What is music to you? What does it give you? Nietzsche Said "Life without music would be a mistake." My father was born legally deaf. He wore heavy battery powered hearing aids as a young man and dealt with a lot of prejudice due to his disability. He is Tone deaf so he cannot differentiate the frequencies that make "Music". That Being said I don't believe that life without music is a mistake but I can't imagine my life without it. I started playing the piano when I was around 7-8 years old. My mother who played the piano in the church tried to get me to learn to sight read but it didn't take. As a result I would memorize what I could read and then play it. Since I couldn't perform pieces by sight alone I started improvising and kind of adding my own flourishes. I wrote some of my first compositions between 10-12 years old graduating eventually to the guitar. In the years since I've written many songs, ditties, and poems put to whatever music that I make. Predominantly with the guitar. I am able to source my anxiety, hope, love, sorrow, and all sorts of things and channel it into pieces to say the things that I otherwise would keep bottled up. It has been my life's joy to make my own music. How trite it is to say music is "everything to me" The duality of my deaf father and a musical mother teaches me music isn't everything BUT ISN'T IT WONDERFUL?
Nietzsche Said "Life without music would be a mistake." My father was born legally deaf. He wore heavy battery powered hearing aids as a young man and dealt with a lot of prejudice due to his disability. He is Tone deaf so he cannot differentiate the frequencies that make "Music". That Being said I don't believe that life without music is a mistake but I can't imagine my life without it. I started playing the piano when I was around 7-8 years old. My mother who played the piano in the church tried to get me to learn to sight read but it didn't take. As a result I would memorize what I could read and then play it. Since I couldn't perform pieces by sight alone I started improvising and kind of adding my own flourishes. I wrote some of my first compositions between 10-12 years old graduating eventually to the guitar. In the years since I've written many songs, ditties, and poems put to whatever music that I make. Predominantly with the guitar. I am able to source my anxiety, hope, love, sorrow, and all sorts of things and channel it into pieces to say the things that I otherwise would keep bottled up. It has been my life's joy to make my own music. How trite it is to say music is "everything to me" The duality of my deaf father and a musical mother teaches me music isn't everything BUT ISN'T IT WONDERFUL?
I have a dream that one day when I'm dead and gone someone can still listen to some of the sounds I made during this wonderful, terrible, mundane, enthralling, hopeless, and promisingl life
I think a good place to start would be everyone on the planet becoming vegetarian.
Patty Loveless Chains
Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Mudvayne, Metallica, Lamb of God, Simon and Garfunkel, Mozart, Queen, Muse, Johnny Cash, Led Zeppelin, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ray Charles, Carl Perkins, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, CCR, Dire Straits, John Coltrane, this list goes on forever. I like most everything except for modern country music and most modern hip hop trap music... and even then there are exceptions
If inspiration has anything to do with it I would be oblivious to what it is. The music I make isn't really forced. It just comes out. I'll be picking a 6 string and ill say " oh that sounds lovely, now what else goes with that?" The lyrics are more of a representation of whatever im feeling at the time.
The message I'm trying to send is independent to the song itself. I do not have an agenda, I don't expect people will change their ways and clean up the planet. I don't suppose if I wrote a song about the excess amount of cruelty in a slaughterhouse that people will stop eating fried chicken. The fact is we are all on our own trip through this existence of self perceived self aware, self oriented consciousness. My music is an expression of what is going on with me in my small piece of that large pie.
Predominantly anxious. I haven't performed really since my children were born. I'm a full time mechanic and I really only have time for my music when I can make it. I hope that changes someday.
I think we are in a fabulous place where people can make music and be heard without having to go through some phony record label or make songs to catch the ear of "someone" who is looking for "something" This is a new time and a new scene and im thrilled to see where it all goes from here.
So far so good, its a step up from Soundcloud and far better than facebook or any of that other
Well when I can't get up with my bandmates. There always seems to be some excuse as to why scheduled meetings for work on songs gets canceled. Then of course there are all the guitar elitists that smother the internet with their extremely talented complex finger magic. I mean who really cares? you're so great that your music sounds like trash. im sorry im a big fan of space when it comes to notes. if you play a billion notes a second I mean come on are you playing music or just showing out? Let it linger just a bit longer and be easy on everyone else. I mean we are only trying to let our voices be heard. Don't be rude
Well I go to shows as often as I can. I especially try to purchase some of their merchandise if I can. Then of course ill like their facebook page and share their songs and whatever. Ive met some very groovy people this way. its lots of fun
I have no idea. I think most people want to listen to "synthetic" music. Lets face it if you have a synthesized drum beat and an auto tune your on your way. Im a little old fashioned I suppose.
Great Wide Nothing, Celestial Inferno, The Riff Raff