What are you listening to RIGHT NOW!

[daytona4me]

Thanks Webster...I try to listen to everything. Liking it is another story lol...
For instance, I think Jay-z and kenye are atrocities to my ears, but I would never condemn anyone for musical taste.
I listen to Classic Vinyl, and Rewind when i'm in the car.
I'm learning to use the mp3 player I have had in plastic since Christmas lol..

People listen to music for different reasons, and I think the two of us appreciate that.
I for example love classic rock, I'm a big LZ fan, love Clapton, Grand Funk, Skynyrd, etc.. but it can get very boring to me depending on my mood.
I'm a drummer and also play the organ (hammond b3) If my mood is classic rock, I'm in the organ mood, but if I am hyper and feel like beating the drums then I am listening to Slayer or Metallica (which is how I learned to play to begin with).

In addition to these I will also play a little rap. I'm not a big rap fan but it I can appreciate some of the intricacies in "certain" songs because I am also an amateur sound engineer. The anticipation is different in rap than in rock. Transitions far more cool in rap than in rock and I get a lot of build up ideas from rap that create anticipation from whatever crowd that I might be playing in front of that week.

Ask me any of the lyrics to my classic, gospel, rock or rap songs and I could not tell you, I am only here to play or mix to make you sound good, I leave singing to someone else. lol.

 

[RWIGWH]

People listen to music for different reasons, and I think the two of us appreciate that.
I for example love classic rock, I'm a big LZ fan, love Clapton, Grand Funk, Skynyrd, etc.. but it can get very boring to me depending on my mood.
I'm a drummer and also play the organ (hammond b3) If my mood is classic rock, I'm in the organ mood, but if I am hyper and feel like beating the drums then I am listening to Slayer or Metallica (which is how I learned to play to begin with).

In addition to these I will also play a little rap. I'm not a big rap fan but it I can appreciate some of the intricacies in "certain" songs because I am also an amateur sound engineer. The anticipation is different in rap than in rock. Transitions far more cool in rap than in rock and I get a lot of build up ideas from rap that create anticipation from whatever crowd that I might be playing in front of that week.

Ask me any of the lyrics to my classic, gospel, rock or rap songs and I could not tell you, I am only here to play or mix to make you sound good, I leave singing to someone else. lol.

I absolutely appreciate peoples diversity in music. It's an education to the ears, and mind. You can find deep meaning in the most simplistic verse of song. It's an eye opening experience once you realise something you had no clue of.
To expand on one subject...hip hop...IMO, it's rock & roll in another form.
I love Run DMC. I also think Eminem is a true artist. I will reserve my views on a few others. In (hip hop) I hear rock, jazz, Motown, gospel, and once and a great while, classical music. It's a hodge podge of sound. Sometimes genuine, and beautiful, other times a perversion, and outright theft. Nothing new with that! You know damn well Zep stole the playbook and rewrote the notes lol..Just like any other genre of music, it's an open book.
Quick story...
My late Uncle was a well respected musician (jazz/big band guitarist) who toured with Pearl Bailey. He used to come over to my house and ask me what I was listening to, and if I would play it for him...Well, when he hear Jimmy rip into his solo in Since I Been Loving You, he almost hit the floor. He had no clue who LZ was, and when it was over, he had a few questions, and left with a few albums under his arm lol...He simply said...That man has talent.
I agreed.

 

[daytona4me]

Great Story. I love introducing people to Jack Johnson, or Satriani, maybe they have heard the name but cant associate the talent to it. I get the same feeling as I did when I took my buddy to the Big House (Michigan Stadium 114,000) to watch american college football. I get a thrill out of introducing someone to something that is so enjoyable.

 

[tommy_boy]

10-4-11
The modern day Mozart


Funeral For A Friend (Love Lies Bleeding)
Elton John - Funeral For A Friend (Love Lies Bleeding) - YouTube

He's lost a little range (as have we all) but he's still got it!

Thanks for posting this.

 

[RWIGWH]

Folk guitar legend Bert Jansch passed away this morning, October 5, after
succumbing to cancer. He was 67.

Jansch had been battling cancer for the past two years, although there were
times when his chances for recovery were looking positive. The Scottish
guitarist took a year off to fight the disease before heading out on the
road to tour with Neil Young.

A virtuoso acoustic guitarist, Jansch began his career in the late '60s with
the folk rock band Pentagle, who broke up in 1973. Within a few years,
Jansch was back recording music, releasing A Rare Conundrum in 1977.
Pentangle would reform twice more during the guitarist's lifetime, once
during the 1980s and again in 2008.

Jansch was a highly influential guitarist to many, being name-dropped as an
influence to everyone from Jimmy Page to Graham Coxon to Mikael Akerfeldt.

A lifelong fan, Page once said of Jansch: "At one point, I was absolutely
obsessed with Bert Jansch. When I first heard that LP, I couldn't believe
it. It was so far ahead of what everyone else was doing. No one in America
could touch that."

 

[RWIGWH]

There can only be one...

The King

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUXsWeVYtD0"]Elvis Presley If I Can Dream Black Leather Performance - YouTube[/ame]

If I Can Dream" is a song made famous by Elvis Presley, written by Walter Earl Brown and notable for its direct quotations to Martin Luther King, Jr. It was recorded by Presley in June 1968, two months after King's assassination. The recording was first released to the public as the finale of Presley's '68 Comeback Special.

Although the song is not technically gospel music, Presley performed the song with the intensity and intonations of southern gospel. It has since appeared on various Presley gospel and/or inspirational compilations.

Brown was asked to write a song to replace "I'll Be Home For Christmas" as the grand finale on NBC's "Elvis" (June 20-23, 1968). He wrote "If I Can Dream," and when Presley heard it he proclaimed "I'm never going to sing another song I don't believe in. I'm never going to make another picture I don't believe in."

Band-related errors prevented the first take from becoming the master. After the TV special, the song was released as a single - If I Can Dream/Edge Of Reality - in November 1968. It charted on Billboard's Hot 100 for 13 weeks, peaking at #12, with more than one million sales.

 

[mydnytrydr]

Tonight, Vivaldi and Bach ..... very relaxing !

 

[G30]

[AME]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22hvEdaPSMs[/AME]

 

[RWIGWH]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaESQAKXN4E&feature=fvst"]6.) Del Shannon-Runaway (Runaway With Del Shannon, 1961) STEREO - YouTube[/ame]

 

[G30]

[AME]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVzvRsl4rEM[/AME]

and...

[AME]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6eSksEp27U[/AME]

 

[RWIGWH]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmDDOFXSgAs"]Dave Brubeck - Take Five - YouTube[/ame]

 

[neeko_23]

iam - l'empire du coté obscur

 

[G30]

Crummy day outside. Needed to drive up the energy level a bit...

[AME]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBjQ9tuuTJQ[/AME]

 

[BADWIN BING]

This seems an appropriate thread to ask this. Help a friend out here please.

How the fcuk do you post a YT clip around here? I can post a link but not the vid! I'm right clicking 'copy video URL' and nine times out of ten it comes up as a link.

I'm listening to this guy at the mo:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xADSSBs34is&feature=player_detailpage"]Ed Sheeran - The A Team (Acoustic) OUT NOW! - YouTube[/ame]

Unfcukingbelievable.....when I ask for help I get it right!!!!!!

 

[RWIGWH]

Haha! So you dun need help.

 

[tommy_boy]

The Boss "Long Walk Home"

[AME]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iywFZqtPlhU&feature=player_detailpage[/AME]

 

[G30]

Winding down...

[AME]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoLc43YuuTw[/AME]

[AME]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1sVAJtL42c[/AME]

 

[RWIGWH]

Dun laugh...Just listen.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCZpq9HA3kM&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL8E25771F77999B91"]Celine Dion - River Deep, Mountain High (Live @ David Letterman Show 1994) (Celine ROCKS!) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[BADWIN BING]

One of my all time top ten:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5soFkGX250&feature=player_detailpage"]AC/DC - Touch Too Much - YouTube[/ame]

 

[olworthers]

One - by U2