Did you study music & are you a music fanatic?

I was in a band; my brother taught me bass guitar and drums, I taught myself keyboard. However, I haven't played in the past couple of years. I sold the instruments to help my family out, so I'm really out of practice.

I do listen music quite avidly though, and I'm always open to any kind of recommendation. There's hardly anything I don't like, though I tend to lean more towards anything rock (sub genres included in all of these), bluesy, metal, soft, and recently re-discovering 90s r&b soul.

You sound like a cat i could dig. I'm 18 and just melting into the cusp of the world of music that is about us. Sure i have that "I just wanna do music attitude" like lots of people my age but like you I wanna be smart about it. I plan on majoring in music and learning all that I can. My heroin days are behind me and all the weed and drugs and fake **** too. I am very recently getting into jazz. Maybe I'm starting off a little bit off the deep end, but Coltrane and Davis are two minds that I'm enamored with at the moment. Sure the big names but I'm slowly getting into the duke ellingtons and the different sects of the genre. IF you would be so kind as to suggest a few for me that would be much appreciated. I am currently not in a band(just left). Im kind of in that self introspective phase, where discipline and patience are beginning to become the real keys to my creativity. Love to hear some small time stuff no insult to you or anything. so links to your stuff would be cool.

Never studied music aside from the lame music electives in high school. I'm a fan though.

^ *garbage band :D

@ Anjellex I know, right?

Lol nobody would miss me and IDC.