What sparked your interest in music? Was there a pivotal turning point in your life where you went from having no real interest in music to developing an extreme interest? Can you remember your first favorite song or album? Share your experiences.
What sparked your interest in music...
Julian Martin
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Ryan Long
The virgin chronicles made me pick up the guitar and I am not ashamed
Jeremiah Foster
I was 10 on a famous french forum, then there was a topic called "We talk ROCK here" and it all started there
Gabriel Foster
pad chennington and adam neely made me love music as a form of self expression, and showed me how noise can be music
>Can you remember your first favorite song or album?
probably some random song from system of a down, but i didn't knew what to consider a "favorite" back then
Henry Martinez
I always liked listening to the radio and watching music videos on tv, literally spent the whole day doing it. Parents got me a guitar when I was 12, now I'm studying music and they hate it.
Lincoln Clark
i heard a streamer on twitch play the album dispepsi by negativland. the album consumed me and i eventually got into a lot of experimental music, before then i thought all music was shit.
Michael Wood
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I was inspired to juts mess around and have fun, using vsthost and audacity, after learning about Secret Diary by Girl Talk. I never took it seriously really but recorded random stuff I kind of like and half finished ideas, it was really hard to arrange or do anything serious in just audacity. After listening to 1000 gecs I began to consider trying out a DAW. Dylan Brady's arrangement is kind of... obvious and simple, which makes it really easy to analyze. That motivated me to try to build proper songs in Reaper. With drum accompaniment, counter melody, etc.
Brayden Diaz
>groomed into rocktimism
Oh no...
Colton Rivera
and they should, imagine "studying music" hahahaha nigga you can learn it in two weeks hahahahahaa
Aaron Jones
When I was like 9, my best friend's dad had a really nice (for the time) home studio with a Pro Tools TDM system and a Mac G4. I thought in order to record an album, bands had to go to big fancy studios with millions of dollars of equipment, so seeing a DAW for the first time, I was fascinated and thought it was the coolest shit ever. Whenever I was over there, I'd pester his dad to show me his setup, and occasionally he would man the Power Mac and set up a very basic Pro Tools session so I could fuck around on his Yamaha keyboard and make dumb shit.
He also let me play his Les Paul a few times, and the moment I realized fret positions were how you played different notes, I was like "oh FUCK" and realized I needed to bully my parents into buying me a Squier.
Then my friend's cousin heard I was interested in music, and he gave me a burned CD with Fruityloops 4 on it, so I started making beats.
Then my dad's friend who worked at a radio station heard I was making music on my computer, and he gave me a pirated copy of Cool Edit Pro.
In the very beginning, I had this $80 eurorack mixer with the RCA outs running into my sound card. It sounded like shit.
Then I saved money from summer odd jobs and bought my first interface, a used Digi 001.
It came with Pro Tools LE 6, which I hated, so I just kept using Cool Edit and FL.
I would make beats in FL, export all the tracks, import them into Cool Edit, mix the beat, and then record my gay raps over it with a shitty little CAD mic.
As soon as I learned how to do noise reduction, vocal overdubs, compression etc, it was on like donkey kong.
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Kayden Walker
I'm gonna find you and I'm gonna put a small fish in your wallet
Jose Evans
Very nice story user I wish I had friends with cool dads like that
Owen Morris
My parents both loved music and I heard it a lot growing up. When I was young, my dad gave me an mp3 with all the Beatles albums on it, and I listened to them on repeat for a long time. Most of the music I listen to now still shares characteristics with their music.
My dad taught me how to play guitar, which is what deepened my love of music and made me want to discover more bands and sounds
Tyler Kelly
>GOTTA LOTTA HEARTACHE
I would come home after school and play my guitar to the record start to finish.
Brayden Ramirez
I've always been exposed to music, my dad loved pearl jam and arcade fire so i grew up around alternative music. I got piano lessons from a young age but stopped around age 11 cause I wasn't very interested. I remember about that time I started watching anime and loved a lot of the soundtracks, and was curious on if I could play them on the piano. I dabbled a little in it, but I remember hearing Glowing Eyes by Twenty One Pilots and just being totally entranced by it, I immediately went and learned it on the piano, I think I was 13. I kept playing the Piano and then when I was 16 I got a cheap amp and a Guitar cause I really like My Chemical Romance. Then when I was 17 I heard three things that inspired me to start writing my own music, Ok Computer, The Glow Pt.2 and Twin Fantasy. I started experimenting, and then when I was 18 I got super into Twin Fantasy and was obsessed with Will Toledo cause he was my age when he was making that stuff, and started writing like crazy. Then this year, 19, I saw my first ever DIY show and it was insane, the music was so loud and the singing was so captivating. Every moment of my life is defined by music and I hope I don't lose this youthful vigor where I am just constantly wanting to create and listen and be inspired and create more. Sure maybe the 40 y/o dudes at the back of the show are seen as losers, but they still are doing what they love and if that's what I become, as long as I still love music I will be happy with that.
Xavier Cox
Well my dad was born in 61 so i grew up with a lot of his stuff he listened to when he was young (Beatles, Bowie, etc). One of my very early memories was the weird loop at the end of day in the life which creeped me out. I think around 9 or 10 my sister got me an mp3 that had the stuff she liked on it, Killers, Keane, MCR, early Arctic Monkeys. There was also Scott Walker on there which i really liked. around 2014 i think my other sister showed me a few basic chords on guitar and i was just teaching myself songs (which basically just meant playing the daria theme on one string)
It wasn't until I rediscovered bowie on my own that I really got interested in the guitar, after i heard the live version of width of a circle, i thought it was fantastic and was the turning point where i really wanted to pursue music as possibly a career. That's when i started getting into the heavier stuff as well as prog, like King Crimson and Black Sabbath.
My best friend i've known since i was about 3 has been on a very similar path music wise, our tastes are practically identical since we're usually discovering stuff together, and writing stuff. It's good having someone like that
Liam Watson
I always liked music casually but unironically I heard bullet with butterfly wings on the radio and it was miles better than the other shit they played which was a gateway to me discovering music as an artform
Connor Fisher
Mariah Carey. My sisters listened to her a lot in the ‘90s, and it was the first music that I felt was really good.
Chase Perry
youtube.com
One of my earliest memories is listening to this when I was like 4 years old. It was the first time I ever tasted Dr. Pepper, and my mom was driving me home from the pool. I think I remember it so well because it's such an anthemic track.
Colton Wood
Back in the Kazaa days, my older sister told me I might like Elliott Smith, apropos of nothing. She was right
Carter Young
being taken on a field trip to see the city symphony.