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The Song That Made Me Learn An Instrument
Posted by itfc1959 on 19 April 2011 - 9:22pm.
Which in my case, in 1974, was the guitar.
I'd always thought it would be a good thing to do, but the impetus began when I fell in love with this song.
But the final clincher, and what I always cone back to, was the guitar solo on this:
The build-up's at about 3,30. Me and my friends used to marvel at this and wonder how a human being could make such a wonderful racket. I used to listen to it on my own over and over, until in the end I pulled out an old guitar my mum had won on a family holiday to Alicante, and announced that I was going to Allan Billington's music shop in Welling to book some guitar lessons.
What about all the Massive musos? What's your excuse?
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The sheer
simple brilliance of this made me believe that this particular man with 10 thumbs could make some kind of musical noise. I can get my way through it just, but only in the privacy of my room
second time to mention ukulele in as many days...
this
and the uke. A year ago. It's tricky, but it was worth it...
A bit of my 16 year old self SO wanted to be Peter Buck
This.
This
watching British Forces TV, in Germany, in 1980 or so.
I'm now mainly a bass player, but I also have two Telecasters.
Mick Karn playing the bass on "Quiet Life" by Japan
It's almost liquid. Truly wonderful. Can't do the YouTube post thingy, but if your not familiar with it I'd urge you to check it out.
It's that Webb bloke again...
"Jo The Waiter" by Tubeway Army got me playing guitar in 1982.
"Stormtrooper In Drag" by Paul Gardiner got me started on bass.
I was a teenage numanoid in the early 80's. I'd been studying classical piano for quite a few years, so playing along to Mr Numan's keyboard parts was never a problem. I could play a lot of the bass and guitar parts on the piano too, but if I wanted to play the above named songs authentically, I had to learn some new instruments.
How hard can it be?
I thought to myself, but I managed a rudimentary version not too long after picking up my brother's acoustic guitar for the first time.