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

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

Vangelis – Alpha is the music that changed my life 😀

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

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

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

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

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

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

People here are honest about the plugins and its uses. This helps a lot.

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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