things that changed your life

[metalmariachi]

Animated movies are great, but for me it was a book and an old radio.

The radio used to pick up Koma from Oklahoma, pure shu-bop, Ricky Nelson, Dion etc., until one stormy night it picked up an all blues station from Chicago and the music hit me. Shortly there after (same year) I built my first amp and electrified an old guitar.
the book?
the Marvelous Land of Oz.
A must read for Devi.

Keith

[aen]

Things that changed my life:

"Numb" - U2
The Divorce
Tom Winceck
Devi Ever
Melonchollie and the INfinie Sadness- The Smashing Pumpkins

[Ghost Hip]

Melonchollie and the INfinie Sadness- The Smashing Pumpkins

Ditto. I used to jump up and down on my cousins' beds at five years old singing along to "Bullet with butterfly wings". Quite a few years later after my cousins turned to rap music my Grandma asked me if I wanted any of their old CDs. I then received Pisces Iscariot and Machina, and i was afraid to lsiten to them. Thankfully "The Everlasting Gaze" is an easy song to listen to at fourteen years old. Then I had to look up the meaning of 'Fickle'.

Also "Blue" was my initial inspiration to play bass guitar, but I eventually went with a six string.

[Ghost Hip]

I'd say the Darkness is gone for sure, it seems maybe James was able to counter whatever Billy was using with something different yet compatible. Not sure if that makes sense, I guess what I mean is when Billy played a Strat, James played a Les Paul. and there are those undefinable nuances in each persons technique and habits.

I find the Pinnacle within XYU is "And in the eyes of a Jackle I say KABOOM!" sometimes you don't even need the words, you want to scream it either way when it comes. The power of that song is probably the driving inspiration for every electric song I write.

MCIS!

[darryl2113]

I really don't wanna be the troll that turns this thread into an SP thread....and in a way i guess for me it is still relevant to the topic..but...to me Adore was this first record that really was something different...I mean in the sense that Gish was definitely Jane's Addiction, Siamese Dream was MBV, MCIS was sort of an amalgam of classic rock kings... Adore was something that was nothing. I remember hearing Corgan on Howard Stern and talking about "electronica is the future of music", I guess I can see where he was looking at Portishead and Massive Attack and wanted to travel there. But he did something with Adore that,imho, he really never duplicated.

Sometimes, no matter how much I love a band/record...there are just days where I really don't want to hear the shit. I put it on and think "nope, not today...." Adore has been a record that has never been like that with me. It touches on something primal, something that can't be consciously registered. Maybe its just me. It is a very sad record, and I am a very negative person, so it makes sense.

When Corgan did his online autobiography, I shamelessly read it every night like a giddy little schoolgirl. I was fascinated though about how miserable that period was for him/them. His mother dying and the divorce and the band falling apart....its wierd how someone can be so miserable and make stuff so beautiful. Imo, the reason why the "Pumpkins" dont sound the same is because I think they are too happy to keep trying to do what they did. They(jimmy and billy) both kind of made a little peace with themselves and it seems to have taken the "bite" out of the endeavor.Kind a like how basketball fans say that college ball is more interested than NBA games....these kids are trying to make this shit happen and everything is at stake...once they make it to the NBA...there is no real reason to fight for it anymore....

[cosmonaut]

Here's a picture of L.E. Modesitt from his website. It makes me laugh, and love his books even more.

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does Modesitt remind you of sen. john mccain?
is it me or am i just high?
or both?

[Stacco]

Mmmmm in more or less chrono-Ilogical order...

1) Listening to Hound Dog at five and thinking "What is THIS??!!!"
2) Getting into comics.
3) Moving to London at age eleven, coming back to Spain at sixteen
4) First sex and Electric Ladyland
5) Being Bipolar
6) Getting out of a depression mainly thanks to Frank Zappa's Apostrophe.
7) Kind of Blue and a Love Supreme
8) Alan Watts and Robert Anton Wilson
9) Estrella
10) Learning to say "no" to people and sticking to my "mad" beliefs and theories.
11)Developing the Stacco-fied Theory of being (in progress)
12) Joysee: my Joy, my Juice, my Mother, my Whore, my Toy.

Mwah to all!

[sadzoo]

Melonchollie and the INfinie Sadness- The Smashing Pumpkins

Ditto. I used to jump up and down on my cousins' beds at five years old singing along to "Bullet with butterfly wings". Quite a few years later after my cousins turned to rap music my Grandma asked me if I wanted any of their old CDs. I then received Pisces Iscariot and Machina, and i was afraid to lsiten to them. Thankfully "The Everlasting Gaze" is an easy song to listen to at fourteen years old. Then I had to look up the meaning of 'Fickle'.

Also "Blue" was my initial inspiration to play bass guitar, but I eventually went with a six string.

"Bullet with Butterfly Wings" at age five! Oy, you make me feel so old.

[Caesar]

I saw Pink Floyd do The Wall live at Nassau Coliseum when I was 10 years old. It blew my little mind. (I think I was stoned too)

[LowWoods]

I saw Marilyn Manson when I was 16 during his Anti-Christ Superstar tour. Still the most intense concert I've ever attended!

[Antero]

Most recent: Splitting a case of High Life with a guy who turned out to be a literal Nazi - joined the Aryan Brotherhood in prison, thunderbolts on his arms, hates blacks and Mexicans...

...and is voting Obama.

Welcome to the working week.

[metalmariachi]

Probibly agrees with his policies and plans.
MM

[Antero]

Believe me it's far less coherent than that. Being racist in 2008 involves a lot of cognitive dissonance.

[hatshirt]

1. Nirvana
2. skateboarding
3. electro harmonix big muff- gateway fuzz pedal that led to harder fuzz
4. scratch acid
5. hank williams
6. drugs/booze

[pablo9000]

Seeing the boredoms in '95 at The Fillmore in San Francisco.