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A long while back I bought a music CD by a group called "The Rippingtons". When Connie and I first listened to it, we thought the style of the music greatly resembled the music played on The Weather Channel during the local forecasts. This was before they started showing ads there, and we used to put it on the TV constantly when we had the time to sit down and relax. Usually we were bushed from working with the animals, and many times fell asleep while that music was playing.
So we found the music on that CD we had to be particularly relaxing.
Well, come to find out that it actually IS music from this group that does (used to? Haven't watched TV for a very long times..) play on the Weather Channel.
So I bought more of their albums and really enjoy the music they have orchestrated.
Only problem is, I can't seem to get through more than half of any of the albums before I fall asleep on the couch...... :laugh:
Well, don't play that album while driving in the Corvette. LOL. I happened to search for rock music from the 60's and found a list of the rock groups from that era. There were 80 groups listed, and that was just rock. I didn't even check the 70's yet. Who can forget Vanilla Fudge? It sure was the heyday of music. If you gave me a million dollars to name the top 5 current vocalists your money is safe.
One of my friends told me he enjoys listening to Ry Cooder albums. I told him I never heard of him, so he sent me a few songs on a CD. It's completely different than my usual taste in music, but I like him. Sue can't stand his songs and I have to listen to them when I'm driving alone in the car. LOL.
I actually saw Vanilla Fudge twice in concert. Can't remember exactly where, though. I recall once was at the beach in Wildwood, NJ. I think. Went with a bunch of friends and somehow we got front row seats. Can't remember the organist's name but after he did a keyboard solo on his Hammond B3, he leaned towards us and muttered, "Sounded like sh_t, didn't it?" And we all had a laugh over that. We were THAT close to the band!
The other time was a large concert hall, somewhere, which is about all I can remember about the location. Except that the warm up band for the Fudge was none other than Led Zeppelin. At the time, they used to bring out no name bands for the big ticket bands to get the crowd humming. So obviously, that was in the very earliest days of Led Zeppelin. I thought they were pretty good for a 3 piece band, but I was a keyboardist, and they weren't of much interest to me.
I spent a few nights watching music videos on YouTube, trying to find some new groups that I would like their style well enough to buy some CDs. Man, what a struggle that was. Best I could come up with was a group called Lany. So I bought two CDs by them and listened to the first one tonight. Hmm, not sure that was a good call. Maybe the second album will be better.
Other groups I listened to that sounded sort of OK, but I couldn't find an album that had enough "good" songs I felt like listening to, to be worth buying, are:
Moon Taxi
The 1975
Mumford & Sons
Lovelytheband
Maroon 5
Honestly some of the music videos were so weird that it didn't matter to me what their music sounded like. Some bands are obviously better heard and not seen.
I guess you can't teach a dog new tricks. I don't know of any of the new music that I like. I always end up searching for groups like the Hollies. I couldn't go anywhere in the 60's without playing In-A-Gadda-Da-Vita. My buddy and I were out in his Chevelle in 1969 and the thing ran so bad we had to leave it on the street and walk home. Someone broke into the car and hotwired it and drove away. The thing ran so bad they abandoned it just 2 blocks away and left a note saying the car was a piece of crap. To add insult to injury they took all our 8 track tapes. I think I found them in a pawn shop a few months ago for ten cents a piece.
Haha! That is funny I love new music so am going to have to check it out, but maybe not before bed. Scream-o is not my thing, but some of the re-mixes are hysterical!
I just saw Santana in Vegas and am seeing Van Morrison and Rollings Stones early next year. I often listen to music when I'm cleaning cages and feeding. My poor snakes have to listen to me sing... snicker.
When I played in a band, I used to play In-A-Gadda-Da-Vita. I used to love playing that D minor intro. I remember the keyboardist in another band we used to play alongside was always amazed that I could do it with only one hand. Took him two. Heck, been decades since I have last tried it. Might take me two now, too. I can't remember a 100th of the tunes I used to play. But for some reason I can still remember the flute solo with my right hand in Color My World while playing the piano arpeggio with the left hand. Heck, I need to get over to the "music room" and play more often. It's just frustrating that I so easily forget what I was playing just yesterday.
Speaking of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vita, many times when we were playing a particularly boring crowd at some dive, when we got to the drum solo, we would all just walk out of the building and leave the drummer playing for a LONG time. Actually I think he loved it.
Speaking of Keith Richards, I believe he played the head honcho pirate in one or more of the Pirates of the Caribbean flics. I noticed his hands are gnarled up something awful, with arthritis, I guess. Hate to see that kind of thing. I seriously doubt he can play guitar any longer. But he certainly does play a fearsome looking pirate.
I loved listening to our church organist as she played. At the time she was about 60, which I thought was ancient, to a 16 year old anyway. One day I stopped at the church because I heard her practicing, and I mentioned that it's too bad she couldn't play any rock songs. She then started playing rock, obviously from memory, and I was shocked. I immediately told my parents I want an organ, so they found me a smaller one. I practiced and practiced and I guess my music sounded okay, but then my brother started playing one day, with no practice at all and he sounded better than I did. So that was the end of my playing. I switched to a guitar and I have to admit I was just as mediocre playing that instrument. LOL. Then I decided to listen to others play, and I excelled at that.
Didn't do much for me either. Then again, I don't know if anyone here would have taste in music similar to mine. My playlists on Spotify are either a blend of house, trance and other EDM styles, or post-hardcore and modern rock.
I looked up The Rippingtons on Youtube and yep, exactly what I expected. I think Blackmill is the absolute closest thing to that I listen to, though synth is still obviously VERY different from that smooth sax. What can I say, I like a little wub wub now and then. :laugh:
I played their entire discography in the background at my bf's folks at Christmas while we played board games, and they seemed to enjoy it. Still probably not up your alley, but maybe you won't hate this:
Didn't do much for me either. Then again, I don't know if anyone here would have taste in music similar to mine. My playlists on Spotify are either a blend of house, trance and other EDM styles, or post-hardcore and modern rock.
I looked up The Rippingtons on Youtube and yep, exactly what I expected. I think Blackmill is the absolute closest thing to that I listen to, though synth is still obviously VERY different from that smooth sax. What can I say, I like a little wub wub now and then. :laugh:
I played their entire discography in the background at my bf's folks at Christmas while we played board games, and they seemed to enjoy it. Still probably not up your alley, but maybe you won't hate this:
Well, that isn't bad at all. I will have to listen to more selections to see how broad their compositional skills are for variety. Thanks for the lead.
I've been fussing around with my home theater system lately. Found that I have a blown driver surround on my left rear surround speaker cabinet. Which shouldn't be much of a surprise since I bought those ESS AMT 1Ds I am using for the back speakers used a LONG time ago. So instead of trying my hand at reconing them myself, I just went ahead and ordered new drivers and the passive radiators for both cabinets. I've also got AMT 1Ds for the side surrounds and the Oskar Heil Kithara cabinets for the two fronts. All are based on the Heil Air Motion transformers. Haven't really found a center speaker using the AMT so I had to settle for an array I kluged up out of 4 speakers that seems to work well in the mix. And the four subwoofers, 2 front and 2 rear, rounds it out on the bottom end.
I bought a Denon receiver not too long ago, that is Dolby Atmos capable, so I am getting some small up firing speakers so I can tie that in too. The Denon sounds to my ears like a substantial improvement to the Onkyo I've had for a number of years. Seems like all the new 4K movies coming out are Dolby Atmos capable, and the reviews I have been reading lead me to suspect that this is a sonic avenue well worth pursuing. But not to the extent I am going to be mounting speakers in the ceiling or hanging from the walls of the family room. Having all the speakers I already have in that room is really pushing my luck with Connie as it is.
Wound up running out of speaker wire so I had to order more for those Atmos speakers. Luckily I can run the wire under the baseboards to keep them out of sight. I had to actually crawl underneath the house to run wire to the side right surround after having the wire running across the family room floor for years. Literally. Tripped and almost broke my neck on the darn thing several times before I got smart and ran it the correct way.
Anyway, I'm in the mode of constantly playing with the settings and recalibrations. The music I am using is the latest Rippington's CD called Built To Last. So I've been playing it over and over again, and it seems to be really growing on me the more I listen to it. Either that or my recalibrations are working better than I thought.
I never thought I really liked jazz music, but I guess I would have to call this something like "Jazz Rock" or something. Or perhaps more like "Jazz Pop Rock", since it's really not hard core rock music.
I also tend to like House and Trance music, but mostly for the catchy chord progressions being used. I'll be honest, though, the constant monotonous thumping base drum will get on my nerves from constant exposure pretty quickly.
But I guess it is like anything else. I just have to be in the mood for one thing or another to appreciate it fully. Sometimes nothing I play feels like what I really want to be listening to.
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