Music in my life in Robson House

The first music a human ever listens to is generally the music their parents enjoy.  A very self-explanatory concept that decides a child’s taste of music before it is influenced by future factors (friends, or any other way we first discover other music).  It’s these factors that determine our taste of music as we grow up, and some can have more influence than others.  For me, my taste of music come from a mixture of the parents and the man himself, Mr Walker.  Perhaps I am the only one who listens as he talks about the glorious days of 1960s and 1970s music, but it has led to a shockingly broad taste, ranging from Mum’s ABBA, Dad’s Dire Straits and all the way to Mr Walker’s Jimi Hendrix.

My 16th birthday present, the Fender Stratocaster, was the next big thing in music for me.  This electric guitar make has been used by many talented guitarists in history – Mark Knopfler, David Gilmour, Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix.  Learning songs is much easier when the guitars sound the same, so once again I was on the track (and still am) of rock in the 1970s and 1980s.

A theory strikes my mind that musical taste has nothing to do with genes or how someone was made and is not controlled by the person at all.  Instead, it is external experiences that lead to factors and changes in what people like to listen to. 

Lachlan Greig