who made you pick up that instrument
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Topic: who made you pick up that instrument
Posted By: fungusucantkill
Subject: who made you pick up that instrument
Date Posted: May 12 2006 at 18:46
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what band gives you chills
what musician made you realize I definetly have to start getting into this
my first prog listen was YYZ by Rush, i wasn't influenced much by it. I enjoyed it.
But then i picked up Yes "Fragile" and I listened to roundabout
i had to pick up prog bass
wahts yours? -------------  
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Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: May 12 2006 at 19:04
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Dream Theater made me wanted to play guitar, bass and piano. But the piano is not cheap... neither is the bass so I got an acoustic guitar instead for 20$. Now I'm thinking on buying a bass and maybe a piano also.
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: May 12 2006 at 19:09
| To be honest I dont think there is anyone persone that made me want to pick up bass (lot of bassists here tonight). My uncle was a good bass player in a folk band I got his old Vox, but never seemed to use it much, if at all. Since then though I have always listened to the bass on an album and the likes of John Myung, Tony Levin, Pete Trewaves have shown me what is capable on this instrument. Last November I bought a 6 string and have been taking lessons for it, but I guess there's a number of reasons why I icked up the bass. |
Posted By: Kleynan
Date Posted: May 12 2006 at 19:13
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I had given up piano and drums just to focus on my singing. Then I discovered Opeth and Mikael inspired to pick up the guitar. Best choice in my life! ------------- 
You've just had a heavy session of electroshock therapy, and you're more relaxed than you've been in weeks. |
Posted By: andYouandI45
Date Posted: May 12 2006 at 19:17
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Let's see... there are other bands, non-prog, that got me to pick up guitar.
Eh, I guess mainly Rush got me to pick up guitar. The album 2112, I think really did prog to me.
Yea prog can be done to you. But guitarist like Steve Howe, Fripp, Steve Hackett, David Gilmour, John McLaughlin, ETC have inspired my playing more than Alex Lifeson, although he is the one who got me to pick it up in the first place.
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Posted By: heavyhery
Date Posted: May 12 2006 at 19:20
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the guitar the beatles made me buy and learn to play aLSO TO FORM A BAND ------------- heavyhery |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: May 12 2006 at 19:33
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No band made me want to pich up the guitar... This one time (in bandcamp jejeje) all my freinds and I where in a sort of party and some girl brought a guitar and played some accords...then a boy took the guitar and did some stuff also...and then another one also and before I knew everyone knew at least one thing on the guitar...also there was one friend of mine (who is now the bass player in my band) who knew a bit more than the rest and the girls where really impressed...so I said to myself "sh*t, girls dig this...I better get one"  It never really got me any tail...but it introduced me to good music! ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: Meddler
Date Posted: May 12 2006 at 19:36
DAVID GILMOUR!!! 
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: May 12 2006 at 19:38
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I started with drums at age 9 or 10, but Genesis inflenced me even more when I heard them a couple of months later. After a year or two, I could play most of their songs, and im noe joking! ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: eddietrooper
Date Posted: May 12 2006 at 19:49
Me too. David Gilmour is the reason why I started to play guitar.
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Meddler wrote:Posted By: Kleynan
Date Posted: May 12 2006 at 19:56
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Even though Mikael Åkerfeldt made pick up the guitar. My main guitar-influences have been Steve Howe, Robert Fripp and Steve Hackett to name a few. Basically anyone with their own style. -------------
You've just had a heavy session of electroshock therapy, and you're more relaxed than you've been in weeks. |
Posted By: The Lost Chord
Date Posted: May 12 2006 at 20:01
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Been a piano fiend since before I even listend to prog, Tony Banks and Mike Pinder inspired me to write prog music and play like a prog master.
I have recently started to get into guitar as a real instrument for me, and this is because of almost all prog guitarists that I love, especially Steve Hackett and Robert Fripp.
I picked up the flute about 5 months ago and got real good real quick, thanks to my vast knowledge of music because of piano and prog. This was taken up by me because of Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull and how much they kick ass.
I play drums now as well thanks to Bill Bruford and the classic Buddy Rich, and my dad
 !!I am taking up as many instruments as possible once i get outta college, though.
The SITAR is next and thats thanks to some stuff my The Moody Blues and Strawbs (Fingertips)! Beautiful! -------------  "Only the sun knew why"
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Posted By: Tomodachi
Date Posted: May 12 2006 at 20:07
Same here. ------------- 
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Posted By: Kleynan
Date Posted: May 12 2006 at 20:22
I borrowed a flute from a girl I know and got some information about how to play on the internet. Then I learned that ingenious flute-playing by Latimer in Camels' "Spirit of the Water". I'm thinking about starting to play. I just need to practice some more guitar first. -------------
You've just had a heavy session of electroshock therapy, and you're more relaxed than you've been in weeks. |
Posted By: WaywardSon
Date Posted: May 12 2006 at 20:36
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I think it was Ritchie Blackmore and Tony Iommi who made me want to learn guitar.
Then it was Petrucci and Malmsteen who made me give up guitar!
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Posted By: Someo Therguy
Date Posted: May 12 2006 at 20:48
| I don't know who the guy was but when I was 9 years old I heard Jesus Christ Superstar and that was the first time I really paid attention to the drums. I was hooked. Later on, Tony Levin made me learn the Chapman Stick. |
Posted By: HeirToRuin
Date Posted: May 12 2006 at 21:09
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Well, I initially wanted to play drums after seeing an Eric Carr drum
solo....he was the drummer in Kiss during the 80s that died of a some
rare heart tumor.
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Posted By: The Lost Chord
Date Posted: May 12 2006 at 21:25
Yeah, i know that one, Camel were amazing, although I do prefer bardens on piano alone without the flute on that one, much more moving considering hes gone...
After a few months i can blast out any ian anderson solo practically, its really not all that hard, getting the tongue roll through the flute was difficult at first, because I just wanted to be good so quick.
But after about 5 months, I am better than all of my teachers, and all the kids in jazz band and orchestra.
Prog just owns everything. ------------- "Only the sun knew why"
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Posted By: hegelec
Date Posted: May 12 2006 at 21:38
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After receiving Six Wives as a Christmas present when I was 16, I fell in love with the analog synthesizer. I had played classical piano for years, and was somewhat proficient, but the synthesizer opened up sonic opportunities I needed to explore.
Thank you Rick Wakeman, the fiendliest keyboard fiend to fiend the keyboard scene, for so broadening my horizons as a player and composer. ------------- Cheers! |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: May 12 2006 at 22:16
Neil Peart and the music of Rush inspired me to play drums.
Unfortunately, I haven't played in many years. However, now that
I have a house with a big basement I may reassemble my kit and try to
start playing again (much to my wife's dismay  )
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Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: May 12 2006 at 22:18
| I've been playing the saxophone (tenor is my pref) from a very young age because I liked jazz, but lately, I've really wanted to play keyboard instruments. I did the guitar for a while, but didn't enjoy it as much as the sax. |
Posted By: alan_pfeifer
Date Posted: May 12 2006 at 22:27
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It wasn't a prog band that made me want to play, but I was really influenced by Jose Passilas from Incubus. One of the best modern rock drummers out there (I always thought they had art-rock leanings though)
But their 3rd album Make Yourself made me want to continue on with the skins.
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Posted By: Tholomyes
Date Posted: May 13 2006 at 00:08
| Josh Freese from A Perfect Circle. When i saw the video of "Judith" ( i was 11) i told myself "i have to play drums, inmediatly". |
Posted By: Mr. Sanchez
Date Posted: May 13 2006 at 00:18
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When i first head DT at the age of 8, I instantly wanted to play Drums. I heard Portnoy and I thought "Wow, i want to be just like this guy." When I started getting into other bands, like Yes, King Crimson, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and even Steve Vai, (Not that I think Vai is prog or anything) I started to drift towards the Guitar. I borrowed my Brothers guitar until i got my own and have been playing ever since. I still play drums every now and then, I havent lost all my love for it, but i'm more into guitar purely because you can create songs on a guitar, whereas on the drums pretty much all you can create is a beat or rythm. ------------- It's Calling Me Back To My Home. |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: May 13 2006 at 00:24
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No band or artist got me into playing,my family did.
My Mom played classical piano,all my older brothers played anything that had strings and my twin sisters play sax,trumpet,trombone,flute,piano,etc.
My Dad's passion was drums and percussion,so as a 5 year old kid I naturally gravitated to his drum kit. -------------  |
Posted By: Mr. Sanchez
Date Posted: May 13 2006 at 00:34
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Yeah, well i also didn't mention that it was just music that got me into playing an instrument. My brother played guitar for a majority of his life, he encouraged me (very regularly) to play an instrument, mainly guitar. It was a combination of the 2. ------------- It's Calling Me Back To My Home. |
Posted By: R_DeNIRO
Date Posted: May 13 2006 at 01:13
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In my case was Dream Theater (Petrucci in particular) who made me pick my guitar, but Metallica (Kirk Hammet soloing in songs like One or Fade To Black) are guilty of my love for the guitar too. ------------- We were always be much human than we whish to be. |
Posted By: crucify_the_ego
Date Posted: May 13 2006 at 08:09
| In the move from classical piano to keyboard, it was Stevie Wonder and Higher Ground who inspired me the most, and Radiohead's Exit Music (From a Film) that got me to pick up an acoustic guitar. |
Posted By: GPFR
Date Posted: May 13 2006 at 09:21
Yep, me too. ------------- www.myspace.com/hail_peter 
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Posted By: Prog-man
Date Posted: May 13 2006 at 11:17
STEVE HACKETT'S "FIRTH OF FIFTH" GUITAR SOLO (GENESIS - "SECONDS OUT") WAS MY REASON TO PLAY GUITAR AND SONGWRITING FOR SOME INSTRUMENTS.
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Posted By: MusicForSpeedin
Date Posted: May 13 2006 at 12:47
| I started playing drums when I was five due to my sister. I used to play a bunch of funk but ever since hearing images and words my style has almost changed overall. I still play a lot of funk but my fills are more busy. |
Posted By: Dr4Wazo
Date Posted: May 13 2006 at 13:26
| I play a lot of instruments mostly by myself... but lastely "Space Dye Vest" from DT made me go back on piano |
Posted By: lightbulb_son
Date Posted: May 13 2006 at 14:07
Metallica inspired me to pick up the guitar. And Alexi Laiho from Children of Bodom is my biggest inspiration. ------------- When the world is sick Can't no one be well But I dreamt we were all beautiful and strong 
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Posted By: Rorro
Date Posted: May 13 2006 at 14:15
| Basically Chris Squire and Mahavishnu Orchestra compositions (Laird) made me start playing (or at least trying to play) bass. |
Posted By: deafmoon
Date Posted: May 17 2006 at 08:26
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Jeez, the folks on this site are so young. I actually picked up the drums from being influenced by Buddy Rich AND Max Roach.
The majority of you forumites weren't even born when I started playing. ------------- Deafmoon |
Posted By: rupert
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 13:07
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I certainly picked up the guitar because of two reasons: the magic of the sound when I touched the strings of my elder brother's guitar and... well... Marc Bolan... but I definately got into Keyboards due to many good prog-players such as Mark Kelly, Tony Banks, Rick Wakeman... too many to mention ------------- ...I'm a musician/singer/songwriter, visit me on www.reverbnation.com/rupertlenz and there you can choose from 125 recordings you can listen to ( for free ) if you're not limited to prog-rock ! |
Posted By: Dantallion
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 15:01
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Believe it or not, it was the first Klaatu album that made me really start getting into music. It wasn't long after that, that I was turned on to Yes and Pink Floyd.
It was Howe and Gilmour that made me pick-up the guitar back in 1977 and I've been playing ever since. |
Posted By: ProgFan
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 16:53
David Gilmour and John Petrucci (especially after when I saw him live) made me buy a guitar.
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Posted By: Forgotten Son
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 17:13
| Dan Hawkins (The Darkness) inspired me to pick up the guitar. Since then guitarists like Steve Rothery, Steve Hackett and Andy Latimer have been a huge influence on my playing style. |
Posted By: Pneubauer
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 17:21
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Ive been meaning to buy a cheap electric guitar for a long time now, either that or 3 or 4 old, used keyboards so I can mess around with the electronics... I'd rather get a guitar though... Robert Fripp, Hackett, and Gary Green would probably be the biggest influences making me want to play guitar... I love Fripp's and Hackett's styles but I like Gary Green purely because he brings some bluesy rock riffs and solos to Gentle Giant when their music is usually... unusual... haha. Two good examples I can think of are the solos on 'Peel the paint' and on 'The House, The Street, The Room' (or is it on 'Wreck'? or 'Plain truth'? I cant remember!!! AAAAAAAAH! I just listened to the damn thing last night!! Im almost 80% certain its on 'tHtStR' though' anyways! All three of em are great... I guess Howe is good too.. but I am certainly more strongly influenced by those three... NOW... to buy a guitar. .. . |
Posted By: R o V e R
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 17:30
| Danny Elfman |
Posted By: sbrushfan
Date Posted: May 30 2006 at 19:21
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I picked up drums/percussion at 11. I didn't have an influence, until I discovered Neil Peart in 1994. I then started writing songs in 1995, influenced by Richard Marx, Rush, Journey and Melissa Etheridge. I'm taking guitar lessons at the moment, inspired by Alex Lifeson, John Petrucci and Eddie Van Halen. I gotta add; Mikael Akerfeldt and Steve Wilson are influencing me, both for their great songs and emotionality. ------------- Some world views are spacious, and some are merely spaced... |
Posted By: progrockgirl
Date Posted: May 31 2006 at 04:23
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I took up alto saxophone in 5th grade, before I discovered prog. As I
remember, I was impressed with the Average White Band's "Pick Up the
Pieces" and with Bobby Keys, who played tenor sax for the Rolling
Stones. Alto sax was the only offering at the time, although I would
have preferred tenor. My grandparents tryed to discourage me, saying sax was too masculine and that I should pick a "nice" instrument such as the flute or clarinet-lol! These days, I'm obsessed with mellotrons and would love to learn to play one although I've never played any keyboards. |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: May 31 2006 at 09:11
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Angus Young.
'nuff said ------------- The important thing is not to stop questioning. |
Posted By: vaportrail
Date Posted: June 06 2006 at 09:46
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Sir Chris Squire and Geddy Lee got me to pick up the bass. Two years on and still absolutely hooked, which is odd for me. First two things I learned were 'Red Sector A' and 'Parralels' ------------- I can feel no sense of measure |
Posted By: imoeng
Date Posted: June 06 2006 at 09:48
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My ultimate favorite band, who turns me from Guns and Roses, who turns me to a guitar geek, who turns me to a boy who keep spend his mom money just to buy a cd...
Dream Theater..
oh, at first, i listen to Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, yeah, G3 stuff, when i started to play guitar... ------------- http://img360.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spmiw7.jpg"> 
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Posted By: thetick
Date Posted: June 06 2006 at 10:21
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I was beating away Ina-Gadda-Da-Vida on my Dungeons and Dragons books
and then when I got a set and it was Ian Paice and John Bonham. That
was until I remebered this Tom Sawyer tune I heard on the radio. That
was it then. I was a Peart freak after that. I wore out 2 A Farewell to
Kings tapes practicing to them. Now I still play Rush, DT,
Synphony X, Dali's Dillemma, Shadow Gallery, Yes (a little, not much of
a jazz player), and Porcupine Tree to name a few.
------------- Handing sanity to a faceless mind I step though the void into this blind Memory where I see life, death and purity Clocks dream tolls endlessly |
Posted By: StyLaZyn
Date Posted: June 06 2006 at 12:11
Rush - 2112 - Neil Peart Heavily influenced by Peart and then Collins just a bit. Drums were part of my youth, before hearing any Prog. Always wanted to play and I wasn't able to until I could buy my own at the age of 17. My parents wouldn't encourage any budding rock star. It was not an appropriate career. LOL!!!! ------------- 
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Posted By: A B Negative
Date Posted: June 13 2006 at 07:34
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David Gilmour was the first person who inspired me to play guitar. The problem was that, although most of what he plays isn't technically difficult, it's well nigh impossible to play with the emotion and intensity he displays on (for example) the solos on Comfortably Numb. 25 years later I'm still trying!
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Posted By: Sharier
Date Posted: June 13 2006 at 07:39
| It was 1980--- and I picked up guitar to play Uriah Heep, The Eagles and The Beatles. things changed later on. |
Posted By: hanselnmetal
Date Posted: June 19 2006 at 01:30
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john zorn definately made me pick up my sax ------------- 
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Posted By: ____VdGG____
Date Posted: June 19 2006 at 01:55
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I started paying piano when I was 4, because my mother made me, and started playing bass somewhat more recently after I heard Jannik Top's bass playing for the first time. It was really inspiring for me to see a bass in the forefront of a band's sound instead of a guitar. Still haven't even tried to learn to play any Magma yet, because no-one tabs it and it's insane! ------------- Iron throated monsters are forcing the screams; Mind and machinery box-press our dreams |
Posted By: spacecraft
Date Posted: June 24 2006 at 19:43
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Dream Theatre made me pick up the axe.....so i could go down my local record/cd shop and smash up all their woeful records/cd's...ditto Phil Collins. ------------- To Him as the Supreme King and Judge we commit our cause, casting our cares upon Him and firmly trusting that He will inspire us with courage and bring our enemies to nought. |
Posted By: pepo
Date Posted: June 24 2006 at 20:46
| I love each and every instrument but you can't do much if you play a violin, flute or trumpet alone. That's why I picked a polyphonic instrument. When I heard ELP or Wakeman I thought that it would be great to play those solos and those extended complex pieces. Sadly I found that these guys were real monsters and although I managed to replicate some of the solos I was far from playing like them so I took it easy and started all over with easier mainstream songs. Then I found that it was fun to play keys or guitar while you're singing because you can make a song alone. When I played flute or violin I needed someone else to accompany me. In conclusion, the keyboard is what I like the most, you can do all the chords, play fast and sing along. Furthermore it has other sounds sampled so you can do lots of things. In fact, many of the newer prog bands like Ars Nova and Minimun Vital (if I dont mistake) use sampled keyboards to mimic other instruments with good effect. However I'd like to get my hands into a real piano or harpsichord, it has a magic of its own. |
Posted By: StyLaZyn
Date Posted: June 27 2006 at 11:48
Same here. Peart and the first serious drum fill of 2112. I heard it and said to myself "I gotta play that!" Funny thing, when I first heard Portnoy, I told myself, "that is a case of overplaying." Then I realized I was told the same thing early on by other drummers that Peart over-played. Plus ca change! -------------
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Posted By: Australian
Date Posted: June 27 2006 at 21:07
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I started to play guitar because I was so amazed by Steve Howe and I still am. ------------- 
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Posted By: VERS
Date Posted: June 28 2006 at 02:12
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I Picked up the bass thanks to Mr. Les Claypool, Geddy Lee, Chris Squire, and my stepbrother. Gotta love that tone. ------------- 
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: June 28 2006 at 03:26
At least you only need the one string then, Cert
Good call - if you're going to be inspired, be inspired by the best! Personally, it was a combination of Ken Hensley, Thjis Van Leer & Tony Banks who made me crave a Hammond Organ; over the years (bear in mind, this is since about 1971), other players such as Greg Rolie, Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman, Jon Lord, Hugh Banton and a host of others came at me from the prog/rock scene, plus players like Charles Earland, Joey DiFrancesco (probably spelt wrong) & Jimmy Smith from the jazz side... In the end, I gave in & bought a 1971 Hammond L122 & Leslie 145; slowly (oh, so slowly!), I am learning to play (not easy to begin a completely new discipline at the age of 43  ) - I'll never be on the stage, but hey, who cares? I got me a Hammond! ------------- 
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Posted By: AcostaFulano
Date Posted: June 28 2006 at 04:24
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I started playing guitar LOOOOOONG ago when i used to like stuff like oasis xD. Then PETRUCCI got me into trying to play harder and more complex stuff.. then all the other prog guys like howe hackett morse latimer started to make me want to play like them so here i am learning and learning i also wanted to play piano to play pf's great gig in the sky and queen's bohemian rhapsody :D im starting to get quite good at it 
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Posted By: jojim
Date Posted: June 28 2006 at 05:55
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When I was six my father came to me and said: "You have to learn piano". So I went and did. Very bad. Classical stuff. My female teacher was an opera singer with huge lungs. For 10 years I followed her lessons. With 16 I gave up. Then I started fingering on the piano trying to play SANTANA. - Then I lost my interest. - 6 years later after study I bought out of the blue a Roland 100 Synthie System with patch cables and all that accessories for a very big chunk of money. It was a mono instrument. - From that moment on I was into music - thinking of Rick Wakeman and players like him. I learned drums, a bit guitar, bass, trumpet, flute, harmonica. Now I find myself composing in my freetime on MIDI just for fun. - Needles to say that I appreciate very much that my daddy once came and said: "You have to learn piano". I was not keen at all those days. And he was severe man.
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Posted By: Zweck
Date Posted: June 28 2006 at 09:11
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I'm a prominent christian folk-singer, so for me it was basically God.
's true. |
Posted By: RoyalJelly
Date Posted: June 28 2006 at 10:32
| I guess in Ozzy's case, it was probably Satan. |
Posted By: dralan
Date Posted: June 28 2006 at 11:00
| When I first started playing electric guitar, the one guitar player who could send chills up my spine was Jeff Beck, particularly the "Blow By Blow" album . When I started studying classical guitar, John Williams was always the standard I aimed for and I still feel that technically speaking he is probably one of the finest musicians on earth. |
Posted By: Timsan
Date Posted: June 28 2006 at 12:58
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Some guitarplayers that influenced my are : page, gilmour and townshend. Especially page when he is playing acoustic, thats f....ing amazing.
The man that makes me wanna play bassguitar is mcCartney, he´s outstanding!
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Posted By: Teaflax
Date Posted: June 28 2006 at 13:07
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So, explain to me how this thread is still in the Prog Lounge while the Prog/Non Prog thread that is specifically about Prog music has been moved to the Non-Music Prog section.
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Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: June 28 2006 at 13:15
Ok. 1am - 8 am: sleep 8am: get up out of bed 8.05 am: have wash etc 8.15 am Have coffee and breakfast 8.30am: go to work 18.15:return from work |
Posted By: Teaflax
Date Posted: June 28 2006 at 13:20
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Well, okay (are you the only mod around, Tony?), even though this
thread has been knocking around the Prog Lounge since May 13th - but
why on earth was the other thread moved?
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Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: June 28 2006 at 13:32
If it slips off page one then it isnt a thread that is likely to be in the "eye of the storm." If,however,someone had posted that they started to play guitar after listening to AOR Radio Stations..... |
Posted By: capitalist
Date Posted: June 29 2006 at 09:31
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When I was about 9 years old, 1979...I watched an ABBA concert on TV.
and I wanted to play keys.
how embarrassing is that.
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Posted By: heyitsthatguy
Date Posted: June 30 2006 at 15:19
Not as embarassing as me...back in my "follow the crowd" phase when I had just started listening to music, then I wanted to play every "punk" song that there was. Trouble was, I realized quickly that they were all incredibly easy. Then I bought "...And Justice For All" and it totally blew me away. So, in essence it was Metallica who made me want to start taking guitar seriously, but it wasn't until Dream Theater that I really decided that I needed to get more technically proficient. And after I bought "Wish You Were Here" (relatively recently after I got Octavarium, my first DT album) I found that I wanted to play like Gilmour as well. ------------- 
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Posted By: kebjourman
Date Posted: July 04 2006 at 00:37
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first it was pink floyd that made me want to learn bass(money)
then for guitar it was just me getting bored of 4 strings.
and then robert wyatt made me want to learn drums
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Posted By: mcnugget
Date Posted: July 05 2006 at 00:15
Nine years ago, my grade six music teacher made me pick up the bass. A few years later, Patrick Djivas made me switch to fretless.  |
Posted By: BenC
Date Posted: July 06 2006 at 23:38
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The guys who inspired me to pick up the guitar weren't actually prog musicians (the dudes from Powderfinger... |
), but it was the marvellous Mr. John McLaughlin who inspired me to start playing fusion and experimental stuff. Ian Anderson has also planted the idea of learning the flute in my head - the solo in "Cross-Eyed Mary" is excellent. I also played piano and bass before learning the guitar, but that was before I discovered prog.Posted By: Zoso
Date Posted: July 12 2006 at 19:24
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I picked up bass very nonchalantly back in 5th grade for our school's
classical orchestra thing, but took to it like a duck to water. Now
it's the most important thing in my life.
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Posted By: philippe
Date Posted: July 13 2006 at 12:21
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I'm playing and manipulating every kind of keyboards, from piano, to organ and vintage electronic stuffs (since 15 years now)...thanks to the music of Rachmaninov,Satie, Debussy / TD... ------------- 
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Posted By: penguindf12
Date Posted: July 18 2006 at 03:45
| Sad to admit it, but I picked up bass because I liked Roger Waters' lyrics. He played bass, and I thought, "bass is the ultimate slackers' instrument - I can be in a band, write lyrics, and sing without actually having to be a musician - all I have to do is play bass! and it's so easy too!". But at the time I only really liked Pink Floyd (obviously) and The Wall. About two months into learning I introduced myself to Yes (through this site!) and other prog, and became more interested in music, solely for musics' sake (as opposed to being a vehicle for lyrics). So, without thinking really, I strived for a more complex style of bass playing (inspired by Chris Squire). This shows by the fact that after I complete the bass primer book, the very first song I took on was the entirety of Jethro Tull's "Thick as a Brick Pt. 1"...and I mastered it only 8 months after I picked up bass! So really, while I stand by the statement that bass is for slackers, it is so underrated because too often it is left in the hands of non-musicians. So really my goal now is to prove the bass can be utilized melodically - much like my heroes Chris Squire of Yes and Rockette Morton of the Magic Band set out to do. |
Posted By: purplepiper
Date Posted: July 02 2007 at 02:27
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Strange how I began playing bass, which quickly became guitar. Father just brought one home one day (he sells them). I sat staring at it for many weeks and slowly taught myself the trade. Cream and hendrix sucked me into the blues, but yes and king crimson kicked them out of the mix and lead me off toward the prog horizon. ------------- for those about to prog, we salute you. |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: July 02 2007 at 07:11
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The first time I heard the MASTER drumming in "Master (sic!) Builder" I decided to learn to play drums myself. Moerlen's drumming on "You" is unsurpassed by any drummer, and "Master Builder" simply blows you away.
-------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: staunchally
Date Posted: September 15 2007 at 11:59
You may be a great player but telling people how good you are on a forum is very bad form. Take some advice from an old timer.
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Posted By: Easy Money
Date Posted: September 17 2007 at 23:32
| Jon Lord-keyboards |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: September 28 2007 at 23:49
for all you go on about it... I should bite the bullit and take a listen. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: September 28 2007 at 23:53
exactly I couldn't agree more.... for example I am a fabulous player ..I can play damn near anything after 1 or 2 listens but I'd never think of telling people about and carrying on about it. Bad form indeed ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: September 29 2007 at 23:50
Your modesty never ceases to astound me. -------------   |
Posted By: Cheesecakemouse
Date Posted: September 30 2007 at 00:07
| probably Syd Barrett. I was about 12, this was before I discovered the prog giants, still BBarrett really inspired me. |
Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: September 30 2007 at 00:11
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My mom. She made me do it. |
Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: September 30 2007 at 00:19
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Why would a parent force their child to pick up drums? That's nothing short of masochistic.
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Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: September 30 2007 at 00:21
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It was like this. MOM: Stop playing video games. JOSH: Naw dawg MOM: Doit. JOSH: Naw. MOM: Doit. JOSH: Naw. MOM: DRUM LESSONS'd. |
Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: September 30 2007 at 00:27
Yesterday in the Shakespeare household: Mom: I'm gonna kill either you, myself, or both if you don't STOP PLAYING THOSE f**kING DRUMS I HAVE THE WORST HEADACHE EVER Josh: Naw dawg Mom: Do it. Josh. Naw Mom. Do It Josh:Naw Mom: Halo 3'd. ------------- |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: September 30 2007 at 00:30
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Randy Rhoads on Diary... I knew I had to play |
Posted By: Shakespeare
Date Posted: September 30 2007 at 00:36
She don't got the dough to buy me a 360 and Halo 3. But anyway, she lost, she's dead now. and then I cried : " OH I AM FORTUNE'S FOOL! " |
Posted By: theanalogkid82
Date Posted: October 08 2007 at 14:56
| David Gilmour and Alex Lifeson. The way they brought music out of their guitars floored me, and i got an acoustic guitar for my birthday and havent looked back. |
Posted By: yoel?
Date Posted: October 08 2007 at 15:01
| I started playing the drums becuase of porcupine trees stupid dream album, the first album I was ever really obsessed with. |
Posted By: Evans
Date Posted: October 08 2007 at 15:21
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One of my biggest inspirations is Jerry Garcia. I know i'll probably never play like he did, but whenever i listen to the Grateful Dead, i think to myself "That's how a guitar should be played". Funny anecdote: i initially made a typo writing that aboce sentence, i misspelt "how" as "howe". Coincidence? I think not... :) ------------- 
'Let's give it another fifteen seconds..' |
Posted By: sean
Date Posted: October 11 2007 at 10:31
| well, ludwig van beethoven made me want to start playing piano in the first place, but it was jordan rudess mainly that got me to start playing prog, as well as playing outside of classical in the first place. |
Posted By: Marwin
Date Posted: October 12 2007 at 10:52
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Geezer Butler and Geddy Lee
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Posted By: Snipergoat
Date Posted: October 22 2007 at 21:30
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For some random reason about 5 years ago all my friends decided to buy guitars. Not wanting to be left out, I decided to get one as well. Im still playing, but I think they all gave up after a few months |
Posted By: magnus
Date Posted: October 31 2007 at 17:31
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My brother and the duo James Hetfield/Kirk Hammett.
more specifically, it was my brother playing metallica(if I remember correctly) ------------- The scattered jigsaw of my redemption laid out before my eyes Each piece as amorphous as the other - Each piece in its lack of shape a lie 
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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: November 03 2007 at 18:21
| Jimmy, Alex, and Angus |