When I got my first acoustic guitar at the age of 14, the musicians I wanted to sound like the most were The Beatles, specifically Paul McCartney and John Lennon. I was driven to learn songs like “Love Me Do,” “Help!,” and other well-known songs that I had grown up listening to. What I didn’t […]
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When I first picked up a bass guitar and started taking lessons, one of the first songs that I wanted to learn on the instrument was “Ramblin’ Man” by the Allman Brothers Band. Bassist Berry Oakley’s line in that song is a bouncy, melodic groove that taught me a lot about building bass lines that
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It wasn’t until the second decade of my life that I seriously listened to R.E.M. and began reading about the band’s history. Of course, I heard the hits growing up – that was pretty inescapable as a child of the 90s. It was basically guaranteed that if you listened to the radio long enough on
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No other punk band has a history quite like The Clash. When I first started listening to them, I was mainly drawn to the standard driving punk hits like “I’m So Bored with the USA” and “White Riot,” but that’s not the only style they were known for. Unlike other punk bands in London’s scene
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My favorite band growing up was easily The Beatles and, as a young bass player, I found myself reading any Paul McCartney bio I could get my hands on. He brought about a different way of playing the bass guitar. Instead of being a background instrument, Sir Paul’s melodic lines helped legions of players to
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My first musical love was punk. The first CD I bought, all the way back in 2002, was Green Day’s Nimrod. The fast, distorted power chords and expletive-laden lyrics captivated me. It was a revelation that led to my first steps into the world of music. That first CD would lead me down a rabbit
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When thinking of the most influential rock bands to come out of Britain in the 1960s, more often than not the Beatles and the Rolling Stones are the first two names mentioned. But the third band of that decade that achieved massive worldwide success, The Who, arguably did the most to push the rock genre
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