What are your roots

[I’ll give it a go]

I believe they are doing the Joshua Tree anniversary tour. I would be interested but I don’t think I’ll be in the country when they come to Perth. I have a wedding to go to in Thailand in November.

No way that’s a shame, yes your right it is the Joshua tree tour. Work got to busy today and I missed out on the live nation allocations. Another sale coming soon I think.


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[Sonic Mountain]

The Pixies Doolittle album was my first ever CD, Sonic. I was 15 years old. Pixies (and U2) were the reason I wanted to pick up the guitar in the first place.

Yep, pretty influential album Doolittle. It sounds lot more simplistic than it is. Their 5 chords over 4 bars or 3 chords over 4 bars so each chord falls on a different part of the drum beat each progression gets really confusing. I've written a few songs like that and tried to to do some of those Pixies songs in various bands.. almost always breaks the drummers mind.

[DarkMark]

Getting a bit off the thread here, but I saw the U2/BBKing Rattle and Hum tour in 1992 at the Entertainment Centre second row right in front. Not bad for my first ever gig. They pulled someone out of the crowd to join in on guitar during All Along The Watchtower. They were having trouble finding a volunteer. I was 17yo at the time and I hadn’t started playing guitar yet. To think, if it had been a couple of years later I’m sure it would of been me up in front of a packed Entertainment Centre.

[king casey]

They pulled someone out of the crowd to join in on guitar

You missed an opportunity to get close-to-the-edge?

boom-boom.

cheers, Mark.

[PJSprog]

I'll toss mine in here as well.

I grew up in a house always filled with music. My Mother played piano quite well, and my parents never missed any of the music variety shows on TV. My older sister was big into disco and '70s pop, but early on I discovered the local rock station playing stuff like Hendrix and Sabbath. I became a big fan of bands like Yes and Rush. In the '80s, I started listening to bands like Loudness, Malmsteen, Talas, Vinnie Moore, and all those ridiculously talented players. I also became a fan of classical and baroque music.

In my early adult years, I started listening to more and more baroque/classical music, until at one point it was all I listened to. Then, I stumbled across the new Dream Theater "Scenes ..." album in '99, and reacquainted myself with my old love for progressive rock. I'd always remained a Rush fan, but these guys took that to the next level for me.

Over the years, I've also become fond of some jazz. In addition to the cool modern instrumental stuff, I'm a huge Frank Sinatra fan.

I started playing music at home on our piano, teaching myself from watching my Mother. I wanted to be a drummer, but my grade school music teacher told me they had plenty of drummers, but needed trombones and cornets. I chose cornet, and played through the rest of grade school and junior high school. I quit when I got to high school because the band leader there was a notorious a-hole. My best friend (who'd also quit band for the same reason) started playing guitar in '81, and talked me into buying a bass guitar in '82. Over the years, I've taught myself to play 14 instruments (well, 13, as the grade school teacher taught me cornet).

So, that's me. A music dork my whole life (52 now).

[DrNomis_44]

I've been really getting into playing Blues in a big way ever since I bought my Fender Mexican Telecaster, last Thursday I got the chance to play some live music with some local Darwin musicians at the Nirvana club, we jammed on a couple of Blues tunes, had a great time too.

[G-Axe]

I grew up in a family that loved music, but didn't play it. When I was about 5, the family got a Commodore 64 that came with a little plastic two octave keyboard overlay and some software that taught you how to play some Beatles tracks. That led to a Casio keyboard and eventually an upright piano along with years of lessons.

My dad is a huge Beatles fan and so they're basically the foundation of my musical knowledge. My earliest music memories are of Sgt Peppers and Abbey Road - Octopus' Garden is about as close as I ever got to "kids" music, so I missed out on Peter Coombe, The Wiggles, etc. Along with the Beatles we had a pretty definitive collection of '60s and '70s pop, and plenty of radio play of 1980's pop. It wasn't until mid 1989 that I discovered heavy guitars through songs like Alice Cooper's Poison and Faith No More's Epic and From Out of Nowhere and became musically "self-aware" - where I realised I had my own musical tastes that extended beyond my parent's collection.

My love of heavier guitars began in earnest as I started high school. Metallica's black album, Use Your Illusion, Blood Sugar Sex Magik and then Nevermind, Ten and Rage Against The Machine were all on heavy rotation and my musical world kind of exploded from there.

Eventually I discovered Triple J and Three Hours of Power, and Machine Head's Burn My Eyes was the first genuinely heavy album I bought, and once I had a job I quickly picked up the entire Pantera discography, Chaos AD and Roots, Demanufacture - all the '90s metal albums worth having (and a bunch not worth having). I also kept expanding my collection of anything and everything with heavy guitars - Tool, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Kyuss, You Am I, Regurgitator, Screaming Jets, etc.

It wasn't until late high school that I first started on guitar. A mate was learning, and taught me how to play a bunch of Nirvana songs - that was when I very quickly realised I needed an instrument I could use to play along to my own musical collection. That Christmas I was lucky enough to get an Aria Pro II SL-STD3 - a fantastically versatile HSS super Strat with no pickguard and a mean, Jackson-ish headstock.

Then as a adult, I've tried to commit myself to constantly challenging my musical tastes, and always expanding. Part of it was probably that my favourite bands either met their demise, or stopped releasing albums with any regularity, but I think it's mostly that euphoria of discovering something new that makes an immediate impression.

That said, even with a diverse listening taste - when it comes to playing music I rarely dial the gain down below 11.

[MusicStudent1]

This is an old thread but what the heck....

I saw this when I was 13 or 14. https://youtu.be/KsvtJ2npPiA It caused me to bale hay on a farm, work at McDonald’s, & make pizzas until I had enough money to buy a guitar and amp!

(It was a Sears non-branded Les Paul Copy that I eventually upgraded with DiMarzio Super Distortion pickups. It looked pretty close to Ace’s guitar in the video once I was done with it.)

Yeah...now I’m a 56 year old with the maturity of a 16 year old! I can still play every note of that solo, lol. Thanks a lot, Ace!😉

I got kind of bored with guitar and play bass now. Alex Webster, Billy Sheehan, Jack Pastorious, and Rudy Sarzo are my inspiration nowadays.

[dave.king1]

This is an old thread but what the heck....

When I started this thread I hoped that it would stay alive for as long as new members came on board and shared their musical foundations

[Trevor Davies]

I'm the same! Still love that early Kiss stuff. I have a fascination with LP's because of this. Moved on to hard rock and classic rock (which my parents said would be a passing phase). Well, it still has not passed! Though now I have matured slightly to rocky blues like Gary Moore, KWS, Joe B. Good times.