Reply To: [unofficial weekender] Music was my first love

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• How important is music to you and why?

Music is everything. The music I used to listen to as a kid – mostly simple rock-n-roll tunes – still influence the kind of stuff I love these days – simple, loud, three-chord singalong tunes. I love a lot of “heavy metal” but only to a degree – I still prefer the “punk pop” of the 90s and early 2000s. I’ve never really had much interest in the Hit Parade 😉

At aged seven or eight I discovered Meat Loaf’s Dead Ringer album. It was music like I’d never heard or understood it! (seriously, Love Her For Both Of Us still blows me away). Of course it’s easy to laugh because it’s Meat Loaf, but hey, I was a kid! It also made me want to be a musician. Good music, at the right time, can change everything. About 30% of the population experience pilo-erection when hearing music. Some of us get the same thing even just thinking about a particular song.

Music literally alters your mind. Playing music brings you into contact with people you’d never otherwise probably ever even speak to. It changes your mood – can make you happy, melancholic, excitable, sad…. it’s like the ultimate mind-altering drug!

• While doing hobby would you rather listen to music, a TV Show/movie already know, podcast or something completely different.

I usually have the radio or podcasts on when I’m painting minis. I can’t watch anything – too distracting. Sometimes (if it’s particularly late at night) it can be complete silence.

• Are you excited about the Weekender returning today?

Is it bad to admit I’m a bit ambivalent? It’s nice that there’s something that so many people get a lot out of, but I’ve hardly been on tenterhooks waiting for it’s return. I tend to skip through now (with the Youtube chapters, it’s easy to flick past the bits I know I’ve no interest in)

Pledge? It’s a toughie. I’ve still not finished all my minis with “lego head” black hair – I’m still not happy with how most of the ones I’ve painted have turned out. Maybe this week’s pledge is a repeat of the last?