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Quoted for truth.mackerelmint wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2019 8:37 pm^^^
Live at Budokan is as good a reason as any. Great rekkid.
I can relate 100%. A few weeks after I first heard the album I broke open the proverbial piggy bank, and the next time my mother took me shopping at the supermarket I bought the cheap beginner guitar set they had. It was a really crappy no-name sunburst Strat copy, and I'm fairly sure it's responsible for my long-standing hatred for Strats.jesterpunk68 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2019 1:23 pmKurt Cobain and Nirvana's Nevermind album when it came out in 1991 was the first time I wanted to play. The music was so simple and sounded so good and felt like it was real compared to the hair metal bands on tv at the time.
That is brilliant, and I'm stealing it for my own work!mackerelmint wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2019 2:43 pmI remember the first time I listened to it. There was a comic/record shop when I was in high school that sold LPs for a buck each regardless of what it was or what kind of condition it was in. I picked up Budokan with the booklet and everything on a lark, took it home, and had a "holy shit" moment. It's been one of my favorites ever since. It also taught me a valuable songwriting lesson: "what would Rick Nielsen do?" Whenever a chord progression puts me in a corner and I dunno where to do from there, I back out of it by playing it backwards and it always sounds right.
That‘s funny! As Clapton Unplugged was also the first „guitar hero“ I listened to - as a kid at my father‘s place on cd or in his car on tape, alongside with Tom Waits‘ „Blue Valentine“ - (Romeo was Bleeding is still one of my favorite tracks from him).TeenageShutdown! wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2019 5:05 pmThe first music format I bought was Eric Clapton Unplugged on cassette back in grade 8. I bought it because of the cover, which in hind sight is odd because it’s a pretty generic cover. I also didn’t really know who he was either. After listening to that I wanted to play guitar. Over the years I’ve done a complete 180 & I’m not much of fan of his stuff aside from his Yardbirds stint.
I’m a Waits fan as well. He had some gem toons in the ealry day, if you dig the beatnik poetry & jazz stuff he was doing. Romeo is Bleeding is great. Burma Shave & Postcards From A Hooker always stood out to me.MayTheFuzzBeWithYou wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2019 11:32 pmThat‘s funny! As Clapton Unplugged was also the first „guitar hero“ I listened to - as a kid at my father‘s place on cd or in his car on tape, alongside with Tom Waits‘ „Blue Valentine“ - (Romeo was Bleeding is still one of my favorite tracks from him).TeenageShutdown! wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2019 5:05 pmThe first music format I bought was Eric Clapton Unplugged on cassette back in grade 8. I bought it because of the cover, which in hind sight is odd because it’s a pretty generic cover. I also didn’t really know who he was either. After listening to that I wanted to play guitar. Over the years I’ve done a complete 180 & I’m not much of fan of his stuff aside from his Yardbirds stint.
Layla was one of the first songs I remember learning - and oh, how irritated I was, when I first listened to the original.
Soon after that there were DIE ÄRZTE and WIZO (german punk bands) and KRAUTSCHÄDL (Austrian Rock Band with a crazy slapping Bassist, singing in dialect) and yes, also the movie School of Rock that came out the same year - so this inspired me to play electric guitar. I honestly don‘t really listen to any of them anymore (except for Tom Waits) but I‘m thankful for their input.
Once I had an electric guitar (first I borrowed a cream white Squier Strat from my older cousin, then I soon received my Epiphone Ebony Les Paul Classic) there soon were Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Jimi Hendrix to watch over me and offer guidance!
Yes to Tom Waits!TeenageShutdown! wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2019 6:01 am
I’m a Waits fan as well. He had some gem toons in the ealry day, if you dig the beatnik poetry & jazz stuff he was doing. Romeo is Bleeding is great. Burma Shave & Postcards From A Hooker always stood out to me.
In my younger days I was a huge Pearl Jam & Hendrix fan. Now I couldn’t be bothered with either. I would be satisfied with No Code, Electric Ladyland, & Axis: Bold As Love in my collection & nothing more from them. I also had a white Squier Strat too back then.
still among my top 3 - but I don‘t listen to them regularly, Hendrix the same... great inspiration - I also bought two records some time ago - for the collection - but I basically listened to it two or three times since I have it.No joking, it's probably the best trick I've ever learned and I stole it from "Surrender". And it's so simple you slap your forehead. "I walked into a dead end. Go back the other way. OF COURSE!"Maggieo wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2019 8:39 amThat is brilliant, and I'm stealing it for my own work!mackerelmint wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2019 2:43 pmI remember the first time I listened to it. There was a comic/record shop when I was in high school that sold LPs for a buck each regardless of what it was or what kind of condition it was in. I picked up Budokan with the booklet and everything on a lark, took it home, and had a "holy shit" moment. It's been one of my favorites ever since. It also taught me a valuable songwriting lesson: "what would Rick Nielsen do?" Whenever a chord progression puts me in a corner and I dunno where to do from there, I back out of it by playing it backwards and it always sounds right.
