What are you listening too right now....
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RocketCowboy
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One of my college bands covered this song. Always loved the energy in this one!
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RocketCowboy
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Listening to Enya....
They teach that move to all high school students here in Texas...
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Very old post but new to me. I would listen to this...but only live.
I make is point not to listen to recorded music. I gave away all my stereo gear years ago when I moved here, 17 years ago and have not listened to any music unless live or in a dance club. After being saturated in recorded music working in the music industry for decades I found that having it around all the time, or like the kids with it in earbuds 24/hours a day, becomes general background noise/signal of life and it loses its impact. So moving here were classical music, opera, jazz, rock, blues etc is available every night live, I find that I enjoy it more when the atmosphere in which it is created is a lot more satisfying. When groups come for concerts, if I know them, it is fun to chat about old times. Sometimes I run into musicians I worked with years ago and never knew they were here for a concert. I was walking through an English style pub here in St Petersburg and caught a few words of a conversation at a table of 12 people, that had a voice I thought I knew. It was Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull so it was a big reunion and we hung out for days. They were having dinner before the concert at the main concert hall, (there are 17 concert halls here, mostly classical) so invited several of us to the sold out concert that night.
Another time it was my next door neighbor in California, for whom I recorded lots of his music, Carlos Santana so now we stay in touch and every year so two he comes for concerts and I show he and his wife the touristy things. I find by limiting general background music and sticking to live performed music, it has rekindled my appreciation of music. There are some great authentic little jazz clubs here with groups from all over the world, subsidized by patrons so they can pay well, and still keep prices very low. My favorite is a little place called JFC Jazz club that seats 80 people and 20 people standing at a rail on the side. Sold out every night, and the audiences are true jazz fans so don't talk during performances. Tickets are only sold the day of the performance, usually for $10. DownBeat Magazine rated it as among the top 30 places in the world to listen to jazz. There is another one called the Jazz Philharmonic that is a large supper club style that has more traditional jazz and big band like the supper clubs of the 30s and 40s.
If you live where there is live music, try weening yourself off recorded music for a month and I am willing to wager you appreciate it more when seen live. Plus it supports local and visiting artists who have a hard time now that records make no money for them. Touring or regular gigging is about the only income now for even major acts. The only people making money in the music field is YouTube and to a lesser extent, streaming services. When I was in it record sales, performance royalties and publishing generated very good incomes and before about 1992 or so, almost any album released by a major label made recoupment within the first year so the artist made something and often made a lot. Of the last 200 albums, we recorded only one lost money for the label. Some, like Fleetwood Mac's Rumors album recorded in my recording studio sold 49,000,000 copies in the US alone, as the biggest album until Thriller came out and beat it by a million. Now, only R&B cover artists, celebrities for celebrity sake artists, like Beyoncé who keep their names in the tabloids make money from recording. So support your musicians by seeing them live.
Another time it was my next door neighbor in California, for whom I recorded lots of his music, Carlos Santana so now we stay in touch and every year so two he comes for concerts and I show he and his wife the touristy things. I find by limiting general background music and sticking to live performed music, it has rekindled my appreciation of music. There are some great authentic little jazz clubs here with groups from all over the world, subsidized by patrons so they can pay well, and still keep prices very low. My favorite is a little place called JFC Jazz club that seats 80 people and 20 people standing at a rail on the side. Sold out every night, and the audiences are true jazz fans so don't talk during performances. Tickets are only sold the day of the performance, usually for $10. DownBeat Magazine rated it as among the top 30 places in the world to listen to jazz. There is another one called the Jazz Philharmonic that is a large supper club style that has more traditional jazz and big band like the supper clubs of the 30s and 40s.
If you live where there is live music, try weening yourself off recorded music for a month and I am willing to wager you appreciate it more when seen live. Plus it supports local and visiting artists who have a hard time now that records make no money for them. Touring or regular gigging is about the only income now for even major acts. The only people making money in the music field is YouTube and to a lesser extent, streaming services. When I was in it record sales, performance royalties and publishing generated very good incomes and before about 1992 or so, almost any album released by a major label made recoupment within the first year so the artist made something and often made a lot. Of the last 200 albums, we recorded only one lost money for the label. Some, like Fleetwood Mac's Rumors album recorded in my recording studio sold 49,000,000 copies in the US alone, as the biggest album until Thriller came out and beat it by a million. Now, only R&B cover artists, celebrities for celebrity sake artists, like Beyoncé who keep their names in the tabloids make money from recording. So support your musicians by seeing them live.
What are you listening to right now....
The non-stop drone of a dehumidifier and a heavy-duty fan drying out the wall and cabinets from a pipe that leaked inside a wall. Give me ear plugs, I tell ya! :beguiled:
Now back to your regular programming.
The non-stop drone of a dehumidifier and a heavy-duty fan drying out the wall and cabinets from a pipe that leaked inside a wall. Give me ear plugs, I tell ya! :beguiled:
Now back to your regular programming.
RocketCowboy
Senior Member
What are you listening to right now....
The non-stop drone of a dehumidifier and a heavy-duty fan drying out the wall and cabinets from a pipe that leaked inside a wall. Give me ear plugs, I tell ya! :beguiled:
Now back to your regular programming.
Ugh, sorry to hear that, Cindy! We went through that back in June...22 fans and 3 XL dehumidifiers to dry out our floors. And I wonder why I have hearing issues...
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