What are you listening to?

[Marblehead]

MH, I think the group Smith sang "Baby it's You."

Yes, that was their biggest hit.

[Jim D.]

I am aware of my dog's nails clicking across the floor as she checks on me and what I am doing.

[Kar3n]

... coyotes yipping and howling.

[Marblehead]

I'm listening to Otis Redding sing a song and then the Staple Singers sing one back to him.

[Jim D.]

I hear the ticking of our dryer in the basement. Once in a while, I hear my wife's ash tray make a sound from my wif'e's hand hitting it as she flicks her cigarette ashes into it.

[CloudHands]

[silent thunder]

7 m2's, 9 sks, 3 routers, 2 table saws, 3 scissor lifts, 1 fork lift, plaster mixers, skill saws, drill motors and the hum of 47 scenic artists.

[Jim D.]

My wheezing.

[wilfred]

[Jim D.]

I listened to the doctor I saw this morning. What I thought was an upper Bronchial infection, turned out to be a sinus infection probably caused from the two molar extractions of which one had its root slightly inside my left sinus cavity. Egro, port of entry for a bacterial infection. The dentist should have given be an anti-biotic.

[Marblehead]

Get well soon.

[Jim D.]

The first thing I asked the Doc is can I go back to exercising tomorrow. She said that I could do anything I wanted. Just take the antibiotic and sudefed for the next 10 days twice per day. So I put them in with my supplements and Rx that I take on a daily basis. Now I only have to be concerned about taking one tab of each before I go to bed.

[Marblehead]

 

 

[Jim D.]

One of my favorite bands of the time. I especially like the musical arrangement, and the words.

[Marblehead]

One of my favorite bands of the time. I especially like the musical arrangement, and the words.

 

Yeah, the band never made the big time and I think it was because they had no one in the band that could write songs that they could make an impression with.

 

13th Floor Elevators just finished a session and now the Amboy Dukes are playing.

[Jim D.]

You listen to music much more than I do. It must be comforting and nostolgic for you.

[Marblehead]

You listen to music much more than I do. It must be comforting and nostolgic for you.

 

Music has always been an important part of my life even before I reached my teen years.  I have spent a lot of money buying music.  Perhaps sad that I never learned to play an instrument but then if I had it is likely that my appreciation for different styles of music would have been cut short.

 

Internally I actually live a lot of the music I listen to. 

 

And yes, much of it is for nostalgic reasons.  It allows me to keep a connection between who I am now and who I was back when any particular song was popular.

 

Right now Jefferson Airplane is playing and singing.  (However, with this particular song there is no connection.)

[Karl]

You have time to learn to play something. I suggest focusing on the band member you tend to watch during a performance- drummer, bass player, rhythm, lead, keyboards, vocals and then learn to play that instrument.

 

I self taught myself guitar. I'm not very good, but it's fun and creative to bash out a song that you like. My acoustic sits at the side of the couch and I play it daily. There are several free music apps with tab which make it very easy to learn a new song.

[Marblehead]

All you said is true Karl.  I have an average quality keyboard I pull out about once a year, make some pretty sounds with it then put it back for another year.

 

I am sure I could have worked somewhere in the music industry but life took me down a different path.

 

I get enough pleasure just listening.  And I do listen well even with my ears that have grown weak.  I compensated with good amps and speakers.  Hehehe.

 

I can even "get into" the music I have that the vocals are in languages I do not understand.  It's kinda' like the flow and variations of Yin and Yang between the instruments and the vocals.  If the music is done well (and sometimes even if it isn't done well) I can "feel" the interplay between the vocalist and the instrumentalists.  Yeah, I can actually feel the music without understanding the words.

 

But no, I will never spend the time needed to learn to play.  But that's fine.

[Karl]

I have been trying to make the leap into classical music. I've always listened to it, I like many pieces and have several of the classics on CD/Vinyl, but I always drift back to my usual fare and the classical stuff gathers dust for months whilst I listen to prog, alt prog, prog metal, or some form of pop

[Marblehead]

Yeah, I can listen to and even sometimes enjoy classical Western music but it bores me rather quickly.  It was never a part of my life so there is no attachment to it for me.

 

I can go back to American music of the late 1940s and find some attachments but the real attachments didn't start until the early 1950s.

 

It is a different story with most non-Western music except for a couple significant songs that touched me while serving in Korea.

 

And there is one Italian song, most often sung in Spanish, that is significant from when I served in Germany in the 1960s.

 

My collection is of music I enjoy listening to (Duh!) so it doesn't include classical, jazz, or opera.

 

DooWop and Rock-A-Billy are significant from my teenage years.

[Jim D.]

My Father studied Classical Music. He liked Andre Segovia Style of playing.

[Karl]

My Father studied Classical Music. He liked Andre Segovia Style of playing.

It didn't rub off onto you then ? My old man played hours and hours of classical so I was well aquainted with it from age 11 upwards. He couldn't play an instrument, but he could name the piece, it's variation, who was playing it and the conductor of virtually any music on the radio.

[Jim D.]

I started out with my first guitar purchased by my Father. He followed later trying to play "country western picking music." His guitar was a hollow body steel string instraument. His fingers were big. He did not like using the picks he wear on your fingers. So, he gave that up, and went on to Classical guitar. I wish I could have encouraged him more. He played to softly, as if timid. He would grab his guitar and foot rest, sheet music and practice. I tried to play with him a bit, but our guitars where out of tune with each other. I tuned by ear :-(   He tuned up with his teacher.

 

He stopped playing when his prostate cancer got to bad. I remember making an amends to him by playing "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying." Dad was given liquid Morphine at the time I sang that song to him. His response, "That was beautifull, beautifull, beautifull. Dad was pretty stoned, so I don't really know how beautifull it was. My sister seemed uninterested. She was busy making sure he was covered and comfortable in his Hospice bed. There had always been sibling rivalry between us. We never grew out of it. :-)

[Karl]

I started out with my first guitar purchased by my Father. He followed later trying to play "country western picking music." His guitar was a hollow body steel string instraument. His fingers were big. He did not like using the picks he wear on your fingers. So, he gave that up, and went on to Classical guitar. I wish I could have encouraged him more. He played to softly, as if timid. He would grab his guitar and foot rest, sheet music and practice. I tried to play with him a bit, but our guitars where out of tune with each other. I tuned by ear :-(   He tuned up with his teacher.

 

He stopped playing when his prostate cancer got to bad. I remember making an amends to him by playing "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying." Dad was given liquid Morphine at the time I sang that song to him. His response, "That was beautifull, beautifull, beautifull. Dad was pretty stoned, so I don't really know how beautifull it was. My sister seemed uninterested. She was busy making sure he was covered and comfortable in his Hospice bed. There had always been sibling rivalry between us. We never grew out of it. :-)

I tune by ear but would always tune top E with anyone else I was playing with, then tune the rest by the open string method. My friend can tune a string by ear in the middle of a set purely by ear. He built the speakers I use for my hifi system.

 

Of course it was beautiful, if you play from a place of emotion anyone with half an ear can hear it.