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!
I'm yet another example of Ken strong-arming friends and acquaintances to re-join the music conference.. Although I used to be quite active on Grex in the early days I don't think I've signed on more than once or twice in the past four years but I promised Ken & Leslie I'd poke my head in and see what's up.. Personally I'm interested in a wide variety of music, though I sadly lack any sort of performing skills. Lately I've been listening to a lot of primarily instrumental music especially dub, surf, early 60's Jamaican ska (a perennial favorite of mine..), and the occasional Beethoven symphony just to keep the mix completely psychotic.
Thanks for dropping by, Mike!
Jovan, I set up item #36 for the discussion you wanted. Yes, "enter" is the correct command if you want to start your own discussion item, rather than having me do it.
Welcome back to Grex, Mike!
I'm Larry Kestenbaum. I'm not a musician, but I'm married to a choral singer. I grew up with folk music (Chicago, early 1960s), and though I like many kinds of music, folk is my baseline. I used to serve on the board of directors of Ten Pound Fiddle, which puts on folk concerts and dances in the Lansing area. I have been at times an avid folkdancer.
I've spent some time in the Lansing area, Larry. It seems like there was a pretty good celtic and folk crowd in the area. Oddly, I never managed to make it to Elderly Instruments. I look forward to seeing your comments in our folk item...
I can't remember if I've introduced myself in this item or not already, but here I am. I've been playing piano since more or less the beginning of time (read 'second or third grade'), both fairly decent classical and painfully mediocre jazz. I also have some experience writing music. I'll listen to more or less anything, and my tastes range from nice mainstream normal stuff to the truly bizzarre. If I did actually introduce myself here before and just forgot about it, anything I said in my previous introduction still applies.
My memory tends to be short, so I can always use the help...
glad to be of service
Hi, I'm Anne. I don't know if I ever really talked in here. I've been a lurker in this conf. for quite awhile. <grins> I like a variety of music, and I'm not sure what else to say= so bye for now! <waves>
Hi Anne! Welcome to the music conference!
Well, I'm Craig. My musical tastes vary tremendously. Elton John, Billy Joel, Celine Dion, Alanis, Cranberries, Ace of Base, Enya <-- cool stuff, gregorian chants, techno (i.e. La Bouche, Real McCoy, No Mercy, etc.) ans even some Garth Brooks...so as you can see...it varies greatly. Pretty much if you play it I'll like it, as long as it's not Death Rock, Metal, Instrumental, or Classic Rock (yech!). I also sing fairly decently too, but I haven't been able to put that talent to any use. I'd like to be in some type of a band, just for something to do, but no luck thus far. I write songs, mostly lyrics, coming up with music is difficult if not impossible for me.
Why the objection to instrumental music?
I like words.
My only obstacle in coming up with music to go with lyrics is that I have no musical skills whatsoever.. can't read music, dont' know enough to write any. I know what I want things to sound like, jsut not how to put them down.
senna--I could help you with that. I have some experience writing music--mostly instrumental, but some vocals as well. I wouldn't mind trying to fit a tune to some of your lyrics.
heh, if only I had the guts to learn how to play real guitar :)
a minor detail...who needs talent? :)
Craig- Billy and Elton are classics! Good choices!
Not Bush or Green Day, apparently
hi! I'm Katt(see above), I play jazz violin and compose(I justgraduated from the music school about a week ago, and am releievd, in somerespects, as someone who was born here, to have become a "real person" again, as opposee to "one of those $#%#@^&@$ students). . .
p.sp-yay WDET :) AS well as WCBN and WEMU :) :)
hi i am melissa....i love music..i have played piano since i was in third grade and i also play drums guitar bass guitar and the xylophone. i play in my high school marching band and i am not in the Grand Valley State University marching band. i love the 80's wave and the wave of today but no country or rap
Hi, melisa! :)
Drums, guitar, bass, and xylophone--that'd make one hell of an interesting band. Hmm...
Right, I was going to ask if Melissa had done any multitrack recording with herself.
how could you possibly need more? :)
Now that I think of it, "Road to Dead" by Paula Cole features pretty much that lineup. Plus piano, if my memory serves correctly.
So which do you concentrate on the most? OR do you do them all equaly?
Melissa- sounds very cool. Tell us more...
Hey all this is my first posting so I thought I say something of myself. First off I'm a self taught guitarist not that good though (although people tell me otherwise but I think they are being polite). I've also played Bass, and Drums for a little while although once I came across the guitar I loved it. I'm into heavy metal but I will listen to everything and anything. Well thats about it for me hope to hear from yaall soon later :)
Hi, Joseph! Welcome to the music conference!
hi joseph :)
greetings!
Hi, I'm Leslie, and I'm theoretically a co-FW of this conference. I've been pretty remiss in my FW duties, but I knew Ken would do a great job on his own (a round of applause for krj). I've been singing most of my life, and began studying voice seriously several years ago. I'm going to MSU in the fall to get a masters degree in vocal performance, and I'm very excited about that. I've also played the piano since I was 10 (actually played "Heart and Soul" and "Chopsticks" long before that, but 10 was when I started piano lessons). I took flute lessons for about 5 years, and guitar lessons for a coupple of years. I own two pianos, two guitars, a flute, tenor saxophone, and assorted little fun instruments. I'd really love to learn to play saxophone some day. I also teach voice lessons. I listen to and love all kinds of music. I think that's enough for one entry...
A pleasure to be finally introduced to you, Leslie!
Oh, so *that's* the other person I have to suck up to :)
Hello, oh ye of too many instrumental talents for one person :)
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
I secretly yearn to play the daxophone...
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.
Well... *evil laugh* try out, if he doesn't select you, sue on the grounds of sexual discrimiantion... if you want to get on there the weird way.
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 :)
Hi. I'm snowth, you might have seen me around recently, and other than that I refuse to introduce myself.
Welcome, Janice! Dar Williams is great...had a chance to see her about a year ago. Into Ani DiFranco, at all?
Hey, Tricia...good to have you along!
yep...i like ani a lot...:) saw her up in east lansing a couple of months back....
I've heard a lot about ani difranco, and it sounds like I'd really like it... any suggestions from those who know more than I which album to buy first?
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...
Hi motor!! nice to see you here finally. I hope you have something to add to the Lilith Fair item, #59.
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.
(I'm just tickling this item so it pops up new for anyone who has joined us in the last two months.)
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. ;->
A true renaissance man. Welcome.
A belated, but enthusiastic, welcome!
glad to see you finally got here dave!
*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..)
Well, I'm Meg. I mostly don't bite. :) I've got a sorta odd varity of music. Pink Floyd, Rush, Dar Williams, Sarah McLachlan, Three Men and a Tenor, Bad Religion, Crowded House, XTC, Tom Lehrer...And other interesting stuff. :)
That's variety..:)
Indubitably. :)
Life is much more interesting with variety. :) so is the multi-disc cd player....:)
I do suppose it would be.
My name is Jim and I used to play the clarinet and drums way back in the dark ages. I now confine my playing to the 4 CD players that I have scattered about the house. My tastes in music run the gamut from rap to classical, with some emphasis on the rock of the 50's,60's,70's and 80's. I would eventually like to pursue the clarinet and trumpet before I get too old and crotchety. ;)
(is it possible to be young and crochety?)
I don't think so, but I've been told that I'm getting very opinionated and am easily annoyed. I am a nice person, however I do have my moments.
(I am part of the first MTV generation, but I think it's helped to broaden my musical exposure. to paraphrase a commercial, "if it's music, I'll listen." as such, I've never been able to pigeonhole the music I listen to. I have also always been one to share the music that enjoy with others. currently, I'm learning what's known as "DJ intuition": the ability to connect from one song to the next. [a lousy definition, but, hey, I'm still learning!]) (I'll make an effort to discuss artists whose work I admire, and maybe even discuss artists whose work I _don't_ admire, although those are few and far between.)
Hi carson, I was hoping you would come by eventually...
must be my first stop in here since Jan 1 or 2.
Welcome back, then.
hi, i'm katy.. i did my intro a long time ago... i am listed as a fw, but haven't been around here in a long time... <katy hangs her head> i'm gonna make an effort to bbs regularly tho...
good :)
I, as well, am dipping back into this conf, for the first time in months. Hello, everyone!
Hi guys! I've read most of your introductions and feel like I'm learner among pro's . I started out pretty late on music, and cannot play the guitar more than a few chords. So I'm looking forward to learning a lot.
Hehehe..amongst professionals? No, most of the people on this conference are active listeners of music. Ken, Mark, Mike, and others have extensive discographies. There are musicians here, but most are not music educators, nor professional musicians per se. What you'll find is mostly discussion on commercial music, although other subjects have been included.
Hey, I'm always ready to answer a "serious" musician question. And if I don't know the answer, I usually know someone who does . . .
figured there might be.. however, I'm been trying to get Music Ed conversations started for months, but the one music educator here isn't here very often.
I don't blame him. I notice that on various BBS systems once a person's area of expertise becomes know, others expect to get for free what others pay for in person . . .
'him'? No, I was talking about Leslie. She is very much involved in other things.
I think I am back into the Music conf.!
Hi all :) I dont need to say I love music. Otherwise I wouldnt be here. Just knew that there is a place where music is discussed, shared and most importantly enjoyed. And I am here after thoroughly cursing myself for not to have known this place till now. :) For the starters, I am from India. I am practiaccly into everykind of music though sadly enough I cant play any instrument. Would love to learn many before I die. :) Feel free to ask any information about Indian music. I will share my knowledge however little it may be. Apart from Indian classical music, I love Mozart and Bach. And going by the pop music, the Savage Garden of late. Bryan Adams, Richard Marx and Celine Dion are also on my fav list <good for 'em> :) Anyways, hope to get a response from all of ya !<too much to ask for? > bye
Hi Fun Guy! I like Savage Garden, too, but I'm mostly into older pop.
Hey funnie! I'd like to learn a lot more about Indian music. The style called raga and the sitar instrument are all I've heard about for the most part. I've heard of other instruments that serve as drones, but I can't remember their names. One is a tall, 2-stringed instrument played standing up, and one was this accordion-like instrument I saw on MTV's Oddville (but mind you, I thought it was cool).
Yeah. Raaga is the base upon which the Indian classical music is built.Each raaga epitomizes a different style of composition of music.here are as many as twenty five raagas. And there is some correspndense between the raagas and the human moods. Sitar is ofcourse one of the sweetest of the Indian instruments. Those who are the fans of The Beatles should be knowing about it. The Beatles have played along with Pandit Ravi Shanker ( Pandit in Indian language means a maestro ! ) who is a sitar genius. Lumen - One of the instruments you were talking about is Sarod. Sarod is also like Sitar. I cant make out the other one. Most probably it could be a Tambora. And it is cool, I should say. :)
jiffer, now that you have poked back into conference, you might be able to bring some reminiscences of the Battlefield Band show to your Celtic Music item, #67.
Thanks, Fun. Yep, George Harrison in particular brought the sitar to attention by using it in a Beatles song. Initially, he was criticized since he applied the Western music system to an Eastern instrument, but he was praised later when it was found he wished to study the sitar seriously.
then he was criticized again, later, when it turned out he wanted to use it in *every* song.. :-) I like the sound of the sitar but it doesn't work for everything.. Having been raised on western music I find Indian music hard to appreciate -- I'm willing to believe that it has just as much depth and variety as the musical styles with which I am familiar but I just don't pick up on the right elements. I have the same problem with other Asian musical traditions. African and South American musical forms are much easier for me to appreciate, as they have introduced elements from, and contributed elements to, western music as I know it, but traditional Asian forms sound very alien to me, no matter how much I wish I could appreciate them.
I imagine it`s just what one is used to or not, but when channel surfing I have stopped at the Indian channel, wherein there is usually some really cheesy video going on. The singing is shrill and whiny and extremely annoying to my Western ears, and all the singers sound the same.
Hello to everybody, "who am I?" I'm a 23 years italian boy. I love Beatles, Simon&Garfunkel, the last U2, dIRE sTRAITS, R.E.M. and, obviously the fabolous Pink Floyd :-) luca_
Hey! Sironi ! Welcome to the music world :) Well, Mike and Katie. I would say it is just a matter of taste. And Mike, obviously you cant use Sitar for everything. I guess, had a single instrument been sufficient, we would not be been having so many varities of them. It is as simple as that, Mike:) Yeah. Mike. I also cant pick up everything that is western. I will settle for those styles which I am comfy with. And Katie, as for your observation of Indian music being whiny and shrill, I would say I differ on that opinion. It could be just that you are exposed to a very limited part of it time and again. Original Indian classical music is supposed to be soulful. It is in fact. I enjoy it as much as I do the Western pop. Probably, you are right when you said its a matter of being used to a particular kinda music or not. In India, Western music has had a very little influence on people till recently. Anything western was synonymous with the elite. MTV, by hitting the Indian shores, has definitely opened up the gates for cultural union of east and west. Now even a person on the streets can identify himself with the MTV culture. Katie, my mom too whines about the music that I listen to just because she is not used to it. :) And I dont care as long as I like listening to western music ( mom calls it noise :)
No one has mentioned yet that the scale systems of non-Western countries are
very, very, different. I'm sure African music forms are easy to digest
because we've been literally exposed to them for years. The blues scale, for
example, comes from an African scale. A lot of the merging of Western music
and African music through the crossroads of folk, blues, and classical styles
are what created jazz, rock n' roll, etc. I'd say ditto on South American
styles. For many years, it was shaped by the influence of the conquistadors.
The Peruvian/Bolivian charango, for example, is a ten-stringed native
instrument based on the Spanish guitar. Granted, there are some elements that
remained untouched, but, the styles continue to mix (German accordion in
Mexican tejano {tex-mex} and banda music, from the immigration of Nazi
sympathizers-- importance of Spanish guitar in Mexico and South America, etc.,
etc., etc.)
I've seen just a smidgeon of Indian influence in some new Brit pop acts
(Indian-British musicians). I'm sure it's late in coming, but the New Brits
seem a little more tolerant than earlier generations of foreign culture.
You have to remember, too, that Western music was based on the honing of only
two of the 12 modes in 12-tone system. Those modes would be major and minor,
or Ionian and Aeolian. We often hear Myxolidian in jazz and blues-based
music, but otherwise, that's all we usually hear. Occasionally, some of us
music students will play pieces in the Dorian mode, but that's about it.
These modes, also called the 'church modes,' were once used quite frequently
in music before the 17th century.
I am supposing other countries and cultures use modal systems quite freely,
and so their interpretation of mood in music can be quite different from
ours-- or perhaps different in shade, to use a visual correlation.
I'd explain modes and why we chose to move to major, minor, and the two
variations of minor, but I'd waste more time and move out of my capability
to explain in fully and effectively.
Best way to appreciate a foreign music is to learn to play one of the instruments. I'm working on shakuhachi, and leaning a lot about japanese traditional music.
I wouldn't doubt it.
Heah u all funnie mike kattie sironi and scott.... hello I am an indian and i like indian music very much....i sing too.. I like to sing slow songs... which are cool.... having some ragas...ups and downs.... I apreciate the effort taken by funnie to brief you about indian music ....... I like westen music.. too... but again i like slow songs...which has peace.... which are not having much noise.... such songs u can listen and keep on going with that.... again in india you can have traditional music...Here the Punjabi's do bhangara..dance.... it sounds very nice..... The young guys and gals get mad with tunes of deler mehandi.... and others.... they mix something of pop too.....
I wouldn't doubt it. I remember reading a technobass tune was popular in India a few years back.
yep, lumen the pop is going to becomea a part of indian cinemas. In every movie ,therer will be atleast a pop song.. The pop is like child who makes people happy.. who plays around who dance run .. jump .... and ...... So mix of indian tune with pop makes a rght combination...... And one can enjoy such stuff.....
So it would seem. We've been discussing in other items how the explosion of multimedia is rapidly changing the world's music.
Multimedia .. as it means many ways to pass informatisound is one fo the way tp have communication. It now become the part of music .... The people use computer.. and various data files of tunes and bits... and able to create new sound... So it is a miracle .... They do sound mixing.. and get the result that make the tune similas to old tune.. but with difference....difference in bits........which makes us happy... The human has always looked for the change.. And he looks out for something chaneged world...... changed music... and so on....
Well, it's not just that technology is shaping music-- it's that many people suddenly have access to hear more and more of the diversity of musical styles throughout the world and throughout history. Because musicians are exposed to musical styles they might not have heard otherwise, they can implement those other ideas in their music.
yeah... you are right lien
Hey there... I think I'm back... *again*. Can't promisse how long it will last, or that I'll actually have anything interesting to contribute, but at least I'm functioning in the real (well, kind of) world again. :/
Hi snowth :-) I think 'nobody home' as one of my favourite Pink Floyd song, with Echoes, Time, Vera Lynn and so many others. luca_
decidedly 'nobody home' :) (In fact, i think that's the lyrics that are currently hiding in my .plan if anyone cares! :)
Yes I read :-) luca_ "the time is gone, the song is over, thougth i'd something more to say"
Leslie and I are back after our Big Trip. (see item:agora,116 ) Thanks to everyone for keeping things perking along while we were gone.
Ken, what was sung in your wedding? :-) luca_
And, from what I understand, India's cinematic industry rivals Hollywood.
Actually, far surpasses it in the number of feature films produced each year. Indian films enjoy pretty wide distribution throughout Asia, too..
How come I haven't seen any of these movies, then, or heard about them?
Because America's stuck up like that, and they won't release them for mass audiences here. It's really annoying, I'll get 10 different pen pals from across the world telling me about this great Indian film, but you can't find it here *anywhere*
Have you tried looking at a specialty video store? Often Indian grocery
stores will have a video rental section -- of course their selection is
usually not very large and given the huge number of films that are produced
your chances of finding a specific movie may be small..
The Indian movies I've seen have seemed very strange to me, accustomed
as I am to Hollywood-style movies. I suspect that may have a lot to do
with their lack of distribution in this country, too, since at least some
of the foremost films of many other countries make it into circulation here.
(in recent years I can think of lots of movies from all of Europe, China,
Japan, even a few from Iran and Viet Nam.. Except for the Apu movies,
which were made years ago, I can only recall one Indian film which made
it to theaters in Ann Arbor ("Bandit Queen"))
something about me ... i am a software engineer down in the slico9n valley, where EL Nio still rules supreme. My musical these taste are towards what can be called classic rock acts -- like floyd, zeppelin, deep purple, queen, who, steely dan, CCR ETc. amongst the new group of artists, i like alannis, no doubt, all saints a dn of course spice girls !!! later, Soggy
So far so good...this is shirley..and I will contribute my two cents...I have what some would say a diverse musical taste..but I lean towards avantgard new music...that is strange and kinda frightening..in some ways...I beleive that to undestand the true nature of music one must be able to appriciate all differant aspects of the music scene..whether new or old..and have an open mind...I am working on intigrating dital music scores that are independanly mixed with digital imagery of the like...to create a virtual art form with my own flavor of art..
Hi shirley, welcome to the conference. It's not the world's fastest conversation but we hope you'll check back every couple of days.
Indian movie industry often known as Bollywood, is the biggest movie industry in the world, I reckon. Ofcourse this is only in the number of movies produced and the number of people associated with this industry ( artists and technicians ). Southern India has the lion's share in the total number of films produced. As for the quality of the movies, I can say that more than 75% of the movies are slick flicks. They churn out the same kinda movie again and again until its rotten. Very few movies have risen above this and actually made it to the international scene. As Mcnally mentioned, Bandit Queen is one such movie. Infact it was even nominated in the best foreign film categoryof Oscars. Talkin about the histrionics, there are very few artists who can match the international standards. Artists like Shabana Azmi, Amrish Puri, Ompuri, Kamal Hassan and directors like Satyajit Ray ( He was awarded a special Oscar award for his contribution to Indian Cinema) Meera Nair ( the one who made a film on the Indian epic, Kaama Sutra ), Deepa Mehta have made substantial contribution to the Indian Cinema. The main problem in Bollywood is the technology. We are very slow in catching up with the Movie Techolongy of the outside world. It is no exaggeration if I say that Bollywood lags behind Hollywood by 15 years in terms of technology.
Wow, funnie, thanks for the info. I still don't understand why I can't see some of these flicks.
hey lumen, good to see you around again ! I understand that many of the big league movies do make it to the theatres in some cities. I have many colleagues who are positioned at our client location ( NASDAQ ) in Rockville, Maryland. They get to see all the latest movies in the town theatres. Sometimes earlier than us. Ofcourse they will not be shown in the theatres on a regular basis. It will be like one or two shows on weekends. I guess the main problem would be the language. All indian movies are made in the Indian national language, Hindi. The movies can be released in Hindi in the places where you have substantial number of Indians. In other places where there is not enough Indian population they cant afford to feature these films in theatres, unless someone provides the movies with English subtitles. But step into any asian video store, you will have a wide range of the Indian movie videos to pick from. ( without english sub-titles though )
hey, i'm barry. i'm a self taught banjo player what use to play guitar of different flavors...i'm also teaching myself the tin whistle and low whistle in preparation for learning the pipes...as you prolly guessed, i'm a fan of celtic and appalachian styles...but i like everything, as long as it causes my brain to melt ala the keyboard part in whiter shade of pale... oh, and thanks, ken, for heppin me!
Hi, happyboy! Some items you might want to look at, if you haven't
already found them:
folk item:27
celtic item:67
country item:18 , item:117
some folk/celtic artists:
item:40 item:48 item:83 item:118
Alright, a banjo player!
it's a cross to bear... how do you keep a banjo player from drowning in 2 inches of water? take your foot off of his neck.
I'll just tickle this item so it pops up and reminds folks who have started reading the conference in the last six weeks or so to tell us a little bit about themselves.
I think I have an explanation of myself a lot earlier in this item. But I don't know, it was a long time ago.
Hi, I'm Sonia and I love music, and cannot live without it :) I like Alanis Morissette, Billy Joel, Everclear, Aerosmith, Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Meatloaf, and much much more! :) I play the clarinet... I would love to learn how to play the piano tho :)
Oh heck -- I just got a mix tape with some Thelonius Monk on it. Now I may have to adjust my scale to include him. :-) But mostly I like British folk/rock groups, along with Scottish, Welsh, Irish, and Galician stuff. (And can't forget that Canadian connection, either!) My current raves are Old Blind Dogs, Gabriel Yacoub, The Albion Band (with Cathy LeSurf, sorry Ken, but that's the version that rings my chimes...), Trip Shakespeare, Oysterband, Great Big Sea, Captain Tractor, Archie Fisher, Garnet Rogers, Dougie MacLean, and James Keelaghan. Mostly. Right now.
Hey... I'm Ann and I listening to a lot of different music..., some of my faves are Cocteau Twins, Covanent, Pop Will Eat Itself, Lorenna McKinnet, Switchblade Symphony, Seal, Delerium, and Dead Can Dance. Hmmm...lets see, I am the singer and keyboardist for Nightside Eclipse, a Ann Arbor based gothic/industrial band. I have been playing the piano since I was 4 and I played the cello for 8 years also. Music is a HUGE part of my life you could say.., so that is why I am here! =)
I`ve heard that name (Nightside Eclipse) or something similar to it recently. Who else is in your band? A Mo or a Mark, maybe?
The other members of the band are Don Grandsen, and my husband Phee Stringer (klanger on grex). Our producer and sound man is Mark Wiseman. We just played out at the Blind Pig a week ago.
I met someone in Davison Mi recently who is involved with a band with "Eclipse" in the name.
Hmm...probably wasn't us..., I don't even though where Davison is! =)
Kill Pop Radio @ http://www.killpopradio.com
Kill Pop Radio? Is that a band, or a movement?
Hi Anne! Thanks for joining in on the music conference and starting a goth/industrial item!
Hey...thats what I'm here for! This is actually the only conference that I belong to, because music is the most important thing...ever! =-)
awwww, but I love all the arts :( :P
Hi. I'm Mike. I've been on this conference before, but it's been a looong time, so I thought I'd reintroduce myself. I listen to Sarah McLachlan, Kate Bush, Zappa, Dead Can Dance, Nine Inch Nails, Enya, Altan, The Orb, Celtic music, Industrial, Ambient, Techno, female singer/songwriters, and many other kinds of music. I used to play the coronet, but it's been years since the last time I've playe it. My favorite local band (after hearing them play last Saturday) is Poignant Plecostamos. (Did I finally spell it right?)
Plecostomus. I think. And it's "cornet." ;-)
Oh, you were at the Plecostomus show Saturday? Cool...another convert.
For some reason, KRJ has been singing to me the praises of the grex music.cf for about as long as I can remember. I have been on m-net for a few years now, and am also the co-fw of the m-net music.cf. It's been rough-going, and now the only posts seem to contain nothing but drift and four-letter words. Here I am, I'm ready for a change of atmosphere. You can only talk in drift and obscenity so long, then it gets boring. I promise I'mm behave, and try my best to keep it clean, OK Ken? I have a degree in audio engineering, and have always loved music of all kinds and enjoyed listening to it. I go to about 10 concerts a year, although bec my being a career-path changeling, I haven't been able to afford much new music or live shows. This past year, I did manage to see Toledo at Motor in Detroit <excellent show, full of life and good jazz,\ chain smoking and martinis <<if that's your gig>> > ICP and GWAR at Harpos on Devil's night <The Hallowicked tour> which my friend mike <poidog on m-net> and I went to just on principle. It was good fun. Last but certianly not least, Mike and I went to see The Reverend Horton Heat. I am always just beside myself, with his live shows.....as if <IMHO> his records aren't good enough. What do I listen to? First and Foremost, I have everything that Simon and Garfunkel have ever recorded....and most of their solo work as well. Syd Straw is my Goddess on the mountiantop. Just ask KRJ, he knows. I have a nearly complete collection or REM, as well as the 10k Maniacs on both cd and vinyl....and wierd-obsessive stuff like counter displays and videos and iorn ons. I'm getting a bit into techno...Well, I *love* Juno Reactor, if that counts...it's more like goth techno. I love the Golden Palominos, and anything with really good acoustic guitar in it, like the albumn that Peter Holsapple and Chris Stamey did together a few years back. Speaking of shich, I'll be willing to bet that I also have pretty much everything that the dB's ever released as well. That's all for me now.
The dBs!?!?!?!
<cyklone wrecks Carla's amplifier>
an amplifier's just wire and wood, man.
Hi Carla, glad you're here.
Hey goose! I hear yer teaching Audio tech at WCC/
Yep, I'm in my third year of doing Audio Tech I, Rob now teaches Audio Tech II. Teaching is a lot of fun.
I used to teach special ed. It was interesting.
explain 'interesting'? That could mean a lot of things..
wow, audio tech, I saw that in the course listings, thought it sounded pretty cool.. pondered taking it too, neet.
Hi, I'm Julie. My husband is Jonathan (lumen--he posted way up close to the top). With any luck, my post won't be nearly as long. I was exposed to music before birth. My father, a classical music nut, used to pipe music into my mother's stomach while she was pregnant with me. After I was born, my parents would take me to choir practice. While we were there, I would usually sleep. However, if the group sang off key or if a soloist was singing, I would wake up and cry. That's a wonderful story that my mother used to tell me. I can still usually tell when people are singing off key, but I have major difficulty finding the correct note myself without help (a piano, a pitch pipe, some other singer, etc.). When I was young, my mother used to sing me to sleep. My life was filled with musicin many areas: school, church. (we sing a lot at our church). I joined the ward choir when I was twelve. The year before, when I was 11, the choir director had indicated that she couldn't wait to have my voice there. I sang in the choir off and on for about 9 years. Twice in junior high (before Middle Schools took over), twice in high school, and once in college, I was in the school choir/chorus. I am, at this time, entirely uncertain of my range, but I sing comfortably as an alto or mezzo soprano. As you can see, singing has always been a large part of my life. Sometimes, the music I'm singing, or whether or not I'm singing, will even give occasional hints about my mood. I've taken piano lessons, but not had much enthusiasm for it, though I admire others, like Jonathan, who play well. The only kind of music I've ever been passionate about improving on is vocal music. I've been told that, with a little formal training, my voice could improve tremendously. With that in mind, though I haven't the time at the moment, I am looking forward to the time when I have the opportunity to study voice with all seriousness. As for the kinds of music I like, I like it all with few exceptions (it's easier just to list the exceptions, anyway). I'm not all too fond of Country Music. Particularly the artists who sing with that annoying, fakey-sounding twang. I really don't like Hard Rock or Metal where the music sounds like a bunck of people banging on their instruments and yelling obscenities and other things you can barely understand. I'm not at all sure if I like opera or not, so, until further notice, it is relegated to the exceptions list. There are a few songs (or artists)that, I admit, I like in both categories. In Country Music. I kinda like Kenny Rogers. Lots of his music has interesting lyrics. In the Opera category, I really like "Oh, Holy Night" It would be such a thrill if I were able to sing that well enough to do it justice. Guess I didn't manage to make my post short. Music has just been such a part of my life...
I forgot to mention that Metal bands sometimes put out songs that I like, also. For the longest time I've been hooked on Def Leppard, but I don't know if they count as Metal or not.
They do.
Hi Julie, thanks for coming by our conference!
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You're very welcome and, obviously, so am I. (laugh) Thank you.
Hi, I'm Jason. I am in the final year of a BMus course, and I specialise in electroacoustic composition. I sort of play the clarinet, bass clarinet, percussion, I sing (tenor/high baritone), and recently I've taken an interest in orchestral conducting. Umm.... I'm into a wide range of music, but recently I have been submerging myself in electroacoustic music, and works by Xenakis, Ligeti, Varese, Berio etc. Next year I hope to continue my studies and start a postgraduate course in composition, and that's more or less everything there is to know about me. Oh, and cheers krj, it seems quite interesting here.
Ah, nice to see another person here who's into composition. Welcome, Jason.
Hi Jason, thanks for stopping in! I have to admit that I'm not sure how many Xenakis fans we have here on Grex. I did know a Scelsi fan once; he put a Scelsi tape on the stereo at one party and everyone in the room said, at once, "What the hell is that!?!"
What instruments do those composers write for?
I need a good intro to elecrtoacoustic music.
You should grab hold of "The history of electronic music" by Peter Manning if you can. It gives a very good introduction to the rise of electroacoustic music, and quite detailed information on some of the major innovators. It also suggests some very good pieces to listen to. Other than that, I'm currently working on a website which will have quite a bit of information on electroacoustic music. I'll let you know if I ever get near to completing it!
Thanks! The only thing close to electronica that I am listening to so far is Juno Reactor, if that counts for anything. I love them.
i haven't been on in a while, but no i have never recorded anything. i really can't seem to write any music
hi. i'm eric. i'm just approaching the end of a season of working as an artist services coordinator and production manager for University Musical Society, a major presenter of classical music, modern dance and ethnotheatrical works, based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
oh, and i have absolutely no native musical inclination, but i am something of a sponge, and i like learning new things. my primary interest is theatrical, but i'm about to venture into television production. what the heck? i've made a living in the last four years doing things i've never done before, why stop just when it's getting really interesting?
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I am interested in rock, and alternative, and philosophy and spirituality.
Welcome Scylla... (you might also check out the synthesis or directions conferences...I don't know if either is active anymore, but your philosophical/spiritual end would enjoy them)
Ola... I'm Natalie. I grew up listening to the Beatles, which gave me a pop sweet tooth I was never able to shake. Currently my favorite artists include Robyn Hitchcock, XTC, Elvis Costello, Brian Eno, Peter Blegvad, Syd Barrett, Kristin Hersh/Throwing Muses, the Chills, Nick Drake, and the Elephant 6 collective (a group of Athens, GA-based bands that includes Neutral Milk Hotel, Olivia Tremor Control, the Apples in Stereo, Beulah, and Elf Power). I'm starting to educate myself re. non-Western music, jazz, and "bleepy music" (i.e. techno/electronica). I'm also developing a taste for 20th-century avant garde/minimalist composers like Michael Nyman and Steve Reich, and edging slowly in the direction of prog via Robert Wyatt and some of Peter Blegvad's earlier projects with folks from Henry Cow. I have a little musical training and can carry a tune. I am also learning to play guitar and recently bought a very lovely Martin DM for that purpose. All of the music mentioned above can be heard on my show on WCBN, 88.3 Ann Arbor, from 6 am to 9 am on Sundays.
Welcome Natalie! (yr show rocks, by the way...)
I'm Jonathan and I come from New Zealand, but live in Boulder, CO now (between the mountains and reality :). I like "classical" music (probably because it was about all I heard until I was about six or seven), especially Bach, Beethoven, and Rachmaninov. I also love listening to bebop jazz; my favorite jazz musicians are probably Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Miles Davis and John Coltrane. Lately I've been listening to the Kronos Quartet _Short Stories_ CD a lot, which has some really weird and awesome music on it. Ditto Steve Reich's _City Life_. And I love Simon & Garfunkel. I think that's about it for now... bye...
ah, another Jonathan :)
New Zealand, the land where all the best music comes from! (Well, a lot of it, anyway. :)
I go away for a while and new people show up. I hope this isn't a trend. :) I should dig up some of the New Zealand rock albums I got back around 1990... anyway, hi to gnat and oddie...
Hello, my name is David Bratman. I'm one of the innumerable (probably) friends of Ken Josenhans, who suggested that I drop by here. I'm trying this by telnet, and it's very confusing, and I keep being interrupted by messages reading "Message from Talk_Daemon@grex.cyberspace.org", whatever that may be. I listen to about 60% classical music, 30% folk and folk-rock, and 10% other. The Other consists mostly of musical theatre and the better forms of art-rock (favorite rock groups: the Beatles and Renaissance); the folk and folk-rock includes a lot of English (of which my favorite is Steeleye Span, Celtic of all sorts (I also like Enya, but I hate everything Clannad has done since they hit it big, though I love their first few albums - don't ask me to explain it), and a lot of what I call American Urban Folk - especially quirky and amusing female singer songwriters like Christine Lavin and the Roches, and that subgenre that someone dubbed "New Waif Muwsic", of whom the standard-bearer is Suzanne Vega. My classical tastes are in some respects pretty broad, but I dislike opera and other "showy" music like concertos, preferring serious orchestral music. As a general rule, the more symphonies a composer wrote, the better I like him, except that I also like the minimalists (who write few if any symphonies) and I HATE Mahler. I may not be in much, but if I can get comfortable with this interface, I'll be around. I'm a librarian, and live in Northern California, nearish to San Francisco.
David, a talk daemon is a client that allows two parties to talk to each other in real time. It's like a telephone conversation on a standard line. The only problem is that replying back shuts everything out, and a talk request interrupts anything else you might be doing, especially reading the bbs here. What line you aren't reading is the actual request, which is the command you type in to 'talk' with this person. The syntax would be something like this: talk <user>@grex.cyberspace.org Of course, you type in that command to send a request to talk, or to answer such a request. -NOW- I'll bet you aren't the slightest bit interested in talking to someone; you came here to conference. Most Grexers use the telegram command (yes, messages are sent like telegrams), party channels (familiar with chat? same thing) or maybe the write command, since they are less restrictive than talk. If you wish to cut all such requests off, so you can conference uninterrupted, type in the following at an Ok: prompt (when not reading messages in a conference)-- This will effectively block these talk requests you are receiving, and you can conference in peace. To turn messages back on, type If you're at a C shell prompt, you can omit the !. Anyway, it sounds like you have fairly well-rounded musical listening tastes. Welcome!
Looks like you started the command lines with a ! (?)
I did. I'm assuming he's at a conferencing prompt, not a C shell prompt.
But isn't that why the commands don't show up in your #212?
Hey. I'm Phil. I'm an M-Netter, referred here by Ken. I enjoy all sorts of music. Alternative rock, a lot of 80's alternative stuff, techno(especially of the ambient/old-school variety), and even some hip-hop(Beastie Boys, and Die Fantastichen Vier, if you've ever heard them.) But especially...REM. Wow. Don't mess with them. I live in Saline. Mock me.
I refuse to mock you since you're cool enough to log in as "Ford Prefect". You all know me. No intro needed. I've been here before, but probably as birdlady. Ah well... =)
Hello.. Ken finally lured me here from IRC... so here goes... I've been listening to all kinds of music since before I can remember (they tell me I liked the Mitch Miller show as a toddler) grew up with country and pop music on the old AM radio.. went through a big Beatles phase, then Heavy Metal, somewhere around 15 or 16 I started hearing Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span on the radio and they're about the only things that have stuck with me. Nowadays I listen to female vocalists almost exclusively, with styles from pop, rock, country, celtic, folk.. oh.. just about anything.. my current favorites are: Grey Eye Glances - great New Jersey band, I think they've played at the ARK Caedmon's Call - a Christain folk/rock band Jaci Velasquez - another Christian singer Kasia Kowalska - a rock singer from Poland and about a million others, Tori, 10,000 Maniacs, Happy Rhodes, etc... and of course my old favs Steeleye and Fairport, Strawbs, Pentangle, etc.. Guess that's about it.. look forward to the discussion here.. cya's
Welcome, Dave. Ken sure has been reeling in the converts....
Hi Dave! I've been out of town for a week and it's going to take me a while to catch up.
Welcome, Dave. I too have found my tastes in pop music to have steered strongly in the direction of female vocalists, starting (pretty much as you did) with Maddy Prior and Sandy Denny.
im julie. i sing. i play piano. i host karaokee sometimes. i like almost all kinds of music. and i have yet to meet anyone who likes all the same sorts of stuff i do. i dig bad dance music, 80's music, classic rock (yes, genesis, led zep, david bowie, the stones, hendrix, styx, boston....) i like lots of alternative...and harder stuff....i like techo..i like classical music..and im a huge jazz fan (miles davis and john coletrain in particular) i like tom waites and the steve miller band too. and the indigo girls. some country is alright too. as long as it isnt like..garth brooks or willie nelson. i admit it, i bought the new oasis album (i dont own the others) cause i like the song i heard on vh1 behind the music. i think i could beat anyone anywhere at rock and roll jepordy.
I would be your tough competitor.
oh you think so do you? maybe we need to have a roch and roll jepordy item then. heh.
Not a bad idea, actually....
im full of good ideas..:)
Hello from Texas, everyone! Twila and Ken told me about Grex, and here I am. My musical tastes range from Classical to industrial; from alt.country to Spanish to Celtic and beyond. Some of the contemporary artists in my pantheon include: Kate Bush, Roy Harper, Dick Gaughan, Morrissey, Susan McKeown, Dougie MacLean (thanks Twila!), Happy Rhodes, Roy Hargrove, Joni Mitchell, Jane Siberry, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely, and many others. I'm working on cataloguing my collection of CD's and putting the database on the 'Net for folks to browse. I'm looking forward to participating in a conference, very soon.
heh. alt.country
Hi Mickey, welcome to Grex!
Um... I'm Jonah, and I got caught on Ken's hook. :) I like...um...music.
Well, that puts you in good company anyway. Welcome.
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