Soundtrack : Brian Deady
Do you know, I’ve gotten into some great bands through these interviews from Jaguar Love and LITE to King Crimson…my mum’s CD collection came in handy for that last! Loving Brian Deady’s contribution this week, he makes some delightful observations…
Drop-D: Can you pigeonhole your tastes into one particular genre or do your preferences spread through an array of influences?
Brian: I couldn’t put all of my influences in one particular box/hole. The obvious influences would come from 70s/80s soul and funk. Curtis Mayfield, early Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, The Brothers Johnson, and Prince, but when it comes to trying to figure out what you’re influenced by, really you have to go way back. The music around me growing up was imprinted like a musical genetic code and is still with me. I would have been absorbing what was on the radio, the telly and my parents’ records: Pop, Country, Rock, the theme tune to Chips, Abba, Elvis, Roy Orbison, Glen Campbell, it has all influenced me.
Drop-D: What triggered your musical infatuation? Was it a certain band/person/style/age?
Brian: I listened to a lot of the vocal groups like The Drifters, The Four Tops, The Chi Lites, Earth Wind and Fire and was amazed by that sound. My neighbour two doors down from us was older and slightly more guitar based in terms of taste, his whole family were musical, my brothers and I would knock around and listen to The Beatles and E.L.O., even then it sounded really fresh to me. It happened many other times after, on a summer evening when I was 15, up in my room recording songs off the radio I heard Aint Nuthin But That G Thang [Dr. Dre - Ed.] breeze in and it changed how I heard music. It keeps happening, every now and then music sounds totally new all over….
Read the full Soundtrack over on Drop-D.