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Post by matt on Feb 2, 2006 20:52:23 GMT
you'll go crazy
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Post by gryffe on Feb 3, 2006 0:14:57 GMT
no
50/50 reggae and "alternative" rock - mostly american guitar bands
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Post by prajna on Feb 3, 2006 1:07:28 GMT
yep, sometimes. there have been several streches, lasting weeks (and v occasionally, months), when nothing else does it for me. none of the several hundred soul, jazz, cuban, brazilian, african, indian, mid-eastern, flamenco, blues, hip-hop, gypsy, fusion or funk albums i have have quite hit the spot like 70s roots reggae.
then i usually spend time listening to non-reggae and then things balance out again.
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Post by E-dogg on Feb 3, 2006 8:10:10 GMT
Hell no. I need a wide, balanced musical diet. I like everything from Ska thru dub, then I likes me some jazz (20s-60s), classical, early blues, early soul, early country (Jimmie Rodgers-Hank Williams-Johnny Cash), and early American jazz/pop vocal stuff. Not that that's all, but those are the major ones in my mind right now. I also like stuff like hawaiian slack-key guitar, and even some rock stuff, but that's not as in depth.
I'm listening to Mozart right now. Before that I was listening to Prince Far I. Sometimes I feel misunderstood, but then I remember that it's my own damn fault for spending all of my spare time thinking about music.
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Post by consciouspilot on Feb 3, 2006 15:43:06 GMT
I'm with e....I can switch from the Skatalites to Jimmie Rogers to Queens of the Stone Age and then Henry Purcell in the time it takes me to juggle 4 discs....
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Post by ekki on Feb 4, 2006 0:21:41 GMT
I am crazy, so what's the point Matt?
But actually I do listen to a lot of different music...
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Post by bmd on Feb 4, 2006 10:01:17 GMT
yep... Generally speaking anything jmaican at anytime, I very very occassionally listen to something else at work, often loaned by someone who wants me to hear something they like, but I can't remember the last time I played anything else here at home, unless it was a bit of Bajan Calypso.
However I do sit and play my guitar and get into a little flatpicking.
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Post by rosko on Feb 6, 2006 4:00:53 GMT
No. Sometimes it's mainly Reggae, but mix in some blues, some African music and of course some Hilary Duff (daughter) and some Aerosmith (son). F'ing carpool!!
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Post by professor on Feb 6, 2006 21:18:26 GMT
Hell no. Too much other good music to check: Bill Monroe, James Carr, George Jones, Fats Waller, Lightnin Hopkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Scientists, Ramones, Bob Dylan, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Van Morrison, Impressions, Stick McGhee, Hounddog Taylor etc etc
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Post by bmd on Feb 7, 2006 18:52:17 GMT
Professor, my Dad toured with Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys, and though part of the 'entourage' at that time was once asked to 'get up on that stage Barry and play those people some of your 12 string gitar' by the old man himself. He lived with Del McCroury for a time, and is still good frineds with Peter Rowan, who played guitar for Bill Monroe for a good long time alongside Del McCroury..
Worryingly Doc Watson has been listening to an album I made this year, Rosalee his wife said it's on all the time, to my other, how true that is, once just doesn't know, but hell... it's a big compliment if he listened to it twice!
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Post by jcom on Feb 7, 2006 19:13:38 GMT
I used to be pretty evenly divided among blues, r & b, blue note jazz and reggae but in the past few years have been almost exclusively into reggae although now bedward's got me listening to some African ocassionally. Everything else sounds too white!
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Post by admin on Feb 7, 2006 20:23:51 GMT
Nope, I'm currently listening to a home made compilation of 45s from the Modern label out of LA. Classic 50s R&B featuring Richard Berry, Etta James, Jimmy McCracklin and others.....
Respect
Gordy
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Post by professor on Feb 7, 2006 22:04:05 GMT
BMD - the Blue Grass Boys are red hot, my girl's the real Monroe buff but I've ben picking up records as I've come across them and have not found a dud one yet. Extraordinary players.
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Post by E-dogg on Feb 8, 2006 4:46:59 GMT
BMD,
What's this about Doc Watson and all? Forgive my ignorance, but were you saying that you are a guitarist?
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Post by alireggae on Feb 8, 2006 21:12:37 GMT
No, I listen to all music:
Reggae
Roots Reggae
Dub
UK Roots
Modern Roots...
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Post by I on Feb 9, 2006 19:15:34 GMT
Bob Willis, Solomon Burke, Big Maybelle, Clovers, Clyde McPhatter, Bob Dylan, T Bone Walker, Lightnin' Hopkins, Little Roy, Derrick Harriott, Lord Creator, Church Street Five, Shaweez, Curtis Mayfield, Woody Guthrie, Wild Tchoupitoulas, Paul Simon, Eric Morris, Shenley Duffus, Lonnie Johnson, Louis Prima, Roy Brown, Big Joe Turner, Wynonie Harris, The '5' Royales, Fats Domino, Amos Milburn, Elmore James, Rosco Gordon, Chuck Willis, Marie Bryant, Ruth Brow, Sam Cooke, Ben E King, Van Morrison, Luciano, Eddie Cochran, Elvis Presley, Wanda Jackson, Laverne Baker, Ivory Joe Hunter, Barrington Levy, Victoria Spivey etc, etc...
Observer
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Post by bmd on Feb 9, 2006 23:08:29 GMT
BMD, What's this about Doc Watson and all? Forgive my ignorance, but were you saying that you are a guitarist? Yes I play guitar, strictly poor amateur, less these days than I should... ie, I'm out of practice, but more importantly I write and sing, that's my love of the last few years. I can flat pick okay, but that's about the only thing I can do reasonably well these days,,... just don't do the practice anymore... I was lucky to grow up in Nashville Tenn. due to a wayward musical, american traditional music enthusiast father. My Dad and Mum are friends of Doc and Rosalee Watson, and my mother sent Doc my last album/cd project without me knowing, and subsequently found out how popular it was with him when she phoned them up for a chat. it certainly meant a lot to me that my tuneless crap could get that man's ears interested. My music making has taken a bit of a back seat though in the last couple of years as I've gond a bit silly for chatting about Jamaican music all day and night  |
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Post by E-dogg on Feb 9, 2006 23:25:30 GMT
That's great bmd. Doc Watson is a real musical icon...very cool. I bet you are being modest about your abilities as well. Keep up the good work.
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Post by consciouspilot on Feb 10, 2006 9:03:22 GMT
Bill Monroe, serious mandolin business...most Bluegrass Boys albums are a pure rollercoaster ride with Scruggs going hell for leather on the banjo, fabulous music.
Pilot
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Post by Varese on Feb 14, 2006 0:24:16 GMT
Can I just big up dubstep again?
;-)
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Post by kas on Feb 17, 2006 20:11:07 GMT
No, but some days may be like that.
I'm like most people here - almost anything goes as long I like it...
From medieval to Arabian, African, European (they make some cracking melanges of ethnic and popular in France, Spain and Italy) to Jamaican to zydeco to whatever.
Right now I have the 5.1. mix of "Remain In Light" by Talking Heads in the earphones, just got it today.
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Post by ahorn on Feb 17, 2006 21:03:05 GMT
Welcome kas, ånöthër umlaut-that-is-not-really-umlaut-bredrin here.
Juha ahuJ
ahorn
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