SO close to being done with this song. I went through a slump where I didn't really like the song anymore, but I laid down bass and started doing vocals yesterday and I'm getting excited about it again. When Andy, Josh, and I were in the band Exceeding Rubicon I specifically remember us talking about how we need to make sure that WE enjoy the songs were making, because were the ones playing them over and over again. If you don't like the music you make, or you just write music based on what you think others will like, I can't imagine the pain and boredom of your musical life. Anyway, I almost slumped into that, but now my passion for the song has returned!
That being said, I wanted to talk about one of my musical inspirations. Jack White is a newer inspiration for me, but the effect that he has had on my musical life has already been great. If you can, watch the movie "It Might Get Loud", which has interviews and tells the back stories of three generations of guitar players signified by the lives of Jimmy Page, The Edge, and Jack White. The Edge's portions are actually really boring, but Jimmy Page and Jack White are incredibly interesting. The movie talks about how as a teenager growing up as the youngest of 10 siblings, Jack had very limited space, but he was so passionate about music that he moved his bed out of his room and slept in a sleeping bag on the floor so that he could fit his music gear in his bedroom. I love that image, what a lover of music! That kind of dedication and love for music can be heard throughout all of The White Stripes albums, and its that passion that has made them great.
I also love another thing that Jack says in that movie. He says that he likes to buy really beat up instruments that don't quite play the right way, and then just plays the heck out of them until he has pounded them into submission. He feels that this struggle is where the best music comes from. In fact, the guitar he's playing above was bought at a department store called Montgomery Ward for less than $100 and is made almost completely of plastic, but its been his main guitar all these years in The White Stripes. He's also a Detroit musician, and as a Detroit musician listener, I can hear the city in his music.
gracias Jack
That being said, I wanted to talk about one of my musical inspirations. Jack White is a newer inspiration for me, but the effect that he has had on my musical life has already been great. If you can, watch the movie "It Might Get Loud", which has interviews and tells the back stories of three generations of guitar players signified by the lives of Jimmy Page, The Edge, and Jack White. The Edge's portions are actually really boring, but Jimmy Page and Jack White are incredibly interesting. The movie talks about how as a teenager growing up as the youngest of 10 siblings, Jack had very limited space, but he was so passionate about music that he moved his bed out of his room and slept in a sleeping bag on the floor so that he could fit his music gear in his bedroom. I love that image, what a lover of music! That kind of dedication and love for music can be heard throughout all of The White Stripes albums, and its that passion that has made them great.
I also love another thing that Jack says in that movie. He says that he likes to buy really beat up instruments that don't quite play the right way, and then just plays the heck out of them until he has pounded them into submission. He feels that this struggle is where the best music comes from. In fact, the guitar he's playing above was bought at a department store called Montgomery Ward for less than $100 and is made almost completely of plastic, but its been his main guitar all these years in The White Stripes. He's also a Detroit musician, and as a Detroit musician listener, I can hear the city in his music.
gracias Jack
We watched that movie recently... Jack white is pretty incredible; when he built an 'electric guitar' out of a hunk of wood and other scraps in just a couple minutes... my jaw dropped.
ReplyDeleteTotally true that you can hear Detroit in his music.
ReplyDeleteI love hearing you talk about music, bands, and artists. You are a true lover of music. If you had a blog just talking about music and the back stories to great bands, I'd homepage that website on every interweb capable device I own, as well as those belonging to my immediate family.
ReplyDeletei saw that movie in the theater a while ago and it definitely sparked in me too a new interest in jack white. then i saw him live as the drummer for the dead weather and i was floored. he is a natural genius. but no kidding about the edge, i know he was there to add an electronic/technological viewpoint but they probably just called johnny greenwood first and he wouldn't do it.
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