After I really got into TD, these signs have become very evident.
1. I have spent more time on listening than studying.
2. I have basically lost interest in investigating other new music.
3. I have become fat and lazy.
4. I am not an angry young man anymore.
Hard to tell! I am reminded of that episode of Red Dwarf, when the characters meet themselves from another time dimension, and they are all exactly the opposite from their real selves because of one small difference in their lives!
Truth is, I think TD saved me from the perils and dangers of eighties music as I grew up, and kept me open minded and independent of fads and pointless fashion statements. Sometimes, this was to my detriment, making it harder for me to integrate, but this is something I think I secretly really wanted, and something I definitely do not regret 25 years on.
Among my first impressions of music, different than classical, it led me to great extent of music listening. And it stayed in the top after so much time, after so many other music listened, devoured, etc.
As a personality, it has pleased me to the level of modelating me. Not in immense sense, but towards the more refined, even "sequential" type of a person.
All waves, whatever their frequency (seen or heard), have an effect on a mass when the pass through it, (be it subtly or not). The mass is, 'changed' in some way. So, yes TD's music has changed me, always has done, always will do. What that effect is, is debatable
The music of TD has affected me deeply and played a very large part in the choices I have made and the directions I chose as a young man. I have documented this in greater detail on the previous forum.
"In the absurd often lies what is artistically possible." - Edgar Froese
Without a doubt. I was getting bored with metal and listening to more classical when I 1st heard TD. I think it got my brain (that'd be me then - doh) looking for patterns that I wouldn't have otherwise sought.
Important too, it gave me something I could identify with that wasn't what the other kids were in to - similar to Stephen above I guess.
Yes most definitly It has made me more awear of music & the endless possibilities it has to offer. Increased my view & thinking on things...become more of a thinker. Increased my friendships beyond my own coastal waters. Got to see places I would have never got to. Given me an inner drive. most of all created a soundscape to my daily life.
without TangerineDream I would not exist, the past eras of my life would have meant very little, because once TD entered my life I changed as a person...I became a fan (and once that happens there is no other life for a lover of music)
Taximan431 wrote:Yes most definitly It has made me more awear of music & the endless possibilities it has to offer. Increased my view & thinking on things...become more of a thinker. Increased my friendships beyond my own coastal waters. Got to see places I would have never got to. Given me an inner drive. most of all created a soundscape to my daily life.
Geoff
You are the most devoted Tangerine Dream fan I've ever met.
type of a person.
Geoff
