Re: The Well 19x2: Word to your moms. I came to drop bombs. I got more rhymes than...
History of listening tendencies and technique findings!
I have always been into roots kind of music. I grew up in the wrong era. My parents are my biggest influences. I listen to AND am influenced by so many styles and genres it is just silly. I honestly don't have one genre that I am most loyal to. I have multiple, multiple, multiple musical personalities. I really do like it all.
My dad influenced me by listening to a lot of the "black music" (for lack of better terms and to help cover a wide gap) of the 50's 60's and 70's. Tons of funk, soul, motown and all that. I often joke with my black friends that I am a black man stuck in a white man's body. They love it because I know more about that music and can sing along with more of it than they can. If it helps I think James Brown's birthday should be a national holiday!
Then you have my country stuff with the same scenario. All the old stuff was worn out around us growing up.
My mom is special for introducing me to Tina Turner, Bad Company, Bob Segar, (early) Michael Jackson, Huey Lewis and the News as well as some of the 80's country that I still like.
I have a special place in my heart for the styles of Chet, Merle and the likes as well.
Rock n' Roll is only natural too. I like all the 50's, 60's and 70's rock that the rest of us love. My dad's buds would come over to jam and they would rock all the good old stuff.
My most important band is Led Zeppelin. I remember hearing Rock n' Roll as a 4 year old and have never been the same since.
As a teen in the 90's I didn't listen to most of the stuff coming out then except stuff like STP, AiC, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden..well you get it. I would wear old Zeppelin stuff in those days over everything else.
Blues are huge in my life too. If it is blue...I probably like it.
I still love and listen to to all this stuff on a weekly basis. Oh yeah...my dad got me hooked on Talk Radio in the early 90's. God only knows what a 11 or 12 year old kid got out of talk radio, but I used to love it and still do to this day.
My brother and sister introduced me to some of the late 80's-early/mid 90's rap. My parents would have killed them if they knew what was being listened to not to mention that they shared it with their little brother! LOL!
I am ashamed to say, but I knew a TON of rap stuff from that time!
Do you consider your work a job or a career? Are you still in school?
I haven't been in school for years bro. Not traditional school that is. Yeah my job is a career. I have been doing it since I was 14 or 15. I love my job!
