Music

[BengalszoneBilly]

Well guys,

Seeing how we finally got this "General Discussions" forum actually registering a pulse, let see if we can keep it going with each of us listing here a little bit about out individual musical tastes. (No...Janet and Justins stunt didn't prompt this!) I'm going to break it down into five easy questions. If you feel the need to volunteer more info, feel free. As I said before, there ain't a whole lot of football stuff to talk about now, providing the Bengals roster remains out of confrontations with the police!

Question #1: What's your 3 favorite kinds of music? (sorry, but country and western is only one vote, okay?)

Question #2: Who's your favorite performer/group/band in each of those two catagories that you chose?

Question #3: What was the name of the last recording on CD/Cassette/downloaded MP3 that you bought?

Question #4: If you play any musical instruments, what are they?

Question #5: What was the best concert you ever saw in person?

I fully expect Grizzly, our resident high schooler, to check in here! Time to sound off!!

[BengalszoneBilly]

Seeing how I'm feelin' froggy, I'll jump out there first.

#1: Rock, Bluegrass, and Country. (Note**even though bluegrass and country are related, they are hardly the same!!)

#2:Fav Rock: Van Halen. Fav Bluegrass: Earl Scruggs. Fav Country: Montgomery Gentry.

#3:Last CD: Bearing Strait, the bluegrass band from Russia. Incredible!

#4: From high school: Clarinet and Percussion. From my boyhood in KY.: 5-string banjo and guitar.

#5: Fav concert: Don't freak out, but it was Elton John in Louisville Ky. He put on a 3 &1/2 hour extravaganza that I've never seen the likes of since. What a showman!! I think it was during his days of dabbling in the "Peruvian Marching Powder"!

[Kirkendall]

Keep the topics brewing Billy, I'm loving this:

#1. Ol' Country, Metal, Classical (yes, I'm a dork and I do listen to it with a drink, my buddy pirate Captain Morgan).

#2. Metal: Always have been and always be a Metallica fan. Ol' Country: Hank Jr. (love his drinkin' songs) Classical: Mason Williams

#3: Wow, it's been so long. I'm thinking the last Metallica CD that came out, St. Anger.

#4: I used to be in a band playing guitar. We used to play 'tallica, Rage Against the Machine, Tool, all of the early to mid-90 bands that had a little metal in it.

#5: 1996, Lallapolluza. Awesome show with the Ramones, Sound Garden and (again) 'tallica running the show. I also went to a Dave Matthews concert and if anyone knows the DMB, we fully engaged in all activities to the 10th degree. WOW! Still don't remember it though, but my buddies tell me it was great.

[BengalszoneBilly]

Keep the topics brewing Billy, I'm loving this:

#1. Ol' Country, Metal, Classical (yes, I'm a dork and I do listen to it with a drink, my buddy pirate Captain Morgan).

#2. Metal: Always have been and always be a Metallica fan. Ol' Country: Hank Jr. (love his drinkin' songs) Classical: Mason Williams

#3: Wow, it's been so long. I'm thinking the last Metallica CD that came out, St. Anger.

#4: I used to be in a band playing guitar. We used to play 'tallica, Rage Against the Machine, Tool, all of the early to mid-90 bands that had a little metal in it.

#5: 1996, Lallapolluza. Awesome show with the Ramones, Sound Garden and (again) 'tallica running the show. I also went to a Dave Matthews concert and if anyone knows the DMB, we fully engaged in all activities to the 10th degree. WOW! Still don't remember it though, but my buddies tell me it was great.

SWEET!! Don't drink too much of the Captain that he's got ya' walkin' the plank!!

[AGrizzlyBaer]

#1 Punk, Rock, and Classical

#2 Floggin Molly, the Barenaked Ladies, and ...

#3 Last CD Everything to Everyone(BNL)

#4 I play piano when i was little, but i play trumpet until my sophmore year

#5 it going to sound "weird " but back when i in middle school, i saw weird al and he just so much energy during the show lol

btw My buddy Duffman is in my class too

[BengalszoneBilly]

#5 it going to sound "weird " but back when i in middle school, i saw weird al and he just so much energy during the show lol

Liking Weird Al doesn't make you weird in the least!! He's a hoot!!

[Boobie Clark]

Question #1: What's your 3 favorite kinds of music? (sorry, but country and western is only one vote, okay?)

Question #2: Who's your favorite performer/group/band in each of those two catagories that you chose?

Question #3: What was the name of the last recording on CD/Cassette/downloaded MP3 that you bought?

Question #4: If you play any musical instruments, what are they?

Question #5: What was the best concert you ever saw in person?

#1: Rock & Country

#2: Rock - Rolling Stones, The Who, Allman Bros., Lynyrd Skynyrd & old Van Halen

Country - No favorites

#3: Wife bought me Keith Urban's Golden Road CD for Xmas

#4: No instruments - not a bad singer though

#5: Last concert was Kenney Chesney/Tim McGraw (couple years ago, Cricket Pavillion, Phoenix) and it was great, but the best concerts I've seen are:

The Who, 1989, Jack Murphy Stadium, San Diego

Triumph, mid 80s, Riverbend

Jimmy Buffet, mid 80s, Kings Island

#6: Concert I most want to see: Janet Jackson's bare-breasted ass at the Super Bowl - if only....

[BengalszoneBilly]

#6: Concert I most want to see: Janet Jackson's bare-breasted ass at the Super Bowl - if only....

Ask and ye shall receive Boobie. It's on it's way to you via e-mail now. Anyone else who want it, just e-mail me (My address is under my profile. Just click my name) and I'll forward the short video to you.

Except for you Grizzly. I need a note from your mom. Just kidding!

[AGrizzlyBaer]

haha, yeah but back to the subject of this forum im a big fan of weezer too and sometimes techno can be really good like paul oakenfold

[BengalszoneBilly]

Hey Griz, have you ever heard of a punk band called "Me First, and the Gimme Gimmes"? They do punk cover versions of old '70's and '80's tunes. I highly recommend them. They even covered Barry Manilow!!

[AGrizzlyBaer]

yeah i love the gimmie gimmies, they do some really cool covers

[BengalszoneBilly]

Does anyone think it's a cooincidence that Janet Jackson pulled her little booby flash stunt just days before the release of her new album? I'm sure it'll sell much better now than if she hadn't flashed at all. Not that I was going to buy it. Hate her music, love her boobies!

Also did you guys hear the police stopped her as she was leaving the Super Bowl?

They gave her a ticket for having one "headlight" out!

[Kirkendall]

I also think she was trying to take some heat off her brother.. gotta luv family.

[AGrizzlyBaer]

hell they look almost the same

[Boobie Clark]

Also did you guys hear the police stopped her as she was leaving the Super Bowl?

They gave her a ticket for having one "headlight" out!

Billy, you kill me!!

[richmond_mat]

I've been using the "Janet cheated me ..... lack of balance...." line quite a bit too!

As for music, I listen to a lot of it. Mostly CD's, but I'm thinking of getting a serious LP player and doing that whole thing. Analogue sounds better than digital. A friend has convinced me. Of course, whenever I return from his abode I realize how crappy my stereo is. Anyway, my range is wide and sometimes deep. Here's what I remember buying in the last three months:

willie nelson-

- Red headed stranger-

- Stardust

funkadelic-

- Maggot brain

- One nation under a groove

- Uncle jam wants you

dave brubeck quartet-

- Time out

Diana Krall-

- the one where she is wearing heels?? the look of love

Barry White-

- Can't get enough

- Stone gon'

Al Green-

- I'm still in love with you

- Let's stay together

Credence Clearwater Revival-

- Bayou Country

- Cosmos factory

- Green river

I cannot say that I would not recomend any of these. My favorite from these for now is the red headed stranger by willie. It is a must have for anyone that might like him. The cd makes me long for more great willie music from that era (1970-75).

Boobie might want to add some funkadelic to his next shoot. It can really groove.

The sole advantage to cd's is the not having to turn them over to hear more.

[BengalszoneBilly]

Willie Nelson is an American Musical Icon. He transends musical genre's, and he lives the "Herbal Life", if you know what I mean! What is not to like about this ol' cowboy?

[richmond_mat]

Willie Nelson is an American Musical Icon. He transends musical genre's, and he lives the "Herbal Life", if you know what I mean! What is not to like about this ol' cowboy? 

Some people complain about willie's nasaly voice, but I think it's great! My wife marvels about willie all the time. I think she'd might run off with him.

23 degres here, what's the temp in the desert?

[Boobie Clark]

23 degres here, what's the temp in the desert?

It's 11:45 pm and about 45 degrees in the Phoenix area. Up where Billy lives it's about 25. He's in a more mountainous area at about 5300'+, Phx is in the low desert, a valley, at about 1200'. BTW, it'll be 80ish out here next weekend!!

I once read a Willie Nelson interview a year or so ago in a country music magazine. The guy is amazing. He's nearly 70, still jogs several miles a day, plays golf all the time and does hundreds of shows a year. Not to mention he smokes pot all day. He said he can't remember the last time he bought pot because someone is always giving it to him. Don't want to glamorize his lifestyle, but if you're Willie, it's got to be a good life.

[richmond_mat]

I once read a Willie Nelson interview a year or so ago in a country music magazine.  The guy is amazing.  He's nearly 70, still jogs several miles a day, plays golf all the time and does hundreds of shows a year.  Not to mention he smokes pot all day.  He said he can't remember the last time he bought pot because someone is always giving it to him.  Don't want to glamorize his lifestyle, but if you're Willie, it's got to be a good life.

I once read a bout a reporter asking him he is going to retire. Willie's reply was something like 'all i do is play golf and play music. Which do you want me to give up?'

You're right willie has it made. Life wasn't always so easy for him; remember the irs lobotomy? Maybe he had a rough .... Here's his store from allmusic.com

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&u...l=B1gjieaw04xg7

As a songwriter and a performer, Willie Nelson played a vital role in post-rock & roll country music. Although he didn't become a star until the mid-'70s, Nelson spent the '60s writing songs that became hits for stars like Ray Price ("Night Life"), Patsy Cline ("Crazy"), Faron Young ("Hello Walls"), and Billy Walker ("Funny How Time Slips Away") as well as releasing a series of records on Liberty and RCA that earned him a small, but devoted, cult following. During the early '70s, Willie aligned himself with Waylon Jennings and the burgeoning outlaw country movement which made him into a star in 1975. Following the crossover success of that year's The Red Headed Stranger and "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain," Nelson was a genuine star, as recognizable in pop circles as he was to the country audience; in addition to recording, he also launched an acting career in the early '80s. Even when he was a star, Willie never played it safe musically. Instead, he borrowed from a wide variety of styles, including traditional pop, Western swing, jazz, traditional country, cowboy songs, honky tonk, rock & roll, folk, and the blues, creating a distinctive, elastic hybrid. Nelson remained at the top of the country charts until the mid-'80s, when his lifestyle — which had always been close to the outlaw clichés his music flirted with — began to spiral out of control, culminating in an infamous battle with the IRS in the late '80s. During the '90s, Nelson's sales never reached the heights that he experienced a decade earlier, but he remained a vital icon in country music, having greatly influenced the new country, new traditionalist, and alternative country movements of the '80s and '90s as well as leaving behind a legacy of classic songs and recordings.

Nelson began performing music as a child growing up in Abbott, TX. After his father died and his mother ran away, Nelson and his sister Bobbie were raised by their grandparents, who encouraged both children to play instruments. Willie picked up the guitar, and by the time he was seven, he was already writing songs. Bobbie learned to play piano, eventually meeting — and later marrying — fiddler Bud Fletcher, who invited both of the siblings to join his band. Nelson had already played with Raychecks' Polka Band, but with Fletcher, he acted as the group's frontman. Willie stayed with Fletcher throughout high school. Upon his graduation, he joined the Air Force but had to leave shortly afterward, when he became plagued by back problems. Following his disenrollment from the service, he began looking for full-time work. After he worked several part-time jobs, he landed a job as a country DJ at Fort Worth's KCNC in 1954. Nelson continued to sing in honky tonks as he worked as a DJ, deciding to make a stab at recording career by 1956. That year, he headed to Vancouver, WA, where he recorded Leon Payne's "Lumberjack." At that time, Payne was a DJ and he plugged "Lumberjack" on the air, which eventually resulted in sales of 3,000 — a respectable figure for an independent single, but not enough to gain much attention. For the next few years, Willie continued to DJ and sing in clubs. During this time, he sold "Family Bible" to a guitar instructor for 50 dollars, and when the song became a hit for Claude Gray in 1960, Nelson decided to move to Nashville the following year to try his luck. Though his nasal voice and jazzy, off-center phrasing didn't win him many friends — several demos were made and then rejected by various labels — his songwriting ability didn't go unnoticed, and soon Hank Cochran helped Willie land a publishing contract at Pamper Music. Ray Price, who co-owned Pamper Music, recorded Nelson's "Night Life" and invited him to join his touring band, the Cherokee Cowboys, as a bassist.

Arriving at the beginning of 1961, Price's invitation began a watershed year for Nelson. Not only did he play with Price — eventually taking members of the Cherokee Cowboys to form his own touring band — but his songs also provided major hits for several other artists. Faron Young took "Hello Walls" to number one for nine weeks, Billy Walker made "Funny How Time Slips Away" into a Top 40 country smash, and Patsy Cline made "Crazy" into a Top Ten pop crossover hit. Earlier in the year, he signed a contract with Liberty Records and began releasing a series of singles that were usually drenched in strings. "Willingly," a duet with his then-wife Shirley Collie, became a Top Ten hit for Nelson early in 1962, and it was followed by another Top Ten single, "Touch Me," later that year. Both singles made it seem like Nelson was primed to become a star, but his career stalled just as quickly as it had taken off, and he was soon charting in the lower regions of the Top 40. Liberty closed its country division in 1964, the same year Roy Orbison had a hit with "Pretty Paper."

When the Monument recordings failed to become hits, Nelson moved to RCA Records in 1965, the same year he became a member of the Grand Ole Opry. Over the next seven years, Willie had a steady stream of minor hits, highlighted by the number 13 hit "Bring Me Sunshine" in 1969. Toward the end of his stint with RCA, he had grown frustrated with the label, who had continually tried to shoehorn him into the heavily produced Nashville sound. By 1972, he wasn't even able to reach the country Top 40. Discouraged by his lack of success, Nelson decided to retire from country music, moving back to Austin, TX, after a brief and disastrous sojourn into pig farming. Once he arrived in Austin, Nelson realized that many young rock fans were listening to country music along with the traditional honky tonk audience. Spotting an opportunity, Willie began performing again, scrapping his pop-oriented Nashville sound and image for a rock- and folk-influenced redneck outlaw image. Soon, he earned a contract with Atlantic Records.

Shotgun Willie (1973), Nelson's first album for Atlantic, was evidence of the shift of his musical style, and although it initially didn't sell well, it earned good reviews and cultivated a dedicated cult following. By the fall of 1973, his version of Bob Wills' "Stay All Night (Stay a Little Longer)" had cracked the country Top 40. The following year, he delivered the concept album Phases and Stages, which increased his following even more with the hit singles "Bloody Mary Morning" and "After the Fire Is Gone." But the real commercial breakthrough didn't arrive until 1975, when he severed ties with Atlantic and signed to Columbia Records, who gave him complete creative control of his records. Willie's first album for Columbia, The Red Headed Stranger, was a spare concept album about a preacher, featuring only his guitar and his sister's piano. The label was reluctant to release with such stark arrangements, but they relented and it became a huge hit, thanks to Nelson's understated cover of Roy Acuff's "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain."

Following the breakthrough success of The Red Headed Stranger as well as Waylon Jennings' simultaneous success, outlaw country — so named because it worked outside of the confines of the Nashville industry — became a sensation, and RCA compiled the various-artists album Wanted: The Outlaws!, using material Nelson, Jennings, Tompall Glaser, and Jessi Colter had previously recorded for the label. The compilation boasted a number one single in the form of the newly recorded Jennings and Nelson duet "Good Hearted Woman," which was also named the Country Music Association's single of the year. For the next five years, Nelson consistently charted on both the country and pop charts, with "Remember Me," "If You've Got the Money I've Got the Time," and "Uncloudy Day" becoming Top Ten country singles in 1976; "I Love You a Thousand Ways" and the Mary Kay Place duet "Something to Brag About" were Top Ten country singles the following year.

Nelson enjoyed his most successful year to date in 1978, as he charted with two very dissimilar albums. Waylon and Willie, his first duet album with Jennings, was a major success early in the year, spawning the signature song "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys." Later in the year, he released Stardust, a string-augmented collection of pop standards produced by Booker T. Jones. Most observers believed that the unconventional album would derail Nelson's career, but it unexpectedly became one of the most successful records in his catalog, spending almost ten years in the country charts and eventually selling over four million copies. After the success of Stardust, Willie branched out into film, appearing in the Robert Redford movie The Electric Horseman in 1979 and starring in Honeysuckle Rose the following year. The latter spawned the hit "On the Road Again," which became another one of Nelson's signature songs.

Willie continued to have hits throughout the early '80s, when he had a major crossover success in 1982 with a cover of Elvis Presley's hit "Always on My Mind." The single spent two weeks at number one and crossed over to number five on the pop charts, sending the album of the same name to number two on the pop charts as well as quadruple-platinum status. Over the next two years, he had hit duet albums with Merle Haggard (1983's Poncho & Lefty) and Jennings (1982's WWII and 1983's Take It to the Limit), while "To All the Girls I've Loved Before," a duet with Latin pop star Julio Iglesias, became another major crossover success in 1984, peaking at number five on the pop charts and number one on the singles chart.

Following a string of number one singles in early 1985, including "Highwayman," the first single from the Highwaymen, a supergroup he formed with Jennings, Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristofferson, Nelson's popularity gradually began to erode. A new generation of artists had captured the attention of the country audience, which began to drastically cut into his own audience. For the remainder of the decade, he recorded less frequently and remained on the road; he also continued to do charity work, most notably Farm Aid, an annual concert that he founded in 1985 designed to provide aid to ailing farmers. While he career was declining, an old demon began to creep up on Willie — the IRS. In November of 1990, he was given a bill for 16.7 million dollars in back taxes. During the following year, almost all of his assets — including several houses, studios, farms, and various properties — were taken away, and to help pay his bill, he released the double-album The IRS Tapes: Who'll Buy My Memories?. Originally released as two separate albums, the records were marketed through television commercials, and all the profits were directed to the IRS. By 1993 — the year he turned 60 — his debts had been paid off, and he relaunched his recording career with Across the Borderline, an ambitious album produced by Don Was and featuring cameos by Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt, Paul Simon, Sinead O'Connor, David Crosby, and Kris Kristofferson. The record received strong reviews and became his first solo album to appear in the pop charts since 1985.

After the release of Across the Borderline, Nelson continued to work steadily, releasing at least one album a year and touring constantly. In 1993, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, but by that time, he had already become a living legend for all country music fans across the world. Signing to Island for 1996's Spirit, he resurfaced two years later with the critically acclaimed Teatro, produced by Daniel Lanois. Nelson followed up that success with the instrumental-oriented Night and Day a year later; Me and the Drummer and Milk Cow Blues followed in 2000. The Rainbow Connection, which featured an eclectic selection of old-time country favorites, appeared in spring 2001.

[kevnz]

#1: Christian Rock, Country, Classic Rock

#2: Christian Rock:Third Day, Paul Colman Trio; Country: George Strait, Hank Williams Jr; Classic Rock: Lynard Skynard, Jimmy Buffett

#3: Reliant K The Anatomy Of The Tongue In Cheek

Question #4: I play the Electric Bass, loudly

Question #5: The Paul Colman Trio...I've seen Jimmy Buffett, Van Halen, Ozzy, ZZ Top, The Cult, Guns'N Roses and heaps more, those 3 guys simply blew everybody else away, nothing flashy just pure skill and passion...The most talented musicians I've ever seen...I can't do them justice...

[BengalszoneBilly]

The Paul Colman Trio...I've seen Jimmy Buffett, Van Halen, Ozzy, ZZ Top, The Cult, Guns'N Roses and heaps more, those 3 guys simply blew everybody else away, nothing flashy just pure skill and passion...The most talented musicians I've ever seen...I can't do them justice...

Well kevnz, I can't say I've ever heard of them, but on your glowing recommendation, I'll give them a listen if I can find them at the music store. What should I look under? Rock, Jazz?

[kevnz]

The Christian section actually. There kinda rockish, kinda popish, kinda....Well hell, I don't know how to describe them...They're pretty damn good on CD...But even better live. They're from Australia and went to the states a few years ago, but have just broken up...

[BengalszoneBilly]

I doubt I'll be able to find them then. And all respect to you and your faith, but I normally can't dig the Christian Rock stuff. It's not the message so much, (I grew up in the church) I just find the talent lacking, so if those guys transend that gap...well maybe. But they better be comparable to general music talent/musical writing abilities out there.

[kevnz]

I doubt I'll be able to find them then. And all respect to you and your faith, but I normally can't dig the Christian Rock stuff. It's not the message so much, (I grew up in the church) I just find the talent lacking, so if those guys transend that gap...well maybe. But they better be comparable to general music talent/musical writing abilities out there.

Well, I'd like to think I'm a discerning listener, and PC3 is by far the most talented muscians I've ever seen. But I'm pretty damn picky on the music I like, I guess it comes from me thinking I actually know what I'm doing