danktat
Award winning tattoo artist ... Amateur guitarist
Hey guys, I am not sure if I have brought this subject up before on here, but I was wondering who, in the "regular" music world, inspired you to play music to begin with? By "REGULAR" I mean NOT Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck or some other rock icon. But the people around you that showed you that a regular guy could learn to play.
I know some of you probably were fortunate enough to have taken lessons as a kid. Or have parents who play something or another. I, on the other hand, grew up too broke for all of that. And the songs that were on the radio, even though I knew what I liked, seemed like they were out of reach, and just something those "stars" could do.
Until late in high school, when I started hanging out with some friends who played in bands, and that I got to actually SEE as normal people who just played instruments. There were many, but these guys are the main two (the guitar player and bass player). We smoked more, drank more, and indulged in more things together than I am sure we should have as kids, and they were STILL some of the better musicians I had heard [on or off the radio]. In fact, they both eventually graduated from Berklee. And I STILL hang with (and take theory lessons from) the bass player to this day.
Anyway, I stumbled across this video, of them, at Berklee, playing one of the more compositional Phish songs of the era (back in 1999). Figured I would put it up here to see if anyone else had this kind of inspiration in their youth. I started later than most. And never got "good"....then put it down for an easy decade and a half when I opened my shop. Back at it again for a few years now and was feeling some gratitude to the guys who made me "see" that it could be done.
Anyway, enough rambling....here is the video. Excuse the video quality....it WAS the 1990s....lol. Give it a listen all the way through (though it is a Phish song so it is a bit long for most). You'll see why I was impressed as a friend of theirs back in the day.
I know some of you probably were fortunate enough to have taken lessons as a kid. Or have parents who play something or another. I, on the other hand, grew up too broke for all of that. And the songs that were on the radio, even though I knew what I liked, seemed like they were out of reach, and just something those "stars" could do.
Until late in high school, when I started hanging out with some friends who played in bands, and that I got to actually SEE as normal people who just played instruments. There were many, but these guys are the main two (the guitar player and bass player). We smoked more, drank more, and indulged in more things together than I am sure we should have as kids, and they were STILL some of the better musicians I had heard [on or off the radio]. In fact, they both eventually graduated from Berklee. And I STILL hang with (and take theory lessons from) the bass player to this day.
Anyway, I stumbled across this video, of them, at Berklee, playing one of the more compositional Phish songs of the era (back in 1999). Figured I would put it up here to see if anyone else had this kind of inspiration in their youth. I started later than most. And never got "good"....then put it down for an easy decade and a half when I opened my shop. Back at it again for a few years now and was feeling some gratitude to the guys who made me "see" that it could be done.
Anyway, enough rambling....here is the video. Excuse the video quality....it WAS the 1990s....lol. Give it a listen all the way through (though it is a Phish song so it is a bit long for most). You'll see why I was impressed as a friend of theirs back in the day.