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Thread ID: 7720 | Posts: 32 | Started: 2003-06-30
2003-06-30 17:06 | User Profile
Me: "Almost Independence Day" (Van Morrison, St. Dominic's Preview, 1972).
2003-06-30 18:09 | User Profile
You sure listen to Van Morrison a lot.
2003-06-30 18:14 | User Profile
Eraser - Nine Inch Nails.
Keep in mind I'm 17 :P
2003-06-30 18:18 | User Profile
Shouldn't it be what are you listening AND smoking?
2003-06-30 18:19 | User Profile
Right now? At the moment, Zakk Wylde, The Blessed Hellride. Musically passable, lyrically disappointing compared with previous efforts (my opinion).
But my musical taste varies from the harsh modern to classical. In ten minutes' time I might slip in one of my more favoured Vivaldi's. I refuse to listen to rap (with a capital C).
2003-06-30 18:21 | User Profile
Bozzio Levin Stevens: first two albums Frank Sinatra: SINATRA'S SWINGING SESSION Spock's Beard: THE LIGHT
2003-06-30 18:54 | User Profile
Yeah, I listen to Van Morrison a lot.
But with a range that spans 30 years, and 10 of the greatest albums of all-time, it's hard to neglect Van Morrison. Astral Weeks, Moondance, Tupelo Honey, St. Dominic's Preview, Veedon Fleece, Hard Nose the Highway, A Period of Transition, Common One, Into the Music, Poetic Champions Compose...that's a Hall of Fame career. & he's got at least 4 classic songs on each of 4 other, lesser, albums, to boot.
Plays solo sax, harmonica, guitar and piano (exclusively--no other participants) on several of his greatest albums (the only instruments he did not play on Poetic Champions Compose [1987], for instance, when he'd passed age 40, were bass and drums--and he said he'd have played his own drum parts on that album, but didn't have the time; the only instrument he could not master, apparently, was bass).
Genius.
2003-07-01 06:03 | User Profile
Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Beginnings
Fairport Convention - Liege & Lief (an eternal classic)
Allan Holdsworth - Metal Fatique (the greatest electric guitar playing of all time, IMHO)
Merle Haggard - 24 at Number 1
Eric Johnson - Venus Isle
2003-07-01 07:06 | User Profile
King Missle - They
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams
Birthday Party - Hits
Recently purchased these three....rock on! Masters of the sonic blitzkrieg, all.
2003-07-01 11:30 | User Profile
The oscillating fan in my window and the morning birds chirping.
2003-07-01 18:40 | User Profile
Robert Fripp--- A Blessing of Tears The Church--- Heyday
2003-07-01 18:45 | User Profile
Blackmore's Night - Fires at Midnight
2003-07-02 01:11 | User Profile
Being a young Black guy, you'd think that I'd be into Rap/Hip-Hop and all that other so-called "music" American Blacks listen to. But honestly, I'm a Rock fan at heart. While I do enjoy a little R&B, I'd gladly take Metallica and Guns & Roses over Luther Vandros and Michael Jackson any day. But anyway, here's the music I'm currently listening to.
Michelle Branch - Are You Happy Now?
Evanescence - Bring Me To Life
Linkin Park - Meteora (Album)
2003-07-02 01:32 | User Profile
Judas Priest -- 'British Steel' [1980, I believe it came out]. Yeah, I know about Rob Halford...
2003-07-02 01:41 | User Profile
Rob Halford is a fairy, Franco.
2003-07-02 01:50 | User Profile
yeah, but he's a good singer...I bought the tape used.... :D
2003-07-02 02:37 | User Profile
I have been listening to Black Sabbath recently. I can only keep a few cds in my car because my town has a huge problem with Mexicans breaking into our cars. :angry:
2003-07-02 07:27 | User Profile
New - Rhonda Vincent
Currently rediscovering - Gin Blossoms "New Miserable Experience"
2003-07-03 22:43 | User Profile
I guess I'm out of league here. I'm 20 years old and I mostly listen to classical music and/or traditional folk music from around Europe. I especially like Celtic folk music, the Chieftains being among my favorite bands in that genre.
I also like to listen to bluegrass and country music as well. Once in a while I'll listen to rock.
:punk:
2003-07-03 22:55 | User Profile
Have you ever heard Blackmore's Night, perun?
2003-07-03 22:58 | User Profile
**Have you ever heard Blackmore's Night, perun? **
I might've heard their music on the radio or somewhere, are they a folk music band?
2003-07-03 23:11 | User Profile
**Judas Priest -- 'British Steel' [1980, I believe it came out]. Yeah, I know about Rob Halford... **
Didn't Beavis and Butthead blow up the "Breaking The Law" video? I guess it needed some naked chicks and and explosions (AND one fewer homo).
2003-07-03 23:16 | User Profile
Ritchie Blackmore's medieval/folk/rock act.
[url=http://blackmoresnight.com/audio_clips.html]Audio Clips[/url]
2003-07-03 23:25 | User Profile
Ritchie Blackmore's medieval/folk/rock act
Yes I do believe I have heard them before. Thanks for the info.
2003-07-03 23:37 | User Profile
I also very much like the Scottosh folk band Old Blind Dogs :punk: [url=http://www.oldblinddogs.demon.co.uk/]http://www.oldblinddogs.demon.co.uk/[/url]
2003-07-03 23:57 | User Profile
I still have a hard time realizing that Ritchie Blackmore - a god of the Fender Strat, and one of the godfathers of metal - is now Mr Candace Night full time. But then I think of his mellower moments of yore, like "Our Lady", "Temple of the King" and "Soldier of Fortune", and it makes sense. (Come to think of it, years ago he was asked in an interview who he considered great in current music, and he had the great good sense to name Ian Anderson.) I really should grab ahold of that double-live he released last year or so just to keep up with his newest stuff....
2003-07-04 01:20 | User Profile
And Now For Something Completely Different.
At this precise moment I am listening on my office system to countertenor Andreas Scholl performing Va tacito e nasconto from Giulio Cesare (G.F. Haendel).
A perfect way to close a stressful week.
Happy 4th of July to all!
2003-07-04 01:30 | User Profile
**At this precise moment I am listening on my office system to countertenor Andreas Scholl performing Va tacito e nasconto from Giulio Cesare (G.F. Haendel).
A perfect way to close a stressful week.**
Usually Beethoven will relax me after a stressful day. I never get tired of listening to his "Fur Elise". No matter how angry or upset I am, when I listen to that song I become content and relaxed. :punk:
2003-07-04 03:45 | User Profile
Belle & Sebastian -- Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant
Manic Street Preachers -- The Holy Bible
Carter USM -- 30 Something
Fear -- The Record
Subway Sect -- We Oppose All Rock & Roll
2003-07-05 02:59 | User Profile
Originally posted by il ragno@Jul 3 2003, 23:57 * ** I still have a hard time realizing that Ritchie Blackmore - a god of the Fender Strat, and one of the godfathers of metal - is now Mr Candace Night full time. But then I think of his mellower moments of yore, like "Our Lady", "Temple of the King" and "Soldier of Fortune", and it makes sense. (Come to think of it, years ago he was asked in an interview who he *considered great in current music, and he had the great good sense to name Ian Anderson.) I really should grab ahold of that double-live he released last year or so just to keep up with his newest stuff.... **
Blackmore's first Rainbow album is now one of my favorites. Ronnie James Dio really has a great set of pipes: his warbling on Black Sheep of the Family & Catch the Rainbow is terrific. And Blackmore's dramatic Snakecharmer solo is justly famous.
2003-07-05 03:21 | User Profile
There is some hellacious soloing on that first Rainbow album. Snakecharmer of course, but also 16th Century Greensleeves, Self-Portrait and that absolute killer break in Still I'm Sad.
That Rainbow debut really is a unique thing because the backing band is essentially a Southern-rock lineup (dig that funky harpsichord on Man On The Silver Mountain!) so those Gothic-castle extended leads sound especially great layered over that down-home groove that runs through the whole album. (Trivia tidbits: original Rainbow keyboardist Mickey Lee Soule has been Deep Purple's keyboard tech for the past few years now; on a nastier note, original drummer Gary Driscoll was murdered in NYC, age 41, in 1987. )
2003-07-14 17:47 | User Profile
Me?:
"Uncle Remus"
Lyrics by Frank Zappa
Personnel:
Jim gordon (drums) John guerin (drums) Aynsley dunbar (drums) Ralph humphrey (drums) Jack bruce (bass) Erroneous (bass) Tom fowler (bass) Frank zappa (bass, lead vocals, guitar) George duke (keyboards, background vocals) Don "sugar cane" harris (violin) Jean-luc ponty (violin) Ruth underwood (percussion) Ian underwood (saxophone) Napoleon murphy brock (saxophone, background vocals) Sal marquez (trumpet) Bruce fowler (trombone) Ray collins (background vocals) Kerry mcnabb (background vocals) Susie glower (background vocals) Debbie (background vocals) Lynn (background vocals) Tina turner (background vocals) Ruben ladron de guevara (background vocals) Robert camarena (background vocals)
*Whoa, are we moving too slow? Have you seen us, uncle remus? We look pretty sharp in these clothes (yes, we do) Unless we get sprayed with a hose It aináït bad in the day If they squirt it your way 'cept in the winter, when it's froze And it's hard if it hits, on your nose (on your nose)
[blistering guitar solo]
Just keep your nose To the grindstone, they say Will that redeem us, uncle reemus? I canáït wait til mah 'fro is full grown Iáïll just throw away my doo-rag at home
Iáïll take a drive to Beverly hills Just before dawn And knock the little jockeys Off the rich peoples lawn And before they get up Iáïll be gone (Iáïll be gone) Before they get up Iáïll be knockin' the jockeys off the lawn (down in the dew)
[eviscerating ending guitar-solo]*
jeezus: Electric jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty; George Duke on piano; Jack Bruce [Cream] on bass; Zappa on guitar; Aynsley Dunbar (founding member--before they were cheesy-- of Journey and Jefferson Starship); Tina Turner on backing vocals...on one song.
WHY wasn't this song an FM top-20?
A mind-boggling combo.