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Title: Is Half Your Inspiration Dead Yet?
Post by: Bad Penny II on November 01, 2017, 04:06:02 PM
By that I mean your favourite popist, rocker, poet, painter, novelist, contortionist, I'm being suggestive not exclusionist.

Those not dead before you were alive.

I've still got Jagger and Keith and Neil and Bob

I've lost Bowie and Lou, Lennon and Grant McLennan Marley, Bolen, The Original Paul

Drake doesn't count unless you knew him alive

Title: Re: Is Half Your Inspiration Dead Yet?
Post by: joeactor on November 01, 2017, 07:29:38 PM
Interesting question.

Although many of my inspirations from my youth have passed, I tend to find new inspiration all the time.

New bands, authors, even technology (if that can be counted as inspiration)
Title: Re: Is Half Your Inspiration Dead Yet?
Post by: Sandra Craft on November 01, 2017, 08:39:12 PM
I think Tom Petty was the final nail in the coffin for me.
Title: Re: Is Half Your Inspiration Dead Yet?
Post by: Recusant on November 01, 2017, 11:33:41 PM
Snakefinger, Garcia, Cipollina, and many others are gone, but Fleck lives.  :)

Title: Re: Is Half Your Inspiration Dead Yet?
Post by: xSilverPhinx on November 01, 2017, 11:48:39 PM
:notsure:

Can't say I have contemporary inspirational figures in my life, and I didn't know it was a void that needed filling. :P 
Title: Re: Is Half Your Inspiration Dead Yet?
Post by: Harmonie on November 02, 2017, 03:19:29 AM
No. The individual who inspired me to actually learn to play the oboe and got me back into music is very much alive. I mean, she's very close in age to me, so she better be!

Before her I'm not sure I really had anyone that inspired me.
Title: Re: Is Half Your Inspiration Dead Yet?
Post by: hermes2015 on November 02, 2017, 03:42:23 AM
Quote from: Harmonie on November 02, 2017, 03:19:29 AM
No. The individual who inspired me to actually learn to play the oboe and got me back into music is very much alive. I mean, she's very close in age to me, so she better be!

Before her I'm not sure I really had anyone that inspired me.

Harmonie, I would like to know more about your oboe playing. Do you play in an orchestra?
Title: Re: Is Half Your Inspiration Dead Yet?
Post by: Harmonie on November 02, 2017, 11:21:00 PM
Quote from: hermes2015 on November 02, 2017, 03:42:23 AM
Quote from: Harmonie on November 02, 2017, 03:19:29 AM
No. The individual who inspired me to actually learn to play the oboe and got me back into music is very much alive. I mean, she's very close in age to me, so she better be!

Before her I'm not sure I really had anyone that inspired me.

Harmonie, I would like to know more about your oboe playing. Do you play in an orchestra?

Nah, I'm in college right now, and my university does not have an orchestra. I play in the wind ensemble.