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I guess I must be getting older now, because my tastes have surely changed over the years. I remember as a teen growing up with Guns N Roses and some really heavy metal bands, but I think over the years I have progressed and gotten more into deeper songs and some mellower sounds now that I am in my thirties. 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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Dude, my general listening tastes have mellowed. I used to listen to Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Metallica,etc and I still love that stuff but it's not all I listen to anymore. It sure is great to listen to at the gym though!
 
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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.
 
David LaPell said:
I guess I must be getting older now, because my tastes have surely changed over the years. I remember as a teen growing up with Guns N Roses and some really heavy metal bands, but I think over the years I have progressed and gotten more into deeper songs and some mellower sounds now that I am in my thirties. 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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Part of it may be that your listening level has to be lowered now do to kids, wifey, neighbors, etc. The Traveling Wilburys at 110db is just wrong but not for Zakk Wylde :cool:.
 
who are these bands if which you speak? good music ended in the mid 60's.
 
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I never really followed the crowd as I only listen to what I want. I personally don't care for Lepplin, Floyd, The Who, Beattles (although I do like some songs), Rush, etc. I guess I don't care for the British invasion.
 
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I never really followed the crowd as I only listen to what I want. I personally don't care for Lepplin, Floyd, The Who, Beattles (although I do like some songs), Rush, etc. I guess I don't care for the British invasion.
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Actually, Rush is a Canadian band, & they RULE! Tom Sawyer played through a excellent stereo at high volume...it doesn't get a lot better, to me. I don't always go for the stuff that needs to be played loud;there's a lot of jazz & smooth jazz I like, but I still like my rock & roll! I never did understand why people liked G & R though, I thought they were poseurs, myself. But to each his own!:cool:
 
I'm 75, going on 76. I listen to and enjoy all kinds of stuff: some G&R (I think Slash is one hell of a guitarist), Aerosmith, AC/DC, My Morning Jacket, The Band, the Drive-By Truckers, John Prine, the Wilburys, classical, blues, jazz, bluegrass, real country, and on and on. I've never seen the point in limiting myself in what I can enjoy. It's good stuff or it isn't.

On the other hand, the Lawrence Welk school (and Yanni and John Tesh and Kenny G) pretty much bore my buns off.
 
I am on the downward slide to 50 and I still crank the hard stuff on occasion but I have gotten into some mellower stuff. Listen to anything from Motorhead and Judas Priest to Stevie Ray Vaughn and a lot more of the 80s classic kind of stuff. Guns and Roses were a victim of their own success. See it all the time in bands that get to big to fast. One members ego gets out of control, then they try to take over and it just causes internal feuds that eventually destroy the band. Not a big fan of the hair metal of the late 80's like GnR, Poison, and Motley Crue.
 
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"older" and "grew up listening to G n R"?

Young puppy
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I'll second that. When I was a wee lad I learned to enjoy what my Mom and Dad listened to. As a result to this day I still enjoy listening to Benny Goodman and Glen Miller. Once I got to college it was Deep Purple, Uriah Heep, and the Who. Now that I've gained a few years I've developed a taste for Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, and Tchaikovsky. Also have become rather fond of Patsy Cline, such a shame that such a lovely voice was lost so young.
 
Since I've been on disability I find that I'm just mellowing altogether. I'm gaining an appreciation for mellow R&B. I also like the music that started in the top 40 with Casey Kasem, went to classic rock then went to the oldies station.
At physical therapy I like the headbangin' stuff.
 
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!
 
I guess I am the oldie here.

I grew up listeing to the Grand Ole Opry on a battery radio in the pre-electric days.

Read by a kersene lamp and we really progressed when we got an Alladin Lamp...anyone else here remember them?

Remember when Ernest Tubb brought Billy Byrd and the first electric guitar to the Opry. It was all acoustic until then. He was the pioneer.

Always liked Eddy Arnold, Roy Acuff, Porter Wagoner, Carl Smith, Patsy Cline, all of the opry staff performers.

Went to the original Jimmy Rodgers Day in Meridian, MS and nearly the Opry was there...they literally owned the town.

Never cared for the Beatles and the Hard Rock.

Guess I am just a country boy at heart. Really like the old fashioned songs from the heart and not the modern yell and play as loud as you can stuff.

However, I realize that like our country music tastes have changed.

Progress is always painful....but...necessary.
 
I listened to the big band stuff from WWII that my dad listened to and his country western. MY music was early rock and roll, music of the sixties, seventies and eighties. I have found an appreciation of jazz and blues. At this point in my life I listen to what I like
 
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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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