My Musical Background

I figured you should know from the beginning that I am NOT a musical person. I like to listen to it, maybe find the meaning of a song, screw up the words when I sing it in the car, and on the rarest of occasions find the guitar tab to a song that is not so hard and butcher it. (My wife LOVES that part.) I have never had musical training. Unless you count band in the 7th, 8th and 9th grades. Needless to say the french horn was not instrumental(word play!) in the development of my musical interests.

I am, however, very susceptible to peer pressure. So what ever was playing in my friends cars, in the dance hall, or at the bar ended up in my possession. Thanks to Napster and high speed internet I had a cornucopia of bad mixes, half assed collections of genres, and for some reason, 3 cd's called "Old School Rap".

One day that all went away. Call it a blessing in disguise, petty theft, or sheer ignorance, but my entire cd collection was stolen out of my open garage. Gone. All of it. Dr. Dre, Eminem, Pete Yorn, Garth Brooks, The Beatles. I was devastated. Looking back on it I am glad it happened. Who needs 7 live Dave Matthews Band albums. I mean come on, does the set list ever change? "All Along The Watchtower' is classic, but after a while you have to end your show with something different.

Which brings me to today. After building a small collection of my own and melding it with my wife's,we are left with an odd collection of discs from different stages of our lives; college (pre break up, break up, getting back together), intro to adulthood, no way I just got married, holy crap I am a dad, and the current stage, holy crap I have 2 kids. I can't begin to think of how this project will go or what I will write about, but I am excited. I am familiar with my music, but my wife's is a different story. Hopefully she didn't have an Aqua phase. I can just see the looks on people faces when I am blasting "Barbie Girl" at 7:30 in the morning.

Here's to a good trip.