I have bonded with music in ways different than many kids during my youth. Music was a form of expression. I couldn't play, but certain bands, certain songs, or certain keys, certain progressions, I couldn't say, they just moved me. I generally don't say a band is my influence, but an album, or a collaboration - like Coverdale Page, for instance. I write most my stuff on an acoustic. As I start putting things together I move it over to my DAW, but I break it into the various other parts of the song. Some parts merge into the beat or become bass lines. I have ideas from so many years of things I played around with that I'm eager to hear them on sites like this, just to see what people feel. My main goal now, in all of this, is to learn to be a mix/mastering engineer and help people make their music sound good. This would be a passion for me and so much fun. I think it would be fun to have collaborators too, in writing, or a mentor in mixing. I don't know, I'm just on a ride and I'm having fun seeing where it goes.
Music is an outlet, it gives me creative space. It's not my life - I'm not looking to get rich playing in a band. I primarily write music because I like the process of creating. I like hearing an acoustic riff and thinking to all the little percussive parts, and the bass lines coming from just what I play. It is fun to see how that translates over when I break it down into the instruments. I'd love to hone my skills and be able to provide people great quality mixing and mastering and make it fun and affordable.
My dream would be to finish my ideas I've had rolling around in my head for years. I'd love to find someone like myself to collaborate with. I'm not looking for fame or fortune, but if I could write tunes that people enjoyed and could relate to, that would be awesome. I'd really enjoy polishing my mixing and mastering skills.
Myself. The only change that counts.
You Spin Me Right Round - that and so many Duran Duran tunes. Now, it was when I was first introduced to Manson's Portrait of an American family that I caught the bug to really write music.
My favorites are many who have stood the test of time. As I get older I grow and change and I really enjoy hearing that in artists like Marilyn Manson, Metallica - (I actually really like Load/Reload). Pepper Keenan and anything he's in has always been a favorite. Tool and many of Maynard's projects.
I need to create something. I hear music all around me in every day life - and it's fun to take that and find the hidden music. I write primarily on my acoustic and I take the percussion, bass, and guitar from that. I never know where it's going when I start.
This is me, this is what I see. I don't have one agenda or a world stance I feel like preaching on.
I have really had a blast. I feel powerful, I feel heard.
I tend to stay away from the radio, I tend not to follow the crowd. I like when artists get enough pull to do what they want to do rather than have a producer tell them what will hit the top 40. I suppose if what you want is to be a rock star, they know the formula, but, then I question whose music it really is. I find that generally the first album is the best, the one written during the struggles, when there was still a passion to write. Stop trying to sound like everyone else.
So far I am loving this site. I get to listen to people like myself. I have heard some great stuff.
Writer's block, having an idea, a passion, a beat, a sound that I just can't seem to lock on.
No, there isn't one here.
I couldn't tell you. I suppose just be willing to put it out there.
Nostalgia 77, Blockhead, The Cancel, Kognitif, Little People.