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LinkedMusicians is with Pedro Fialho de Jesus and 62 othersPinned Post
Every one of us has an origin story about how we ended up as a musician/composer/producer/audio engineer, whether you’re a pro, semi-pro, former pro, or a hobbyist. Do you remember the first time you thought, “I want to be a musician, songwriter, or composer?” How old were you? Where were you, and what were you doing? I’d love to hear your “…Read More
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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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-
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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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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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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Welcome to my friend @detlef! Happy to have you aboard. Detlef and I go back more than 20 years in real life.
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I’m watching a baseball game with my wife and the organist plays a little bit of the Donna Summer song, “Hot Stuff.” I remark, “That was a really corny rendition of the song.” My wife replies, “Organ doesn’t sound cool,” to which I reply, “How dare you! [mock outrage] You do know that I took years of organ lessons, right? What about Jon Lord,…Read More
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LinkedMusicians now allows you (LM members) to add a SoundCloud player and playlist of your music to your profile page. Check it out. Your profile page is a great way to show our community your musical skills, what you’re working on, and let them hear your or your clients’ music.
As we’ve been rolling out new functionality, I’ve heard very…Read More
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Okay, it’s not music-related, but it is LinkedMusician-related. I fell asleep working on the site on my laptop on a couch. I woke up to my cat barfing out a furball on my head. Not the ideal alarm clock, but it was still highly effective.
Ah, my rock and roll lifestyle.
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What was the first instrument you learned to play? Specifically, what was it, the instrument type (e.g., acoustic guitar, electric guitar, electric bass guitar, acoustic bass guitar, upright piano, grand piano, electric piano, drum kit, etc.). You get extra credit if you can remember the brand and model of the instrument.
For me, it was a…Read More
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Tiesco Del Rey solid body electric guitar in beautiful blue finish. $30 brand new from the Gibson’s (not THAT Gibson) discount store in our small town. I took lessons, stuck with it, and my folks got me a Ventura semi-hollow body guitar (think ES-335 like) for probably $150 a year later.
/edit/ For kicks, I asked the AI what $30 was in todays…Read More
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Just a simple FYI.
I realize that our members haven’t spent much time in OPEN MIC. It works like Facebook Groups, reddit, and other social media platforms when it comes to making posts, created threads, and commenting. When you want to comment on a thread (technically, it’s called a status update) just look at the bottom of the original post that…Read More -
NEW! Custom reaction emojis for OPEN MIC (yes, these are custom made for LinkedMusicians). We won’t be using all of them here, just some. I’d love to get your thoughts. I realize that our community has music producers and composers from all areas of music, but I thought the rock and roll spirit would be fun to represent for the attitude and spirit…Read More
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My only concern with these new reaction emojis is the sign of the horns. While most of the US and Europe see them as meaning “rock on” or “cool” some folks interpret them negatively and their meaning might not be clear to others (that’s why we also have the explanations above the emojis). If anyone here has concerns about any of the emojis, please…Read More
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Origin story – here is a portion of what I wrote for our local bluegrass club newsletter:
Imagine you’re back in 7th grade and you’re going to your first dance in the mid-60’s. The girls are all over there. The boys are all over here. Everyone’s nervous. No one knows what to do or what to expect. And then the band starts playing. Luckily…Read More
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Is it just me – or is there a general thing at many open-mic events where people chat throughout performers’ sets? It’s a tad frustrating!
I’m going to have to purchase a massive stack and turn it up to 11!
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It does seem to be usual here in the UK unfortunately – I think people tend to think of them as more informal events so tend to talk more. If it is a free entry gig in a pub it is hard to control that unfortunately. What is worse is when there is a booked artist at a free entry gig and people talk all the way through – this happened at several…Read More
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You’re spot-on, Joe. A few open-mics that I’ve been to, the audience really respects the musicians and there’s definitely also an unwritten law that says that if most people are keeping their conversations generally quieter, then they will too, however, one open-mic that I performed at recently was at absurd conversation level even before it…Read More
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Just back from the second Love Music Hate Racism gig I have helped to arrange in York (England) and pleased to say it was another sell out – the last tickets sold this morning which was a relief! The format was the same as last time with three punky bands and lots of young people moshing in somewhat alarming fashion in the eyes of this 66 year…Read More
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February 11, 1964 The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. I turned 11 four days earlier (the day of their first arrival in USA). The desire was there but the means did not come until my 14th birthday where I got my first electric guitar and amp from West L.A. Music.
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We’re enhancing Member Profiles. The goal is to have your member profile feature SoundCloud, Spotify, and BandCamp players so you can easily embed a playlist of your/your band’s/your clients’ music. Right now you can do that by making posts on your wall, but it’s a clunky user experience.
There is a tutorial on how to do everything on the…Read More
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LinkedMusicians is with atu and 60 others
One Year of LinkedMusicians: Big Updates & New ToolsWe are officially approaching our one-year anniversary since taking LinkedMusicians public this April, and the growth has been incredible. We’ve hit a milestone of **20,000+ unique monthly visitors!
To celebrate and improve the experience, we’ve been busy making some significant upg…Read More
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i’ve really only been coming to lm for the deals forum, but after your recent post, I tried some of the new site features. i tried out the reviews, forums, free presets, and free sample and sound effect search engines, and think they’re great additions to the lm. i can see that a lot of new features have been added recently, which I haven’t had a…Read More
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Welcome to our new members @philtmusic @crystaltiger, @sounddust and everyone else who has recently joined LinkedMusicians.
I wanted to make sure that you’re aware of the guide to getting started at LinkedMusicians. While it’s in need of an update that I’ll do before the month is over, it remains useful for understanding the basics of the LM…Read More
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Carl Sagan’s Cosmos series with lots of Vangelis music.
Vangelis – Alpha is the music that changed my life 😀