Dads and music
Reg
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registered: 1999.11.22
Cool Lee!
My dad played a big role for me musically as well. He played all kinds of music for me when I was a boy. Everything from classical to Johnny Cash. He had a huge record collection full of stuff going way, way back. Stan Getz, Elvis, Big Mama Thornton, Santana, you just never knew what my dad would play next. I remember my first two favorites when I was really young were John Lee Hooker and Simon and Garfunkel. I think Johnny Cash was up there too. I loved all the blues stuff though...Muddy Waters...all that stuff clicked for me from about 4 or 5 years old. There was something about their voices that just seemed so huge. My dad played jazz but he constantly was switching from one record to something else. It was cool because I never really thought of stuff as rock or classical or blues it was all just music.
We had a lot of nights when we'd just play records all night. He'd go and pick up the new Steely Dan or something and we'd listen to that and then start playing other stuff.
What jazz does your dad like?
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'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
Reg
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Cool Lee!
My dad played a big role for me musically as well. He played all kinds of music for me when I was a boy. Everything from classical to Johnny Cash. He had a huge record collection full of stuff going way, way back. Stan Getz, Elvis, Big Mama Thornton, Santana, you just never knew what my dad would play next. I remember my first two favorites when I was really young were John Lee Hooker and Simon and Garfunkel. I think Johnny Cash was up there too. I loved all the blues stuff though...Muddy Waters...all that stuff clicked for me from about 4 or 5 years old. There was something about their voices that just seemed so huge. My dad played jazz but he constantly was switching from one record to something else. It was cool because I never really thought of stuff as rock or classical or blues it was all just music.
We had a lot of nights when we'd just play records all night. He'd go and pick up the new Steely Dan or something and we'd listen to that and then start playing other stuff.
What jazz does your dad like?
–--
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
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