this be fun (Read 1085 times)

2400wattman · « **on:** April 10, 2011, 07:52:22 PM »

Alright guys and gals, as one being born in the early '70's I did not get to experience all the great music that was a tidal wave through the '60's and '70's. So, I'm looking for the reflections of those of you that can remember those times and to share them here.
Please leave out politics (though it may be hard) as I'm looking for the good vibrations of what changed your lives and what made you pick up an axe and play.
Again, please leave out the politics as it has been a heated subject around here and as of lately has been calm.
Thank you gentlemen and I look forward to your stories.
Adam

gregduboc · « **Reply #1 on:** April 10, 2011, 08:08:08 PM »

Alright guys and gals, as one being born in the early '70's I did not get to experience all the great music that was a tidal wave through the '60's and '70's.

And you think that's bad?? I was born in the late '80's...

Greg

richbass939 · « **Reply #2 on:** April 10, 2011, 08:39:05 PM »

For me the thing that started the ball rolling was when Ed Sullivan introduced the Beatles. I was about 8, I guess, and glued to the TV like the whole country was. I didn't know what to call what I was seeing but I knew I wanted to do it. It sounds cliche, but it was life changing.
Looking back, it was like when Dorothy opened up the door and saw Oz. I lived in a black-n-white world and saw color for the first time.
Rich

2400wattman · « **Reply #3 on:** April 10, 2011, 08:55:27 PM »

Greg, you can call me......Dad.
Now, get you some fine Scotch whiskey, some Tom Waits and mellow....

(Message edited by 2400wattman on April 10, 2011)

ajdover · « **Reply #4 on:** April 10, 2011, 09:04:28 PM »

For me, it was the fact that my brother and a friend played guitar and drums respectively. If I wanted to play, I had to play something, so I chose bass. Then, I saw Kiss on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert. That did it. Rush came along and I was totally hooked. Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Genesis, Blue Oyster Cult, Yes ... all these bands maded me want to play. It got worse when I discovered Frank Zappa.

2400wattman · « **Reply #5 on:** April 10, 2011, 09:16:59 PM »

Hey Al, Tom Fowler or Patrick O'Hearn?

gregduboc · « **Reply #6 on:** April 10, 2011, 09:22:44 PM »

Hey Dad, that's exactly how I spent my Sunday!
After all Tom Waits is the one who said Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk.

Greg

2400wattman · « **Reply #7 on:** April 10, 2011, 09:51:07 PM »

Touche' son...Touche'

jazzyvee · « **Reply #8 on:** April 10, 2011, 10:45:22 PM »

A number of guitarists got me into playing guitar in the beginning such as, Hendrix, John Lee Hooker, Carlos Santana, Rory Gallagher, Nils Lofgren, Al Anderson (Wailers), Thin Lizzy, Status Quo, EWF, George Benson.

Listening to Aston Barrett from the Wailers and later Stanley Banks, Stanley Clarke got me interested in playing bass.

Jazzyvee

ajdover · « **Reply #9 on:** April 10, 2011, 10:52:42 PM »

Adam - both! And Arthur Barrow too ...

terryc · « **Reply #10 on:** April 11, 2011, 12:42:44 AM »

Jimi Hendrix...1970...Voodoo Chile(Slight Return)
Still sends a shiver down my back when I hear it.
I was 13 years old....where has all that time gone??

slawie · « **Reply #11 on:** April 11, 2011, 02:58:25 AM »

I am a baby boomer. The year was 1964 and I was 5 years old. I remember my sister taking me to the Adelaide town hall and together with several thousand other people we waited for the Beatles to appear on the balcony. When they did it was absolute unadulterated and complete hysteria.
That amount of adulation by people drove me to desire to play music.

Flash forward to 1975 (maybe it was 1976) in Adelaide again at the Wings concert and I am standing at the stage door of the Apollo stadium with some friends of mine sharing some herbal remedy. The door opens and Paul McCartney steps out and joins us in our little circle. After everything goes up in smoke he steps back inside and a minute later reappears with tickets for the concert and says Thanks and enjoy the show
What struck me about that encounter was he was just a regular bloke loved by millions of people.
My first ever stereo experience was Whole Lotta Love by Zep - That freaked me out.
While in High School Pink Floyd changed the way I look at and listen to music and the emotions that are tweaked by listening.

slawie

mike1762 · « **Reply #12 on:** April 11, 2011, 06:47:21 AM »

It was the early 1970's: I was at my cousins house in Gadsden Alabama. I found a Bachman Turner Overdrive and a White Witch album... I wore 'em out!!! I daydreamed about playing in a band for several years then started playing drums. I switched to bass because there were no bass players in town. I've never really had any bass heros, but (back in my Heavy Metal days) I used to play like Steve Harris (even before I was really aware of Iron Maiden) and I always admired Bob Daisley's ability to stay in the pocket yet pull-off some pretty tasty riffs. John Paul Jones is a ongoing source of inspiration (Them Crooked Vultures are GREAT).

hydrargyrum · « **Reply #13 on:** April 11, 2011, 06:53:12 AM »

I was born in 1978, and Hunter S. Thompson is the only person who's ever convinced me that I should have been born earlier.

There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda .... You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning ....

And that, I think, was the handle?that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn?t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting?on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave ....

So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark ?that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

crobbins · « **Reply #14 on:** April 11, 2011, 07:59:07 AM »

I was born in 1955, I can still remember hearing the theme for Bonanza on tv in 1959. Radio back then was not the same as it is today. AM radio played everything from Johnny Cash, The Beatles,Elvis,James Brown, all on one station. Every kid on the block had an electric guitar.It was a great time to live through.