Soundtrack A Scene

[Morthoron]

Originally Posted by skip spence

Edit: Morthoron, your taste in music is quite, how should i say, Irish. :-)

Hmmm...well, considering the area where I live has a high population of families descended from Irish immigrants, it makes sense. You see, if one were a working musician (as I was for a couple decades), one was either in a rock band, blues band or an Irish band. Seeing as many bars that had rock bands playing have since gotten rid of music altogether, or worse have gone over to country music or karaoke *makes a sign warding off the evil eye*, I tended to play Irish music or blues (considering those markets generally never change formats); therefore, my career (or rather, a hobby that payed for all my musical toys and Guinness) was lengthened proportionately, as rock music is usually a young man's game (unless one has the leathery, almost embalmed, countennace of a Keith Richards).

So the first part of may musical odyssey was playing progressive rock and blues (Floyd, Beatles, Led Zep, Tull, Neil Young, Allman Brothers, Queen, etc.), the last half has been acoustic and folk driven (Waterboys, Pogues, Clancy Brothers, the Young Dubliners, Great Big Sea, and Tull and Neil Young still). Their is a violence inherent in traditional Irish music that lends itself to rock influences (as listening to the Pogues, The Dropkick Murphys or Flogging Molly makes clearly evident), and I gravitate towards that feeling. A friend once said, "I don't know why you bother using an acoustic guitar, you play like you're banging a Fender anyway." Of course this is an exaggeration...sort of.