Activity – LinkedMusicians

patrickwichrowski
3 weeks, 5 days ago

Carl Sagan’s Cosmos series with lots of Vangelis music.

Vangelis – Alpha is the music that changed my life 😀

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- LinkedMusicians
  3 weeks, 5 days ago
  
  Back in college, I actually took a course based on Sagan’s Cosmos and it was one of my favorite college courses of all. How old were you when this happened? Where you already playing the keyboards? Did you have any lessons or were you self taught? What happened from there?
  
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  - patrickwichrowski
    3 weeks, 4 days ago
    
    The VHS collection was a birthday gift from my grandmother. I was 15 years old 🙂
    
    Later in the same year, me and my brothers received an yamaha PSR-78 as Christmas gift and then we started to take keyboard lessons. 😀
    
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Pedro Fialho de Jesus
3 weeks, 4 days ago

I must have been between eight and ten when I first listened ‘The Wall’ by Pink Floyd. That was the sparkle. As a young kid, after listening to the original tape (from an older friend) non stop for a couple of weeks I decided that I wanted to make music like that. At the age of ten I was introduced to music theory at school and begun learning the…Read More

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andrewfly
3 weeks, 4 days ago

My love for music was born thanks to two people: my father and Stevie Wonder.

I started with a Casiotone MT-540 when I was 7 years old, a Christmas gift from my father. The first song I ever learned in my life was I Just Called to Say I Love You.

My father turned our basement into a studio, and it became my second home. Over time, it also became…Read More

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Brian
3 weeks, 4 days ago

I grew up in a family that appreciated music, but none were musicians. Somewhere around age 12 I decided I wanted to MAKE some music. I wanted to play drums, but learned enough to know that a cheap set would just fall apart, so I asked for a guitar. MOST cheap guitars are good enough to learn on. I took lessons for a few months. There was a…Read More

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joegyork
3 weeks, 3 days ago

I started in the early 70’s with one of the simplest instruments of all – tin (penny) whistles in various keys. It was hard to fine one that was in tune throughout the range but i was probably not paying enough. I also played the recorder which I had hated in my earlier music lessons in school. My one and only live performance was playing the tin…Read More
- joegyork
  3 weeks, 3 days ago
  
  Apologies for the typos !
  - LinkedMusicians
    3 weeks, 3 days ago
    
    Oh come on, no one (okay, no one worth knowing) cares! It’s great to learn more about your story. Thanks for sharing, Joe!
    
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Zargg
2 weeks, 6 days ago

I was half raised by my uncle and aunt after my dad split when I was around 3 years old, due to my mum having to work full time. He was a multi instrumentalist, but mainly drums and vocals in his band (before Phil Collins ). My aunt played guitar and sang He was my father figure and hero growing up, so when I was old enough (6 or 7), I began in…Read More

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- LinkedMusicians
  2 weeks, 6 days ago
  
  Thanks for sharing!
  
  After listening and sharing (as the featured member music for the week) your latest musical release with Citizen Regen (it’s on the right-hand side bar in the forum), I especially enjoyed giving your above post a LIKE with the sign of the horns! I mean, LinkedMusicians is for everyone, whatever musical genres they do, but…Read More
  
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doug
1 week, 4 days ago

I started playing guitar back in 1974 at a summer camp. I was 15 at the time. Two female counsellors from Europe played guitar and got me interested in picking up the instrument. I had a crush of course, but learning guitar was as far as it went. When I graduated from high school, my parents bought me a 12 string acoustic which I still own today.…Read More

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- LinkedMusicians
  1 week, 4 days ago
  
  I had an Atari 1040 ST that I bought for MIDI sequencing!
  
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  - doug
    1 week, 4 days ago
    
    I modded my 520ST to bring it up to 1 MB RAM, so basically a 1040ST. Fun machine!
    
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    - LinkedMusicians
      1 week, 4 days ago
      
      I think my first sequencer — going purely from memory here — was from a developer named Dr T’s. I also had an Alesis hardware sequencer. I had been playing professionally since I was 18, but only as a drummer. So, these tools were purely for my songwriting endeavors and never saw any public performances. For live shows, I used to use…Read More
      
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