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Re: a fun game



Title: a fun game
OK - I'm in.
 
I'll draw a distinction between music I have enjoyed listening to and music that has influenced my guitar-playing. 
 
Here's a selection of artists/groups whose music has influenced or shaped my guitar playing & music making -
 
Kruder & Dorfmeister /
all those incredible recordings on the FAX label
Richard James (under his various pseudonyms) / Orb / Orbital
Nirvana / Stereolab
Gang of Four / SWANS
Andy Summers / Police
William Ackerman / Fripp & Eno / Roy Harper
King Crimson / Status Quo
 
As I construct this list I note that I'm currently not feeling my guitar playing is being influenced by the contemporary music of any group or artist. 
 
David
 
P.S.  Damn, that's a collection of very WHITE music, huh?  
 
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 8:23 PM
Subject: a fun game

I got an email from a friend the other day, out of the blue. He wrote that he had just been thinking about all the music he loves, and his email listed a bunch of stuff that was dear to him.

I got such a kick out of that and found it so interesting that I thought I’d do it here on LD, and if anyone wants to shoot back a list of some of their inspirations, it might not only be interesting but also make a nice resource for anyone who feels like going out and listening to something new. (Sort of like that cool music plasma link that squidloop put up a while ago  
http://www.musicplasma.com/  but with humans.)

So here are some of my great loves, in no particular order. Some of them use looping of various sorts, some don’t, they’re all music . . .

.......................................................................

- Hood: Cold House

- Nick Cave: Murder Ballads/ Let Love In

- John Coltrane: A Love Supreme

- The Durutti Column: The Return of The Durutti Column

- DJ Shadow: Endtroducing

- Jimi Hendrix: Electric Ladyland

- Kazuhisa Uchihashi: Ryusei

- Machine Translations: Abstract Poverty

- Scientist: Heavyweight Dub Champion

- Billy Cobham: Spectrum

- David Sylvian: Secrets of the Beehive

- The Cure: Disintegration

- Public Enemy: It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

- Jeff Buckley: Grace

- Stereolab: Dots and Loops

- Miles Davis: Kind of Blue

- Talking Heads: Remain In Light

.......................................................................


Dan


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