[chuckt]

Hey - I can enjoy some jazz and big band type stuff too, but it isn't my "go to" music. Though I WILL listen to jazz fusion type instrumental stuff (Allan Holdsworth, Al Dimeloa, John McLaughlin, Steps Ahead, Mike Stern, Lee Ritnour, etc.) But yeah - Lawrence Welk would be totally off this "young" (born in 61)boomer's radar. If it has guitar though - as a guitar player for 30+ years - I am on it. ;-)

Even gypsy jazz like Django. GOOD stuff out there.


ChuckT

[Keoma]

There is so much good music out there! It is always neat to see what spawns some creativity

[Iowa Carver]

My MP3 player is loaded with folk, country rock, blue grass and southern rock. Folgelberg, Eagles, Pure Prairie League, Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Marshal Tucker, Skynrd, Outlaws, Neil Young, Cat Stevens, Croce, America, Poco and when I feel bluesy, nothing but Clapton.

Corey

[mikeGinSC]

Originally Posted by Baldy

It is sure easy to tell there is a generation gap among most of you and the older than dirt crowd that must include people like myself. The music that I most love are the big band sounds of the Dorseys, Benny Goodman, Stan Kenton, and the small jazz groups like, The Australian Jazz Quartet, Benny Goodman combos, Dave Brubeck, LA Four, Light House Allstars etc.etc.
Needless to say I will bet there are not too many of you listening to Lawrence Welk on PBS on Sat. nights either, just to hear a little of the "Good Ol Days".
Dick

I used to listen to a little Welk on PBS and I grew up on the big band sound. But unfortunately the Beatles, ect. came along and knocked 'em off the radio. For a long time, up until we lost everything we owned a few years ago in a storage building fire, I still had a bunch of the soundtrack albums from all the great musicals....Sound of Music, Oklahoma, South Pacific, Annie Get Your Gun, just to name a few. I will admit though that I am a child of the sixties.

Mike G. in SC

[Thomp]

in my shop i have a local country station on just a tad bit louder than the cooling fans,
when i get enough of the 5 or 6 songs the DJ likes ,, i pull out one of the two ipods my wife won as door prizes at a lunchroom lady convention there 4 gigs each, i got the files compressed to the smallest compression and it says on shuffle i wont hear the same song for 24 hours..
one player is filled with kid songs for my grandson and country, the other is filled with rock before 90's and classics , big band, jazz, bluegrass, cajon, zeidico dawg-grisom) you name it.
ill listen to any music where the artist can carry the tune and the band members are accomplished
i dont listen to bands that fake it till they make it.

im not into rap or hip hop, or disco, or country-western older than hank william sr.
music keeps my mind busy while im doing remedial jobs and helps keep me on task.

[vacation212]

My system is set at one classic rock station

[Hi_Ho_Sliver]

I have one radio set on a christian station and another on a "route 66" 50's station...when the christian station starts playing the "new" hard noise christian? stuff...on comes the 50's music lol

[RussL.]

ChuckT.

Your stock just went up in my shop (er, studio<g>) with the mention of Al DiMeola!
My family says that what I play is not an iPod, it's an Al-pod!

A fan for 30 years.The photo is from 2006 meet and greet backstage at a small club. You think I look a bit excited?

RussL.

[Keoma]

HA-RussL! Great pic! I have one with my new passion as well...Dougie MacLain...Scottish Folk...mmm boy...the picture is not flattering to say the least! My excited face is just that...excited!

[chuckt]

Nice Russ! Yeah - Dimeola is one of those rare guitarists who pluck other guitarists heads off their shoulders, spin it around and round, and then drop it back on their shoulders going . . . "uh, what just happened?" The others that do that for me are Allen Holdsworth, John McLaughlin (sp?), Mike Stern, Steve Morse, Eric Johnson and the late Michael Hedges. They all just blow my mind everytime I see/hear their work (in their own genres of course). Dimeola, Holdsworth, and McLaughlin mainly for their sheer technical prowess. Steve Morse and Eric Johnson for their technical prowess plus their emotion, and Hedges - well he was just an alien guitar god from another planet who redefined what acoustic guitar could be. ;-)

Hey Keoma - BIG thumbs up on DM!! Likewise Thomp on DAWG music!!!

It never ceases to amaze me just how much AMAZING music and artwork there is out there to enjoy. Love, music, art and the beauty of the natural world around us to me DEFINE human happiness. Life is WAY too short to absorb even a fraction of it all.


ChuckT