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General Discussion => Any and Every Thing => Topic started by: Perry on December 26, 2013, 08:34:59 pm
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I'm really curious about something.
I wonder what the musical tastes of some of our members are? Most of us fall into a certain age bracket (give or take), and I know some are born in different parts of the country(s).
I like to listen to all kinds of music (except rap) but I wonder if any of you would be surprised to know that I really like the RHCP's. I wonder how many of you are now scrambling to google RHCP as we speak? LOL
One of my favourites is "otherside" by RHCP, (a song about overcoming heroin addiction).
Would this just shatter the pre-conceived conceptions we all have of each other, the songs that we like listening to?
I remember listening to "Morning has Broken" by Cat Stevens as a kid and being absolutely flabbergasted when I saw his picture. I always pictured a short bald guy in my head. LOL
Anyway, what are some of your favourites?
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Hrm... Used to listen to a lot of different stuff.. Aerosmith, Meatloaf, Loverboy, Nugent, Pink Floyd and even a little REO.. listen mostly to country now.
Have seen Nugent in Concert, Aerosmith, Saw Kiss in a bar down in the Keys once.. Even had Charlie Daniels yell at me for fighting during one of his Concerts ;D
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OK. Now it's time to give Perry a shock. My alltime favorite singer is a Canadian. He always was, and will always be, my favorite. Also, one of the nicest guys I have ever met in person when he was at a performance. He died Dec. 20,1999. Now let Perry head for google.
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Without going to google I'm gonna say Hank Snow. Now I'll head to google and see if I was right. LOL
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Nailed it. A good ol Nova Scotia boy too. ;)
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My Grandmother listened to old country and always had the radio tuned in when I was growing up.. So am Pretty sure I know who it is.. will PM the anser just to see if I was right..
NM.. posted while I was typing LOL
Golden rocket??? I dont recall the names of the songs but I can still hear them bouncing through the halls of time...
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When in Germany in 1966, he was with a USO show. While one was singing, the others were backstage doing whatever they do backstage. NOT HANK. He was in the audience having a beer with the GI's. He would spend a few minutes at each table, then move to another table.
Then in about 1990, I met him again at the Grand Ole Opry. He stopped, shook hands and I reminded him of the day in Germany.He said, yes, he always enjoyed spending time with "his" boys in the services.
He will always be #1 in my book.
My favorite. 90 mile an hour down a dead end street.
Next favorite. I've been every where.
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With two sisters 10 and 8 years older than me I was introduced to the devils music at an early age LOL
All of the early rock bands all the way through the mid '80's. Then went cold turkey to country. Radio went out in my truck several years ago so not much music any more.
Ted Nugent was my first concert Cat scratch fever.
Kind of glad them days are behind me, whew what a ride that was!!
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i prefer country and rock. love hank williams patsy cline rock is more of five finger death punch, avenged seven, Metalica ect.
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i love music of all genres, but no hip hop or rap and really don't listen to music on the radio much, we have xm, but they play the same stuff over and over. my favorite really is old country, country swing (reminds me of my mom and growing up when i listen to the old stuff) and old rock and roll, and some big band stuff, and acoustic, love to listen to the instruments. i load up my own cds, flash drive or mp3 player with my favorite tunes to work out to, or jam away while working on equipment etc.... i love to listen to folks who can really play an instrument. i came across this guy, a child prodigy of blues guitar, don't listen to much blues but this guy is phenomenal, all acoustic concert, wish i could play guitar like this guy does, joe bonamassa:
www.youtube.com/embed/nL7WY5rI6HQ
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Even had Charlie Daniels yell at me for fighting during one of his Concerts ;D
The very first concert I saw was Marshal Tucker Band opening up for the Charlie Daniels Band in Chattanooga. I saw CDB several times (of course, they're from TN), but I got to see them at the Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin, TX back in 1976. That was a treat.
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i love to listen to folks who can really play an instrument. i came across this guy, a child prodigy of blues guitar, don't listen to much blues but this guy is phenomenal, all acoustic concert, wish i could play guitar like this guy does, joe bonamassa:
Yep, he's really tallented. I like his music, too.
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This is a hard one to answer. My dad was born and raised in the Smoky Monutains and my grandad played and made fiddles, so I got the bluegrass/country from that side of the family. Mom played piano in church for as far back as I can remember, and she liked 101 Strings and Big Band music. So I know a lot of all that stuff. (I especially like Glenn Miller)
But the 70s were my formative years. I learned how to play the guitar listening to the Allman Brothers and Led Zeppelin. So I listen to "A to Z" I suppose (Allmans, Alice Cooper, Deep Purple, Ted Nugent, Nazareth, Rolling Stones, Frank Zappa (watch out where the huskies go), Johnny Winter, Edgar Winter, you get the picture).
Me in my prime:
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All respect due to The Guess Who, BTO and Rush, Perry! :)
Of course playing in a band around east TN, you have to play tear jerking country, too. So I had to learn sad country songs, too.
Lately (and I highly recommend it!) I've been listening to a public radio station in Knoxville that has a powerful 250 watt transmitter and started out in a 14-ft (I think) camper trailer. You can listen online at http://www.wdvx.com . They play Americana, bluegrass, and on Friday Nights from 9:00 pm to 3:00 am is the Johnny Mack Blues Attack. It's really a great little station and they've really grown and have a worldwide audience as you can see on their website. There's a lot of great musicians that never make it on pop radio. Here's an example that I really like. Leftover Salmon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOXC26v_J1g
Whew! That was a long post.
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I like all genres of music, including rap and hip-hop. As long as it is good. In any of the genres there is a lot of crap songs. why listen to crap when much better songs are available. I've done a bit of DJ-ing so have a pretty large selection of music from all the different genres of music. Both my daughters have been into collecting music since before they were teens and I started buying albums and 45's in grade 8. I follow and give a listen to all new music that shows up on the British top 40. All summer on Thursday nights the downtown association hostess a different local band, only missed one concert in the last 3 years. One of my favorites is a band called Cod Gone Wild. They play a Celtic mix of music. Only one member is from Newfoundland the rest are from BC and Alberta.
Their You tube page is http://www.youtube.com/user/chazcarver/videos?shelf_id=1&view=0&sort=dd (http://www.youtube.com/user/chazcarver/videos?shelf_id=1&view=0&sort=dd)
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At the risk of being labeled some Pinko Commie spy, I have to say that I was forced to listen to horrible caterwauling my entire childhood. If it has a banjo or a fiddle in the band, or someone 104 year old man twanging the lyrics...I don't want to be within earshot of it.
Give me the 50s, 60s and some 70s. I don't care for much loud stuff and much prefer to listen to lyrics as opposed to musical accompaniment. I guess it's the latent poet in me.
I can, however, listen to some good classical (read Wagner and some of the 3 tenors).
Otherwise, I'm content with the music my hens and the local frogs give me.
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That's a very interesting question, Perry. Some may find this a bit odd but the Rock and Roll I couldn't live without back in the seventies has fallen from favour and, in its place, I am increasingly partial to Classic Country. My friend was flabbergasted last evening when she discovered that I enjoy opera. I enjoy choral music if I am part of the choir. I enjoy symphony music if it is live. Above all, I can listen to Donnell Leahy, Natalie McMaster or Ashley McIsaac on their Celtic/Cape Breton fiddles for hours on end. Most often though, I will grab my fiddle and knock off tunes like Crooked Stovepipe, Saint Anne's Reel, The Woodchopper's Reel, The Maple Syrup Reel, Flop Earred Mule, Tam Lin or Toss the Feathers.
I almost never listen to music while driving - drove up to Cochrane and back one day a few weeks ago (about 1,560 Km) and my truck radio was on for maybe half an hour the whole trip .... and that was to try and find out what the weather might be up ahead.
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Groups I really liked were Peter Paul and Mary, Gordon Lightfoot, Ian tyson, I cant listen to something where the singer is wailing unintelligibly or totally drounded out by the instruments. I sure dont like harsh and clanggy! I like the Celtic music
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Well, let's see here. Where to begin. In my childhood home, we listened to "both kinds of music, country and western." I don't care much for it now as a result.
Currently, I picked up playing old time fiddle about the same time I started beekeeping. It is all an effort to keep the brain young. I played the piano since a small child and was in the high school and college band.
I like lots of music, but appreciate it most when heard live. We get out and support musicians by seeing them in concert, music festivals, at a bar or even some dumps. We see a lot of up and comers on the verge of stardom in some of the oddest places. I saw Bonamassa at a small community celebration. We've seen Alabama Shakes, The Civil Wars, Leon Russell (several times in a honky tonk), Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi (several times at a casino), Jay Ungar, Mark O'Connor, Edgar Meyer, Bela Fleck, Sam Bush (comes to a free community concert every year), Bob Dylan, Eileen Ivers, Natalie McMaster, Taj Mahal, Chick Corea, Emanuel Ax, Little Feat, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings, etc.
Last Christmas my husband had my old turntable refurbished. I never owned very many LPs because I couldn't afford them. Since last Christmas, I have started picked up LPs when ever I find them. Anything that strikes my fancy, because the price is right.
I agree with apisbees, there is a lot of crap out there and some of it is on the Top 40.
I have a bucket list..musicians I want to see live before they kick the bucket. But that's another thread.
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I have a bucket list..musicians I want to see live before they kick the bucket. But that's another thread.
Sadly, they're going faster and faster anymore.
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old country all the way really like John conlee, Vern gosden and others in that area
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old country all the way really like John conlee, Vern gosden and others in that area
Does that make George Jones, Johnny Cash, Buck Owens, etc., ancient country?
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old country all the way really like John conlee, Vern gosden and others in that area
Does that make George Jones, Johnny Cash, Buck Owens, etc., ancient country?
Lol I like Jones and Cash I guess I should have said Country up to Gossiden and Conlee
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old country all the way really like John conlee, Vern gosden and others in that area
Does that make George Jones, Johnny Cash, Buck Owens, etc., ancient country?
Lol I like Jones and Cash I guess I should have said Country up to Gossiden and Conlee
If you have satellite TV or maybe on your cable, if you get RFD TV, they show Hee Haw every Sunday night at 8:00 pm and a repeat at Monday morning at 10:00 am. I am trying to record as many of them as I can. They're currently in season 6.
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I am finding the replies quite interesting.
Remembering that we are all beekeepers first, I would have to say that clearly most of the respondents are into country music. Rock seemingly favoured by only a few of us.
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I like Lazy's selections for sure. Most often, I gravitate toward folk/pop. Fellas like Brett Dennen for example.
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George Strait, Chris Young, Lori Morgan, Brooks & Dunn, Reba McIntire, most any talented country singer.
In my opinion, talent is something most of the newer " artists" seriously lack. It seems to take a backseat to marketability.
If you like acoustical guitar, YouTube Sungha Jung,he is awesome.
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If you like acoustical guitar, YouTube Sungha Jung,he is awesome.
You should also look for Michael Hedges. Very unorthodox but so innovative and original. Too bad he died in a car wreck.
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Depends on the mood, season and weather :)
Pink Floyd, Vivaldi (4 seasons), Merle Haggard, Hank Williams Jr.. Lady Antebellum, ZZ Top.
Last week, after a decade or so I was listening "Made in Japan" by Deep Purple, wondered how I survived seventies listening to it on a daily basis. :) Looks like I'm not a very particular.
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Gosh, just looked at what's in the CD bin. Everything from old rock (Janis included, of course) to country and Willie to classical to opera and, of course, a couple of "Three Tenors" recordings.
Walt
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I grew up on country; Conway Twitty, The Highwaymen, The 'Possum, and the like. During my teenage years into my early 20's I was into that Heavy Metal stuff. Now I will listen to most anything except rap and hip-hop. Depending on my mood or activity I tend to listen to Blues or R & B. When I'm at home I gravitate to Opera or Opera Crossover. My one requirement these days is talent. Either they have to have good "pipes", a unique voice, or display exceptional instrumental talent. Otherwise I'm not interested. Natures melodies are always in order as well.
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Stickbow95
If you like Blues, and like a voice that's powerful, try listening to Matt Anderson. I stumbled across him on youtube and now find he moved to the same town we moved to 2 years ago. I haven't heard too many with the power he has. Watched a clip of him do a show where the sound system crashed. Didn't bother him, he just went ahead without it. Blew the crowd away.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0dKtiWTKaA
If it's Blues you like, you gotta watch all of this one below!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noYnK9KZXAA
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I've been thinking about this post and I think my true favorite music is what I hear at home. Peace and quite. The goats fussing at each other, the donkeys reminding me that its dinner time, a bee buzzing by, my two little nieces showing me every frog, cricket and everything else that's so interesting to them. That's the music I enjoy these days.
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In a related musical subject, I just read this article in the Kansas City Star about the resurgence in popularity of LPs. http://www.kansascity.com/2014/01/01/4724872/needles-and-spins-young-music.html (http://www.kansascity.com/2014/01/01/4724872/needles-and-spins-young-music.html)Kids are clamoring for our old rock albums and turntables. The article quotes a young man talking about the turntable he found in the family garage, "Mom had to show me how to use it." He probably has had to teach his Mom how to use some new electronic gizmo. (I speak from personal experience on this subject)
Last Christmas my husband had my old Pioneer turntable refurbished for me. Since then it's been fantastic finding interesting LPs at estate and garage sales. A lot of the albums I have bought, since then, fall into the categories of "I've heard of that!", "Everybody had this album", "I had this once!" , "This is unique", and "50cents!and it still has the shrink wrap on it!"
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i have an onkyo and a bose, they both play like a charm. there is a big market for turntables, and vintage equipment. one of my brother's looks for this stuff, refurbishes, cleans them up, gets them working and sells them on ebay. that and old radios. i have hundreds of LP's. i purchased a gizmo to convert the l/ps to digital, read the instructions and haven't started yet..... :D
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i purchased a gizmo to convert the l/ps to digital, read the instructions and haven't started yet..... :D
I got a turntable and cassette player with usb connections for Christmas a few years ago to digitize my LPs and cassettes, but that's still on my to do list. And I really need to get that done before the tapes fall apart.
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I have a couple of folks I enjoy from Canada: Gordon Lightfoot and Terry Kelly (A Pittance of Time), and then theres The Avett Brothers (February Seven), Garth Brooks, Jim Croce, Van Morrison, Andy Williams, and Alan Jackson. ;D
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I play the piano and often find myself playing Beatles music. One of my favorites is "Let It Be." Also like some of the newer Christian music and some light classical. My pickup radio is almost always on country music.
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i purchased a gizmo to convert the l/ps to digital, read the instructions and haven't started yet..... :D
Same here only I haven't even opened the box!
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My wife and I like to take in the older country acts that are still touring while they are still out there on the road. Most we see are at the casino or an old theater in Wichita Kansas. We have several relatives of Martina McBride living here in town. She came down and play a small show at the casino a theater of maybe 2000 seats Her uncle and I was good friends when he was living I was able to get good seats through her cousin and aunt. Her aunt is our neighbor and cousin who works for us. It was one of the best shows I have been to. She played resquest from the audience and think she had as much fun as we did. We always are able to get down and close to the stage at the smaller venues
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My wife and I like to take in the older country acts that are still touring while they are still out there on the road. Most we see are at the casino or an old theater in Wichita Kansas.
Catch them while you can! They slip away so fast.
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what a day just picked up my Gordon Lightfoot presale tickets 10 rows back from stage. Didn't even know he was still touring. Should be a good show
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I like all sorts of music, but my preference is classics. When it comes to choosing my favorite composer, Mozart wins, hands down.
If you've got some time to spare, try this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iujEGfBbmA
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Hows this for musical taste. going to Gordon Lightfoot in March. Then its off to Alice Cooper Motley Crue in May (Daughter bought tickets for the wife and I's 25th wedding anniversary). For June we have tickets for Don Williams. folk hard rock and then some old country
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Oh Wow! That would be a blast from the past to see those concerts, I am truly envious. Congrats on your 25th!
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I noticed this t-shirt while reading a news article the other day. It speaks volumes!
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And ya know what Slow? There will never be a time when music was as ever better than the 60s and 70s. My son says I still have my head stuck in the 70's. I will never argue that ;) 8)
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And ya know what Slow? There will never be a time when music was as ever better than the 60s and 70s. My son says I still have my head stuck in the 70's. I will never argue that ;) 8)
I agree! I think about that every time I see my lava lamps. 8)
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Awwwe Yeeees, the beloved lava lamps.. such good memories. I didn't have a lava lamp but I had a black light. So Cool!
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If you've seen more than a few of my YouTube videos you'd know firsthand that my musical taste varies quite considerably!
I like music that sounds good & feels good & a lot of the same artists I see mentioned I've listened to at one time or another & appreciated
My Dad used to work in the music business booking concerts for Beaver Productions, until I reached my 13th year, that was 1977
I remember hitting the bongos as a child on stage while BB King sang the blues, Charlie Daniels was a big warm
Bear of a man back then who I still think is one of the nicest human beings I've ever met to this day
I grew up Listening to Linda Rondstadt, Marshal Tucker, Kenny Loggins, Bob Seager, etc...
My Dad was close with Ted Nugent & the two couldn't have been on more opposite ends of the spectrum, still are, Lol, can you say "Wango Tango?" :)
Like many young teenagers back then I was head over heels in love with Stevie Nicks & I was able to meet her & spend a little time with the band backstage, oh the memories!
Today, as I stated earlier my music tastes vary greatly & I'm not opposed to any genre that has a catchy tune, or a good beat but I also like the slow stuff as well which includes country music, particularly so when I'm out in the country, it just feels right
Hate to say it but there's a lot of trashy music out today, stuff put out merely for the sake of making a whole lot of money, over commercialized drivel
When I was growing up it seems there were true musical artists at every turn who were in it for the right reasons, singing from their hearts & souls, with passion!
They're still artists who sing from the heart & stay true to their roots but it seems they are becoming harder & harder to find but anyhoo, enough rambling :)
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Hey JP- what an incredible experience for your growing years.
I could write a book on how music has changed in the last 30 years. It took a dive down hill for quite awhile. Now tho, in todays music on the radio stations, I'm hearing some sound and solid music with incredible voices. Granted it's all back up with technical sounds. But it's getting better.
Listen to this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y_KJAg8bHI
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The interesting thing about Avici, is that he is actually just a DJ. He does no singing himself, or to the best of my knowledge even plays an instrument, but he mixes everything he can get his hands on to create his work. I like some of it myself.
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Ya, been reading a bit more about him. Extraordinary talent with sound.
I can be rolling down the highway, turn this song up to warp 4, and damage my ears just a little more.
I'm hearing some spledid music from One Republic as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT_nvWreIhg