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wrench45us · Post by **wrench45us** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 2:17 pm

i was fortunate to have grown up at a particular time. when the British Invasion hit everybody put a band together in their basement or garage.

i was again fortunate that my parents put up with a few of us learning our instruments at the expense of their peace and quiet (which was highly valued by my old man) and supplied the seed capital for instruments and a 35 watt PA system with two huge speaker cabinets we picked up cheap from the wacky Ukranians who ran the local radio and TV shop. Ran all the guitars through that till we could buy real amplifiers.

Then a friend bought the 1st velvet underground (with Nico) album and made me a copy (through the microphone in front of the speakers) on a cheap reel to reel machine. I listened to that for months. Then the 1st Grateful Dead record, 1st Cream record, 1st (very electric) Country Joe and the Fish record -- all the while listening to long distance AM or underground FM radio stations at night. Jefferson Airplane, Doors, Joplin, Hendrix -- seemed like it would never end -- didn't it?

Moritz Morpheus MkIII · Wed Jan 19, 2005 10:35 pm

thanks again for all your contributions

one of the most mentioned artists on this thread was frank zappa.I got in touch with his music rather late with the age of 20 or so when I had my "oh my god, zappa is not just that bobby brown-guy with swiny lyrics over a simple, boring song"-experience..

holy sh*t, what a genius..

Steven West · Post by **Steven West** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 3:17 am

Bluedad just brought up a good question for me, and he or another may know this answer...

In the movie Gimme Shelter - as the stage crew is getting ready, and the people and the Hells Angels are rolling in; there's a shot of a techie on stage tuning up a big moog modular by the looks of it?
What band would've used that? It never appears or is heard in any of the music shots later.

Certainly wouldn't have been The Greatful Dead.

Moritz Morpheus MkIII · Mon Jan 31, 2005 6:14 pm

Gimme Shelter?..seems that I don´t know an interesting film..what is it about?

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 6:16 pm

Steven West wrote:Bluedad just brought up a good question for me, and he or another may know this answer...

In the movie Gimme Shelter - as the stage crew is getting ready, and the people and the Hells Angels are rolling in; there's a shot of a techie on stage tuning up a big moog modular by the looks of it?
What band would've used that? It never appears or is heard in any of the music shots later.

Certainly wouldn't have been The Greatful Dead.

dunno whos is the film but gimme shelter wasnt that the stones?
i know mick liked to play with a big synth on occassion
also were steppen wolf on the bill

shamann · Post by **shamann** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 6:26 pm

Steven West wrote:What band would've used that?

Possibly Jefferson Airplane?

chrissill31 · Post by **chrissill31** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 6:31 pm

Gary Numan
John Foxx
Kraftwerk
Tangerine Dream
Thomas Dolby
Cabaret Voltaire
Depeche Mode
Nitzer Ebb
Underworld
Orbital
Sander Kleinenberg

declassified · Post by **declassified** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 6:45 pm

Gary Numan? Hm...never really heard of him though I have to say I didn't like the only song I know of him: "Films"
I got it because it was known to have a drum break I wanted but I didn't like the rest of the song.

Mine: (in chronological order)
Tangerine Dream - First electric music I heard
Vince Weber - For inspiring my piano

John Mayall - For getting me to like blues-rock
Herbie Hancock - Because he managed to distract me from pure jazz
LTJ Bukem - For making a music I didn't know until I first listened to him
DJ Shadow - For convincing me of working sample-based

jens · Post by **jens** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 6:52 pm

Mine are maybe:

Genesis

Marillion

Pink Floyd

Tangerine Dream

Mike Oldfield

the Nits

Ultravox

Portishead

Talk Talk

Jadis

IQ

Twelfth Night

Tori Amos

Xploding Plastix

rage against the machine

Skinny Puppy

...and things like that

Germ777 · Post by **Germ777** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 7:23 pm

4 things were of paramount importance to me as a guitarrist.

1- watching a special show on TV about Jimi Hendrix the day he died!. I was a small kid but I can still remember the footage and the sounds!.
2- Listening to Black Sabbath´s War Pigs. Noises bigger than life! and it scared the living hell out of my mom and sis so it had to be good!
3- Going to an older friend´s house and listening to Van Halen´s Eruption and Frank Zappa´s Joe´s Garage while getting a bit "stoned". Enough said.
4- Downloading FL Studio and finding out I didn´t need to know how to play keys or read music to write a cool song on my guitar and then translating it to electronic music. Also I could get rid of explaining to a whole band what exactly it was I wanted!

The Germinator

Mr Arkadin · Post by **Mr Arkadin** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 7:36 pm

Both my main influences started due to television programmes:

1. Top of the Pops, BBC1, 1979: some alien called Gary Numan (then Tubeway Army) dropped onto our screens. As an impressionable 11-year old it was like: wow synths, robots, aliens; what more could i want?

Bought my first synth because of this (well my parents did

), a Roland SH-09 which i still use to this day. Also wear black to this day too

2. Four American Composers, Channel 4, 1983, four films by Peter Greenaway - the one that struck me most was Philip Glass. i didn't understand what i was listening to but i knew i liked it. Now i have a ridiculous collection and have met him as many times as i can (likewise Mr Numan).

So i pretty much sound like a mix of Gary Numan and Philip Glass stuck in a locked basement.

Mr A

ew · Post by ew » Mon Jan 31, 2005 7:46 pm

Moritz Morpheus MkIII wrote:Gimme Shelter?..seems that I don´t know an interesting film..what is it about?

It was about the Altamont show, Moritz. The Hells Angels were hired as security, and they murdered a couple people while acting as "security"

I can't remember whether it was the Stones who paid for the filming or not, but it caught the glory and shame of Altamont fairly well. Definitely worth seeing.
ew

Moritz Morpheus MkIII · Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:08 pm

thanks, mate!

mayan · Post by **mayan** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:23 pm

Monk; Mingus; Dolphy; Xenakis; Terry Riley; Richard Farina; early Dead; gospel/country-western/blues/underground radio around St.Louis in the late 50s and 60s; first Velvet Underground; Scott Joplin (and progeny); Hank Williams; stride piano; Professor Longhair (and progeny); Rubber Soul/Revolver (beatles); See Emily Play (Pink Floyd) and Sunny Afternoon (Kinks). Various hip-hop and electronica excursions which led me to understand that people were beginning to "hear" in new and visionary ways.

All of the above led to major hair-raising, mind-evolving moments which left me significantly different from what I had been before listening.

Wicker Man · Post by **Wicker Man** » Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:25 pm

You want important influences ?

Look no further than Thomas Tallis and his work "spem in alium"...if you don't have a tear in your eye at the wonder of 40-voice polyphony then you either 'just don't get it' or you are very clever.

Going on from there...there are some weirdos called Kraftwerk and John Foxx, Gary Numan for all the posture, attitude, first-electro-popstar...oh yeah, thanks to my band of many years ago who nicked all my (then, very expensive) keyboards but on my return to music 15 years later, the wonderment of host and vst software.

the most important influence thread