Are you a 1st, 2nd, 3rd, generation musician ?

Hawk · Post by **Hawk** » Monday Apr 06, 2009

My dad was a drummer, his father (my grand father) was a Trombone player. My mother was a pianist. Most of my parents' brothers and sisters were musicians.

My son is a fourth generation musician, and it looks like his son will be another.

As a child I had all of the support I needed to follow through with becoming a musician.

I admire parents who are not musicians, yet support their children in learning a music instrument.

I feel sorry for the kids who get little to no support from their family, yet I admire their drive to become musicians.

Where do you fit in ?

rickster · Post by **rickster** » Monday Apr 06, 2009

There was no tolerance for noise of any kind in my house, especially a guitar.I geuss thats why Im a late bloomer...Buts its coming .34 years young and breakin out soon

felix'apprentice · Post by **felix'apprentice** » Monday Apr 06, 2009

well .. i guess i dont know, third generation. i know my grandpap played guitar - never heard him play though. he died when i was like 10 so i never got to hear him play, i remember hearing my uncle and his buds playing guitars and jammin around the camp fire when i was younger. and i know my grandmother played guitar - i have her original guitar. she died in 1976 ... never knew her but my dad said she could sure rock the house!! haha .. and my older brother plays drums.

i think its a real cool thing to play with family. when my older bro asked me to jam out with his band i was stoked.

family and music are the two most important things in my life, mix 'em together and im in cloud nine!!

- kayla

EyesOfAnguishbassist · Post by **EyesOfAnguishbassist** » Monday Apr 06, 2009

1st gen. but my uncle (through marriage haha) taught me the basics of how to play. Good ole Evil Eric Scott

from SOS, couldn't ask for a cooler uncle hahaha

RamRod 1 · Post by **RamRod 1** » Monday Apr 06, 2009

Grandfather played but it skipped my dad so I guess I'm first.

In the late 1890's my grandfather and his brother used to walk from St. Lawerence to St. Augustine for a Saturday night gig and then walk home.

slackin@dabass · Post by **slackin@dabass** » Monday Apr 06, 2009

i guess i'm technically a second, but my pap on my dad's side played anything. no, really, he could pick anything up and play it by ear, but my dad has no musical talent whatsoever. my mom played sax in high school. but i don't think any of her family really played...

HurricaneBob · Post by **HurricaneBob** » Monday Apr 06, 2009

Im the first, nobody in my family has any talent including me..

Unholy · Post by **Unholy** » Monday Apr 06, 2009

Not sure where I fit in either. I know my father and mothers siblings would play, not all of them but a few of them. My father never played, and I got into it in my late teens. My dad would always bitch about the "noise". heh,

Colton · Post by **Colton** » Monday Apr 06, 2009

Hurricane wrote:Im the first, nobody in my family has any talent including me..

ROFL

I'm the first in my family, except my grandmother who played clarinet a few years in high school, and she swears thats where I got it from...

slackin@dabass · Post by **slackin@dabass** » Tuesday Apr 07, 2009

Colton wrote:
Hurricane wrote:Im the first, nobody in my family has any talent including me..

ROFL

I'm the first in my family, except my grandmother who played clarinet a few years in high school, and she swears thats where I got it from...

guitar is similar to clarinet... kinda...

Naga · Post by **Naga** » Tuesday Apr 07, 2009

I'm a first-gen player. My uncle would pick up a harmonica from time to time and play it, but nothin good ever came out. Heh. However, in a literally unrelated note, my mother's first husband was in several bands

Aside from that, I know one of my cousins plays guitar a little (he started a little after me), and I know somewhere around here I'm related to a few musicians, very distantly. My brother also has a real knack for drums, if he'd ever get money in his pocket and get another kit

BDR · Post by **BDR** » Tuesday Apr 07, 2009

First gen, but not the last. My parents are both very private people. My dad doesn't even like to go to restaurants to eat cuz he's afraid someone might "look at him." lol. So, my desire to be the center of attention is certainly not genetic.

However, my oldest two daughters are very musically inclined. My oldest (23) played several instruments proficiently in high school, placed in district and regional band events constantly and won state chorus in her senior year. She's now leaning more towards stage acting during and since college but that has involved several musical productions. Last summer, she won the role of Dorothy in a close-to-the-movie production of "Wizard of Oz" where she sang all of the tunes associated. She killed me with it. Was like watching Judy Garland up there.

My next oldest (17) is up and coming, primarily with her vocals, but also plays several instruments in band. She is heading the same direction with her singing as her older sister and has equal talent and control. Then, there's my son (12) who is just getting in to elementary band and in the car, he sings along with dad to the radio and he's got great pitch and control for his age. With my youngest daughter (9), it's a little early to tell but i'm betting she'll be the same way. If not, we're going to have to kick her out or something.

r:>)

ToonaRockGuy · Post by **ToonaRockGuy** » Tuesday Apr 07, 2009

My grandfather (maternal) played drums, my dad played drums, viola, trumpet, and violin, and I play drums. 3rd gen.

PanzerFaust · Post by **PanzerFaust** » Tuesday Apr 07, 2009

According to his enlistment papers gggranpa originally enlisted in the union as a drummer boy... I think they quickly traded him a drum for a rifle though...hehe..

My gpa was the leader of the PRR marching band here in Altoona.. I have a pic of him in front of the old Altoona HS dressed in White with the big ol hat and all.... I'm told he played every instrument... I rememebr gmas attic had every instrument you could think of up there and I'd spend hours up there playing with trumpets, french horns, drums... The coolest was the big marching drum with the PRR logo on it ... I was young when he passed away so I don't remember him ever playing anything... I remember when he passed away, instead of an obit there was a front page article in the Altoona Mirror with his picture saying "Altoona's 'Mr Music' Passes" it told of all the famous parades they (PRR band) had been in Macys, etc etc....

My older brother played guitar and I played drums till 12th grade when I switched to guitar.....

Bro showed me ever chord he knew till he passed away with his acoustic next to him.....

DirtySanchez · Post by **DirtySanchez** » Tuesday Apr 07, 2009

My mom played a little guitar and piano before she got married. My dad loved to knock my dick down anytime he got a chance. Think he wanted me to grow up to be a roofer.

Pretty much 1st generation.

BDR · Post by **BDR** » Tuesday Apr 07, 2009

DirtySanchez wrote:My dad loved to knock my dick down anytime he got a chance. Think he wanted me to grow up to be a roofer.

It took my dad especially some time to realize that me "playing rockstar" was a legitimate way to help financially support my family. Nowadays, we talk about it as a career and he respects it. Made me feel pretty good when I first noticed he made the bridge from thinking it was just a hobby I was fucking around with to realizing it was something with more real-life substance to it.

r:>)

DirtySanchez · Post by **DirtySanchez** » Tuesday Apr 07, 2009

BadDazeRob wrote:
DirtySanchez wrote:My dad loved to knock my dick down anytime he got a chance. Think he wanted me to grow up to be a roofer.
It took my dad especially some time to realize that me "playing rockstar" was a legitimate way to help financially support my family. Nowadays, we talk about it as a career and he respects it. Made me feel pretty good when I first noticed he made the bridge from thinking it was just a hobby I was fucking around with to realizing it was something with more real-life substance to it.

r:>)

Yeah. My Dad has been to quite a few of my shows. He still busts my balls, but now it's just about the style of music. He wants me to sing country.haha!

bassist_25 · Post by **bassist_25** » Tuesday Apr 07, 2009

<------ Second generation musician (and second generation bass player)

Redsfury · Post by **Redsfury** » Tuesday Apr 07, 2009

my great grandfather played banjo and harmonica with fred waring before he formed the pennsylvanians. my grandfather played banjo from an early age and my dad hums and drums (poorly) on the steering wheel to anything skynard. so that would be 4th?

metalchurch · Post by **metalchurch** » Tuesday Apr 07, 2009

My Grandfather plays guitar in a Bluegrass band, but I wasn't around him much at all when I was growing up.
Me and my friend Paul (dearsadsoul) were really into Sabbath and early Ozzy when we were younger, so thats what got me into playing.

JackANSI · Post by **JackANSI** » Tuesday Apr 07, 2009

I grew up in the family's bluegrass 'band'. Going back to great grandpa Jesse Claycomb.

bassgirl · Post by **bassgirl** » Tuesday Apr 07, 2009

My paternal great-grandfather was a fiddle player as one of The Tweedy Brothers, which was a bluegrass band out of West Virginia in the 1920's. I've heard tales that he was good friends with "Grandpa" of Hee-Haw, and had been asked to play on the show, but that's just a family story that had been told to me, so I'm not sure how true that is.

Other than that no one else in my family plays an instrument.

lonewolf · Post by **lonewolf** » Tuesday Apr 07, 2009

My Pap was a trumpet player and bandleader who started playing in big bands during the '30s. Some of you may recall his last band...The 4 He's & a She (60s & 70s). They played in the local German & ethnic clubs.

My Dad was a concert pianist and played concerts at places like the Jaffa Mosque in the late '50s, early '60s. He got me started on piano when I was 3 and my Pap gave me formal trumpet lessons starting at 4.

Hawk · Post by **Hawk** » Tuesday Apr 07, 2009

lonewolf wrote:My Pap was a trumpet player and bandleader who started playing in big bands during the '30s. Some of you may recall his last band...The 4 He's & a She (60s & 70s). They played in the local German & ethnic clubs.

My Dad was a concert pianist and played concerts at places like the Jaffa Mosque in the late '50s, early '60s. He got me started on piano when I was 3 and my Pap gave me formal trumpet lessons starting at 4.

I do remember the 4 he's and a she.

I played for "The Big German Band" at the Unter Uns and the Bavarian in the early 1970's. Was he in that band ? When ?

We played for drinks, which wasn't so cool because I was under age.

My Grandfather's half brother wrote some of the music and arranged most of it for them. So it was cool I got to play his music!

moxham123 · Post by **moxham123** » Tuesday Apr 07, 2009

I am a 1st generation musician. My son is playing guitar and my stepson plays guitar too. My daughter started to play violin and was getting good but gave it up at a young age. I hope my son continues the family tradition. The only thing my parents and any other relatives could play was the radio.