What got you into music, and if you had not gotten into music what would you be doing today? Fall of 1973 – my brother is taking a music appreciation course in with the rest of his year at university. The prof gives everyone the opportunity to present 3 songs/15 minutes of their favourite music, so my I end up tagging along while my brother cashes in a favour from a friend who works at a stereo shop. We go in after hours and use their set up to record ‘The Boston Rag’ by Steely Dan, ‘The Slime’ by Frank Zappa, and an excerpt from the opening of ‘Tubular Bells’ by Mike Oldfield. I’d heard Steely Dan and Zappa before, but the Mike Oldfield was an album he borrowed from a friend, and I’d never heard it before. I was completely hypnotized, and the feeling only got stronger as I found out that Mike Oldfield had played all the instruments. I got the album for Christmas in ’73, and played it once a day for six months, all the while fantasizing about being the guy writing that and playing on it…
Interview with Doug MacNaughton
Interview with Doug MacNaughton
Interview with Doug MacNaughton
What got you into music, and if you had not gotten into music what would you be doing today? Fall of 1973 – my brother is taking a music appreciation course in with the rest of his year at university. The prof gives everyone the opportunity to present 3 songs/15 minutes of their favourite music, so my I end up tagging along while my brother cashes in a favour from a friend who works at a stereo shop. We go in after hours and use their set up to record ‘The Boston Rag’ by Steely Dan, ‘The Slime’ by Frank Zappa, and an excerpt from the opening of ‘Tubular Bells’ by Mike Oldfield. I’d heard Steely Dan and Zappa before, but the Mike Oldfield was an album he borrowed from a friend, and I’d never heard it before. I was completely hypnotized, and the feeling only got stronger as I found out that Mike Oldfield had played all the instruments. I got the album for Christmas in ’73, and played it once a day for six months, all the while fantasizing about being the guy writing that and playing on it…