Scatman's world:
Born in El Monte, California, he suffered from a severe stutter "since [he] started talking", which led to an emotionally traumatic childhood. Even at the peak of his success in 1...
Scatman's world: Born in El Monte, California, he suffered from a severe stutter "since [he] started talking", which led to an emotionally traumatic childhood. Even at the peak of his success in 1995, journalists reported that during interviews he "hardly finishes a sentence without repeating the phrase at least six or seven times". At age 12 he began to learn piano, and was introduced to the art of scat singing at 14 through records by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, amongst others. The piano provided him with a means of artistic expression to compensate for his speech difficulties. He remarked in a 1996 interview that "playing piano gave me a way to speak... I hid behind the piano because I was scared of talking."
He became a professional jazz pianist in the 1970s and '80s, playing many gigs in jazz clubs around Los Angeles. In 1986, he released the self-titled album John Larkin on the Transition label, copies of which are now extremely scarce. He claimed to have "hundreds of them lying around in [his] closet at home". Around this time alcoholism and drug addiction were also beginning to take a hold of his life. When fellow musician and friend Joe Farrell, who also had a drug problem, died in 1986, Larkin decided to beat his habits. He eventually did so, largely with the help of his new wife Judy, also a recovering alcoholic. "You have talent", she told him. "I'm going to make something out of you".
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unfortunately about three forths of everyone i know would say "screw this, im gonna go watch southpark, sit here and listen to your faggot music if you want." the world realy needs to change its perspective on things if it hopes to improve. John was ahead of his time, and we should all take a page from his book and although my mind has aready been corrupted by the media about things so im always aware of things like appearance, i try to treat everyone equaly no matter their background. 2 b cont
i know that this wont change for years if it ever does at all but i hope the condition of the world changes over time for the better or we will eventually want our own way so much that everyone will fight and cause the destruction of the world. unfortunately human nature makes this very unlikely. If a portal opened to this world though i would not take it because of fear of corruption. even though i am aware of many of my faults and try to change them, i know that i would eventually (2 be cont)
screw up and introduce a corrupt idea. im glad that there are generally pure people like scatman and buckethead. scatman, as we all know, wanted a perfect world and buckethead wears a bucket and mask so that people will know his music and not just his face. sorry for the small rant. if youtube dosent get the comment glitch fixed the bottom post is first and the top is last and this is probably going to throw you off, im actually 13 and have reached this realization already
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If a portal opened to this world though i would not take it because of fear of corruption. even though i am aware of many of my faults and try to change them, i know that i would eventually (2 be cont)
sorry for the small rant.
if youtube dosent get the comment glitch fixed the bottom post is first and the top is last
and this is probably going to throw you off, im actually 13 and have reached this realization already
I love scatman!