Dude,
I was listening to Def Leppard’s Greatest Hits the other day
and was immediately swept with some sweet nostalgic memories of growing up,
guitar wise that is.
My musical choice was really different from my peers. At
that time, it was the mid-90s’ so pop music was at its peak, commercial boyband
pop I mean. Let’s see who was at the top: Spice Girls, Take That (fading),
Backstreet Boys (just coming up), Boyzone, 911, and many others.
My choice at that time: Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Def
Leppard, Yngwie Malmsteen, Mr. Big and for some strange reasons Van Halen.
It was rather difficult to find like minded friends to share
stuff on those music. Back then, I would not listen to any music without guitar
solo in it. So, the musical choice was rather limited.
I couldn’t really fit into conversation about music with
people and certainly wasn’t very popular with the girls as I can’t name all
three members of 911.
But when MY music plays, nothing else matters. Maybe that
was why I got more time on had to practice.
Well this post is nothing much actually. It’s just to remind
me how far I have come and the journey is still on-going, with new discoveries
everyday, from having one classical guitar to six additional electrics, from
playing to the walls to playing in 2 of your EPs and of course Dev’s
Boogie.
It’s a post to remind me to be thankful of what I had and
what I have, and also to assure me that being different is ok.
Being different is
good. My best achievement was able to play the entire Highway Star solo on my
classical guitar.
Dude,
ReplyDeleteI would be proud of your musical tastes. If you don't mind, let me share with you on how my journey evolved as well. I used to be very much into 80s pop (actually I still am) and it was really all I listened to - as that was all which was available on the radio. One fine day in 1991, my cousins from Canada came to town, and brought with them 3 cassettes; Poison - Flesh and Blood, Motley Crue - Dr Feelgood, and Skid Row - Skid Row. This blew my mind, and my entire perception of music changed. I remember being blown away by the melodies, the vocals and the solos. Everything seemed to have fit so well, and it seemed like the landscape of music had changed dramatically in my head.
After that, I started moving into Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, Guns n Roses, Ratt, Cinderella, Whitesnake, Dokken, Mr Big, Van Halen and others.
It wasn't until 1993 when I found two cassettes which changed my life even more dramatically - Megadeth - Rust in Peace, and Metallica - Black Album. Trash metal then became my genre of choice.
Along the way as I started to pick up the guitar, my focus changed to some heroes such as Yngwie, Impelliteri and the likes. Along the way Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin all emerged and the rest as they say is history.