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| From | "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: What IS influence, anyway? |
| Date | Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:21:59 -0500 |
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At Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 08:32:46 Michael Carpenter wrote:
Yet one of the biggest musical influences i have are
>The Band. I keep waiting to hear that come through, and it never seems to
>happen, and i never really know why. Maybe because there were 5 of them,
>and only one of me and i can't sing like Levon, Richard or Rick. Maybe my
>own mental compromise is that if i can sound like Steve Earle or Buddy
>Miller i'm covering all the bases...
>
>Maybe it's more to do with what you directly grew up with and learned by. I
>guess as i learned to play my instruments i was listening to and emulating
>the Beatles, The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty, Springsteen. I loved the
>Band back then, but never tried to emulate them because musically they
>seemed way beyond me. When i felt i had the skills to try to emulate them,
>the pop thing was possibly too engrained for me to break.
Michael....to sound like the Band you need to play juke-joint 1950's
Catskill southern reels with Acadian tinged rockabilly classics on Canadian
stages in urban centres for a minimum of 4 sets a night, seven days a week
in the snow, sleet and humidity while bashing away on beaten down pawn-store
purchased instruments and being berated at every turn by a transplanted
Alabama ring-leader/MC/frontman who would as soon sell the gear you were
playing to buy broads and cars than give you a dime for sweating blood
during your fifth encore.
Or...you could buy all of Blue Rodeo's albums and learn from them :-)
Jaimie Vernon,
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