{"id":1293,"date":"2011-04-26T11:19:21","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T16:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2020-06-07T16:21:57","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T21:21:57","slug":"lineage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?p=1293","title":{"rendered":"Lineage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"clear:left; float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px;;width: 55px;\" name=\"fb_share\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=125029517579627&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?p=1293\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>All things come from somewhere. The history of the path from a common ancestor is not always of interest to people trying out on their own, but it still exists. For the topic of this post I&#8217;m talking about musical lineage. Even purists have a line to follow, those who came before gave each musician a jumping off point. How far they jumped, and to where, is where it gets interesting. Growing up I had some pretty diverse influences. That, along with the incredible need to be different, pushed me to seek out things that were not a popular as what my classmates were listening to. My father played <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indian_classical_music\">Indian Classical Music<\/a>, Latin Jazz and BeBop around the house, as he played both the tablas and the congas with other musicians. My mother that period of the mellow rock sounds, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Taylor\">James Taylor<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carly_Simon\">Carly Simon<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carole_King\">Carole King<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the charts for lets say 1978, you&#8217;ll see <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Queen_(band)\">Queen<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Bee_Gees\">Bee Gees<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meatloaf_(singer)\">Meatloaf<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kansas_(band)\">Kansas<\/a> and other FM staples. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Ramones\">The Ramones<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Talking_Heads\">Talking Heads<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Simon\">Paul Simon<\/a> are on that same list of radio favorites. By then I was listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeff_Beck\">Jeff Beck<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Mahavishnu_Orchestra\">The Mahavishnu Orchestra<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Genesis_(band)\">Genesis<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yes_(band)\">Yes <\/a>and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dixie_Dregs\">Dixie Dregs<\/a>. Not liking Kiss or Olivia Newton John made me a pariah in high school, though Zeppelin, ZZ Top and the Southern Rock bands filled my needs. I still leaned toward fusions of different things, blues\/rock, rock\/jazz, etc. Finding a way to meld those different likes into one thing was very pleasing, even to an immature drummer of 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All things come from somewhere. The history of the path from a common ancestor is not always of interest to people trying out on their own, but it still exists. For the topic of this post I&#8217;m talking about musical lineage. 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