While we're on the subject of music

I guess I started with metal

David LaPell said:
I find now that I can pass up some of the heavier stuff and love to listen to bands like the Traveling Wilburys, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Dire Straits and the like. Don't get me wrong, I still love to listen to Ted Nugent, The Angels, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin and some of the harder bands, but I think I have started to slow down a bit. I hope it doesn't continue or when I am in my 80's in the home these young nurses aren't going to know what the heck will be blaring out of whatever devices we have then.
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If Deep Purple's 'Machine Head' can really be called metal that is. But I've never liked 'Heavy' metal and have always listened to bands like Heartbreakers, Wilburys, Dire Straits, Jethro Tull, Yes, Stones, R.E.M., Led Zepplin is not a heavy metal bad either, ELP, Floyd, The Who, (OLD) Queen, Cream, Dylan, Simon/Garfunkel, Doors, Janice Joplin, Elton John, Creedence Clearwater, Plastic Ono Band, George Harrison, The Eagles (NOT Hotel California), ELO, of course the Beatles, Santana and anybody else I left out.
 
I grew up during WW2 so my tastes go back to that era. Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey. etc. Later on in the '50's I enjoyed country. Then came the Kingston Trio & folk. The Beatles later on. Dixieland in between. Gosh, I guess I just like music.
 
MaximumLawman said:
They stopped playing "good" music on the radio about the time that the visual became as important and even MORE important than the sound. Yes...we have devolved, and our tastes have been manipulated to the point to where it's more important what a band or musician LOOKS like than what they SOUND like! Don't believe me? Think Janis Joplin would be able to make it past the neighborhood bar today?

If you want to hear good music, you have to look (or listen) beyond the so-called performers who are "somebody" because of who they're related to or what they look like or what production machine is behind them, and actually seek out good music and listen. You won't find it on the radio. Perfect example: Tower of Power. I bet most of you can't name one TOP tune. But I bet you can name a few Chicago tunes. TOP is like Chicago with soul and with balls. But you don't hear them on the radio. AND...they've been around and touring for over 40 years!
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I LUVS me some Tower!!!
Garabaldi's drumming was just diseased back in the day. He used to say, "If you can find beat 1, I'm not doin' my job." :D

ETA - Inspite of being 6 months away from 45 years as a musician, I don't listen to a whole lot of music anymore. It's because unless it's either an oldie that I've heard all of my life or something really harmonically complex, I can't keep from writing it out in my mind as I'm hearing it. I guess it's from working in the studios for so long where you have to learn stuff quick because it's on somebody else's dime. And no matter what key the piece is actually in, in my head I automatically write it out in either "A" or "C". Makes me nuts because I can't turn it off.
 
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MaximumLawman said:
They stopped playing "good" music on the radio about the time that the visual became as important and even MORE important than the sound. Yes...we have devolved, and our tastes have been manipulated to the point to where it's more important what a band or musician LOOKS like than what they SOUND like! Don't believe me? Think Janis Joplin would be able to make it past the neighborhood bar today?

If you want to hear good music, you have to look (or listen) beyond the so-called performers who are "somebody" because of who they're related to or what they look like or what production machine is behind them, and actually seek out good music and listen. You won't find it on the radio. Perfect example: Tower of Power. I bet most of you can't name one TOP tune. But I bet you can name a few Chicago tunes. TOP is like Chicago with soul and with balls. But you don't hear them on the radio. AND...they've been around and touring for over 40 years!
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I'll take that bet! I've been a BIG fan of Tower Of Power since the early seventies, & I think your point is dead on. Chicago always sounded bland & insipid compared to TOP, to me.:cool:
 
Well, I'm 60 and the other day I had Big Brother and the Holding Co. playing "I need a Man to Love" so loud that folks at the stop light were staring. The best music just got started in '64.
 
wbraswell said:
Well, I'm 60 and the other day I had Big Brother and the Holding Co. playing "I need a Man to Love" so loud that folks at the stop light were staring. The best music just got started in '64.
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If I'm listening to classical in my car I "conduct" without a baton, Kurt Masur style. If it's jazz, blues, rock or bluegrass, I'm hitting the back beat on the steering wheel and doing an arthritic, senile, short-stroke version of head-banging.

And it finally occurred to me that people watching this grey-headed, white-bearded geezer think I have Parkinson's disease or a spastic condition.

Hurt my feelings, I can tell you. But I won't stop doing it. They know the drill if they can't take a joke. ;)
 
I'll take that bet! I've been a BIG fan of Tower Of Power since the early seventies, & I think your point is dead on. Chicago always sounded bland & insipid compared to TOP, to me.
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I was lucky enough to get to a meet and greet with the band before a show in Detroit a few years ago. I told DG: "Wow, I always thought you had 3 arms....one for grace notes...one for accents...and the other one just to play randomly somewhere other than 2 and 4...." He said: "Gee, thanks...I think...."
 
Some I like, other not so much. Back in high school, I was never much of a Metallica fan. I like some of their more recent stuff though - I'm told it has mellowed a bit. I like mid to late 80's Def Leppard, AC/DC, and a few others. The real extreme head-banger stuff is just noise though.

I actually haven't bought a CD in a long time. The sound engineers way overdo the digital processing and have compressed the dynamic range out of everything to make it louder. They sound terrible now.
 
MaximumLawman said:
I was lucky enough to get to a meet and greet with the band before a show in Detroit a few years ago. I told DG: "Wow, I always thought you had 3 arms....one for grace notes...one for accents...and the other one just to play randomly somewhere other than 2 and 4...." He said: "Gee, thanks...I think...."
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What a cool thing to say to one of the greatest drummers that has ever lived! Since I was a bass player in a past life, If I were to get the chance to meet Francis Rocco Prestia, I don't know if I would be able to say anything to him without embarrassing myself. He's been my hero since I first heard TOP; he totally changed my concept of bass.:cool:
 
Not to much mention of CCR. John Fogarty was the best. Also The Doobie Brothers are a favorite
 
PA Reb said:
I'm almost 60 now and still consider Guns and Roses to be one of the greatest true hard rock n roll bands of all time. Its a shame they couldn't act their ages, stop arguing like little girls and continue to record.
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G&R... proof that it actually IS possible to have an ego too big for Rock & Roll....
 
Being a bit of an audioholic and traveler of several forums, every time I see music threads on firearms related sites I can't help but be reminded of just how many music related sites forbid firearm related threads.

I'm in my mid 50's and enjoyed a listen to Black Sabbath's Paranoid, Chicago's 7, Foreigner's 1st, a couple of Bob Seger's offerings, Edie Brickell, Alison Krauss, Blackfoot, Harry Chapin, and more, all just last night.

To say my taste vary is an understatement. During my work day I listen to a local sun up to sun down classic country a.m. station. WKNG, King Country.

Classic country on a factory A.M. car radio and it sounds like it did when I was a kid.

I come home to flac files streaming through a pair of Magnepan 1.7 quasi ribbons and Jamo 650 powered subs. Many of the older recordings sound much better now through this system. Several however were never meant to be heard in such detail. My system is quite revealing and definitely unforgiving to poor source material.

Someone mentioned Deep Purple's Machine Head album in an earlier post. Blues rock is my profile for it. Yes, I profile music! It has stood the test of time very well. Just a great album!

Hail Hail Rock N Roll! The same for electric blues, classic country, the Motown sound, smooth jazz, etc.

Calling "rap" music is just, well it ain't music to my ears. It qualifies as sound, noise, etc, but music? Not for me.
 
What a cool thing to say to one of the greatest drummers that has ever lived! Since I was a bass player in a past life, If I were to get the chance to meet Francis Rocco Prestia, I don't know if I would be able to say anything to him without embarrassing myself. He's been my hero since I first heard TOP; he totally changed my concept of bass.
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Haa haaa, you might not get that far with Rocco. He is one...unique...dude. I tried to talk to him at the meet and greet but he wasn't very conversational to say the least. I guess that can be expected when your job since you were 17 years old has been TOP and not much else, though he was gracious enough to sign a drum head for me along with the rest of the band. I'm sure they have rabid fans like me bugging them all the time. I think the nicest guy out of all of them that I've talked to over the years would have to be Tom Politzer. Just a nice guy and a class act. He and Emilio were both S/E Michigan-born guys. Maybe that's why he's so cool.
 
I'm 68 grew up in Pa. listening to Country on the Philco. Got to following a local band in the late 80's early 90's when Country really took off. Got to meet a lot of artists & still stay in touch through email. If it ain't Country it ain't on my radio. LOL

BW
 
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