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In the late 1980's, I wanted to be in a hard rock band...and that's just what I did. I didn't feel that I needed to fit into any particular parameters, I just needed to be me. The result was being the front singer and lyric writer for a group called, "Lady Sabre". It was a fun time in my life, when I lived my own fantasy of being a "rock star" in a local band. Two albums later, the group disbanded, but my memories of living out some great times on stage were mine to keep. Archives | Subscribe to Alerts Alerts Subscribe to Alerts | Feeds
   

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I've always loved music, all kinds of music.  I used to listen to classical music when I was a young child, and had dreams of being an opera singer.  Later, I learned to sing from my mother and enjoyed singing in church and school.  When I was 15, I learned to play a $10 guitar and soon became a professional musician, singer, and songwriter.  I enjoy dancing to music as well, and love animals and Indian food.

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Thursday, November 25, 2004
Subject: Getting serious about music...
Time: 10:19:42 AM EST
Author:  starlady11


Listening to music was a favorite hobby of mine, as it was of most teenagers in the 60's.  The British Invasion was just beginning, with the Beatles, Rolling Stones, and other great groups, releasing their first albums and coming to America.  In the midst of these rock and roll legends, were the "folkies", those artists who maintained a purity and directness of spirit and form and I listened to them as well.  As I learned more chords on the guitar, the 7th's (like, A7, G7, etc.), I learned I could change the mood of the music into blues, or whatever I wanted. It was wonderful.  Using my song books and professional guitar lessons, I could feel that I was starting to enter another phase of my "career".  I wanted to play more on stage, share my talent, and to write songs of my own.  An entire new forum had opened up for me, a means to express myself and my music.  I wanted to become a singer/songwriter.  It was definitely an exciting time in my life.

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Wednesday, November 19, 2003
Subject: Learning the ropes, playing the strings
Time: 8:46:52 PM EST
Author:  starlady11


So, there I was, at the age of 15, learning my chords on the ten dollar guitar, and learning the lyrics to the Dylan and Baez songs.  I ended up taking some professional lessons, and learning to play the songs as Baez did.  It was thrilling to learn the folk picking styles and "tricks" of these famous performers.  After a while, it was time to make my first "on stage" debut. I was very nervous, but did it anyway.  My mom was in the audience. It was a gathering of some kids who played guitars.  I loved being on stage and singing, even though it was scary.  I was surprised that I could do it, since I was such a shy kid, but I was compelled to get on stage and sing and so I did.  I was also encouraged by the other performers who were very supportive.  Of course, my mom used to sing in big bands when she was young, and she was excited that I was also singing on stage now.  She taught me how to sing properly, teaching me what she had learned from professional singing instructors.  She was always out in the audience applauding louder than anyone else.  Often my dad would join her and he would applaud even louder.  I was learning the ropes of "show biz" and learning how to have "stage presence", something which can only be developed through experience.  I loved playing those beautiful strings on the guitar.  One time my parents punished me by taking away my guitar for a day or two.  I didn't know how i was going to stand it.  I had to play the guitar, I could hardly wait to get it back and start playing it and making up for that "lost time" when it had been taken away from me.  I would sit and play it for many hours every day after school.  I was hooked.   

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Subject: The answer my friend, is Blowin' in the Wind
Time: 8:37:35 PM EST
Author:  starlady11


Along with Joan Baez, I discovered many other 60's folksingers and songwriters, the now legendary Bob Dylan, Mimi Farina, Tom Rush, Pete Seeger (whom I saw in concert), and many others.  At the age of 15, I realized that I, too, wanted to be among this clan and "make a difference" and so, I started listening to their music and learning their songs.  I also started dabbling in writing my own "message" songs and making my own statements about life, politics, and love.  Then one day a girl named Sally at school told me that she had her guitar for sale.  I didn't play guitar, but the idea intrigued me.  Sally's best friend, Kitty, said she would give me lessons if I bought the guitar.  I took the guitar and went into the lady's restroom.  I sat down on a chair in front of a full length mirror and held the guitar.  I looked at myself with the guitar and asked myself, "Do you want to do this?"  And, the answer was yes.  I went back out, and said, "I'll take the guitar".  I paid $10.00 for that guitar, the strings felt like they were three inches off the neck, but I loved that guitar and it was all mine.  My fingers were sore, and I would develop calluses, but it was worth it, a symbol of my dedication to learning to play the guitar.  Kitty started off teaching me how to play it, and before you knew it, I could play four chords, C, G, D and A.  I was on my way to being a folk singer! 

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Subject: And then there was Joan Baez
Time: 8:31:57 PM EST
Author:  starlady11


As I was absorbing the music of the 1960's and the American and British rock groups, a friend introduced me to folk music.  I really wasn't very familiar with it, but he told me about one singer/songwriter in particular, Joan Baez.  He suggested I go to the record store and buy an album and listen to it.  I did and it changed my life forever.  As I listend to her voice, and the lyrics to the songs she had recorded, I floated away into a new world of music.  The lyrics had a "message" and her voice was haunting.  I couldn't stop listening to her album and I felt drawn to this music more than any I had heard in the past.  Little did I know how much that music would impact my life.  It was the beginning of a long journey I would take with guitar and pen in hand.



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Subject: Those teen years...
Time: 8:27:24 PM EST
Author:  starlady11


My taste in music evolved as I entered my teens.  The British Invasion was taking place, and I was part of it.  I loved the Rolling Stones and Beatles, and had huge posters of them hanging on my bathroom door.  I listened to them after school and memorized all the lyrics.  (My favorite Beatle was George, God rest his soul).  I would pretend that I was a singer in a band, and jump around the room using a hair brush as a microphone.  See, Tom Cruise wasn't the first one to do that!  There were other great up and coming groups, too.  Herman's Hermits, Chad and Jeremy, Dave Clark Five, and many others.  It was terrific.  I still have some of those original record discs, which are now antiques!

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Subject: Martha Graham anyone?
Time: 8:23:48 PM EST
Author:  starlady11


Speaking of old home movies, I found one that showed me suddenly going into a wild "crazy dance" as we used to call it, just totally letting go and spinning around to music (or no music) as the mood might strike you.  It was my own "Martha Graham" interpretation and the wonderful thing is that my parents thought it was great.  Looking back, I can envision some parents might have scolded their child and told them to stop acting so silly, but my creative antics were indulged and supported by my mother and father. I started ballet at age two and never looked back.  And, music was all a part of it.

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Subject: Dance to the music
Time: 8:20:55 PM EST
Author:  starlady11


It seemed that my love for dancing went hand in hand with my love of music.  I also loved the ballet, and wanted to be a prima ballerina (as well as an opera singer).  I had lofty goals, which would later fall by the wayside, but my love of music and dancing certainly remained.  We still have an old silent home movie of me dancing to the song, "Purple People Eater".  It is hilarious, and of course, you can't hear the music playing in the background, but I know what it all meant.  What a shame we didn't have camcorders back in the dark ages! 

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Subject: Just plain liked it...
Time: 8:17:08 PM EST
Author:  starlady11


As long as I can remember, I have loved music.  I know that I inherited this inclination from my dear mother who introduced me to classical music when I was very young. I would love to sit on the floor in the living room as a child in Dayton, Ohio, and listen to Chopin.  It was an "informal" indoctrination, one of sheer pleasure, and I would sometimes get up spontaneously and dance to the music I heard.  We had a Magnovox record player which I still have today in our library.  Whenever I look at it, I think of those happy times when I would listen to classical music.  My mother knew what she was doing.

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