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krj
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Introductions: Who Are You?
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Feb 9 04:01 UTC 2006 |
Respond to tell us a bit about yourself and your interests, just to
let us know you stopped by.
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kingjon
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response 1 of 30:
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Feb 10 14:08 UTC 2006 |
I'm Jonathan Lovelace, a freshman at Calvin College in Grand Rapids.
I don't like much of anything in the realm of "music" that was
produced (composed) after somewhere around 1915. My favorite kind
of music is Renaissance music, but I like Baroque, Early, and
Classical music too.
I play at the piano and hammered dulcimer, being literate but not
very proficient on each, and sing passably well. I'll never have a
career as a soloist, but I successfuly auditioned for MSVMA [Michigan
School Vocal Music Association] State Honors Choir last year. I now
am a member of the Calvin "Men's Chorale" (which replaced the
"Meistersingers"), singing Tenor 1. (When I am given free rein in
picking my part I often find the tenor part too low -- I think I'm
somewhere between the tenor and countertenor ranges.) I'm also
taking Theory I this year.
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nharmon
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response 2 of 30:
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Feb 10 14:43 UTC 2006 |
My name is Nathan, and I'm a music-holic.
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mcnally
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response 3 of 30:
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Feb 10 17:39 UTC 2006 |
re #2: Hey, you stole my line!
Although I've slowed down considerably, especially since moving to
a small town where the opportunities to browse through new records
are chiefly limited to online shopping, I'm likewise a near-compulsive
music collector.
My favorite artists tend to produce "indie"-type rock (as if that's
a useful description anymore, given the fragmentation of the popular
music market) and I've got a big soft spot for original (60's, 70's)
Jamaican ska and (70's) dub music. But at any given time you might
find me listening to indie, ska, dub, surf, bluegrass, "americana",
folk, country, bits and pieces of the jazz continuum, blues, worldbeat,
or classical.
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katie
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response 4 of 30:
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Feb 12 22:18 UTC 2006 |
I'm Katie. I run the Green Wood Coffee House Series in Ann Arbor,
which is an acoustic music venue hosting national and international
folk and singer/songwriter acts.
I sing in a folk-music service every Saturday at 5 pm, at same said
location.
As far as playing out, I do a couple of concerts a year as featured
artist, and many more as harmony singer for folk/rock legend Melanie,
as duetist with Matt Watroba, and as part of my female vocal trio
All About Eve. I also guest onstage for certain artists when they
visit Ann Arbor: Livingston Taylor, Billy Jonas, Michael Johnson,
Don White, Megon McDonough, and Mary McCaslin, to name a few.
I like the Coffeehouse channel 30 on Sirius radio.
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remmers
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response 5 of 30:
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Feb 15 22:31 UTC 2006 |
I'm a keyboard player specializing in ragtime piano music these days -
composers such as Scott Joplin, Joseph Lamb, and James Scott.. The fact
that I am also a retired computer science and mathematics professor may
be irrelevant. I attend and perform at various ragtime festivals around
the country every year. You can hear samples of my playing on my
website: http://jremmers.org .
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krj
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response 6 of 30:
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Feb 17 07:11 UTC 2006 |
I'm another obsessive music collector. My particular very narrow field
of interest, which you will all become very bored with reading about,
is British Isles & European folk/roots/world music. I branch out a
bit into other areas which could be characterized as folk music and
world music.
My other musical interests include rock music before 1990,
jazz styles before 1970, opera, and random bits of classical music.
For the last four years, my listening has been dominated by the
Internet radio programming of the BBC; I listen to about 10-15
hours of their folk & world music shows each week, along with a
small bit of their classical music and rock music programming.
It's been the greatest radio listening era of my life. Intellectually,
I know that it would be good for me to broaden my range of Internet
radio listening, but the BBC makes me so damn happy that it's hard
to think about cutting back to try other stations.
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easlern
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response 7 of 30:
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Sep 15 19:13 UTC 2006 |
Hi guys. Anybody still use this conference? Anyway, my name is Nick Easler.
I'm a big fan of independent pop and I enjoy playing craptacular acoustic
covers of stuff from groups like Cake, New Pornographers, and Violent Femmes.
Since I subscribed to Rhapsody I don't hear much radio anymore except Blue
Lake and the Outlaw. I despise whiny hipster snobs so smack me if I start
sounding pretentious. Mmmmmkay.
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cyklone
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response 8 of 30:
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Sep 16 00:06 UTC 2006 |
Acoustic covers of the Violent Femmes does not sound like much of a stretch
to me. Unless you factor in the craptacular part . . . .
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furs
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response 9 of 30:
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Sep 16 11:35 UTC 2006 |
cy you like the VF's?
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cyklone
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response 10 of 30:
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Sep 16 19:06 UTC 2006 |
Well, like virtually every modern music fan of the last 25 years, I'm familiar
with their ONE album that gets all the play. And that one I like (even if I
don't know the name). I probably don't know a single song off their other
albums.
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furs
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response 11 of 30:
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Sep 17 01:40 UTC 2006 |
it's actually self titled. :)
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furs
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response 12 of 30:
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Sep 17 01:41 UTC 2006 |
I think.
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cyklone
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response 13 of 30:
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Sep 17 02:12 UTC 2006 |
It really is a cultural touchstone, albeit a minor one. The last year
commie high had a lottery I visited some friends who were camping out to
get their kid in. I joined an impromptu jam session and at one point I
started playing the bass riff to Blister in the Sun. Next thing I knew a
group of the HS kids came over, including one girl who started shimmying.
Later I tried to do the math, agewise v. release date, and all I could
come up with is either they first heard the Femmes on alternative radio,
or else they had some pretty cool parents. I think it's really interesting
the way certain music crosses generations.
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ezikill
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response 14 of 30:
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Oct 25 21:01 UTC 2006 |
hey. My name's Vivian and i'm a guitarist from Singapore... I'm a long way
from home as i imagine. First time to telnet and it seems to be going great.
hoping for more interaction. Peace.
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ball
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response 15 of 30:
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Nov 13 23:52 UTC 2006 |
Peace is something the world could use more of. Welcome to
Grex.
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diregone
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response 16 of 30:
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Feb 19 10:53 UTC 2007 |
yo, names tyler i love music and cant really play a insturment, i mainly just
mix music and such useing different programs to help me add sound effects,
change and isolate sound, and add my own sounds. So yea just a quick note on
what i so :)
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amarz2
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response 17 of 30:
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Dec 8 05:25 UTC 2007 |
I'm an opera and early music lover. Avant-garde a specialty in the former
case. I wamt to start collecting as many Bach cantatas and operas including
and since Michael Tippett's The Knot Garden and Berg's Lulu -- I have to
scrape up enough extra cash to get the Philip Glass "Fall of The House of
Usher" soon or I will shut myself up in a heavily draped noise-free room and
write you a despondent letter to come to my aid... some kinna nervous disorder
based on frustrarion. Don't forget to take off your shoes when you arrive at
the tarn (bloody loud glaring thing) -- I hate loud shoes can't you see
that!?!? Bang bang bang bang people stomping and crushing about like they're
insane! Crummy deal... Bring copper sheathing too, but don't let it roil in
the House -- if you are going to insist on roiling your copper sheets, I mean,
what's the point? Have you no understanding of the quiet copper no-roil zero
roil, forget about roiliing it way of visiting a nerve sick person. See?
That's the problem I had with Madeline, my twin, the other day. Putting on
her make-up. BRUSH BRUSH THUD THUD -- I was sleeping near my dampened bridged
lute and -- BRUUSH THUD LASH EXTEND LIP CRACK!! -- I thought the House was
coming down on top of me... I mean, what? is it me? -- it's her, right? I HATE
imbecilically loud make-up applyers!! I think the best thing for her is to
get a good cellar chamber with strong stone walls lined with the quietude of
copper sheathing and have a ball all she wants with her make-up acoustic
limits experiments. Would it kill her to use a standard -- they all use em,
Lindsey, Avril all of them -- copper sheath lined make-up anechoic quiet room?
She will eventually crack this old mansion in half if she doesn't get it
together, hello? What's it gonna be wake-up and smell the coffee -- or wake-up
and smell the copper? It's your choice, baby! I don't know what to... Anyone?
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vedder10
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response 18 of 30:
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Dec 21 16:27 UTC 2007 |
Hello folks, I am a 32 year old man who works at a software company and plays
the guitar as a hobby in my free time. I love music and am willing to listen
to anything and everything to find the soul and heart of where its coming
from. I am currently studying blues guitar and listening specifically to old
late 60's and 70's country rock and old blues. I am also trying to become as
familiar as possible with Unix as I am required to use it on a daily basis
for work.
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cmcgee
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response 19 of 30:
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Dec 21 18:33 UTC 2007 |
welcome!
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cyklone
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response 20 of 30:
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Dec 21 23:18 UTC 2007 |
Do you take lessons or are you studying some other way, vedder? I've been
learning guitar after playing bass for over 30 years, and any hints to speed
up the process are greatly appreciated.
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loki
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response 21 of 30:
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Dec 27 17:34 UTC 2007 |
Hello all, I'm Kai (19) from Germany. I've finished school this year
and now I'm trying to get a place to study (law & cs). People say I've
too much time, as I (try) to maintain three virtual PDP10s on the net
(one TOPS20, two ITS). -- Well, music... to be honest I like nearly
anything. Most time I hear jazz and blues of the pre 1940s era (i.e.
Eubie Blake or Jelly Roll Morton) or rock of the 70s and 80s. Since
making music instead of hearing it is twice fun, I learned to play piano.
Then recently I was "forced" to join a band and now I'm playing bass
too. I'm trying to learn both without teacher, so it isn't quite perfect.
You can find a sample at http://lmr.prout.be/musik/sample.mp3 (which is
not online all the time, since I host that myself). Hope you like it.
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h0h0h0
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response 22 of 30:
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Jan 17 04:08 UTC 2008 |
I'm Shaun 29 from Ypsilanti.
I like techno and Wolf parade. And pavement
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mary
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response 23 of 30:
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Jan 17 12:17 UTC 2008 |
Hi, Shaun. I like pavement too as long as I'm not comin' up on it too
fast. Welcome to the music conference. I like your login ID.
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furs
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response 24 of 30:
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Jan 17 13:41 UTC 2008 |
he's a h0
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