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I am left handed. Started playing at varsity on an upside down a la Hendrix. Check out a left guitarist Doyle bramhal. He plays left with strings strung for a righty. Now that is a serious mind **** watching him an not hearing the sounds associated with the shapes.

 

I played in 4 or 5 bands you never heard of. I love music an the feeling when it all grooves in a band is one of the best feelings on earth. When it gels it’s like drugs.

 

Normally listen to old school metal, a bit of trance, some Giorgio. Old school metal rules. Early Syd floyd an good ole rock rules.

 

Still have a custom made les Paul ,case full of stomp boxes an small tube amp. Resurrect my musical career at some point.

 

my music preference lie in the harder side of life, and have a true appreciation for those that can make a career out of playing an Instrument.

Always wanted to play the guitar.. so now in my late 30's I've started going to a music teacher, and getting there slowly. I tried for a few years teaching myself

 

but during those years I collected a few DIY guitars that I built and finished, and found my musical ability lies more in creating nice looking guitars, And am currently restoring an 89' Kramer, Would truly not mind having a custom les Paul

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Living close to London has some advantage s and bands is definitely one of them. I been a lifelong kiss fan, yes it’s true. And the God of thunder has transpired against me and I have never seen em live. Missed them by 3 days when I lived in Budapest, missed them at Donnington in 1996 due to travel delays blah blah blah..

 

Tomorrow tickets go on sale for O2 on 11 July....damn better get me a ticket

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I did a  solo cycling tour of Ireland many moons ago, really felt and experienced the deeply ingrained love of music in the culture just about everywhere I went, buskers of all sorts on the streets, and in the pubs in the evenings where it generally ended up in a Guiness fueled sing-along

 

That was just after Alan Parker's film "The Commitments" came out, which is much about the same.

 

My last night ... in Dublin, go for walkabout, end up in some random pub, full of energetic friendly youngsters having a drink before a gig in a community hall down the road, "come" they said, and I had my rubber arm bent and went along, I was affronted by an intense wall of sound, a band that I had never heard of: Oasis. Was quite an experience!

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my music preference lie in the harder side of life, and have a true appreciation for those that can make a career out of playing an Instrument.

Always wanted to play the guitar.. so now in my late 30's I've started going to a music teacher, and getting there slowly. I tried for a few years teaching myself

 

but during those years I collected a few DIY guitars that I built and finished, and found my musical ability lies more in creating nice looking guitars, And am currently restoring an 89' Kramer, Would truly not mind having a custom les Paul

 

Sent you a pm.

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Then there was the "Slugs of War" which was more a parody mash-up band.  I think they enjoyed stuffing around a lot.  Their greatest hit was Rabobi.......

 

Music from the eighties and nineties that my son is push onto his teachers include:

REM

OMD

Transvision vamp

Cranberries

Garbage

Queen

Offspring

Greenday

 

Things that just do not float anymore include

Sugi Sugi Sputnik

Ace of Base

Vinni manilli

Maddona

Rick Asley

Spice Girls

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Maddona was/is interesting to me, I wasn't really into her or her pop music in the 80's, then that film about her by her in the early 90's came out (Madonna: Truth or Dare), gave another perspective. I've actually got that hefty Al clad book "sex" in which she lays out her sexuality( from about that time). -that certainly would have been banned back in the day.

 

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Enjoyed a few of her 90's albums as well. Her as an actor: not so much.

 

I think ultimately she was and is empowering to women, which is a good thing in my opiinion.

 

Never seen her live show but lets just say she has done well. A good performer, dancer, arteest

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I'm a fan of 80s new wave music and the other day I was taking stock of, among others, the Aussie bands of that era and how good they were. Here's to name just a few:

 

Icehouse

Men at work

Crowded house

INXS

Midnight oil

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I'm a fan of 80s new wave music and the other day I was taking stock of, among others, the Aussie bands of that era and how good they were. Here's to name just a few:

 

Icehouse

Men at work

Crowded house

INXS

Midnight oil

Crowded House are a Kiwi band

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I’ve been listening to music as long as I’ve been alive, pretty much. In the Seventies my dad’s turntable never stopped working. Rolling Stones, Beatles, Led Zep, Cream, Moody Blues, etc etc. From there my two older brothers and I all started finding our own way. Often intersecting, but not always. As far as into the late Eighties my dad still introduced me to new music and I would share new stuff with him as well. I still remember crystal clear the day he came home from the CNA (yes, really, the CNA used to have a brilliant music section back in the day) with a new record. He put it on. It was very different to what he normally listened to and I was thinking what is this? It was the new Paul Simon album, Graceland. He played it through once, and then back to side A, and then said this is going to be a worldwide hit record… He wasn’t far wrong. In 1992 I finally got to see Paul and his incredible band (including many of the original Graceland musos like Ray Phiri) on stage at Ellis Park, my first proper international concert, protests and bomb threats and all.

 

Aside from me ‘getting into’ and loving a lot of overseas music, my first love is and always will be South African music. Why? Because for a few Rand, you could go watch these incredible bands live just a few minutes away. With sanctions and boycotts long gone the younger generation don’t appreciate that international artists coming here is the new normal. Back then It just didn’t happen. Then the mid Nineties, my glory days, night after night seeing the best SA rock ever, Squeal, SNG, Just Jinger, Amersham, Arapaho, Boo!, the list goes on and on. And in between the flood of overseas artists playing on a regular basis at Sun City. Some good, some okay, some great.

I first saw Johnny Clegg when he had just formed Savuka, post Juluka. I fell in love with his music there and then. I have since seen him on stage more times than I can genuinely remember. Last year, on his Final Journey tour, I was able to catch 2 of the Monte Casino shows and the huge one at the Dome. Very special memories. I was lucky enough to get backstage and meet him and Sipho Mchunu (his original Juluka partner) back in 2016 thanks to his guitarist and musical director.

I love music, I love talking about and writing about it (not that you could tell…) I was pretty stoked recently when a short review I wrote of a gig was put by the artist on his website. No big thing really but made me feel really good.

 

I started collecting vinyl, then moved to CD in the late Eighties. I had CDs before a player, in the hopes that when I did have one I’d not just have one album to listen to. And this was obviously long before the days of being able to write your own CDs and make compilations etc. I had a lot of cassettes, expensive chrome ones which I played in my car before finally having a CD player in there. A standalone bought Goldstar… remember that brand?

I have somewhere in the region of 3000 albums on CD at the moment. As short a time as ten years ago that used to really impress people, now it’s more ‘you still have CDs???’ I am just one of those people who collects and if I like a band or artist, I generally have to have everything they’ve released. I am just old fashioned and like tangible physical items. I love reading liner notes. I am a fount of useless information like which session muso played on which track on which album etc etc… I started selectively rebuying vinyl a few years back and enjoy that but it’s very much a luxury purchase. I have tried to move with the times, but still find iTunes a frustration because the music is so compressed and lacking in warmth. Lately I’ve been getting into sites like HD Tracks and 7 Digital US, where you can download 16 or 24bit files which is at least CD quality or better. I may not have a physical copy or liner notes but the quality is good. I have an Onkyo app on my phone which allows me to play WAV, FLAC and ALAC lossless files up to 24bit so that’s my car listening sorted.

 

What do I listen to these days? Well, a lot of the stuff that I spent hours listening to back then doesn’t do it for me anymore… Part of growing up I guess. And, conversely, a lot of my music has remained. I go through phases. I won't listen to Frank Zappa for months and then will listen to nothing but his albums for weeks. I do this with people like Bob Marley too. Also, I am constantly craving and seeking out new music. Which, considering I haven’t listened to a radio broadcast in close to 20 years is something. Right now I am hooked on Jason Isbell (any Drive By Truckers fans out there?) new bands like Nathaniel Rateliff and the Nightsweats and Lake Street Dive. The one odd thing is very little new SA music has grabbed me of late. I still listen to a lot of the stuff I did back then, some of the bands still make music and some are long gone and consigned to the history books, but there hasn’t been a recent SA artist or band that has genuinely blown me away.

 

I’m also appreciating people I may have overlooked or was too young to ‘get’ before. Leonard Cohen... wow. David Crosby has released 4 albums since 2014, all of them absolutely superb… the work he did with CSN and CSNY was legendary but man he doesn’t need those guys to make great music.

My biggest idols? Well, simply Bruce Springsteen and Johnny Clegg. I’ve been so lucky to have seen Johnny as many times as I have. On the flip side, I went a quarter of a century thinking I would never get to see Springsteen on stage and then in 2013 his first (and likely only) SA tour was announced. I don’t know how I managed financially but I went down to Cape Town for the first two shows (missing the third and final CT one) and then saw the big one here at FNB Stadium. Nearly 60 000 people, in the pouring rain, the biggest single audience of the 2014 tour. That was a special show but the second CT one, where I got to be inches away from him and shake his hand, was surreal. And for those who are not familiar with his music, no, he didn’t just make Born In The USA or Dancing In The Dark. And I did not see the same show three times. Each of the legendary E Street Band shows was over 3 hours long. I got to see 51 different songs in total. For a Boss fan, true dream come true moments. And having Tom Morello as a fourth guitarist on that tour was the icing on the cake.

 

Music is a daily part of my life. I have a great home theatre system, but I have a separate stereo with a CD player and turntable. 6 nights out of the week the TV never goes on, it’s just music often until the early hours of the morning. And I’d not have it any other way.

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Had a musical background, starting with Recorder, Piano, Guitar. Sucked at most of them, because I hated having to practice.

 

Did percussion in high school, playing snare in the marching band, and percussion in the regional youth orchestra my whole high-school carreer.

 

Hate the 80's there are some stuff listenable, but in general i think it's ***.

 

Grew up grunge, which means my taste is hard rock, cant say alternative, because that genre changed a lot the last couple of years.

 

I listen to trance/ deep trance. Mainly above & beyond, and their Anjuna artists. Anyone who says Electronic music takes no talent whatsoever, is probably referring to "Barbie Girl" and other pop madness.

 

I cannot listen to 5 minutes of radio, Call me old, but the crud the kids listen to these days ... I dont know anymore....

 

Some faves:

 

Chevelle

Jack White

Highly Suspect

Middle Class Rut

Wolf Alice

10 Years

Linkin Park

Staind

Audio Slave

Chris Cornell

etc.

 

Recenlty Really like the live stuff on youtube from corey taylor.

 

it's an amazing thing, music. 

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