I recall many parties back in the day, everyone around the bonfire, someone finds a stick, starts beating on log, others follow. Soon enough amazing rhythms ensue, primitive and tribal for sure. Man, I miss those days!
Isn't it obvious? Those people back then hadn't been indoctrinated into our messed up world view. They knew because no one had told them otherwise. Music is the meaning of life.
Man didn’t start the music, it was always all around us: birds chirping in the woods, wind blowing in the trees, gorillas beating their chests, wolves howling kids laughing, women crying. We just add our verses and overtime it became a beautiful thing.
I would imagine that the human voice was the first instrument and they were imitating sounds they heard in nature. It was probably hunting related and then evolved.
Just watch the Flintstones. The history of all things old.. LOL
Actually ROCK guitar.. The singing was people screaming and running from Sabertooth Tigers. When they were caught. That was the starting of the REAL Blues. It wasn't about women and men it was about who was the slowest runner.
The initial invention of music was portrayed in the 1981 movie “Cave Man” with Ringo. We obsessive audiophiles are the result. Low brow humor for sure.
It all started about 50 years back when I found a trophy phonograph and few records to spin. Then few years back, I found accordion and started to try to repeat to what I listened on this particular phonograph.
Music has evolved from an early way of comunicting. Launaguge was primative. Banging rhymically and making noise emoted feeling and sometimes a memory. And, as it evolved, people started to like how it made them feel.
MC - Allan Watts, excellent. We are the music! The idea pursue your bliss do whats in your heart of hearts and doors will open.to quote Joesph Campbell is the key to living in tune. Music was always there inside us waiting to be expressed.
or perhaps the guy beating the log was just tired of beating something else lol
It began when a walnut fell out of a tree, hit the ground, made a "thump", then developed a distinct percussive cadence as it rolled down a hill arriving at it's final destination in a pond producing an audible "swish". An individual in a group of an evolving species observed this and thought something similar to: "Hey, that was pretty cool." It peaked in 1968 with Ron Bushy's drum solo In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida.
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