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I love music. I was raised on old country, Hank Williams Sr, Patsy Cline, etc. 50s doowop. I still like bluegrass, and folk music. I know all the 60s and 70s radio oldies by heart. By the 80s I was into the hard stuff, headbangin’ and big hair men. Can’t stand much of the other 80s stuff, too “pop” for me.
In the 90s my teenagers were into grunge, the Seattle sound, some punk. I followed suit. By the 2000s I got into rap. It was the last holdout for me, as I didn’t like the violence and misogyny. Still don’t care for mellow R&B much, but some hiphop is pretty good.
My grandkids have me listening to They Might be Giants and Veggie Tales. But I also like artists that I wouldn’t let my grandkids listen to, like Dead Milkmen, Tenacious D, and Bloodhound Gang. I tend to listen to 101.5 for my main radio fix.
I like lyrics (which probably explains the rap) more than anything. Good songwriters who have unique voices make my day. I love Bare Naked Ladies, Ed Bruce, Dixie Chicks, Steve Earle, Eminem, John Hiatt, Indigo Girls, Rainmakers, Paul Simon, Uncle Kracker, Warren Zevon.
But I also love me some guitar. Stevie Ray Vaughan was my hero. Santana, Jimmy Page, Jeff Healey, Eddie Van Halen and Eric Clapton.
My favorite albums? Too numerous for a real list, but here are a few:
Alan Parsons Project “Tales of Mystery and Imagination” 1976
Black Sabbath “Heaven and Hell” 1980
Chubby Checker “The Change has Come” 1982
Tim Curry “Read My Lips” 1978
Elton John “Captain Fantastic” 1975 & “The Captain and the Kid” 2006
Foo Fighters “In Your Honor” 2005
Green Day “American Idiot” 2004
Hooters “Nervous Night” 1985
Kid Rock “Rock n Roll Jesus” 2007
John Prine “Bruised Orange” 1978
Rail “Arrival” 1982
Rush “Fly by Night” 1975 & “A Farewell to Kings” 1977
Steppenwolf “Slow Flux” 1974
Tom Waits “Small Change” 1976 “Mule Variations” 1999
So, what are your musical tastes? I have room for more songs, so feel free to clue me in on what sounds good to you. If I don’t already have it, I’ll be glad to learn about it…
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0 I’ve learned in life that music is a magical part of life. It can truly bring joy into the world.
I love just about everything! I could probably list more what I don’t like than what I do, but in an effort to respect those who like the types of music I don’t, I’ll refrain from listing them.
For day to day listening, I love the old 80’s pop and rock. And in the evening I love a good classical set by Mozart, Bach, etc.
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0 0 I love music too. With the exception of some of that stuff you can’t understand the lyrics too, I’m up for most all. Probably 70’s tops my list. The unfortunate thing there is that we had many seemingly talented musicians who couldn’t seem to record Three Blind Mice when they went off drugs.
I am with Joe Eagle in that it is a magical part of my life too. Good music is a gift.
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0 0 I love music too and consider it a great gift from many talented artists. On the top of my list would be the 70s. With the exception of some of the music from the early 2000’s to now, you know the boom boom boom, can’t understand anything but a boom,(what do they call that?) I think most is great. I’m with Joe, it is magical.
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0 0 “Hotel California” Joe Walsh and Don Felder’s guitar playing is something I could listen to forever……….
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0 0 Easterner, I am crazy about the “Hell Freezes Over” dvd…and I especially love the 7 Bridges Road, in every format they’ve recorded it…
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0 0 I saw them in concert once: the encore consisted of 5 bar stools lined up, under spotlights and then each member came out in the darkness and climbed on a chair; Don Henley just started quietly playing a bongo drum, then everyone joined in with maracas, acoustic guitar, bass, etc. and all began the intro to “Hotel California”. Amazing. They did not play “Seven Bridges” that night, however, even though lots of people were yelling it out.
Love the Eagles.
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0 0 It is nice to finally run across a group of “good” music loving individuals. To Nemesis, I would like to get into direct contact with you and possibly share some music back and forth. I recently had the hard drive on my computer crash (twice actually) and am having a difficult time replacing my collection. I am a fan of almost all music genres, including everything from Patsy Cline and Johnny Cash to Warren Zevon and The Ramones. As far as local radio stations are concerned, I prefer KQEO (Arrow 107.1) for my listening pleasure. I am also an employee of the station, so keep tuning in!
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0 0 #7 “How I’m Living”…2 hard drive crashes??!! I’m so paranoid that I back up my back up with multiple My Book external hard drives…I think I would cry if I were in your shoes…
I have listened to the Arrow, I have a coworker who keeps trying to get me to enter the lyrical pursuit in the mornings.
My favorite Cash songs are “The One on the Right was On the Left” and “Sunday Morning Coming Down” and I only have a “Best of” album for the Ramones.
Easterner…I never saw the Eagles in concert, so I envy you. I would have been one of those people yelling for 7 Bridges Road, too!
I have an album by Timothy B Schmidt, who is my favorite Eagle. I love his voice, even though he does mostly mellow stuff. (Okay, okay, I love his long hair, too!)
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0 0 Nemesis-phone in in the morning. we always welcome anyone with a good personality and/or music knowledge to call in and compete. we are blessed to have some faithful listeners that phone in close to everyday and have a great musical background. as far as hard drives are concerned, i have learned my lesson but i am still not the most computer savy. i recently saw a documentary on the foo fighters and have not been able to stop listening to them since. i had forgotten what an amazing group they are. everything from the lyrics to the emotion with which they are delivered by dave grohl is nothing less than impressive. my neighbor and i have an ongoing debate regarding which bands from our generation will be considered classics (we are both in our mid 30’s). ie: will guns and roses be considered the CCR of our time, etc. i’d like to hear some feedback from other music fans of this area.
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0 0 Hi, nemesis…
Your widespread musical tastes are remarkable!
I came across an interesting fact years ago… most folks tend to favor the music they heard at age 18 for the rest of their lives.
I’ve been a working musician off and on for 45 years, and I think there are some songs that come along every year that permanently enter the Great American songbook. The real good stuff may fade away for a while, but it always comes back, again and again.
I think you would really like a new group I’ve seen a couple of times… check out Crooked Still. Both their albums have been on steady rotation in my personal Top 40 for a long time.
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0 0 Thanks for the tip about Crooked Still, I’ll look them up.
Your interesting fact reminds me of where my musical experience was when I was 18…wanna know something embarrassing?
I was out with a crowd of ‘cool people’ and someone said they really liked “Dream On” and I replied, “Yes, I agree, the Righteous Brothers are pretty cool”.
And of course they were referring to Aerosmith. I about died. That statement totally proved I was uncool.
I’ve come a long way, baby! 
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0 0 Wow! I appreciate the info, I’ll check them out.
I guess I’m the exception that proves the rule in the “music you listened to when you were 18″ idea.
Hey, I heard a fabulous young man last week, first name Tyler (don’t know the last) but the rumor was that he sometimes played at Vino Rosso downtown…
He did Van Morrison’s “Into the Mystic” and it was sweet…
Do you still play, locally?
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0 0 She sounds alot like Allison Krauss…I’ve just downloaded 3 albums including their brand new one from last month, “Still Crooked”.
Thanks again for the tip!
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0 0 Nemesis, I can top your story:
I was with a bunch of cool people who were talking about Lou R— something and going on and on about how cool he was so I jumped in with, “Yeah, I just LOVE ‘You’re Gonna Miss My Lovin’ so much!” Dead silence. They were, of course talking about Lou REED, not Lou RAWLS.
Oops.
Now that would be a duo to top even Alison Krauss and Robert Plant………Lou Reed/Lou Rawls……
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0 0 Easterner! I feel SO much better, I thought I was the only uncool person out there!
I do like Lou Reed (and Lou Rawls) but they are not my favorites (liked Reed better with VU than solo, how weird is that?)
I got his “Raven” album with great anticipation (note that my favorite APP album is “Tales of Mystery” which is a tribute to Edgar Allan Poe) but I was so disappointed…
That comment was one that disappeared after I wrote it so I tried again a half hour later with a different set of words…figured I’d leave out the embarrassing story the second time.
I have the Alison Krauss/Robert Plant album “Raising Sand” and I do enjoy that, too.
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0 0 Hi, Nemesis…
re/ Your comments #13 & 14:
Nope- I sold all my p.a. gear about 6 years ago and hung it up. After 39 years of gigging, it became steadily more work than pleasure. I guess I was the exception to the rule, because I consciously limited my pro playing early on. While I liked playing for folks, I found that if I played pro too much or too often, I didn’t play for myself enough. I’ve always been a musician first and an entertainer second, because making music is a big part of my life.
I play to learn new stuff, relieve stress and for the pure joy of making music. A lot of the music I’m most interested in isn’t very commercial, and is a lot harder to play than the music I did in public.
The live music scene these days is much different than it was for most of the time I played out- far fewer bars hire live bands now, and fewer folks go out to see good local bands than in the past. The places that still host live entertainment don’t pay as much as they once did, because the audiences are smaller… it all makes it tough.
I still go out to the Vino Rosso jams once in a while, but haven’t been to one for quite a while. I have a large and varied bunch of pals who play many quite different instruments, and I like to get with some of them on occaision. These days, I play a pretty wide spectrum of music, and right now, I’m on a big Irish/Celtic kick, due to a bagpiping buddy.
Glad you liked Crooked Still! Aoife (that’s an ancient Irish girl’s name- it’s pronounced ‘Ee-fa’) O’Donovan is a great singer. She reminds people of a lot of Allison Kraus and many other ladies, but she still has her own thing going.
It’s an interesting band. All of the members have music degrees, except for the banjo player, Greg Lizst. He has a PhD in biology. They’re all members of other bands, too, some more radical than others. Lizst was picked by Bruce Springsteen over a big bunch of better known banjoists to be part of Springsteen’s tour supporting his ‘Seeger sessions’ CD.
I haven’t had a chance to listen to their new CD yet, but I’m sure I’ll like it. For sure, they’re not what folks think of as bluegrass- the band consists of a bass, a cello, and a banjo (and now, a fiddle). Aoife is a very good guitar player, but she only sings in Crooked Still. That deep, low, powerful sound they get always hooks new listeners! They’re completely on the opposite side of the high lonesome sound people think of when bluegrass is mentioned.
There are a lot of great young musicians out there these days… you also might like Uncle Earl, an old-time group of young ladies who make very good and remarkable acoustic music. One member, Abby Washburn, speaks fluent Cantonese and sometimes sings old American tunes in Chinese, which sure puts a new spin on them! She also is a member of the Sparrow Quartet, another group that has a whiz-bang cello player.
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0 0 Hi, Nemesis…
By the way- you shouldn’t have been embarrased back then. My kids grew up listening to all the oof the wall stuff I did, and when my daughter entered college, her roommate was amazed she didn’t know anything about Journey!
I taught her how to play, and she went on to play in many famous clubs around the New York City area. There, as in L.A. and many other cities, unknown players pay the club to play, not vice-versa, and she was often the only paid musician in the joint. The kids all thought she was on the extreme cutting edge, but she was just playing tunes I taught her when she was 12.
My youngest son is a re-incarnation of Linc Wray and Dick Dale. He also has a big bunch of fans.
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0 0 okay, Nemeis, I just came home from the grocery store (LOSER that I am) and was listening to Janis Joplin, “Me and Bobby McGee”. Yowza. You said you like good lyrics: talk about driving, in the dark, windows open, belting out: “Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose, nothin, and that’s all that Bobby left me . . ”
If this isn’t on your IPOD yet, it should be. It just went on mine.
Have a good night.
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0 0 Oh, yes, easterner, that’s a good one, for sure. And it is on there! I hope you rocked your neighborhood at midnight…
Thanks for the smile!
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0 0 Wow, I haven’t seen any reference to Rail in…forever!
I’m not sure I want to know how long ago they played at the Skyway… memories ; )
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0 0 Oh, Alice…I remember them here as late as the mid 80s…my husband was buddies with a roadie…
They’re still kickin! They play all over the Northwest.
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0 0 Thanks Nemesis, I’ll check it out.
Wow, the more I read your posts, the more I bet I know you…
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0 0 Alice, it’s a small town/world. It’s certainly possible!
But if Alice is your real name (that you use everyday), maybe not. The last Alices I knew were in Lewiston in 1980, and before that in Rigby in 1976.
(Yes, my memory is that good!)
But if you like Rail, I probably would be very glad to know you…I used to save Kelly’s broken drumsticks, (out of self-preservation, they kept flying at me and I had to catch them or be impaled) and I had a massive crush on Andy (guitar/keyboards).
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0 0 I didn’t know them personally, but I believe that my husband (at the time) did.
My name isn’t Alice, and I’m wary of posting personal info too many places online, but if you go to http://www.myspace.com/shaddowdomain you could at least see who i am.
(yes, some people over 16 have myspace pages LOL, makes it much easier to keep track of my kids’ pages)
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Of course I keep thinking of things I should have added to the list, like System of a Down, Lloyd Cole, Chris Isaak, Dwight Yoakam, Led Zeppelin, Dave Matthews, White Stripes/Raconteurs, Counting Crows, Uriah Heep, AC/DC, Korn, UFO, Scorpions, Godsmack, Buckcherry and Stone Sour.
Soundtracks like Music Man, Avenue Q, Spamalot, Rutles, A Mighty Wind, O Brother Where Art Thou?
By now I’m sure it’s obvious that I like lots and lots of different kinds of music!