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Re: Unusual influences on your sound...
Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2013 12:01 am
by gunslinger_burrito
kaboom wrote:I notice that video game music creeps into a lot of melodies i try to write.
[youtube]http://youtu.be/E4yWhFZMDiM[/youtube]
DUDE. The Chrono (Trigger and Cross) soundtracks are some of my favorite.
I tend to listen to stuff that's not what I'm trying to write, if I'm writing. Jazz, classical..... I want to find more Guqin music. I like the minimalist approach in a lot of Asian music.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIyx5XIQM6U[/youtube]
Re: Unusual influences on your sound...
Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2013 1:28 am
by Blackened Soul
D.o.S. wrote:Blackened Soul wrote:sonidero wrote:Blackened Soul wrote:air conditioning, colorful vinyl, ducks.
I can't stand being in an air conditioned room with the windows shut, colorful vinyl and ducks are ok... It's 100 here and I can't drive with the windows up and I haven't turned on my A.C. at home yet...
AC goes on when it gets past 75, I can't take the heat at all, it just makes me into a very grumpy person.
Reading everyone's posts I just don't really see any musical influence as odd. Unless you rally see your self as a player of one style anyway. Like I can say I am hugely influenced by Indian classical music and western classical music, as well as avant garde classical and free jazz as much as metal and punk/post punk and industrial/noise and could rattle off names in said "styles" but after a while it's just music and none of it is unusual to me per say. Now a LOT of people consider my taste in music unusual so does this mean that I [and I'd say most or you] are just very unusual in general.
I think it's more along the lines of things that wouldn't easily be traced back through your jams,
Like, I grew up with and totally love early Fairport Convention. but I don't anyone can hear Sandy Denny in what I play.
I do get your point, but I think that as a musician one is influenced by almost every thing they hear either in a good or bad way
Re: Unusual influences on your sound...
Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2013 1:39 am
by Gearmond
personally i think its weird when people who are serious about playing AREN'T musical omnivores. so i can't really say anything "unusual" (relative to me/my playing) has influenced me.
thats why i fucking hate the whole shred scene. its being serious about playing in a REALLY narrow way.
but idk i guess relative to most guitar playing i'm really influenced by rappers and piano players these days.
Re: Unusual influences on your sound...
Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2013 3:18 pm
by GardenoftheDead
Every once in a while I detect some ska and funk sneaking into my clean rhythm playing.
Cosigned
Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 5:38 am
by rustywire
gunslinger_burrito wrote:kaboom wrote:I notice that video game music creeps into a lot of melodies i try to write.
[youtube]http://youtu.be/E4yWhFZMDiM[/youtube]
DUDE. The Chrono (Trigger and Cross) soundtracks are some of my favorite.
I tend to listen to stuff that's not what I'm trying to write, if I'm writing. Jazz, classical..... I want to find more Guqin music. I like the minimalist approach in a lot of Asian music.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIyx5XIQM6U[/youtube]
Re: Unusual influences on your sound...
Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 11:25 am
by IEatCats
GardenoftheDead wrote:A surprising amount of Jimmy Page leaks into my lead playing.
I catch this in my playing a lot. I'll be jamming for a while and start to feel like I'm playing Zeppelin songs, haha.
I'd probably say Rush. It doesn't shine trough very often anymore, but when I was old enough to be aware of music, my dad gave me tons of rush albums. I still semi-secretly love them.
And tons of old video games. It shows a lot in my electronic stuff.
Re: Unusual influences on your sound...
Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 8:23 pm
by gunslinger_burrito
this....Guqin inspired some instrument making and odd tuning for me.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8F0G4QEQYg[/youtube]
Re: Unusual influences on your sound...
Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 8:27 pm
by skullservant
THOSE HARMONICS DOE
Re: Unusual influences on your sound...
Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 9:12 pm
by Derelict78
LSD
Re: Unusual influences on your sound...
Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 10:20 pm
by sergiomunoz74
Mega man X, Earthbound, and Sonic the hedgehog. Drum and bass, jazz, and romantic style compositions are my main but that's not unusual
Re: Unusual influences on your sound...
Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2013 2:11 pm
by bob the r0bot
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Re: Unusual influences on your sound...
Posted: Sat Jul 20, 2013 9:46 pm
by Ugly Nora
Blackened Soul wrote:I do get your point, but I think that as a musician one is influenced by almost every thing they hear either in a good or bad way
Daniel Higgs (Lungfish) said something similar once (or maybe more than once, I wouldn't have a way to verify that). He said that everything he every heard was an influence even if he didn't like it. He said there are things he hears that he knows he must avoid, and things he hears that he wants to emulate.
Nora
Re: Unusual influences on your sound...
Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2013 10:14 am
by warwick.hoy
Lake Trout
Konono No.1
Re: Unusual influences on your sound...
Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2013 12:02 pm
by D.o.S.
Nora Billy wrote:Blackened Soul wrote:I do get your point, but I think that as a musician one is influenced by almost every thing they hear either in a good or bad way
Daniel Higgs (Lungfish) said something similar once (or maybe more than once, I wouldn't have a way to verify that). He said that everything he every heard was an influence even if he didn't like it. He said there are things he hears that he knows he must avoid, and things he hears that he wants to emulate.
Nora
Interestingly, I'd say Higgs's solo work is something I hear that I feel like I must avoid.
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Re: Unusual influences on your sound...
Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2013 9:43 pm
by christianatl
Our band is sort of a sludge / noise rock hybrid, but I love 80s Eurotrash stuff (The Cure, Bauhaus, Joy Division, etc.).