Music!

[pbwalker]

Everyone loves music right? Well, who listens to what? I pretty much listen to everything. Country, Rock, Folk, *some* Hip Hop, and my personal favorite, Jazz.

Grant Green, Freddie Hubbard, Jimmy Smith, Calexico, Scars on Broadway, Ween, Weezer, Queens of the Stone Age, Kyuss, etc...

[Daltex1]

I like the "old" Heavy Metal, The "outlaw" country( Hank Jr, Waylon, Willie,Johnny Cash) Love Metallica! AND CAN NOT STAND RAP MUSIC(Although Easy E is cool) Showing my age AARRRGHHH

[KBCraig]

My iTunes collection (which isn't all my music, just what I have purchased and/or ripped to digital), is currently 8.35 GB, which would play for 4.5 days without repeating.

I can't begin to tell you how eclectic the collection is. Let me just say that very little of it was on the pop charts. I have little faith in the popular, and tend to avoid it.

[agbullet2k1]

I was introduced to a bunch of stuff from around the country in college. A lot of my friends had collections of their local favorites, and eventually my personal collection grew to over 50GB. Then I got married and added her collection as well. As it stands now, we have over 75GB worth of almost every genre and style you could imagine, from big names down to local bar musicians. I've never relied on the radio or TV to tell me what to like, so it's refreshing to just put iTunes on shuffle and hear Styx followed by Arlo Guthrie followed by Eagles followed by the theme to E.T.

[pbwalker]

Funny y'all mention the digital collection. I still have the very first mp3 I downloaded from "Abe's MP3 Finder" back in 1999 and through the years have continued to download music and am now at 263GB. I haven't figured out how long that plays for (without repeat)

[jimlongley]

I was just trying to figure out how to convert my vinyl to GB, mathematically that is. What sampling rate, how many bits deep, etc.

Suffice it to say that I have Woodie Guthrie, the Hanks (country fans will understand), Marian McPartland (with and without Jimmy), Huddie Ledbetter, Bach, Brahms, and the others, along with the modern Outlaw Country, Texan Americana, and much much more.

One of these days I'm going to hook up my turntable to my computer and transcribe some of that stuff.

[KBCraig]

Suffice it to say that I have Woodie Guthrie, the Hanks (country fans will understand), Marian McPartland (with and without Jimmy), Huddie Ledbetter, Bach, Brahms, and the others, along with the modern Outlaw Country, Texan Americana, and much much more.

Heh. Your collection sounds as broad as mine.

Marian McPartland is an amazing old bird. It's hard to imagine that not only is this the 30th anniversary year of Piano Jazz, but she's 90!

Lead Belly is an ArkLaTex classic. Great musician, but hardly a moral role model.

I'm not much for Brahms, but I do like (J.S.) Bach. The first classical album I ever bought was Yo-yo Ma's J.S. Bach: The unaccompanied cello suites. I still have the LP in its carefully-sliced-open plastic wrap, from CBS Masterworks, c.1985.

Just to keep it on topic for Texas, I have lots of Jerry Jeff Walker and Stevie Ray Vaughn. JJW is practically the patron saint for my fraternity chapter... in 1982, we all had ¡Viva Terlingua! memorized. Greatest two-stepping album ever.

Jimmy Lee Vaughn (actively campaigned for, and opened for, Ron Paul). Nothing wrong with some good Marcia Ball boogie-woogie, Los Lonely Boys, or Kumbia Kings, either. Need we mention Selena?

[dukesean]

I listen to all sorts of music; my tastes are all over the place. A little atypical for your normal 26-year-old:

Earth, Wind, and Fire
Parliment and Funkadelic
Tower of Power
Barry White
Michael Jackson
Metallica
Stone Temple Pilots
Ben Folds Five
Storyhill (highly recommended)
Tupac
Jurrasic 5
Pharrell Williams
Jamiroquai
Dave Matthews Band
Guns N Roses
Dream Theater
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Smashing Pumpkins
Van Halen
The Cure
The Clash

Just to name a few of my favorites.

Oh yea and Hannah Montana





Just kidding about the last one

[Sangiovese]

I've actually been accused of having multiple personality disorder at the checkout counter in a record store :)

I mostly listen to blues, alternative, classic rock, jazz, and heavy metal... but I own (and listen to) everything from opera to Scottish punk.

[KBCraig]

It kind of freaked out the teenagers when they discovered I'd been listening to the Evanscence debut CD for a couple of months before they'd even heard of the band.

I have every Enigma album.
Love most of Rush, but especially Moving Pictures.
Andrea Bocelli.
Sarah Brightman (especially La Luna).
Sarah McLachlan.
Jewel.
Asleep At The Wheel.
Gary P. Nunn.
Santana.
Riders In The Sky.
Oscar Peterson.
Mark O'Connor (the man can play anything!)
Django Rheinhardt.
Marc Anthony (makes me stand up and sing along to Precioso, and I'm not even Puerto Rican).
Lyle Lovett.
Mannheim Steamroller.
Loreena McKennitt.
Junior Brown.
Junior.
U2.
The Highwaymen.
The Traveling Wilburys.

Okay, that's enough random stuff I love, so I'll close with the obvious:
Willie Nelson.
Johnny Cash.

[Owens]

Prefer old (60-70's) country, but also listen to classic, celtic, gospel quartet, instrumental (Acoustic Alchemy), German polka, pipes & drums, big band. I also enjoy barbershop quartet and singing it too!

[DoubleJ]

my favorite bands none of you have heard of (cause I'm soooooo unique, just like everyone else... )

American Head Charge
MushRoomHead
SlipKnot
and of course NIN.

but, I did useta play Trumpet, way back in the day, and listened to a lot of Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie (sp?), and later Stan Kenton et al.

[Rugrash]

Everyone loves music right? Well, who listens to what? I pretty much listen to everything. Country, Rock, Folk, *some* Hip Hop, and my personal favorite, Jazz.

Grant Green, Freddie Hubbard, Jimmy Smith, Calexico, Scars on Broadway, Ween, Weezer, Queens of the Stone Age, Kyuss, etc...

Yes to QUOTSA and Kyuss!!
I also listen to:
Nebula
Fu Manchu
Hermano
Eagles of Death Metal
The Melvins
The Hidden Hand
Slo Burn
Unida
Spirit Caravan
Dwarves
Mondo Generator
High on Fire
Sleep
The Sword
Mudhoney
Hamilton Loomis (since he's my baby bro)
etc
etc
I could go on and on!!

Rug

[jimlongley]

Marian McPartland is an amazing old bird. It's hard to imagine that not only is this the 30th anniversary year of Piano Jazz, but she's 90!

A bunch of years ago I put my late wife through college, as a music major at the State University of New York, and she stayed associated with the music department on an "ad hoc" basis, she was a concert level classical pianist, easily justifying my gift to her of a Yamaha C5A Conservatory Grand Piano, and coached and mentored several students through the years.

This association, both as a student and later, led to some very interesting social sitations for me as a tag along. There was meeting and having dinner with Victor Borge at Saratoga. Having dinner with Jack Blanchard and Misty Morgan at the Van Dyke in Schenectady, NY, and eventually taking them back to our home where we, including several music department members, jammed until dawn, and Misty declared my wife's piano one of the best touches she ever played, and Misty is quite an accomplished pianist herself.

But the crowning one, out of many others, was attending a jazz seminar sponsored by the department and conducted by Marian McPartland, and then a few days later seeing her perform at the Van Dyke, where we invited her back to our home and she graciously accepted. We didn't jam all night this time, mostly we had dueling piano recitals between Marian, my wife, and a couple of other members of the department, what a blast!

Also amazing about Marian is the arthritis in her hands, when relaxed her hands look like claws and she merely touches hands when solicited to shake. You have to wonder how much pain she is in all the time when you see those hands. And then she sits down at the piano and the most beautiful music flows out of them.

I have always been chagrined that I didn't turn on the fancy stereo tape recorder sitting in my ham station in the next room.

I sold that piano a few months after my wife passed away, I couldn't play more than a barroom boogie on it, and nobody else in my family qualified, but I still miss it and those days a little, at least I have some pleasant memories.

[SCone]

J R Cash to Ted Nugent, ZZ Top to George Jones, lately I've been stuck in a Guy Clark mode.