Hey guys. Please read this rough draft of my stanford supplemental essay. This is my first draft so I am sure it is full of grammatical errors. Does it answer the prompt clearly enough?
The distinctive sound of needle dropping on vinyl made a quick appearance then vanished in the place of overbearing silence. The sustained quietness amplified the sense of anticipation. And then, it started. The unmistakably potent riffs of Jimmy Page on "Whole Lotta Love" shattered the silence and drove both my dad's and my own head into a state of incessant and vigorous bobbing. Robert Plant's incensed wailing gave us both that euphoric feeling it had the first 100 time we had listened to it. Although no words were being exchanged between us both my dad and myself sense exactly what eachother is feeling.
It had always been this way between us; while we had a good relationship otherwise, music gave our relationship a much deeper bond. Ever since my dad had originally played Led Zeppelin 2 for me, I was hooked on the classic rock sound. Fortunately for me, I had a dad that was extremely knowledgable regarding this genre of music. Everytime we would sit down to listen to a new album we were brought on the same journey. The music had an equalising effect on us. No matter what our emotional or mental state was prior to putting on the album, the music put both of us on the same plane in that we were both reacting to what we heard in the same way. This situation is strikingly similar when it is with my friends. Replace my room with a car and the old phonograph with an auxillary plug and you have a group of people that are relating to eachother on a very basic, yet, profound level. .Sharing this feeling of inter connectedness for an extended period of time is something truly unique and doing so forges a strong bond between all people listening that cannot be achieved by anything other than music.
While music has been an avid obsession of mine for a long time, it is what music does when listened to it in groups that has given me the most. Put simply, music does what words cannot. Our collective love of classic rock has forged an unbreakable connection between us that has improved alll facets of our relationship. As far as I am concerned, this unsaid understanding we both have of eachother is a direct result of the times music has spoken to us rather than the times we have spoken to each other.
The distinctive sound of needle dropping on vinyl made a quick appearance then vanished in the place of overbearing silence. The sustained quietness amplified the sense of anticipation. And then, it started. The unmistakably potent riffs of Jimmy Page on "Whole Lotta Love" shattered the silence and drove both my dad's and my own head into a state of incessant and vigorous bobbing. Robert Plant's incensed wailing gave us both that euphoric feeling it had the first 100 time we had listened to it. Although no words were being exchanged between us both my dad and myself sense exactly what eachother is feeling.
It had always been this way between us; while we had a good relationship otherwise, music gave our relationship a much deeper bond. Ever since my dad had originally played Led Zeppelin 2 for me, I was hooked on the classic rock sound. Fortunately for me, I had a dad that was extremely knowledgable regarding this genre of music. Everytime we would sit down to listen to a new album we were brought on the same journey. The music had an equalising effect on us. No matter what our emotional or mental state was prior to putting on the album, the music put both of us on the same plane in that we were both reacting to what we heard in the same way. This situation is strikingly similar when it is with my friends. Replace my room with a car and the old phonograph with an auxillary plug and you have a group of people that are relating to eachother on a very basic, yet, profound level. .Sharing this feeling of inter connectedness for an extended period of time is something truly unique and doing so forges a strong bond between all people listening that cannot be achieved by anything other than music.
While music has been an avid obsession of mine for a long time, it is what music does when listened to it in groups that has given me the most. Put simply, music does what words cannot. Our collective love of classic rock has forged an unbreakable connection between us that has improved alll facets of our relationship. As far as I am concerned, this unsaid understanding we both have of eachother is a direct result of the times music has spoken to us rather than the times we have spoken to each other.