
Leland Thomas Faegre
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Drawn to influences as diverse as Beatles to Beethoven, his composition, arrangement and production technique is at once an invective incorporation of generation and genre...
Band/artist history
For the most part a bookworm prior to the British Invasion of 1964, by the end of that year he was smitten by the Beatles and had acquired and mastered the drum kit made possible by the determination of his mother, Dorothy. He assembled some schoolmates who could play and his first band was incarnated as the forerunner to Ina and until 1968 his accomplishment as a drummer of local repute was sufficiently established. But by the Summer of '68, as the Beatles' was bulleting up the charts, a neighbors' piano and an acoustic guitar purchased with with strings nearly off the fret board would thoroughly occupy his waking hours. Remembering the strings that cut through his fingertips, he nonetheless persevered from the love of the sound of the chords--especially G major, and began to develop his skills by emulating the best of that era such as he attended Mt. San Antonio and Rio Hondo junior colleges. Whereas curricula at both institutions were authored by establishmentarians of the socialist stripe, and teaching music was never his intention, his career choices of International Relations and Music became impossible to attain. He made a constructive nuisance of himself by first challenging, and subsequently embarrassing faculty and administration alike, and was in partnership with
Have you performed in front of an audience?
Once upon a time...
Your musical influences
Bach to Beatles
What equipment do you use?
I would have to give you a tour...
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awesome stuff, keep up the good work!
VERY AND VERY COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!
THANKS
I like the stuff I heard. Keep the creativity going.
At me updating! Call on!
All comments (4)
2,989 plays
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Leland
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Thumbs up for you! 10/10