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Post by Admin on Jul 27, 2013 10:00:29 GMT
Just what it says - what kind of music do you like?
Here's a couple of my favourites:
As you can see, I like the rock and metal stuff, but lots of other stuff besides.
So what sort of music floats your boat?
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Post by JP5 on Jul 27, 2013 17:43:57 GMT
None of that head-bangng stuff for me!! I didn't even care for it when I was young. I love the oldies;
----the Eagles and their classic album, "Hell Freezes over." ----Willie Nelson ----Elvis Presley ----Buddy Holly ---Three Dog Night
I also like smooth jazz.
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Post by Daisy on Jul 28, 2013 12:26:47 GMT
I like all kinds of music. I will listen to all kinds of music..evidence below. George Strait Jimmy C. Newman The Eagles Journey Abba Roger Whittaker Andre Rieu Brandi Carlile Waylon Jennings Billy Joel
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Post by cenydd on Aug 5, 2013 21:14:40 GMT
I like a bit of jazz, but it's more this kind of thing:
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Post by JP5 on Aug 5, 2013 21:23:40 GMT
I like a bit of jazz, but it's more this kind of thing: oh me too. I love Louis Armstrong....and all the jazz artists from that era. GREAT stuff.
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Post by cenydd on Aug 6, 2013 9:11:47 GMT
I've been listening to 'The Armed Man: A Mass For Peace' by Karl Jenkins this morning: He's a local (and well known) musician and composer, and it's a great piece of music - alot less 'modern' than some of the stuff I've heard by him previously (I'm not generally a fan of 'modern' 'classical' music), and dedicated to the victims of the Kosovo crisis.
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Post by Oddquine on Aug 14, 2013 19:49:17 GMT
I am the person compilation albums were invented to satisfy, I'm afraid
I don't like any singer/band etc enough to buy whole albums..even a Greatest Hits one.
I could probably manage to come up with eight Desert Island Discs...but would be hard pushed to pick one to save from the waves.......unless it was to be this one.........the song.........not necessarily the Frankie Miller version...though that would be acceptable.
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Post by ShivaTD on Aug 15, 2013 13:24:35 GMT
Having spent my teenage years in a rock and roll band during the late 1960's I gravitated to the blues that rock and roll was founded upon. Not just the rock and roll blues but also the original artists that inspired and were often covered by major rock and roll groups like Cream and Led Zeppelin. To exemplify this I would use perhaps the most covered blues number of all time which is Sweet Home Chicago written by Robert Johnson, perhaps the most iconic of the original blues artists, and re-recorded by almost everyone.
This song is so well known in rock that I would wager with any random selection of rock guitarists the one song then could play together without rehearsal is Sweet Home Chicago. Here's one of Old Slowhand's (Eric Clapton's) renditions.
With that said my music interests really have no boundries. From Mozart to Billy Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Chic Corea to AC/DC and the B-52's. There really are no limits at all. I love all music that is well composed and presented by the artists.
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Post by ShivaTD on Aug 15, 2013 13:47:12 GMT
I could literally forget all about politics and do nothing but post thousands of songs to this thread. Most would be classic rock but I will avoid that temptation and instead focus on more unusual music that I truly appreciate. The following was the closing soundtrack for the movie Finding Forrester and it is worth sharing and listening to because of it's inspirational value.
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Post by ShivaTD on Aug 15, 2013 15:54:42 GMT
Far from the packed clubs and concert halls where rock music vibrates our souls there are the sounds of folk music that touch another part of our being. None is better than Joni Mitchell and this song about another musician she encountered on a street corner.
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Post by ShivaTD on Aug 15, 2013 16:12:50 GMT
In the 1970's I was fortunate to see Al DiMeola when he toured with Chic Corea as a part of the Return to Forever group. He is unquestionably the most articulate guitar player I've ever heard with each note being perfect and distinct. I would share this arrangement that exemplifies his perfection and virtuosity on guitar.
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Post by ShivaTD on Aug 15, 2013 17:36:13 GMT
As a (former) musician in a group sometimes its not about the group but instead those that contribute to the group's sound and recordings and I've always been a fan of the Memphis Horns that were the studio musicians for Stax Records that played on virtually all Stax Records recording with groups like U2, the Doobie Brothers, numerous R&B bands, Elvis Presley and others.
Founded around Wayne Jackson on trumpet and Andrew Love on tenor saxophone they added special depth to every recording they worked on. In the 1980's they became an integral part of Robert Cray's group and here is a funky selection from that group.
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Post by ShivaTD on Aug 15, 2013 18:23:11 GMT
Sometimes I find myself focused on one of the groups members that tends to get lostt in the background. This is the case with Danny Seraphine that was a founding member (drummer) of the Chicago Transit Authority (that later became just Chicago because of legal actions by the city of Chicago). I was fortunate to see Seraphine with C.T.A. in January 1970 at the Fillmore West in San Francisco and was totally mezmerized by his drumwork that was seem to be lost in the background but their contribution is spectacular.
The C.T.A. album was really the only rock album by the group that transitioned into jazz and amazingly they eventually fired Seraphine. He subsequentely formed the California Transit Authority (he was living in LA) but it never took off. Chicago also faded in popularity with their transition to jazz. Personally I don't believe they could compete with the outstanding jazz-rock groups of the time.
Here are two selections where Seraphine shines especially in the second half of each track.
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Post by cenydd on Aug 15, 2013 18:33:13 GMT
Far from the packed clubs and concert halls where rock music vibrates our souls there are the sounds of folk music that touch another part of our being. None is better than Joni Mitchell and this song about another musician she encountered on a street corner.
'Folk' is an interesting term musically, because by definition in means different things in different places. Some of the US folk is fantastic, of course, but to me the term invokes things more like this: There's also a group of heavy metal bands (often Scandinavian) who are incorporating their local folk influences into their music, for example:
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Post by ShivaTD on Aug 15, 2013 19:06:38 GMT
Far from the packed clubs and concert halls where rock music vibrates our souls there are the sounds of folk music that touch another part of our being. None is better than Joni Mitchell and this song about another musician she encountered on a street corner. 'Folk' is an interesting term musically, because by definition in means different things in different places. Obviously true and its certainly different based upon different nations and cultures. From my perspective it embodies personal experiences expressed musically in a simple manner overwhemingly on accustic instruments that one person can play (althought there are a lot duets and groups that perform folk music).
Often traditional new traditional folk music is written all of the time. At one time Woody Guthery was "contemporary" but now many of his songs today are considered traditional.
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