GMG's most eclectic listeners?

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MN Dave

#60
December 12, 2007, 05:36:52 PM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on December 12, 2007, 05:32:23 PM
With all due respect to jwinter and MN Dave, I have no doubt I am the most well-traveled listener in this forum. With 10,000 LPs and CDs and vast live concert experience, both classical and "popular", I've heard just about everything and own samples from nearly every genre. On the classical side: everything from the troubadours to composers active today; solo instrumental, song, chamber, opera, operetta, orchestral, choral. On the pop side:

Marches (with a special love of Prussian marches)
Blues
Jazz
Musical Theater
Gospel
American Hymns
Country
Western
Alt country
Bluegrass
Tex-Mex
Folk
Pop (from the 19th century right up to this week's billboard chart selections)
Rock (from the 50s until today, including Elvis, doo wop, Girl Group, acid, garage, punk, new wave, alt rock)
R&B
Soul (especially Stax and Atlantic)
Funk
Hip Hop/Rap
Techno
World (popular and folk music from about two dozen countries, including Turkey, China, Japan, France, India, Austria, Mexico).

Yes, Don, I'm quite unfocused  ;D  but I have a talent, not unique but highly unusual it seems, of being able to understand what everyone who loves a certain genre sees in it. And I honestly respond to the music, both intellectually and emotionally, whether it's Bach and Beethoven, Strauss and Lehár, the Ramones, James Brown, Edith Piaf, Louis Armstrong, Emmylou Harris or the Grateful Dead. I feel blessed that I can enjoy a Mahler concert surrounded by blue hair, bald heads and black suits, and a mosh pit, slamming with the likes of Henry Rollins (in his Black Flag days) or grooving, stoned, with a bunch of Deadheads. It's all great music to me, and I've had unforgettable experiences. I feel sorry for those so "focused" they can't hear what I hear. Ya don't know what you're missing.

Sarge

You have 14 years on me, so I'll grant you a slight edge.

Sergeant Rock

#61
December 12, 2007, 06:02:27 PM
Quote from: MN Dave on December 12, 2007, 05:36:52 PM
You have 14 years on me, so I'll grant you a slight edge.

I do hear you breathing down my neck...and I know the race isn't over yet  ;D

Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

jwinter

#62
December 13, 2007, 06:24:05 AM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on December 12, 2007, 05:32:23 PM
With all due respect to jwinter and MN Dave, I have no doubt I am the most well-traveled listener in this forum....

Sarge

Granted, with no hesitation at all.

A bit of envy, perhaps... ;D
The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.
The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
And his affections dark as Erebus.
Let no such man be trusted.

-- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

springrite

#63
December 13, 2007, 06:29:30 AM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on December 12, 2007, 06:02:27 PM
I do hear you breathing down my neck...and I know the race isn't over yet  ;D

It would be hard for him to catch you in terms of years unless he has access to some technology we are not aware of. You are safe, my friend!

71 dB

#64
December 13, 2007, 10:12:53 AM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on December 12, 2007, 05:32:23 PM
With all due respect to jwinter and MN Dave, I have no doubt I am the most well-traveled listener in this forum. With 10,000 LPs and CDs and vast live concert experience, both classical and "popular", I've heard just about everything and own samples from nearly every genre. On the classical side: everything from the troubadours to composers active today; solo instrumental, song, chamber, opera, operetta, orchestral, choral. On the pop side:

Marches (with a special love of Prussian marches)
Blues
Jazz
Musical Theater
Gospel
American Hymns
Country
Western
Alt country
Bluegrass
Tex-Mex
Folk
Pop (from the 19th century right up to this week's billboard chart selections)
Rock (from the 50s until today, including Elvis, doo wop, Girl Group, acid, garage, punk, new wave, alt rock)
R&B
Soul (especially Stax and Atlantic)
Funk
Hip Hop/Rap
Techno
World (popular and folk music from about two dozen countries, including Turkey, China, Jamaica, Japan, France, India, Austria, Mexico).

Sarge

Impressive!

Just out of curiosity: What kind of stuff do you have on "Techno" genre Sarge?
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jochanaan

#65
December 13, 2007, 03:09:59 PM
Sarge, I would have got to you in a moment, I promise I would! :-[

The primary reason I'm not as well-traveled as you is that I've spent entirely too much time PLAYING music rather than listening, and playing does tend to focus all my attention... ;D
Imagination + discipline = creativity

Dancing Divertimentian

#66
December 13, 2007, 05:22:25 PM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on December 12, 2007, 05:32:23 PM
Country
Western

Is this a sneaky Blues Brothers reference? ;D



Veit Bach-a baker who found his greatest pleasure in a little cittern which he took with him even into the mill and played while the grinding was going on. In this way he had a chance to have the rhythm drilled into him. And this was the beginning of a musical inclination in his descendants. JS Bach

Bogey

#67
December 13, 2007, 06:13:03 PM Last Edit: December 13, 2007, 06:25:32 PM by Bogey
A lot of  eclecticism here and thanks for the nod John, much appreciated.  However, if casting a single ballot I would vote for Heather Harrison hands down.


Here is a snap shot of some of her more recent purchases:

             

Besides, what other GMG'r owns a sample of rhodium (the most expensive precious metal) while also enjoying Vivaldi? ;D  I know the last is a DVD, but could not be left off....and her reviews of each disc are always thourough, informative, and fun to read. 
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

Harry

#68
December 13, 2007, 10:57:08 PM
Yes I am boring, listening only to classical music.......... ;D

springrite

#69
December 13, 2007, 11:02:03 PM
Quote from: Harry on December 13, 2007, 10:57:08 PM
Yes I am boring, listening only to classical music.......... ;D

Some of our less eclectic listeners may not consider Kalman and Lehar to be classical at all, you know.  ;)

Harry

#70
December 13, 2007, 11:06:21 PM
Quote from: springrite on December 13, 2007, 11:02:03 PM
Some of our less eclectic listeners may not consider Kalman and Lehar to be classical at all, you know.  ;)

I am willing to fight over it, so common........... ;D

Mozart

#71
December 14, 2007, 12:20:58 AM
I listen to Mozart.

springrite

#72
December 14, 2007, 12:23:11 AM
Quote from: E..L..I..A..S.. =) on December 14, 2007, 12:20:58 AM
I listen to Mozart.
Si! Si! Cosi fan tutti! (except Iago, if course)
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