Unusual influences on your sound...

[O Drones]

Yeah man, we can start some sort of Harsh Noise Wall Drone commune. It'll be awesome You can build the machines that we'll use to worship our gods

[Mudfuzz]

Unusual is usual.

Sounds???

all things

[Bellyheart]

Danny elfman, when getting into playing and composing was a huge inspiration. Now a lot of soundtrack scores have become inspiring. Birds as well. Especially if you have a bunch together. Not flock but different birds around can make some great rhythms.

[Achtane]

Aw man how could I forget Danny Elfman.
I love Oingo Boingo, too...

[weed_killer]

Joni Mitchell is probably my largest influence when it comes to drone/doom types of sounds. She's one of my favourite artists anyway, but if you take a lot of her songs, slow the fuck down and sprinkle in some dirt = total
drone riffs. It has to do with the alternate tunings she uses and how she plays a lot of the chords with open strings. Listen to this song and it becomes clear why the people that always dismiss her late 70s work in favour
of stuff like 'Blue' don't understand what they're overlooking. Sometimes I like to imagine covering a whole joni album lysol style.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvjCbSeTBKM[/youtube]

[Derelict78]

Thanks weedkiller I dug that a lot. About to go buy the album.

[weed_killer]

Thanks weedkiller I dug that a lot. About to go buy the album.

Just as a fyi, the rest of Mingus doesn't sound anything like that; it's still innaresting stuff, but totally different. It's a collaboration between Charles Mingus and Joni doing jazz arrangements. I'd recommend
'The Hissing of Summer Lawns', especially for a track on there called 'The Jungle Line' that'll blow you away.

[theavondon]

Dude, yeah, those mingus/mitchell colabs are insane. But also, Mingus definitely has had a major influence on my playing.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWmE8T09-G4[/youtube]

[weed_killer]

Dude, yeah, those mingus/mitchell colabs are insane. But also, Mingus definitely has had a major influence on my playing.

Mingus is fantastic. I could go on about guys like him, Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, Albert Ayler, Sonny Sharrock, etc, but I restrained myself as they wouldn't be 'unusual' influences. I think this makes for a more
interesting thread though.

[Blackened Soul]

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.

[Big Mon]

Joni Mitchell

man, you ain't lyin'

[goosekevin]

jingles from ads
they always get stuck in my head (duh) and then it really helps me work on my ear to try and play them later

crappy amps

open tunings

being in bands/jamming with players that are way ahead of me skill wise

[D.o.S.]

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.

[Big Mon]

Like, I grew up with and totally love early Fairport Convention. but I don't anyone can hear Sandy Denny in what I play.

Ahhhh, Fairport....

[kaboom]

I notice that video game music creeps into a lot of melodies i try to write.
[youtube]http://youtu.be/E4yWhFZMDiM[/youtube]