Sometimes...not often, I wish I had gone to Ryerson University in Toronto in 1971 to receive training in radio and television and eventually become a DJ !
Music has been a lifelong passion for me. I always had music on when I worked in the Marine industry.
A lot of my spare time aside from raising a beautiful family with my not so as musicky wife, was devoted to researching music and discovering new artists and keeping abreast of the current music scene.
As I mentioned before I experienced for some strange reason a "music listener's slump". I thought it was all boring and nothing grabbed my attention not even my beloved rock classics ! I think in retrospect I had a considerable amount of work stress...striving for more money and promotions as I was heading for the ten year mark before retirement.
A very close friend of mine ,and still is, told me that part of the reason I didn't enjoy music as much was that I didn't drink anymore (a personal choice of mine). He was right to a certain extent because I was always a little happy after a few brews listening to tunes or going to clubs on the weekend. That was a small part of it more out of habit than anything. I think I became a sort of music snob and thought I knew all the good music and there was no new music left to listen to that was worthy of what I already knew..if that makes any sense.
Then one day I met an old school chum who as I recall was a good guitarist, I asked him if he could teach me guitar, something simple you know, the major chords - G,D,C then E, F etc. I learned about six chords well enough to sound decent...not professional mind you..far away from that. I started to get intereted in nomenclatures and tabluture whereby I could pick out a melody good or bad by using a progression scale of a few notes that my friend (Henry) taught me. I bought a half decent guitar, a beautiful Norman Canadian made acoustic with a nice cutaway. I am still tempted to get an electric ,,maybe soon !
Actually learning some aspects of a musical instrument naturally snapped me out of my "music coma". I was starving for new songs to try out and now I was back again to music listening. This was about 1996 so I've been NON-music Free for 15 years ! I mentioned on MD or in a PM that the first song I learned from start to finish was NY's Only Love Can Break Your Heart !
I believe that I became apathetic to listening to music and had to start making music!!!!
So that's my story and I'm stickin' to it.
Oh no, get out the hankies, Oprah ! lol
Music has been a lifelong passion for me. I always had music on when I worked in the Marine industry.
A lot of my spare time aside from raising a beautiful family with my not so as musicky wife, was devoted to researching music and discovering new artists and keeping abreast of the current music scene.
As I mentioned before I experienced for some strange reason a "music listener's slump". I thought it was all boring and nothing grabbed my attention not even my beloved rock classics ! I think in retrospect I had a considerable amount of work stress...striving for more money and promotions as I was heading for the ten year mark before retirement.
A very close friend of mine ,and still is, told me that part of the reason I didn't enjoy music as much was that I didn't drink anymore (a personal choice of mine). He was right to a certain extent because I was always a little happy after a few brews listening to tunes or going to clubs on the weekend. That was a small part of it more out of habit than anything. I think I became a sort of music snob and thought I knew all the good music and there was no new music left to listen to that was worthy of what I already knew..if that makes any sense.
Then one day I met an old school chum who as I recall was a good guitarist, I asked him if he could teach me guitar, something simple you know, the major chords - G,D,C then E, F etc. I learned about six chords well enough to sound decent...not professional mind you..far away from that. I started to get intereted in nomenclatures and tabluture whereby I could pick out a melody good or bad by using a progression scale of a few notes that my friend (Henry) taught me. I bought a half decent guitar, a beautiful Norman Canadian made acoustic with a nice cutaway. I am still tempted to get an electric ,,maybe soon !
Actually learning some aspects of a musical instrument naturally snapped me out of my "music coma". I was starving for new songs to try out and now I was back again to music listening. This was about 1996 so I've been NON-music Free for 15 years ! I mentioned on MD or in a PM that the first song I learned from start to finish was NY's Only Love Can Break Your Heart !
I believe that I became apathetic to listening to music and had to start making music!!!!
So that's my story and I'm stickin' to it.
Oh no, get out the hankies, Oprah ! lol
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