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Well, western music (which we know) anyway. I’d imagine a very different and possibly interesting list for things like Chinese music, African music, Polynesian or Latin American. I most certainly don’t know enough about them, but we shouldn’t think that our music is the only - or even the oldest - music there is?
Oh certainly not. Definitely the Chinese and india were doing wild shit back in the day. George Harrison actually opened a lot of western ears to Indian music, the sitar is a beautiful instrument. It’s kind of hard to cover everything. I just started with buddy as he was a pioneer and I always liked him but the list of influencers really is endless. McCartney was influenced by Bach in a few of his songs. Paul Simon did a lot with African music and mickey heart of the Grateful Dead spent time traveling Africa to study their ancient history of drums, fascinating stuff. He wrote a book about just that