Hello World ! As you saw above, my name is Harry, and I am a Greek musician and geographer based in Athens. I play the guitar, bass, harmonica, a bit of drums, and also sing :) My two bands are named Dip Sauce and Kodar and I play both guitar and sing in both of them, but if you are in Athens and you're in for a jam session, I am always in for it :D !
Music is everything for me. When I first grabbed my fathers guitar, I thought "This is something I want to learn." Not long after that I got my first guitar, and with nearly zero knowledge of song-writing, I started writing my first song, (Smealium-Dip Sauce). Before even that, I remember hearing a lot of music, and nearly being addicted to it as a 2 year-old child.
My music dream, is to play in front of a big audience, something like 10 thousand people. But most importantly, it is to spread my music, and to be liked to the audience.
Probably I would start with taking care of the environment !
A lot actually. But the first song I remember, when I was 2 years old, is probably The Beatles - Here Comes The Sun. That song has a special place in my heart. But also other songs like Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun, Red Hot Chili Peppers - Otherside, Nirvana - Lithium, and many more, have marked my childhood, for their own reasons.
I really love the Seattle Grunge scene, since I was a teenager. So, Nirvana-Kurt Cobain, Soundgarden-Chris Cornell, Alice in Chains-LAyne Staley and Jerry Cantrell. I also love the more acoustic and old musicians, such as, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Cat Stevens-Yusuf, Jack Johnson, Jimi Hendrix and many more.
Probably my everyday life, and struggles. Things that make me sad. Things that make me happy. Stuff like that in general.
Usually each song has a message, (or even two). But it depends on how you are going to process it. But the most important message I want to send, it to do whatever you love the most, without boundaries.
I feel scared at start. But then you feel alive. To be in front of an audience, with your best friends, it is one of the best feelings ever. Probably most musicians know what I mean.
Now that, is a really good question. I believe that music and musicians, have no talent any more, and the record labels, prefer to show you someone that has no real talent, fixed voices, generally musicians that are ... "automatic" in one word. They see us musicians as ways to make easy money. I believe that real musicians are still out there. And I am not talking only about the old famous musicians, but from those that have nothing, and are actually trying to survive out on the streets, till those that are really talented but can't be heard because of the "new trend of automation".
It seems good. Like facebook-Twitter, but only for musicians and music fans.
What I said above mostly. To not be heard because of talent-less musicians, that because they have the money they will be heard more.
Sometimes yes. Though in Greece, we don't have a big Rock scene, at least english-rock scene, but it is in the making.
I would say, to love it, and do it because he/she loves it, not for the fame and money.
Demon's Claws, 1000mods, Naxatras, Planet of Zeus, Dip Sauce (my band :P ), The Raws, and some more, that I can't recall.