Biggest influencers on music thread

[walrus]

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

[walrus]

X I know you have traveled quite a bit I saw a concert of ancient Chinese music in Beijing. It was weird to me ear but I definitely appreciated it

[walrus]

Like check this shit out. I don’t know what he is sayin but damn it got feeling


Snap look how he handles that instrument. Like it’s an extension of his body. Many of these people have a natural inclination towards these things. I’ve played for years but it was never a “natural” thing for me. I had to put in a lot of time and practice. I have played with the “gifted” crowd. I can tell the difference. Let’s be honest you can practice and become good, you can’t practice and reach Beethoven level. That shit is so far above normal human operation it’s astounding. It’s like that with many things in life. Very hard to achieve a certainly level if you weren’t born with that inclination, there are always exceptions to that rule but it is pretty solid. I don’t know maybe it’s debatable but that’s how I see it

[NoSavingByTheBell]

Besides straight ahead Bebop like John Coltrane and Charlie Parker and Sonny Fortune and Charlie Mingus and besides really only being able to listen to Jimi Hendrix in general from western music, I only listen to Indian and Arabic music all day all night 7 days a week.

[walrus]

And of course, while being more of an American thing, this man was doing shit that blew people away. Listen to his riffs. It’s astounding stuff. A mythical figure, beautiful

[NoSavingByTheBell]

Yeah that's good guitar playing and totally influenced Jimi Hendrix and people like that

Let's not forget about Charlie Christian

[walrus]

Yeah that's good guitar playing and totally influenced Jimi Hendrix and people like that

Let's not forget about Charlie Christian

And if you dig the Indian stuff I’m sure you have heard this. I mean seriously I’m not saying it wasn’t listened to in the US before the Beatles but they did, especially George Harrison, make the west much more aware of it