I suppose my tastes are on the heavier side of rock, although I enjoy all those posted by Blaise. Also, I'm a couple decades younger. My favorites list would be something like:

Led Zepplin

Jimi Hendrix

Cream

Aerosmith

Van Halen

Guns n Roses

Deep Purple

Black Sabbath

Allanah Myles

Alanis Morrisette

For some reason I have never liked Rolling Stones at all. A few of their tunes are admittedly catchy, but I don't find feelings imparted to resonate much with.

SplitDik (imported) wrote: Fri Aug 18, 2006 4:29 am I suppose my tastes are on the heavier side of rock, although I enjoy all those posted by Blaise. Also, I'm a couple decades younger. My favorites list would be something like:

Led Zepplin

Jimi Hendrix

Cream

Aerosmith

Van Halen

Guns n Roses

Deep Purple

Black Sabbath

Allanah Myles

Alanis Morrisette

For some reason I have never liked Rolling Stones at all. A few of their tunes are admittedly catchy, but I don't find feelings imparted to resonate much with.

I enjoy the groups on your list. The Stones have done many so-so albums, but they have done some of my favorite singles. I love Alanis's music. Deep Purple was fantastic.

Great lists,

I would add,

Elvis, even though I did not like him

Chuck Berry, the king of rock and role

of course, remember Buddy Holly

Then Ike and Tina Turner

and a kind of off the wall guy of that peroid, Tom Lehrer

Liza Minnelli, wow

and all the wonderful Musicals from Oklahoma to date.

I like Yo-Yo Ma

but my real love of that period to this day is

John Williams

Johann Sebastian Bach

Gioachino Rossini

Richard Wagner

Devorak

Mozart

Tchaikovsky

Beethoven

King Henry the VIII, yes he wrote music too

This is only a small list but you have the idea.

The other day on the clasical music station they asked where and when you got interested in clasical music. I gave this a lot of though and I can track it back to two sources. My love for playing the panio which was clasical and Cartoons. Think about it all the loony toons used clasical music for there back ground music. Rossini was used the most, I mean who could not remember the sound track for the Lone Ranger, or Bugs singing the Il Barbiere Di Siviglia.

It was these that influenced my love of music as a youth, It still does it today.

River

SplitDik (imported) wrote: Fri Aug 18, 2006 4:29 am I suppose my tastes are on the heavier side of rock, although I enjoy all those posted by Blaise. Also, I'm a couple decades younger. My favorites list would be something like:

Led Zepplin

Jimi Hendrix

Cream

Aerosmith

Van Halen

Guns n Roses

Deep Purple

Black Sabbath

Allanah Myles

Alanis Morrisette

For some reason I have never liked Rolling Stones at all. A few of their tunes are admittedly catchy, but I don't find feelings imparted to resonate much with.

I felt the same way about the Beatles. After Beatle mania was over, I got past the hype and I was able to see their collective talent and contributions to the music world, not to mention the wonderful Lennon-McCartney ballads. It is only with the passage of time and maturity that my tastes have changed to allow me to find that I love all sorts of music.

I had little appreciation for Louis Armstrong in High School. In those days, I loved the pop music scene, and I collected juke box records, 45's, from a local juke box company after they were taken off of the juke boxes. I still have a collecion of approximately 700 - 1000 45's downstairs.

However, I started becoming acquainted with Louis' work through reminesecing the teachings of a former music instructor and Dixieland jazz artist. I wish that I could remember the other half of the things that he taught me. He taught me most of the music theory that I know. It is the equivalent of a couple of years of college, I think. It has only been in the last decade or so that I have come to realize what an incredible talent Louis was.

I especially like to see Louis' facial expressions during a recorded live performance. The movie musical "Hello Dolly" Armstrong-Streisand duet is a masterpiece. Try to catch the Louis Armstrong biography or 'story' on the Ovations or BET cable channel. You will see what I mean. Louis was a master performer. He is unparalled.

Blaise, is Preservation Hall up and running yet? I am worried that it would never be the same after Katrina and that the indigenous population of New Orleans that contributed so much to that place and New Orleans in general would be forever dispersed.

Do you think that New Orleans will EVER be what it was before Katrina?

I will post some mote about the bid bands an maybe a piece about Wurlitzer theater pipe organs later. my interests in music are wide and varied.

River,

Try to get a recording of Beethovens "fur Elise" played on the piano and listen to it. It is one of my favorite classical pieces.

A-1

I do not know the status of Preservation Hall. I doubt that the storm damaged the building. The problem would be finding places for the musicians to live. The primary band toured extensively. Younger musicians have been replaced older musicians who have died. Some of the replacement musicians are now old! I have not heard the band in many years. Alan died in the late eighties. Benjy manages the band now.

I don't know the future of New Orleans. I just don't know.

Chuck Berry gave an 18 minute performance in Portland and then left without telling anyone. He still owes me a refund.

Classical music and Warner Brother's cartoons is a fine motif to explore. My introduction to classical music was through my father. In the fifties Atlanta had a commercial classical music station. The owner died in an awful automobile accident with his wife and family in a VW. We played the station all day until it went off late at night. My dad collected classical recordings.

How did I forget Roy Orbison! I do have recordings by Orbison. There is a PBS promotion tonight that features him.

Or, Van Morrison! Or, Nick Cave!

Blaise (imported) wrote: Fri Aug 18, 2006 4:13 pm How did I forget Roy Orbison! I do have recordings by Orbison. There is a PBS promotion tonight that features him.

Or, Van Morrison! Or, Nick Cave!

I do listen to a lot of Van Morrison.

As long as you're adding to your list, I'd add The Police to my list.