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I think that many musicians were inspired by a single performance or album that polarized them into wanting to play their instrument. If you were one of these and there was an album/LP/CD that totally turned your world on it's head what was it and why did it have such an effect on you?
For me the single most important album was 'Performance: Rockin The Fillmore' by Humble Pie recorded back in 1970.
I had started taken an interest in playing guitar so when I saw the gatefold cover full of brilliant small photos of Frampton and Marriot et al in action I was immediately drawn to it and bought it 'blind' just on the cover's strength. Greg Riddley looked like a feckin God..he was so damn cool.
Of course the proof is in the pudding and when I played the first track '4 Day Creep' it just pinned me to the wall. I had never heard anything so powerful. Frampton's playing was just bloody amazing, thick and jazzy and worked perfectly with Marriot's biting angular tones from his Epiphone Coronet.And then there were the vocals.. just an absolute powerhouse. My world just flipped at that moment and all I wanted to do was play electric guitar and bass from that moment.
Frampton has been a huge influence on my playing and for me personally his playing on Performance was one of his finest moments:
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you '4 Day Creep' :
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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Then I saw Queen in 85 and I knew I wanted to learn an instrument, but didn't take the plunge until 87 after hearing Eric Clapton and the beano album
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Sorry got a bit deep there for a mo.
Bruce Springsteen, Born in the USA. I was about 10 (which matches up with the year he did the Wembley shows and that album hit it big).
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)