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MARK HADLEY
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PODSTER: What were you listening to? MARK: A lot of angsty, teenage music—pop punk bands like Blink 182. Then I started studying jazz, and I began to take music more seriously as a prospective career. PODSTER: What jazz were you listening to? MARK: Miles Davis, Pat Metheny, Wes Montgomery, Grant Green— kind of a mix of classic and contemporary.
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I read that as a kid you studied piano and trumpet and then got your first guitar when you were 11. Did you immediately know guitar was your thing? 20
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MARK HADLEY: I think it’s fair to say that that was how it unfolded. I was always drawn toward music, and guitar was a focus of a lot of the genres that I was absorbing at the time, so it was natural to gravitate toward it and learn songs that I was listening to.
PODSTER: What was it about jazz that interested you? MARK: It was the improvisation. It was really cool to have this format of music where, especially in the early days of jazz, people are playing the same songs and you have so many different ways of playing it. The players developed their personal voice through their improvisation. PODSTER: When did you start composing? MARK: In my teens I was in bands