#god i could talk for . 73 years about ben parker and music

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♡ + music

i’ve mentioned on here that in the comic canon, ben parker is noted to be more artistically inclined than his brother and nephew. they bring up that he’s got a history in performing, and i like to headcanon him to be someone very musically inclined. at risk of taking this too far, have a bullet point list of music related headcanons.

for a part of his twenties, when he held out some semblance of hope that perhaps perhaps he could pursue music full time, he worked nights at a bar in brooklyn. it was the eighties, piano bars were alive and well, and he couldn’t have been more thankful for it. it was no more back and forth from open mics, it was a job, real and steady, where he got to spend his nights playing and singing and winding up ambition for a career that’d never come to him before.

while piano is his first and primary love, ben’s not rusty with guitar either. he plays it less, but it’s certainly the more portable option. he also plays melodica (after a gag gift gone wrong when he became determined to lean it) but we dont talk abt that.

in the headcanons @yourhotaunt​, it’s actually music that helped to bring may and ben together. perhaps they’d seen eachother around before, but one of their first real interactions was when her friends encouraged her to join him in an impromptu duet. he remembers it not to be love at first sight, but something more like an ecstatic type of bewilderment.

back to music though . ben loves good lyrics. while other, more technical aspects can get him sometimes, what really draws him to a song is what’s being communicated. some of his favorite musicians are billy joel, frank sinatra, and elton john, all of whom he feels have some element of timelessness to them, as well as some kind of universal reach. 

which peter wants to step up and teach this man to use spotify so he can make playlists for every dam occasion?

all jokes aside though, he’s something of a vinyl snob. #hipster uncle ben who still has every record he ever owned because he’s a hoarder and now its back in style and even if no one cares he still brags about it as one of his three (3) personal accomplishments.

u came over 2 just have dinner @ the parkers ? dont mention music or else its abt 2 be a jam sesh . 

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