Levon Sultanian (Onesidezero) - The Songs That Changed My Life

XgavedgeX · 06:17 PM

Music and playing music has always been in the family. I started playing piano at the age of 7. All the kids in the family had to play the piano. Our Grandpa Charles was the maestro. He knew the piano back and fourth, upside down, in his sleep and on the back of his hands. We all got pretty good due to the strict lessons with the Maestro.

One day my father put on his collection of beta video tapes in the living room of our apartment in Hollywood. That was it! After I saw Ritchie Blackmore(Deep Purple), Jimmy Page(Led Zeppelin), Tony Iommi(Black Sabbath, Eric Clapton(Cream), Jimi Hendrex, all do what they were
doing to this other instrument called the guitar, that was it for me! I begged my dad for a guitar. He got me a $50 nylon string guitar from the recycler. I started playing guitar at the age of 9.

My life was changed forever when I saw Hendrix burning & smashing his guitar after he just played the hell out of it. Then Eddie Van Halen with the magic he plays, fuget about it! SRV re-inventing the blues, The Beatles setting standards, breaking rules and making new ones. Then after all these old timer greats had made it seem like you can't do anything new, here came Dimebag Darrell... WOW! Changing my life all over again.

That's the magic of music and playing and mastering an intrument... the possibities are endless and the impact it can have on ones life. All the songs I mention below are just some of the songs that have impacted my life and changed me to who I am now. The journey continues...

The Songs that changed my life [Levon Sultanian] are (in no particular order):

"Eruption"
Van Halen
Van Halen I

"Scuttlebuttin' & Honey Bee"
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Couldn't Stand The Weather

"Highway Star & Burn"
Deep Purple
The Deepest Purple

"Whole Lotta Love"
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin II

"Master Of Puppets"
Metallica
Master Of Puppets

"Black Star"
Yngwie J. Malmsteen
Rising Force

"Happiness Is A Warm Gun"
The Beatles
White Album
(and every album by the Beatles actually)

"Bohemian Rhapsody"
Queen
The Greatest Hits

"Requiem (the death mass)"
Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"Moonlight Sonata"
Beethoven
Ludwig Van Beethoven

"Hey Joe"
Jimi Hendrix
Are You Experienced?