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<blockquote data-quote="papastebu" data-source="post: 3535681" data-attributes="member: 40894">FerretEverybody has done the crazylove thang.Anyway, since I hit the dark side of thirty-five--some years ago--the Aerosmith song &quot;Dream On&quot; has been rather significant.Back in the day, all Pink Floyd was a personal and telling description of my life, or so I thought. Also, I have always loved guitar-heavy rock and roll, and this group's music has always transported me.&quot;Never, I cried. Never shall ye get me alive... &quot;The Steppenwolf song, &quot;Born to Be Wild&quot;. A driving song.Steve Miller, et al.&quot;Unchained Melody&quot; was the first song my dad taught me after he got me my first acoustic guitar when I turned 14.Don't laugh: &quot;Leader of the Band&quot; was the first song that I ever taught myself on the guitar, all the way through. My voice was easily high enough, back then, to hit any note that Fogelberg could. This song puts me in mind of my father, who was a partially-successful musician for more than 32 years, and is described fairly thoroughly in these lyrics.&quot;Bridge Over Troubled Water&quot;, for what it says, for the sheer emotional &quot;oomph!&quot; of it, is still one of my all-time favorites.The Beatles' Rubber Soul, especially for--if I'm remembering rightly--&quot;I've Just Seen A Face&quot;. The White album for all of it, especially &quot;Blackbird&quot;. That 6/8 crap was hard to play, but it was such a good song.There are so many songs, like Drivin' and Cryin's &quot;Scarred But Smarter&quot;, any blues tune, really, because of what I call my secondary learning stage on the guitar, where I was almost always fooling around with the major and minor pentatatonics, Kansas--a little too technically perfect for my tastes, but well-orchestrated, well-made, and lyrically-superior, Steve Vai and Joe Satriani, &quot;Backwater&quot; by the Meat Puppets, &quot;The Sweater-Song&quot; by Wheezer, &quot;White 'n' Nerdy&quot; by Weird Al, &quot;Locomotive Breath&quot; by Tull, because I have been a victim of people I thought were loyal, &quot;Sweet Pain&quot; by Blues Traveler--Travelers and Thieves, overall, spoke to me about me. All of my dad's songs--which I'm almost positive none of you know--because I listened to/watched him write them, and many of them were in their first drafts when I was in mine.Once again, I have taken too much space with my meanderings. Sorry.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="papastebu, post: 3535681, member: 40894"] Ferret Everybody has done the crazylove thang. Anyway, since I hit the dark side of thirty-five--some years ago--the Aerosmith song "Dream On" has been rather significant. Back in the day, all Pink Floyd was a personal and telling description of my life, or so I thought. Also, I have always loved guitar-heavy rock and roll, and this group's music has always transported me. "Never, I cried. Never shall ye get me alive... " The Steppenwolf song, "Born to Be Wild". A driving song. Steve Miller, [I]et al.[/I] "Unchained Melody" was the first song my dad taught me after he got me my first acoustic guitar when I turned 14. Don't laugh: "Leader of the Band" was the first song that I ever taught myself on the guitar, all the way through. My voice was easily high enough, back then, to hit any note that Fogelberg could. This song puts me in mind of my father, who was a partially-successful musician for more than 32 years, and is described fairly thoroughly in these lyrics. "Bridge Over Troubled Water", for what it says, for the sheer emotional "oomph!" of it, is still one of my all-time favorites. The Beatles' [I]Rubber Soul[/I], especially for--if I'm remembering rightly--"I've Just Seen A Face". The White album for all of it, especially "Blackbird". That 6/8 crap was hard to play, but it was such a good song. There are so many songs, like Drivin' and Cryin's "Scarred But Smarter", any blues tune, really, because of what I call my secondary learning stage on the guitar, where I was almost always fooling around with the major and minor pentatatonics, Kansas--a little too technically perfect for my tastes, but well-orchestrated, well-made, and lyrically-superior, Steve Vai and Joe Satriani, "Backwater" by the Meat Puppets, "The Sweater-Song" by Wheezer, "White 'n' Nerdy" by Weird Al, "Locomotive Breath" by Tull, because I have been a victim of people I thought were loyal, "Sweet Pain" by Blues Traveler--[I]Travelers and Thieves[/I], overall, spoke to me about me. All of my dad's songs--which I'm almost positive none of you know--because I listened to/watched him write them, and many of them were in their first drafts when I was in mine. Once again, I have taken too much space with my meanderings. Sorry. [/QUOTE]

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