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Jbronson	Date: March 20, 2005 @ 10:30 PM hey, most people were inspired to become more musical by someone, who was your inspiration? Mine would be my dad, he would always play guitar and sing for us as kids at my house. When I got older some of my friends played, so I picked up a guitar and learned it. How bout you?
moam	Date: March 20, 2005 @ 10:39 PM I would have to say... My brother Other friends of mine would also encourage me a while back, and then I finally got addicted to making music Bands would include...Cold, ICP, and probably Nine Inch Nails
imemine	Date: March 21, 2005 @ 12:57 AM My daddy---he was a very diligent fiddle player. My freshman high school choir teacher---just a super individual…….and for r&r……..KISS! That being said, I searched backwards to find inspiration, soul and meaning and I ain’t done yet!
tsand19151	Date: March 21, 2005 @ 1:14 AM no family members inspired me so I'd have to say Hendrix and John McGlaghlin.
sinai	Date: March 21, 2005 @ 3:09 AM bandwise? prodigy, kmfdm, rage. personal? my brother, who even dug our shitty earlier stuff, and my clique for putting up with me grilling them on every new track i create.
zedsalt	Date: March 21, 2005 @ 11:04 AM I've been far too inspired by far too many artists to list. It's kind of a...well, not "vicious circle", but it appears to be an inescapable one: the more music I listen to, and the more diverse it is, the greater variety of music I enjoy. As for personal encouragement, I've had a tiny little group of close friends giving me loads of positive feedback, and a big bunch of folks...my immediate family included...who have done and said everything they could to discourage me. That may well be the BEST inspiration. When I overheard my mother call my choice to go to an art school rather than a Liberal Arts college "a tragically poor choice", or when one of my buddies (yes, I still count him him as a friend) called me a "wastoid" when he saw how I kept acruing debt between freelance gigs. It's funny when they do it; it's funny now...and more than a little encouraging.
2step-4eva	Date: March 21, 2005 @ 6:59 PM my family dont really give a crap, and my mates tell me dance music isnt real music...i spose what inspired me was in about year 8 or 9 my mum signed me up to a music technology course in the summer holidays to get me out of the house. they just taught the most basic stuff but i was hooked from then on.
billhudson	Date: March 21, 2005 @ 7:43 PM Good Teathers along the way, some known , some not, some good takers around a camp fire. People still in inspired me when I walk out the door.
moam	Date: March 22, 2005 @ 2:20 AM Actually, more than anything, I would have to say DMusic inspired me In the past 6 months, I have created almost 5 CD's FILLED to the brim with music That is more music than I have ever made in my entire life put into a small area of a few months It was all after I joined this site too Great site, indeed. And 2step-4eva: That is bullshit that people say that dance music isn't "real music"... What the fuck IS "real music" then? Drums, guitar, and an emo singer? Jesus christ I get sick of hearing shitty punk bands saying my music isn't "real music" or whatever just because I use a computer to make my music. It's fucking music...that's what it is. Get over it people!!
BlackOak	Date: March 22, 2005 @ 6:57 PM ...like Zedsalt, I pull many different influences from many styles (except for MTV bullSHIT). Lately, it's been classical (more of the technical aspect rather than the sound). I'm always looking to evolve with my playing and my style, so I'm always digesting various muscial styles that will help to become a better musician...
pinheadslts75	Date: March 24, 2005 @ 12:37 AM Nirvana and The Ramones really got me into my guitar playing
mos	Date: March 24, 2005 @ 1:48 AM Jason Becker and John Petrucci
furiousBall	Date: March 24, 2005 @ 6:38 AM Ace Fucking Frehley
ICF	Date: March 24, 2005 @ 2:02 PM Certain people i have known started me off writing - i wouldn't say any bands spurred me on. I also have a seriously musical family which can help!
blurredthots	Date: March 24, 2005 @ 9:18 PM my grandma
Woof	Date: March 25, 2005 @ 4:53 AM I've always liked to sing, but when I was 18 or so, I had a friend who was about a year or so into playing acoustic guitar. Finally, I could sing to something besides the radio and my music collection! It felt wonderful, and my friend was quick to learn just about anything I liked. Well... after watching him play guitar for several months, he managed to convince me that I could do it, too! So he taught me. For the next three years or more, it was all we did, was get our acoustics out, and jam for five or six hours a day! Of course, other guitarists began to show up as well, and I learned from them the same way... it just kept happening. Our favorites were Bowie, The Velvets (Velvet Underground), Hendrix, Zeppelin, and a number of British bands like Cockney Rebel, who never really made it big in the states...
soccermom	Date: March 29, 2005 @ 2:15 PM Tom Waits for me....and there are two bands from the area I live in that have had a huge influence on me and my music, The Matadors and Trole. Just good old fashioned, kick ya in the teeth rock 'n roll.
HenriRoger	Date: March 29, 2005 @ 5:51 PM paul mac cartney for melodic stuff coltrane for soloing stuff hancock for harmony stuff mac laughlin for energy suff steve coleman for rythmic stuff I cook all this stuff ,smells good
SpectralAutumn	Date: March 29, 2005 @ 10:54 PM My Dying Bride is a big influence as well as Theatre of Tragedy. I used to feel that John Petrucci was a big influence of mine till I realized that I will never be a very good player....I've accepted just being an artist and not a technical musician
happyhappyhappy	Date: March 31, 2005 @ 1:51 AM I got into Neil Young at a very young age and I've always adored his vocals. Frank Black inspired me to mess around with my time signatures a bit.
Pawn05	Date: April 2, 2005 @ 6:06 PM I started playing alot of guitar and learning the styles of Bob Dylan, and my dad has always been a major musical influence around the house.
jordanthegreat	Date: April 2, 2005 @ 10:10 PM yngwie malmsteen and everyone who ever spoke good of him! i love the style with added changes!
bLINK2005uk	Date: April 3, 2005 @ 3:24 PM the spice girls
noimportantone	Date: April 4, 2005 @ 5:26 PM Bad Religion - i say no more
urmomlovesme	Date: April 6, 2005 @ 7:16 PM My biggest influences are incubus and the doors. their music is great technicaly and lyricly. Jim Morrison and Brandon Boyd are two of the greatest songwriters ever.
Omnipotent12	Date: April 7, 2005 @ 1:12 AM Yanni (influenced me to play the piano) and The Neptunes (influenced me into producing)
machinehead5	Date: April 7, 2005 @ 8:42 AM i would have to say that my insiration to creating/playing music comes from not just one center. It really comes from my love of music as a whole... Anytime i would get grounded when i was a kid my dad would take away everything and i do meen everything that had to do with entertainment for months and months at a time. But he never thought about taking my CD player away or my CD's... seriously it kept me sain.... seriously... lol... but thats why i started playing music, i can almost feel in when i do
drawback	Date: April 8, 2005 @ 9:32 AM I think that a local band inspired me... they rock. There called drawback... hence my name. they are like gods. in rhode island. http://www.myspace.com/fuckdrawback
Hatsy	Date: April 8, 2005 @ 9:52 AM Life! - In all of it's not always glorious technicolour...
2step-4eva	Date: April 8, 2005 @ 2:24 PM if i hear a brilliant piece of music it inspires me, whether its background music on tv or something in a club that i don't know the artist of and i never hear again. but u have to admit the truly outstanding artists do the opposite of inspire...sometimes u hear something which is not only great music but shows so much talent that u realise u could never make something as good. the best antidote is to go somewhere like heaven&hell where they play non stop cheesey and yet strangely enthralling shite that makes u realise producing songs is a piece of piss
zedsalt	Date: April 9, 2005 @ 12:18 PM I find that the greater variety of music I listen to, the greater variety I enjoy. That's not to say, obviously, that I enjoy everything I hear. Rather, that the simple act of opening myself up to music which is novel to me expands what I can enjoy listening to and...with any luck...playing. Every time I set out to emulate someone, I end up going off on a tangent that bears little resemblance to the original. Maybe I should just list "my short attention span" as my greatest influence. On a barely-related note, check out who John P. Lyons lists as influences on his Soundclick site, and check out the music there and/or here (justinother1.dmusic.com) to hear why we're all so proud.
AbortiveMind	Date: April 9, 2005 @ 7:18 PM Ain't the question, who hasn't???
Intergalacti...	Date: April 9, 2005 @ 7:32 PM polly Paulusma, my ex girlfriend, Metallica, Radiohead, Evanescence, Rob Walker (a mate), a couple of other people.
bLINK2005uk	Date: September 5, 2005 @ 5:35 AM i get inspired by those big superstars , who get piles of money.