I just spent twenty minutes writing a post about all of our music interests....

[bird]

I can't believe it...  I just included every name of every group and artist anyone has mentioned in my "music post."  I spent another bit of time trying to "categorize each music genre, type, ect."
Now, I'm starting all over again....  which is pathetic, because I don't think too many persons give a shit about this. It doesn't have anything to do with tools. However, I'm in my shop all day, and I like to listen to music. So, I'm going to start all over again.
folk
bluegrass
pop country
older twang country
folk
oldies
big band
rock and roll (before 1965)
country
pop
rap
classical
opera
musicals
celtic
cajun
reggae
heavey metal
ragtime
blues
jazz
swing
r and b
doo wop
gospel
sould
funk
funk
disco
techno
hip hop
ect........
Wow, that's a lot of genres of music, and I'm sure I've left plenty out.

Here's the names I remember from previous posts:
Moody Blues, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Joe Bonamassa, dmitri shostakovic, eric clapton, robert johnson, albert king, ray charles, john prine, iris dement, vivaldi, holst, mannheim steamroller , rachmaninoff, jimi, gordon lightfoot, band of gypsies, .....  and, yes, I misspelled most of them! It's rather difficult to put musicians into a specific place.... but, here's my rough copy.

I'm in love with folk music, perhaps more then any other form of music:
John Prine, Iris, John Gorka, Eddie From Ohio, Lucy Kaplansky, Christine Kane,Bob Schneider, Ryan Shupe and the Rubberband, Tracy Chapman, Gordon Lightfoot, Bob Dylan (the line between folk music and other types of music is not a line I'm informed about) ,  there are so many others....

Bluegrass-
Osborne Brothers, Stanley brothers, Doc Watson, Sam Bush, Yonder Mountain String Band, Peter Rowan (sometimes),  Old and in way, early Ricky Scaggs, Dolly Parton, South Austin Jug band, The Steeldrivers, Bill Monroe, Del Mcoury Band, Leftover salmon, john cowan, Bela Fleck, ect. 

[Branson]

I like Koto music, too, and the Viet-Namese dan trang. 

Don't forget Debussy -- a favorite for quiet times -- or Gershwin!!

I'm the only person I know who has a recording of Australian Aborigine music.

[Papaw]

I may have the only cassettes of late 60s popular tunes of Tanzania! All in Swahili!

[scottg]

Great music is where you find it!
 
  A thousand years ago, I was in the tiny Oakland zoo.
It wasn't a big zoo, but then my kids were small and bored and needed a distraction.
 So, we're making the tour and get to the gem of the zoo. A large circular compound with a pair of full sized gorillas. Mom n pop.   
 Well for some reason I smacked the handrail. Mom gorilla smacked a vertical steel wall with a big sound to it, back in echo.
 I did it again.
 She was onto me like the skin on a peach.

   I found something better I could hit that wouldn't hurt my hands so bad, and we started.
 I have no idea what she was thinking, but I was playing the song just before Soul Sacrifice on Santana's first record. One of the songs from Woodstock as well.  I think it was originally a traditional Polynesian drum song, and the Santana group just made a melody for it.  No melody for us though, straight drums like I heard the young kids in Hawaii playing one time.

  She was better than me! Keith Moon was still alive then, but if it was later, she could have gone on tour with the Who! A fierce raging drummer. Right on time and in between syncopation too. 
 The girl was smokin' red hot! Pushing me on like a kid in a doll buggy, harder and higher to a crashing crescendo like you couldn't believe.     

   When it was over the group of onlookers we had attracted broke out in loud applause.
They threw every peanut they had between them, down to her.

      I didn't get any.




Watching,......... and waiting
 For a friend to play with
Why have I been alone
  So long
         yours Scott

[Dustin21]

creed,disturbed,slipknot,theory of a deadman, buck cherry,breaking benjamin  all good bands if you into hard rock/metal :)

[keykeeper]

Metallica (Old stuff), Megadeath, Ozzy Osbourne, Alice Cooper, Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, The Band, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Yngwie Malmsteen, Cinderella, Joe Cocker, Pantera, Pearl Jam, Louis Armstrong, Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, Anthrax, Rammstein, Seven Mary Three, Carl Orff, Anything from the Woodstock era, Etc. Etc.

It's all good.

Except most all of that rap crap, unless it's gangsta stuff like Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, etc.

Don't do disco, either. I'm too fat to dance like that....

I even listen to bluegrass on occasion.

[m_fumich]

You have funk and folk listed twice. At least that's the way it looks on my phone.

[bird]

I love it that persons have different "takes and views" about music. Of course, as you know, you could throw me into a pit of classical, heavy metal, rock, bluegrass, folk, ect.     and I'd be beyond happy.  I think someone said they played the drums???  My brother played the drums for a long time. I think persons have the misconception that drums require someone with a stick who is angry enough to bang it on a drum. 
        Well, for any musicians around, we know that's not true. I've said before that I used to play the alto and baritone sax, guitar, fiddle, and piano.  The piano is what I play every day.  I walk past that piano every day, and usually sit down and play for at least five minutes..... maybe five hours.   
      But, I think it's such a great thing that a lot of us are interested in music. 
      I will continue to look forward to musicians, and persons that love music.   
cheers,
bird

[dimwittedmoose51]

Favorite Drummer?  That would be Jeff Hamilton, who backs up Diana Krall on tour.  Billy Cobham was good, but not sure he's still around.  Bonamassa's tandem drummers are really good too.

Don't get me started on music.....Larry Carlton, George Benson, Lee Rittenour, Anthony Wilson, Eva Cassidy(RIP), Donald Fagen, Karla Bonoff, Manhattan Transfer, Al Jarreau, Phoebe Snow(RIP), Jimmy Webb, The Fabulous Flippers(60's midwest blue-eyed soul/show band), Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Mark Knopfler, Emy Lou Harris, Diana Krall, ....quitting while I still can...


DM&FS