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Lars68

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It seems that most people on the forum are middleaged or thereabouts, and share the same basic taste in music (a generalization for the sake of argument, of course). Artist mentioned often include the heavy weights, Dylan, Young, Cash, Springsteen and the like. The newer generation in the same vein also get a fair share of press, like Jason Isbell and John Fullbright. We also see a lot of the classic blues, jazz and R&B names mentioned.

 

Do we ever step out of the comfort zone and listen to something weird and not "politically correct" on an acoustic guitar forum? I know I do. Below are a few of my not so acoustic favorites.

 

How about you? Let's see something different you really love. EDM, anyone?

 

Fire away, and lets give everything a fair listen without prejudice.

 

 

Here is a start:

 

 

 

 

 

/Lars

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Boyd

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Well I spent a career working in opera (the design/technical areas, not singing). Is that weird enough for ya? [biggrin]

 

Shot quite a bit of performance video, here are some links. We were only allowed to use 3 minutes of video without paying everyone a broadcast fee - and since a typical opera involves over 100 people, that would be substantial. The Pearl Fishers clip has 212,000 views on YouTube…. proof that "sex sells", even in opera. :) http://www.boydostroff.com/opera-videography/

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For a musician that plays in a band known for (mainly) covers and 'classic rock', I do have some unusual tastes in music.

 

My preference seems to run toward the melancholy and sentimental however.

 

Here is quite possibly the most beautiful song ever written, by The Wailin' Jennys.

 

 

:mellow:

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My basic taste, as an individual past middle age, encompasses artists rarely if ever mentioned here. Lots of people reference performers with whom I'm not especially familiar, and I appreciate the opportunity to have them called to my attention because that's one of the benefits of the forum. Anyhow, it's always a pleasure to discover new (to me) talents. Nobody mentions Norman Blake, Guy Clark, Billy Joe Shaver, Jack Elliott, Eric Anderson, Dave Van Ronk, Bruce Phillips, John Koerner, Tom Rush, or many others who have contributed significantly to my personal musical involvement, but I don't especially expect it or feel like mounting a crusade to call attention to those people. The internet has plenty of examples of their offerings, and occasionally someone like Townes Van Zandt makes their way into the general consciousness. Sometimes I wish for a crusty old fart forum that would dwell within my comfort zone, but essentially I like it here!

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Nope. just got good taste in music. I do love me some Warren Zevon, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Townes Van Zandt, and Dave Van Ronk. But to me these are still the "new" kids on the block at least when compared to Lightnin' Hopkins, Curley Weaver, Lucille Bogan and the like.

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Nope. just got good taste in music. I do love me some Warren Zevon, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Townes Van Zandt, and Dave Van Ronk. But these are also the "new kids on the block at least when compared to Lightin' Hopkins, Curley Weaver, Lucille Bogan and the like.

It's hard to beat Lightnin' Hopkins, no matter what! John Hurt is another.

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Well I spent a career working in opera (the design/technical areas, not singing). Is that weird enough for ya? [biggrin]

 

Shot quite a bit of performance video, here are some links. We were only allowed to use 3 minutes of video without paying everyone a broadcast fee - and since a typical opera involves over 100 people, that would be substantial. The Pearl Fishers clip has 212,000 views on YouTube…. proof that "sex sells", even in opera. :) http://www.boydostroff.com/opera-videography/

 

 

Wow! What a design career you've had!

 

The only person I know in your side of that business is Eugene Lee (and his ex-wife, Franne), who sold me my first "real" boat back in 1972.

 

It's odd, how one-dimensional our view of our fellow forumites can be. We have journalists, college professors, stockbrokers, lawyers, and quite a few full-time professional musicians, plus just about everything else under the sun. But I'd venture to say your professional niche is unique here.

 

Getting back to the topic, I've always loved opera, in part because my wife was a singer.

 

As far as the Lars' original question goes, I'm going the other way, delving back into the Scots/Anglo/Irish ballads the color so much of "folk" music, and back where my interests originally lay. Those ballads are thematically as dramatic as opera, with lots of death, mistaken identities, tests of faithfulness gone cruelly wrong, love unfulfilled, betrayal, and all the great themes of western music. We're a dismal lot, on the whole.

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Jesus & Mary Chain I really liked in my Uni days, Psycho Candy is a fuzz pop classic. I enjoyed these guys along other bands from that genre like Ride, Neds Atomis Dustbin.

 

But call me weird, however Im quite fond of these guys. Uncompromising for 30 years.

 

Here's one of my faves from when they played in my neck of the woods.

 

However to give you a taste of my 'range' some concerts Im going to see later this year includes PJ Harvey, Sigur Ros, Placebo and The Cure.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKhuZoqGY-c

 

And if thats a bit too much to take, heres a fingerstyle version.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Eb3sKtxgtg

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Excellent topic.Yea I'm all over the place in stuff i like.There's good music in all sorts of strange places.I've been to the opera quite a few times.Our librarian at work was an opera singer with connections so I used to get half price tickets to Sydney Opera House.Anything by Puccini or Rossini was top stuff.

Other more modern classical...Arvo Part, Kronos Quartet.

All sorts of Jazz.Piano by Bill Evans, Trumpet / vocals Chet Baker. All the usual Jazz suspects - Coltrane, Miles Davis.

I like 50's music by people like Doris Day, Frankie Laine, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra,Tony Bennet ..(I am straight in case your having doubts).

Loud music..Sex Pistols.Never Mind the Bollocks, Clash ,Ramones.

French "folk" like Jacques Brel, Serge Gainsborough - I have done a ukelele version of The port of Amsterdam...but haven't been game to post it.

Contemporary (other than stuff we talk about here) - Sigur Ros,Tallest Man on earth,Lambchop,Fela Kuta.

Many others.

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EA, I like those two versions. Good music is good music, no matter style.

 

I just realized something sligthly scary. When I wrote the first post above, I thought about my links as modern music. It just dawned on me, that Psychocandy came out in 1985, Joy Division in 1979, and the Clash in 1980. The other Swedish song came out in 2012, but the artist is 58 years old and has been at it since 1978. Oh, well my kids will have to update me on what has been going on in the last 30 years...

 

By the way, Townes Van Zandt was mentioned above. I completely love his music. He was an absolute original genius. Too bad that he seldom got the recognition he deserved while alive. He wrote real music for the soul. I think he and Ian Curtis, of Joy Division above, had a lot of common themes in their music, although expressed through different styles.Both died way too young and had to fight demons along the way.

 

Lars

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My preference in music tends to be attracted by the simple. I spend most of my time playing my own sad-sac stuff, and I really cherish the opportunities to sit and trade "original" songs with my guitar playing brethren . A friend of mine wrote a great song, and the first verse strikes true. "I spend a lot of time alone. Play guitar and check my phone." Jackson is spending his winter in Asheville (Anne's country), and I look forward yo his summer return to Aspen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSOoH5M0kRI

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Thanks j45nick! :)

 

Nobody mentions Norman Blake

 

Actually, I have mentioned Norman Blake here before, but have never seen anyone else mention him (until now). Of course, he is more associated with Martin instead of Gibson. I first heard him in 1973, and he was the main reason why I sold my electric guitar and bought my 1974 J-50. I found these recordings of Norman Blake from the Telluride festival recently. There are also a lot of other great performances there. Audio quality is not the best, but they really brought back a lot of memories for me - I saw him perform in a small coffee house that same year.

 

 

Lightnin' Hopkins is also at the top of my list, which shouldn't be a surprise if you look at my avatar ;) I first learned about him in 1968 when I got a blues anthology album.

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All sorts of Jazz.Piano by Bill Evans, Trumpet / vocals Chet Baker. All the usual Jazz suspects - Coltrane, Miles Davis.

 

Yep, especially Bill Evans. Coolest cat ever. Probably have a dozen albums of his stuff.

 

Thumbs up on Norman Blake as well.

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We are well beyond middle age. We still have some connection with the folk revival artists of our youth -- Kingston Trio, PPM, Ian and Sylvia, early Dylan, Jack Elliot, Pete Seegar, and other pretenders, but when Dylan went electric, we went backwards and not forward. When we came to North Georgia in 1970, we found the incredible traditional music culture of the Southern highlands -- both the "modern" -- bluegrass -- and the traditional. This music was in every way more substantial than anything we had experienced up until then, and the level of virtuosity was an order of magnitude greater than what we had experienced in the folk revival.

 

So we have been chasing this chimera ever since -- studying history and listening to old recordings for sure, but mostly just finding and playing with people from that culture. The bluegrass festival phenomenon started in about 1968, and blossomed in the 1970. We were lucky enough to be close enough to attend one of the classic examples at Shoal Creek in Lavonia GA. This was a ten day festival where we got to experience all of the classic groups in one place in one week -- Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley, Jim and Jesse (with a young Mark O'Connor), Lester Flatt (with a young Marty Stuart), JD Crowe (with Rick Scaggs and Tony Rice), the New Grass Revival, The Osborne Brothers, the Lewis Family and many, many others. And the parking lot was filled with pickers -- who picked pretty much all night every night -- a mix of local and national pickers.

 

This is true powerful American acoustic music -- we have never found anything else like it. So like I said -- backwards, not forward.

 

We are at Randy Wood's legendary picking party right now -- so I need to stop wasting time typing and get back to pickin',

 

Best,

 

-Tom

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... And the parking lot was filled with pickers -- who picked pretty much all night every night -- a mix of local and national pickers.

 

This is true powerful American acoustic music -- we have never found anything else like it. So like I said -- backwards, not forward.

 

 

Nailed it Tom. [thumbup]

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I hear what you say Lars but I think so much of what we listen to is down to influences. My mum and dad liked Frank Sinatra so I went on to like the Beatles and The Stones, then on to Crosby Stills and Nash, Joni Michel, Dire Straits and so on. So a lifetime of Soft Rock you might say. So easy to find me a big fan of John Mayer now.

 

I do step out of my comfort zone into Jazz and even classical music especially if I can watch it on TV. I certainly wouldn't have done that when I was younger.

 

To fine something new is difficult for me, I am much harder to please as I get older.

So I was delighted to find Megan Davies down there in Nashville, way too country for me you would think but I just love the harmonies and the songs, although I prefer them by her that the originals.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgLsQGxcePY

 

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Immersed in '50s & '60s rock in the '60s.

Immersed in bluegrass, blues, & jazz in the '70s.

 

What currently gets listened to the most:

 

>> Reinhardt & Grappelli (Hot Club stuff)

>> Benny Goodman (w/Peggy Lee or Charlie Christian)

>> Merle Travis, Chet Atkins, Jerry Reed (solo or combos)

 

Saw Norman & Nancy Blake, Doc & Merle Watson, David Grisman, and Bill Monroe multiple times back in the '70s. They were major influences and favorites. Also to go back to what I consider a critical beginning, must mention the foundation established by Eddie Lang & Joe Venuti.

 

Thank you to them all.

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