Respond to tell us a bit about yourself and your interests, just to 
let us know you stopped by.

30 responses total.

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.

My name is Nathan, and I'm a music-holic.

 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.

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.

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 .

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. 

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.

Acoustic covers of the Violent Femmes does not sound like much of a stretch
to me. Unless you factor in the craptacular part . . . .

cy you like the VF's?

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.

it's actually self titled. :)

I think.

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.

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.

Peace is something the world could use more of.  Welcome to
Grex.

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 :)

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?

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.

welcome!

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.

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.

I'm Shaun 29 from Ypsilanti.

I like techno and Wolf parade.  And pavement

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.

he's a h0

oH, I don't think so.

I like all remmers

me too

I'm Meg, and I'm a folk junkie.  It started when I was just a wee lass,
listening to my father's Kingston Trio albums, and it's just grown as
I've gotten older.  I even met my bestest guy on a blind date for the
Ann Arbor Folk Fest!  Aside from Folk, I listen to a lot of classic
rock, and am a huge fan of 80's hair metal. There are also several bits
of current pop and rock that I really like, some of which I'll even
admit to!

Welcome back, Meg.  Things have been a bit sleepy around here lately,
but maybe I'll see if I can whip up a few short notes, now that there's
evidence that someone still looks at this conference.

I'm slowly but surely infiltrating the forums again :)

I need to write up some of my music finds one of these days.  Thanks to
Jason I get to hear about all sorts of cool new stuff.  His cd
collection is totally ridiculous, and some of it is even good!

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