mark大叔早年是如何走上音乐之路
今天看了看百度词条,发现上面对eels的专辑介绍不全,就补充了几下。然后又去eels的官方网站看了看,http://www.eelstheband.com/biography/index.php,发现了点有趣的东西,在biography里。
EARLY YEARS:
Dr. Hugh Everett III, Ph.D., was what Scientific American magazine calls "one of the most important scientists of the 20th century." A quantum physicist who authored The Many Worlds Theory, Everett inspired countless science fiction books, movies and Star Trek episodes with the concept of parallel universes. As a young teenager he exchanged letters with Albert Einstein, debating whether it was something random or unifying that held the universe together.
介绍他的父亲多么牛X,青少年时代就曾经和Albert Einstein通信讨论宇宙结构问题~ ~!
Until the age of eight, Hugh Everett lived in Washington, DC with his mother, Katharine Kennedy, a troubled poet and author, and his father, Col. Hugh Everett, Jr., US Army. As an adult, Dr. Everett settled in nearby Virginia, with his wife Nancy. They had a daughter, Elizabeth Ann, and a son, Mark Oliver.
他父亲在Virginia附近成家,mark大叔的家庭成员包括:爸爸Hugh Everett,妈妈Nancy(好古典贤良的名字啊),姐姐Elizabeth Ann(后来自杀的那个)。
Mark Oliver Everett showed no talent for physics, or even mathematics. He was much more interested in the records his sister was playing in the house.
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大叔没有继承父亲物理学和数学方面的天赋,他从小就对姐姐的唱片感兴趣。
Everyday after school one year, Elizabeth played Neil Young's AFTER THE GOLD RUSH album over and over. Mark listened. He never would have dreamt that one day he would record an album (DAISIES OF THE GALAXY) playing the same upright piano that Neil Young played on AFTER THE GOLD RUSH.
姐姐曾经播放的Neil Young的AFTER THE GOLD RUSH专辑(从专辑名字就可以知道这个专辑是什么年代的产物了~ ~!),mark听了n遍,但他没想到多年以后自己会在这个乐队使用的直立式钢琴上演出。
At the age of six, Mark found himself at the next door neighbor's garage sale where he saw the toy drum set that would change his life. He begged his parents for the $15 it cost to buy the set, and they relented. Most children that get a drum set play it for a week and then leave it in the closet until their parents have a garage sale. Unfortunately for the Everett family, Mark played those drums everyday for the next 10 years.
6岁那年,mark在邻居家车库里发现了一架破玩具鼓,从此改变了他的人生,父母经不住他苦苦哀求给他整了一套,不幸的是,没有像其他孩子一样很快就把这玩意丢到车库最后处理,他在接下来的十年里每天都要play,苦了Everett一家。
As a young teenager, after a period of trouble with the law, being arrested and thrown out of school, Mark started to pay attention to the acoustic guitar gathering dust in his sister's closet. He had already been making up little songs on the family's upright piano for years.
在青春叛逆期,mark先后进过局里、被赶出学校,他又对姐姐衣柜里的一把吉他感兴趣了,此时他已经在家里的直立式钢琴上作曲好几年了(天才就是NB)。
Mark had several friends that were coincidentally named Mark. To avoid confusion, they would refer to each other by their initials. Throughout his teens Mark Everett was "M.E." Gradually it was shortened to the even easier "E".
由于mark有一些朋友也叫mark,为了不搞乱,他们总是连姓一起叫,整个少年时代mark大叔都是M.E.后来干脆就简化成E了。
By the time he was 20, E was obsessed with writing songs and recording them on his secondhand 4 track cassette recorder. He wrote and recorded virtually every day of the next seven years.
20岁开始,七年时间里,E把几乎把所有的时间都用在写歌录歌上,使用的设备是一个二手的4音轨卡带录音机。
At the age of 24, feeling stifled by the lack of inspiration and creative community in his Virginia neighborhood, E packed up everything he owned into a car and drove 3,000 miles across the country to Los Angeles, where he knew not one person.
24随时,在老家Virginia感到缺乏灵感,E收拾自己的东西,开车3000英里到了洛杉矶,在那里他完全是个陌生人。
He eventually moved into a tiny apartment above a garage in Atwater Village, on the East side of Los Angeles, and resumed his antisocial routine of waking up, writing and recording 4 track cassettes, going to one of many shitty jobs that he hated, coming home, writing and recording more, and going to sleep.
终于他搬到了洛杉矶东郊的一个叫Atwater Village的村子,把小窝安在了一个车库的上面,他又继续他少言寡语的生活——起床、写歌、用二手的4音轨卡带录音机录歌、做他讨厌的烂工作,回家、写歌录歌、睡觉(真执着)
As time went on, from the time he started his obsessive song writing, the quality of the songs and production of his tapes slowly improved. Eventually someone heard some of his songs and asked him to record for a record label.
日子一天一天过,和最开始相比,他的唱片数量和质量都有了不小的提高,终于,有人发现了他,并请他到唱片公司录歌。
EARLY YEARS:
Dr. Hugh Everett III, Ph.D., was what Scientific American magazine calls "one of the most important scientists of the 20th century." A quantum physicist who authored The Many Worlds Theory, Everett inspired countless science fiction books, movies and Star Trek episodes with the concept of parallel universes. As a young teenager he exchanged letters with Albert Einstein, debating whether it was something random or unifying that held the universe together.
介绍他的父亲多么牛X,青少年时代就曾经和Albert Einstein通信讨论宇宙结构问题~ ~!
Until the age of eight, Hugh Everett lived in Washington, DC with his mother, Katharine Kennedy, a troubled poet and author, and his father, Col. Hugh Everett, Jr., US Army. As an adult, Dr. Everett settled in nearby Virginia, with his wife Nancy. They had a daughter, Elizabeth Ann, and a son, Mark Oliver.
他父亲在Virginia附近成家,mark大叔的家庭成员包括:爸爸Hugh Everett,妈妈Nancy(好古典贤良的名字啊),姐姐Elizabeth Ann(后来自杀的那个)。
Mark Oliver Everett showed no talent for physics, or even mathematics. He was much more interested in the records his sister was playing in the house.
mark
大叔没有继承父亲物理学和数学方面的天赋,他从小就对姐姐的唱片感兴趣。
Everyday after school one year, Elizabeth played Neil Young's AFTER THE GOLD RUSH album over and over. Mark listened. He never would have dreamt that one day he would record an album (DAISIES OF THE GALAXY) playing the same upright piano that Neil Young played on AFTER THE GOLD RUSH.
姐姐曾经播放的Neil Young的AFTER THE GOLD RUSH专辑(从专辑名字就可以知道这个专辑是什么年代的产物了~ ~!),mark听了n遍,但他没想到多年以后自己会在这个乐队使用的直立式钢琴上演出。
At the age of six, Mark found himself at the next door neighbor's garage sale where he saw the toy drum set that would change his life. He begged his parents for the $15 it cost to buy the set, and they relented. Most children that get a drum set play it for a week and then leave it in the closet until their parents have a garage sale. Unfortunately for the Everett family, Mark played those drums everyday for the next 10 years.
6岁那年,mark在邻居家车库里发现了一架破玩具鼓,从此改变了他的人生,父母经不住他苦苦哀求给他整了一套,不幸的是,没有像其他孩子一样很快就把这玩意丢到车库最后处理,他在接下来的十年里每天都要play,苦了Everett一家。
As a young teenager, after a period of trouble with the law, being arrested and thrown out of school, Mark started to pay attention to the acoustic guitar gathering dust in his sister's closet. He had already been making up little songs on the family's upright piano for years.
在青春叛逆期,mark先后进过局里、被赶出学校,他又对姐姐衣柜里的一把吉他感兴趣了,此时他已经在家里的直立式钢琴上作曲好几年了(天才就是NB)。
Mark had several friends that were coincidentally named Mark. To avoid confusion, they would refer to each other by their initials. Throughout his teens Mark Everett was "M.E." Gradually it was shortened to the even easier "E".
由于mark有一些朋友也叫mark,为了不搞乱,他们总是连姓一起叫,整个少年时代mark大叔都是M.E.后来干脆就简化成E了。
By the time he was 20, E was obsessed with writing songs and recording them on his secondhand 4 track cassette recorder. He wrote and recorded virtually every day of the next seven years.
20岁开始,七年时间里,E把几乎把所有的时间都用在写歌录歌上,使用的设备是一个二手的4音轨卡带录音机。
At the age of 24, feeling stifled by the lack of inspiration and creative community in his Virginia neighborhood, E packed up everything he owned into a car and drove 3,000 miles across the country to Los Angeles, where he knew not one person.
24随时,在老家Virginia感到缺乏灵感,E收拾自己的东西,开车3000英里到了洛杉矶,在那里他完全是个陌生人。
He eventually moved into a tiny apartment above a garage in Atwater Village, on the East side of Los Angeles, and resumed his antisocial routine of waking up, writing and recording 4 track cassettes, going to one of many shitty jobs that he hated, coming home, writing and recording more, and going to sleep.
终于他搬到了洛杉矶东郊的一个叫Atwater Village的村子,把小窝安在了一个车库的上面,他又继续他少言寡语的生活——起床、写歌、用二手的4音轨卡带录音机录歌、做他讨厌的烂工作,回家、写歌录歌、睡觉(真执着)
As time went on, from the time he started his obsessive song writing, the quality of the songs and production of his tapes slowly improved. Eventually someone heard some of his songs and asked him to record for a record label.
日子一天一天过,和最开始相比,他的唱片数量和质量都有了不小的提高,终于,有人发现了他,并请他到唱片公司录歌。
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