Respond to tell us a bit about yourself and your interests, just to let
us know you've stopped by in our neighborhood.

231 responses total.

Well, they often call me Bruin the Bare Bear, but my real name is Richard.

My name is Bill, and I like music.
(The group responds, "Hi, Bill)
My Uncle, the piano player, introduced me to music with a copy of Peter
and the Wolf for Christmas when I was five or six. When I was twelve or
so, my mom gave me a record player and a copy of "The Leader of the
Laundermat" (a parody of Leader of the Pack). Since then, I have developed
a liking for almost any style of music, shifting quickly from one to
another. Pretty extensive collection of vinyl, some tapes and cds. 

The piece that got me hooked on Prokofiev was Scythian Suite.

Well, my name is in the header.  I play a few instruments, used to be a
concert sound guy, etc.

I'm John Remmers, and I've played the piano since shortly after
I learned how to walk. Guess this means I've been doing piano
for over 50 years. Wow.

Interests run mainly to classical music and ragtime. I play
Mozart, Scott Joplin, Beethoven, Joseph Lamb, George Gershwin,
Mendelssohn, James Scott, Eubie Blake, and J.S. Bach, among
others. For the past four years, I've been documenting my
ragtime activities in my "Ragtime Notebook" item in this
conference.

i'm katy as it says above:) i'm young, but i've been exposed to music all of
my life, as my mom was educated to be a music teacher.  I play a few different
instruments, mainly clarinet and guitar.  i'm excited to be a fw:)  this music
cf is going to be great!

        I'm Matt.  I have been interested in music all my life starting 
when I listened to my Grandfathers Dixeland jazz 78s when I was very
young.  Later I branched out into listening to classic and punk rock,
bluegrass, jazz, classical, experimental, etc.  The college I went to
(Oberlin) had a huge musical conservatory, and I was a DJ on the college
radio station so I broadened my tastes even furthur.  These days I listen
to just about all forms of music except muzak, top 40, & mainstream country
or mainstream heavy metal.  I also play the guitar up until recently with
a band, but not alas anymore. :-(

I love many kinds of music. I have no formal musical training, but I love
to sing, and I'm told I'm pretty good. I used to play the violin, but
dropped it after junior high.

I am Rane. I got an A in Music Appreciation in College, and came to love
Baroque music. This led eventually to my building a Harsichord and
teaching myself Bach's Prelude No. 1 from the Well Tempered Clavier, but I
came a crupper at the following Fugue, and haven't played for years. I'm
now returning to it again, starting with the Jaw Harp, and reading _Piano
Lessons_ by Noah Adams. If he could learn Traumerei as an adult beginnner,
I can learn that Fugue. 

        Hi, I'm Tim Ryan.  Don't stop in on GREX to often, but here I am.
Was pleased to see some of my 1993 itmes in the oldmusic.cf still around
when I tried GREX again this past summer.
        I like all sorts of music and have a rather large collection.
A lot of Top 40, rock, and comedy.  The Christmas collection is now
over 4 feet of CD's, in addition tothe old albums and singles.  Have,
in the past 12 years, re-discovered folk music for the 2nd time.
That folk rediscovery was from finding the music of Science Fiction
and Fantasy, filk, at the conventions I started attending.  I am 
hosting a HouseSing for these filk/folk musicians on December 7th.

hi, i'm nissa, and...i like music much :)  i play the flute, oboe, clarinet
and piano...but, that's just random info.  i love listening to music, almost
all types, but i especially like techno and...british music!!

Hi, I'm Dwayne.  I'm a native M-netter but was persuaded to once again wander
over here to check it out.  I've been musically inclined since I taught myself
to play the trumpet in middle school.  Currently I play the drums in a
little-known local rock band.  What's usually on my stereo is a blend of
various modern rock groups.  

Hi, I'm Anna, and I play the Horn and the trumpet, but I'm rather partial to
the horn.  I play the trumpet with a horn mouthpiece in a funky adapter...
long story.  I'm also forced to play the smellophone in the fall.

I am a chronic channel surfer on both TV and radio, and plainly refuse to
listen to one type of music for more than 5 minutes straight.  Which is
probably why I have trouble sitting through the MYO concerts... <growl>  which
last for 3 hours... <end rant>

I tend to listen to WIQB more than the others, tho.
I really like Hindemith, and at any point have to be working on something he's
written... or I go into "Hindemith withdrawal" and go a bit nuts.  I
personally think Hindemith _was_ nuts.

Hi, I'm Luke. I have some experience playing the saxophone, a little on the
piano, and am currently teaching myself to play the harmonica. my main musical
talent is singing tho ( I can sing soprano, alto, tenoror bass; but i'm
usually a bass) 

I like nearly all music. I love the Blues. I will listen to anything that has
musical talent involved in it and doesn't twang a whole lot) I listen to They
Might Be Giants a LOT..

Hooray for Hindemith

hi, i'm viswanath lehar
ilove music of all sorts
i play guitar a bit  and sing some songs. hotel california and hello are my
favorite. 

I started piano lessons at six and picked up recorder and violin on my own
later on.  I am currently attempting to teach myself to play the guitar
in-between semesters.  The other instruments have sort of gotten pushed aside,
as I can't afford to own a piano right now and never did have a recorder, but
someday I'd like to get back to them.

I halfway figured out the chords to Hotel California . .
please help me finish.

     Hi, I'm Mike
     I played the coronet and trumpet in high school, but quit playing soon
after.
     I have a wide variety of musical tastes. I love to listen to the
eclectic mix of music on WDET. I have a lot of CDs, especially by Kate Bush,
Sarah McLachlan, Celtic music, Michael Nyman, and Japanese soundtracks.

Well, I have absolutely no musical talent, I can't even keep a rythm
tapping my fingers :)
I like NIN, Tool, Milla, Marilyn Manson, XTC (kinda), Joy Division, Beck
and the occasional Butthole Surfers.
I can stand listening to any kind of music (note: I don't consider Rap
as being music)(or the older butthole surfers for that matter).

(hooray for WDET)

Hmmm...  I'm still trying to figure out if I'm in the right conference.
I seem to be surrounded by classical people, and that's not exactly my 
pasttime, but what the hell.  Here it goes:

My musical career started in the 6th grade playing the oboe, which I 
played for the next 3 years.  I quit in the 9th grade because I hated my 
teacher and took up the guitar.  I listen to just about anything, 
(except for rap and country, both of which aren't music) but you'll 
probably find me listening to Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath the most.  
I'm in the middle of forming a hard rock band right now, and that's 
pretty much my life.

That's me, I hope I said the right stuff...

That's you, and you do seem to be in the right conference.

As you see, my name is John. I used to play the trumpet in highschool, but
I'm no longer in highschool, and I gave up the trumpet for some reason. I once
thought I would be a music teacher, but I decided to go into radio instead.

what do you do in radio, if you don't mind my asking? it's something i'd been
considering.. but i don't know a whole lot about the field..

Right now I'm studying radio at the State University of West Georgia, but I've
decided not to continue here, because the radio station here runs primarily
satellite programming on public radio, and I think I would rather work more
in the mainstream.

I listen to soft rock viz Bryan Adams,Def Lepard etc.I don't like Rap.I also
like  Pop Music [Sting,Seal,Ace of base].

When I was fourth grade, I caught hell for telling the teacher I thought
going to see a stringed quartet was stupid.  Last night, I waited in line
for almost an hour to see my favorite Tuvan throat singers, a vocal
ensemble/stringed quartet from another country.  Wouldn't my fourth grade
teacher be proud of me, now?

Yes!

Hallo!  I am a Jennifer  (yes, as you can tell by my name, i was born int he
70's!)  My music likes are really broad, from classical, to techno, to
strings, to punk/ ska, oldies, and anythingi take a liking to!   I am proud
ot say i went to my first Folk concert this past Tuesday and throughly enjoyed
myself, noit i want to get into folk music as well.   I am big  o n celtic
but i am very much a novice and freely admit it.  No need for Ego from me!
Well, anywyas... i am a me, your a you and that is the way the earth turns
about till someone finds the brake....

I'm Jonathan.  It's so good to be here-- Ken invited meto participate.  Let's
see if I can give you the Reader's Digest version of how music has been a big
part of my life.  I have played the piano since I was 8, and I studied it
formally over a period of 11 years.  I have been a church accompanist for 10
years, and have played the organ for about a year now.  I played the trumpet
for 2 years, as well as the bariton horn, tuba for almost six years, and took
up the acoustic guitar about a half year ago.  I have been singing all my life
and am a bass-baritone, although I have learned to sing all four parts.  I
was a music major when I enteered college and learned the solfeggio system
for sightsinging, some improvisation for piano, and a little music dictation
(tho I sucked at it), as well as some first year theory.  I wrote two songs
of my own at this time that I'm still working on.  I left music study for a
time, but I'm planning to return to school soon and pursue my original dream
of becoming an elementary music teacher (although I will consider further
possibilities).

My music tastes are also broad, but my favorite genres are baroque, British
music, the various synthesizer genres which include technopop, techno, New
Age, and Walter Carlos; Romantic, Debussy's Impressionist (he was an anomaly
in that style for music); folk music; the 80's in general.  The bands that
have been most likely to be playing my song (or are) are Depeche Mode,
Mannheim Steamroller (in its Fresh Aire series, when Chip wasn't emphasizing
an orchestral sound and didn't have that idiot highhorse concertmaster
violionist Arnie Roth  [nothing personal-- I am biased against violinists]),
and Enya.  I am open to expanding this list, however-- the b-52's had some
brilliant talent in their last album, _Good Stuff_.

Um, well, I'm Twila, and I have absolutely no musical talent or training. 
I did enjoy singing in grade school and high school (which culminated in
singing in the chorus when the local college did _The Messiah_), but I
am not good enough to join a choir when one has to audition. When I was
a child and teenager, I wasn't terribly interested in music -- my parents
liked country a lot, and I don't. I did hear most of the current Really
Big Stuff (like the Beatles) but I never paid much attention to it. I began
to get into musicals in college, when my room-mates were theatre types.
Mostly things like Godspell, 1776, Camelot, etc. I also began to listen
to the radio, and managed to find a lot of things I liked there, but 
the biggest thing that happened in college was that I heard Steeleye Span.
Suddenly, I was exposed to folk music. I loved it, but I didn't really
start buying a whole lot of stuff, since we were poor. 
I actually began listening to music intensively in the early eighties,
since I got a job in Ann Arbor that involved a lot of concentration and
the office practice was to listen to radio/cassettes. Suddenly, I had
eight hours a day to listen to music. And I did. (Still do, actually!)
I began to buy things slowly. This accelerated after I read _Moonheart_
by Charles de Lint and heard of all these Celtic bands I'd never known
about. (Ditz that I was!) So suddenly I was going to Schoolkids and
buying Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span and Tannahill Weavers and
Battlefield Band and.... suffice it to say that I have a LOT of cassettes
from the Eighties. 
In about 92, I met Ken Josenhans via the internet, after deciding that
I *needed* to replace my old Horslips album that I'd killed by playing
too much. Found out that it wasn't available, but then he started turning
me on to a lot of British folk-rock that I hadn't been aware of. Again,
geeze, what a ditz! 
Meanwhile, I started volunteering at the Ark and finding all sorts of
new music through that, and *finally* about four years ago, I joined
the CD age, quite late. Though I've been making up for lost time in
spades. 
Favorites (at the moment, this changes from day to day, mood to mood):
The Tansads, Utah Phillips, Caswell and Carnahan, Mr. Fox, Garnet Rogers,
James Keelaghan, Dougie MacLean... 
Probably the people I'd put in my must buy box are Dougie, Garnet, and 
the Keelo-man, though the Oyster Band, Clannad, Mary Chapin Carpenter,
and Archie Fisher are also in there. 

Twila-  I could hit myself in the head for missing Utah Phillips at the
        Ark, this month...
        
        

Yeah!  I had heard that he had retired from performing due to an enlarged 
heart; on the other hand, he probably needed the money.  Doc Watson was 
supposed to retire over five years ago, too.

I know, though I understand that he only performed one night. And on
the Sunday show for kids... Sigh. I missed it too. I wanted to hear
him on Folks Like Us on the Saturday, but we had to go to my mother-
in-law's where it doesn't come, so I missed it. :-(
Did buy the Ani diFranco collaboration with Utah, and a copy of _Good
Though_, just so I could hear the classic "Moose Turd Pie". 

        I probably introduced myself before, but I'll be breif.  Thanks
for the new activity in the music conference.
        I'm Tim Ryan, I like a wide variety of music.  My collection
contains a lot of Top 40 hits (a wider variety than the WOMC/WKQL
libraries), a lot of Classic rock (more variety than WCSX) have 
more Christmas CDs than a lot of people have total CDs.  Been 
into Country Music, listen to Young Country every now and then.
I can appreciate classical music, but don't seek it out.  I can
like Jazz, though again I don't collect it or seek it out, however
I find myself enjoying live Jazz, ususally on an invite from freinds.
I am a big collector of demented music, the kind you hear on Dr.
Demento, and the kind Dr. Demento has/had yet to hear.  Sometimes
the current attuitude/history of America ends up in these fun songs
than the current Top 40 playlist stuff.  I am in my second decade 
of my third discovery of folk music; summer camp and college being
the first two.
        I used to be a disc jockey on a variety of radio stations
("I was a teenage Polka Pal"), put I went sane.  I don't have 
much musical talent, but I try.  I can be found doing karaoke
from time to time.  I am an active/avid fan of the music of 
science fiction and fantasy: Filk -- kinda like folk music where
the future is sung in the past tense.
        It's Palm Sunday and time to dig out Jesus Christ Superstar
for a listen or five; later.

Oh yeah, I like filk, too. 

        Hi, I'm Jovan living in MA and I'm just wondering if we can create
another subtopic here in the MUSIC conference and talk about musicians and
not just the music they play. Example, if you are a guitarist, you can talk
about Lee Rit...., Earl Klugh, Eddie Van Halen, Joe Satriani and the rest.
        Let's discuss techniques and styles of playing these different
instruments. If you know of any musician who is not popular but is very good,
you can bring his name up here and share what you know about him or her.
        I would love to share my knowledge in some of the musicians that I know
and I would love to hear from you too..
        By the way, I'm a musician myself (bass player) and I love jazz,
alternative, contemporary music and practically all types. Thanks and I hope
I'll hear from you soon.

Jovan-  yes, you can create another subtopic.  If I recall correctly, typing
"Enter" at the topic prompt allows you to type in a short description of the
subtopic.  When you're done, follow normal saaving commands, and it should
prompt you for a title.  Easy enough!

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