things that changed your life

[Pirate]

The guitar

[masked elwood]

beatles
zappa
strat, amp, little big muff , wha, & space echo (my first real set up)
punk rock
jerry the king lawler
foxx tone machine
killing joke
dub
wife
rave culture
dj shadow / dj spooky / q-bert
brain tumor
kids


elwd

[aen]

[Ghost Hip]

Aen can time travel now?

Its a brilliant plan, replace Kurt's DS-1 with the great destroyer, he'll then use the pedal on Nevermind and then everyone will want one!

[Caesar]

Seeing David Gilmour play the first solo of Comfortably Numb while standing on top of the wall. I was 10, and it was my first real concert.

[Caesar]

Seeing David Gilmour play the first solo of Comfortably Numb while standing on top of the wall. I was 10, and it was my first real concert.

Rick Wright died recently btw.

I know, I'm still really sad.

[dronemachine]

[Ghost Hip]

Thats trippy, took me awhile to identify that people were behind the distorted visions.

I'm not sure if its a life changer but it put my faith back into modern music's song writing:

[dronemachine]

Hey PumpkinPieces,can't see the video...no longer available,or something

[Ghost Hip]

Darn, I guess I'll just post the link. See if that works.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILVkugeqZbQ

[smile_man]

My Girlfriend.
At the Drive-In.
Broken Social Scene.
The Flaming Lips.
Drums.
Delay pedals.

[grim]

chemotherapy
hurricane katrina
guitar
music in general
mj....

[Suilebhain]

1. Getting a little radio that had no speaker, only an earplug, and listening as R&B turned into the British Invasion as I drifted off to sleep.
2. The Kennedy Assassination.
3. Waking up one morning, three weeks before Christmas, to be told that my best friend had died the night before in a fire.
4. Being told that the Animals and the Kinks were cool, but if I REALLY wanted to hear good guitar playing, I needed to check out this cat named Hendrix, or something.
5. My first altered consciousness experience, held at Madison Square Garden during a Led Zeppelin concert.
6. Buying my first synthesizer.
7. 1974 through 1976. It was one continuous bad trip.
8. Meeting the girl who became my wife.
9. Going back to school and getting my degree, then my master's degree.
10. My wife's first tonic-clonic seizure, which happened during my first year back to college at age 30.
11. Sega Genesis, followed by the personal computer and online gaming.
12. The advent of cheap recordable CDs.
13. My wife's breakdown, from which neither she nor I have not yet recovered and stands as the most significant life-altering experience to date.

[jrmy]

In chronological-ish order, not by importance:

1. My little sis' being borned.
2. The Who, "Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy"
3. My folks moving us to middle-of-nowhere Maine
4. Deciding to take guitar lessons.
5. Deciding not to give up guitar lessons after my first (horrible) public recital.
6. Discovering Ride, Bob Mould, the Screaming Trees and Metallica all around the same time.
7. Switching from guitar to bass & joining my first band, "Crash & Burn."
8. Recording my first "original" songs on my father's Sony Walkman with my best friend.
9. Getting the hell out of Maine & going to college, where I'd join the radio station & become an indie-rock nerd AND the station's heavy metal director.
10. Forming my first college band with Dave, not knowing that we'd play together for the next six years.
11. Moving to Providence.
12. Meeting the woman who would become my wife.
13. My folks splitting up, figuring it out, getting back together again.
14. Starting a band with Bill, not knowing that we'd play together for 8+ years (the partnership's still going...).
15. Gettin' hitched & buying a house.
16. Discovering computer-based home recording.
17. Surviving testicular cancer (3 years this month! w00t!)
18. Adopting our first son.
19. Figuring out ways to play music and still have a family life (work in progress).