Biggest influencers on music thread

[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

[NoSavingByTheBell]

Yeah that's one of my favorite Beatles songs of all time including that other one which I never remember the title of but they keep saying "sit right back relax and go down slow... You are not dying you are not dying.... From the beginning from the beginning"

[walrus]

Yeah that's one of my favorite Beatles songs of all time including that other one which I never remember the title of but they keep saying "sit right back relax and go down slow... You are not dying you are not dying.... From the beginning from the beginning"

Tomorrow never knows that may be the first time the sitar was used in rock I believe but I gotta check that

[NoSavingByTheBell]

I really loved John McLaughlin's Shakti album and he also did a nice acoustic album with all Indian players... try to listen to the song What need have I for this what need have I for that I am dancing at the feet of my Lord all is bliss all is bliss by John McLaughlin and maybe called lotus feet

[El Kabong]

Surely THIS is the start of a renaissance

[NoSavingByTheBell]

Surely THIS is the start of a renaissance

Just like the general State or more specifically the intellectual state of human beings in general these days, I just don't know what happened to music. That is the most vile trash I have ever heard and should not be categorized as music but maybe as pornography

[Spicoli]

It's cliché to say "I listen to everything" but for the most part it's true thanks to early and varying exposures. I got big band and some Ragtime as a kid from Dad. Doo wop and early rock n roll, James Brown and Fats Domino from Mom. Oldest sister with the garage, surf rock and ska, other sisters with everything from ballad rock anthems to disco to hair metal to Country. It's endless. Started the whole duel tape deck recording in in grade school..still have my original mix tapes stuffed in some storage unit . Growing up in Southern California was a literal Chinese menu of life long influences. Early pick ups from home went from Hendrix and Sabbath and Stones to New Wave. Oh and Dr. Demento. That turned to heavy influences in early UK punk, pogo, Oi then hardcore punk, skate thrash, speed metal and reggae. Then rap to hip hop. That was massive. Do you know how many wtf looks you get when you walk around saying early urban hip hop was just as 'punk rock' as what the weird kids in suburbia were jamming . Music is life, beyond labels and stereotypes. It sets moods, highlights memories, blaze new paths, soothes the soul and you can go anywhere with it. Literally at any time. Well except Nickelback. You can keep that horseshat.

[Spicoli]

Forgot mariachi bands and whatever the hell La Chona is classified as . Cannot understand a work and don't really care. That is all energy. There's also something I stumbled into the last few years, like real early western rock/rockabilly/ country out of the 50's. Ernest Tubb, Sanford Clark etc. Some of these are lyrically genius with a sinister edge.

[walrus]

Forgot mariachi bands and whatever the hell La Chona is classified as . Cannot understand a work and don't really care. That is all energy. There's also something I stumbled into the last few years, like real early western rock/rockabilly/ country out of the 50's. Ernest Tubb, Sanford Clark etc. Some of these are lyrically genius with a sinister edge.

Ha cool stuff. I like to think I’m eclectic in my music. I make sure to at least listen to new stuff so I know what’s going on. Even rap. A lot of the clients i work with are die hard rappers. So they blast that shit and once in a while they play one I think is cool. Like I can make out the lyrics and the beat is cool. I’ll go out and ask them who it is. I’ll admit I did hate metal for a time but now that I hardly hear it when one comes on I’ll listen I I get it. Not my thing doesn’t mean it’s bad. I remember the concerts I went to in Shanghai and bejing and hearing sounds I never heard before. China, although I think it more common in India don’t necessarily stay in key or use the chords our western music is based on. It’s like to us you screwed up if you play out of key to them it’s part of the song. It’s like rules we made up. They don’t follow that shit and it works fine