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putting together a sort of network of musical artists who influenced other musical artists. just getting started, this is going to get very, very busy. any important relationships that come to mind? https://t.co/L0rRtEgrFi
Dylan: I want to join Little Richard Hendrix: I want to do what Little Richard does Bowie: When I heard Little Richard, it set my world on fire Little Richard: Everybody I heard was meh. I wanted something different but I couldn't find it. I found it was me https://t.co/D9aJn3ohwx
Little Richard seems to be like the Patient Zero of Rock & Roll https://t.co/JACUAV7h0G
ah, some of the artists Little Richard admired https://t.co/XDp6tqJJvg
To simplify what would otherwise be an impossible task, I'm only looking for + using instances of artists directly mentioning other artists https://t.co/UrHvHIMHAQ
Joni Mitchell mentions: Nietzsche ("misunderstood") - Kipling (favorite line in all of literature) - underwhelmed by Shakespeare's sonnets - liked Cohen, then not (derivative) - didn't like Dylan (Guthrie copycat) until later - Charlie Parker - Jung https://t.co/8PJOocDmiQ
I'm going to bed, but these replies are amazing!! This is exactly the sort of game that Twitter is great for. Pls send me all your favorite examples of artists talking about other artists, and I'll try and piece it all together
this is getting fun Hayley Williams and Rihanna are both Aaliyah fans, who was a Michael Jackson fan Hayley used to play in a cover band that did Chaka Khan and Stevie Wonder Chaka Khan is a Joni Mitchell fangirl https://t.co/7DRA5mKJCh
love finding fellow nerds who cite their sources kanye's favorite rapper: kanye https://t.co/d2un6Ukrr0
Gerard Way from MCR is a Bowie fan https://t.co/kzRMhYt1g3
Freddie Mercury inspired Lady Gaga... obviously https://t.co/kRZbCvxyIm
Axl Rose was a Freddie Mercury fanboy too https://t.co/DWZ6PyQgyz
Some of Hayley Williams' influences: Debbie Harry (Blondie) Siouxsie Sioux (Siouxsie and the Banshees) Brody Dalle (The Distillers) https://t.co/AbUrNsuf2l
quotes from *some* of Jimi Hendrix's illustrious fans https://t.co/T40VyMdCrI
wife: whatcha up to me: uh https://t.co/W30KQt9dqC
Found a *great* Neil Young fansite (I got into Neil because Thom Yorke listed him as #2 influence behind REM) that not only names names, but quotes and cites sources. Love people like this https://t.co/AusPr6JCLs https://t.co/XKy8TrDB7e
Thom Yorke spent a whole 30+ minutes talking about how much he loves Neil Young https://t.co/FPxIpVUSCa
@visakanv Lou Reed was a friend and mentor to Emily Haines of Metric fame. And speaking of Lou, Velvet Underground was the band that "only sold a thousand records but each person that bought one started a rock band." One of the most important and interconnected artists in rock history.
@visakanv Stevie Wonder names some of his influences in a song: > For there's Basie, Miller, Satchmo > And the king of all Sir Duke > And with a voice like Ella's ringing out (Count Basie, Glenn Miller, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald) https://t.co/y6gpjqH1m6
@visakanv Aside? Jacob Collier has a fantastic video deconstructing the musical influences of that song in particular: - R&B but with jazz - intro: big band swing drums - then motown drums - chromatic stuff - solo in most universal scale: pentatonic - blues scale https://t.co/dWCCTk7vdz
@visakanv Something that blew my mind in that video, that seems obvious but I'd never noticed before: The blues scale is a pentatonic scale with one additional note added! (If you're familiar with black keys = pentatonic, here's the E-flat blues scale! π) Thanks @JacobCollier β₯πΆ https://t.co/mtfIeDbXIC
@visakanv I think this might fit the constraints: @amoebamusic have a series where artists pick out music they love and show it off, and you get a nice list straight from the source: https://t.co/XqZ6Qshsqo
@visakanv @amoebamusic the only thing is, music artists enjoy may not be the same as music that influences artists. Maybe @whosampled data is better? What's more influential than literally using chunks of another song in your own!