response 76 of 231:

Jun 26 17:35 UTC 1997

Oh, so *that's* the other person I have to suck up to :)

response 78 of 231:

Jun 26 22:55 UTC 1997

Leslie:  Learning to play the sax is pretty easy! I played flute for about
3 years, but I secretly yearned to play clarinet and sax. But while i was away
at summer camp before i started taking my music lessons my mom bought me a
flute. She claimed it was a more feminine instrument  

response 80 of 231:

Jun 27 09:18 UTC 1997

I used to secretly fantasize about becoming the first female sax player
in Maynard Ferguson's band.  As far as I know, his bands have always
consisted exclusively of male musicians.

response 82 of 231:

Aug 6 03:31 UTC 1997

okay...so i'm finally here ;)  i'm janice..i listen to pretty much any 
kind of music..tho lately i've been listening to mostly female
vocalists such as sarah mclachlan...dar williams...indigo girls...just
to name a few....i guess that's about it for now :)

response 84 of 231:

Aug 8 14:55 UTC 1997

Welcome, Janice!  Dar Williams is great...had a chance to see her about a year
ago.  Into Ani DiFranco, at all?

response 86 of 231:

Aug 8 20:27 UTC 1997

yep...i like ani a lot...:)  saw her up in east lansing a couple of 
months back....

response 88 of 231:

Aug 12 02:35 UTC 1997

Well, actually a really cool Ani album is one where she does a musical backing
for edits of Utah Phillips' monologues..._The Past Didn't Go Anywhere_ is the
title.  Not representative Ani, but cool, nevertheless...

response 90 of 231:

Aug 14 14:41 UTC 1997

That's the only Ani album I have. I still haven't figured out
if I'd like her by herself. But I doubt it.

response 92 of 231:

Oct 25 19:49 UTC 1997

It worked, Ken! 
Hello, my name's David, and I'm fairly new to this conference (even though
I've been on grex two years). I grew up playing clarinet, bass clarinet, and
eventually contra bass clarinet in my various grade school bands. I owned my
own B-flat, but it was stolen after the last home fotball game my senior year
in high school. This was 1985. Two months ago I finally bought another and
am starting to get back into it. I sang in choir until 5th grade, then quit
because we had to stand up all the time. Bad move. I love singing! What was
I thinking?? This past spring semester I sang with the Univ. Florida men's
glee club. Wonderful!!! We sang mostly gospel type songs, like _I've been
workin' on the railroad_, but we did a peice in an opera, and on a different
occasion we did a medley of do-wop songs. Since I got out of the navy in '91,
I've been playing recorder regularly, and guitar occasionly. If I had the
means, I would own a bass flute, and a contra-bass clarinet. 

My musical tastes vary. I love certain classic rock music, such as Neil Young,
Joni Mitchell, Traffic, Allman Brothers, Frank Zappa, Grateful Dead, Simon
and Garfunkel, Steely Dan, Bob Dylan, etc. The classic rock that I *loathe*
is the StairwayToHotelCaliFreebird kind of junk that you hear on those so
called classic rock stations. You know the ones. They have a playlist of
50-100 songs, and that's all they play. On the rare occasion when I feel like
torturing my self with a few minutes of a "classic rock" radio station, I end
up screaming, "HOW MANY MILLION TIMES ARE YOU GOING TO PLAY _25 OR 6 TO 4_????
HAVE YOU *EVER* ONCE PLAYED _HAPPY CAUSE I'M GOING HOME_ OFF THEIR 3RD
ALBUM???? NOOOO!!!!!" Then I realize that they can't hear a word I'm saying
and that it wouldn't do a bit of good if they could. Actually I never get that
upset. I'm a fairly calm person. There are very few things that can set me
off, and a song like _More than a feeling_ or _Dust in the wind_ is one of
them. I also love all kinds of jazz. I'm not too fond of newer, popier types
of jazz, and the really old pre bebop stuff doesn't do much for me either.
I absolutely love and appreciate Louis Armstrong for who he was and what he
did for music, but his Hot Five and Hot Seven and King Oliver stuff just
doesn't move me te same way some of the later jazz does. Even be-bop is a bit
frantic for me. I think the jazz that I *really* enjoy was started with Miles
Davis around the _Birth of the Cool_  time period. I enjoy everything from
Miles to Brubeck to Hancock to Hubbard to Mann to Montgomery to Coletrane etc.
Some of the later free and avant-gard types of jazz I'm not as fond of. Sun-ra
is a possible exception. I also love many other types of music from
"classical" to bluegrass to celtic to folk to hip-hop to ambient etc. Someone
earlier in this conference mention Mannihiem (sp?) Steamroller' Fresh Aire
series. Wow!!!! I used to have I, II, IV, and VI, and have lost them over the
years as my ever growing and shrinking music collection joins and is joined
by people from all over the country. Fresh Aire II was, at the time I heard
it first, the most amazing thing I'd ever heard. I'd never heard anything
close to it. I think that was around '82 or '83. 

Great to meet you all, and I'm glad I finally decided to dive into bbs. I
apologize for being a bit long winded.  ;->

response 94 of 231:

Oct 26 17:27 UTC 1997

A belated, but enthusiastic, welcome!

response 96 of 231:

Oct 27 03:46 UTC 1997

*lumen raises his hand*  I think I was the one who mentioned Mannheim
Steamroller.  I was introduced to them rather late, but I agree-- Fresh Aire
II feels like a lucid dream.  (Hey--he used the fantasia form for most of the
album, so..)

response 98 of 231:

Nov 29 21:16 UTC 1997

That's variety..:)