...Mick Fleetwood?!?!

while in my car, i was listening to a demo of myself tracking on a few of my bud's new song ideas.  and, this afternoon, while listening to an NPR review of Fleetwood Mac's new CD, i suddenly realized my playing was eerily similar to Mick Fleetwood!  my groove, and especially my fills seemed to be straight outta his bag o' tricks.

i'm NOT an avid listener by any stretch of the imagination, tho, Lindsey Buckingham is a great songwriter, but it was quite a weird epiphany.

i guess i should be happy, but oh well...

anyone else find some oddball references in your own playing?  ever have that strange feeling you play like someone you dont really listen to, but somehow ended up playing a bit like them?

I had a similar experience. Mine was a John Bonham obsession. For a good two years, I labored over everything I could get my hands on. Import albums, bootlegs and of course, all the studio albums.


The breaking point for me was watching their Atlantic records reunion with John's son, Jason. While I was watching them play on stage (and playing along in my mind) I knew, almost exactly, what fills Jason was going for while watching. And he was improvising many. It was weird.

That was enough for me, and I can't recall playing along to a Zeppelin record since.

well,

i guess i should re-edit my post, cause i was kinda asking if you found any "oddball" influences in your playing.

like i said, i'm NOT a mick fleetwood drum worshipper by any stretch of the imagination, and yet, i couldnt help but feel that my current approach to the set sounds like his!

make sense?

I never listed to Elton John for the drums, but somehow Nigel Olsson's fill vocabulary creeped into my playing. I guess it goes back to how melodic and memorable John's songs are. Olsson has a very good ear for that stuff, too.

i was listening to a recording of one of my bands in my grandpa's antique store.  a customer, and older lady, walked in and said "is that cozy cole?"  i said that it was a recording of a band i was working on.

now i have heard OF cozy cole, but never heard cozy cole.  

I probably sound like Meg White.  

Yeah, but you're probably not as cute.  

A couple weeks ago during a rehearsal jam session, one of my guitarists was playing this nice, heavy, bluesy riff and I started playing along, stopped, and then started again in half-time. After a couple verses of this, he stopped playing and asked me, "So, are you just gonna do your Bonham impression all night?" I like Bonham, but I haven't actually sat down and listened to Led Zeppelin since, well, ever.

To me thats a bad sign.  Not on your part, good that you think drums.  But on the part of the band youre listening to.   Predictability is not a virtue in my book ... but then I may be reading a different book than most  

I played with a guitar player who didn't listen to music at all because he "didn't want to sound like anyone else"

pretty different huh?

This reminds me of a strange instance .  I was driving down the road and heard a song on the radio and it SCARED me because the person's voice sounded EXACTLY like mine, but more developed.  Kind of like someone having the same snare drum, but they play it way better.  I had to find out who it was because it was really creepy. Well, it turned out to be Norah Jones which is interesting because we're both Indian. (her dad is Ravi Shankar, the famous sitar player.)   I think there exists a naturally inherent, scientific, cultural, genetic predisposition which can make voices sound alike.  Just like if 2 drums are "made from the same wood".
So 2 days ago I got all pumped up and recorded myself  trying to sing one of her songs on my karaoke machine.  It was horrendous!  Thats when I learned science can only take you so far!