I was just listening to the Paul Simon's Graceland album, one of my all time favorites. Looking it up on Wikipedia for some details I learned it was released in 1986, forty years ago!

What music do you listen to? Mostly oldies (90s, 00's, 10's) or very oldies (50's 60's 70's) Pop? Hard Rock? Metal?, Country?

Or is Classical more your bag? Or maybe early Jazz?

 

My go to albums are Frampton Comes Alive! and Boston (1st Album). My high school dining hall, known as "Pitts" jukebox played songs from those two albums all the time as I remember. I listen to Classical music a lot too but not really into Jazz.

 

I like music. It's probably a lot easier to list what I don't like.
Twangy country and Western, and pissed off angry Rap.

I grew up listening to classical and opera with my grandmother.
I hung out and worked in a high end stereo shop.
But you'll find Annie DeFranco, Joan Beaz, Pink, Pink Floyd, Adam Ant, Bach, Chopin, Manhattan Transfer, Joni Mitchell, Spyro Gyra, Rossini and Tchaikovsky, Jethro Tull, Stevie Wonder, The Who. Ry Cooder and Paul Simon, Bagpipes, Walter Wendy Carlos The Muppets and so forth in my collection

 

I enjoy listening to almost all of Paul Simon's music. Who else could get away with writing songs about a "rock" (Loves me Like a Rock) and film (Kodachrome)? One of my all time favorite songs is "The Dangling Conversation", IMO it is truly poetry set to music.

I also like to listen to Steely Dan, as well as Dianna Krall. I saw the Eagles at the Sphere back in October and they were fantastic. I enjoy almost all of their music, however I am sick and tired of hearing "The Hotel California". It was good the first thirty million times that I heard it.

P.S. My high school sweetheart's best friend's Sister use to date Paul Simon (before he made it BIG).

 

Definitely locked into the '70s/80s/90s soul jazz/pop/funk groove of the time.
The stuff on CTI/Kudu record labels with Rudy Van Gelder engineering the sound - doesn't get any better than that for me.

Putting together a set list for an upcoming gig in Seattle at the Perihelion Brewery on 5/5. No cover and I've got some of Seattle's finest musicians on board for this one.

Music has been such a major force in my life in so many ways - I even met my wife while playing a gig 30 years ago.

 

Pandora - Simon & Garfunkel station, Neil Diamond station, Frank Sinatra station and a few other oddball stations.

 

60's and 70s rock - Zepplin, some Cream, Pink Floyd (one of my favorite overall bands), Joe Cocker, etc
Blues - Jr Kimbrough, Memphis Minnie, etc
Punk - Stooges, Black Flag, Misfits, Minor Threat, Stiff Little Fingers, Slomosa, Elder etc
In between kinda category, skate music, etc? - Fugazi, Primus, Helmet, Firehose
Hardcore - Suicidal Tendencies, Sepultura, Slayer, Sick of It all
Some of the older grunge like Green River, Mudhoney, etc
Metal - Black Sabbath, Budgie, Metallica, etc. Not so much the hair bands and none of the glam bands
Stoner Metal - Clutch (one of my favorite bands), The Sword, 1000Mods, Kyuss, etc
Other kind of random rock stuff - Black Keys (also fits into the blues category), American Sharks, All Them Witches

 

50s/60s - DoWop, R&R, Country

 

Do you feel, feel like I do?

We had a jukebox in our high school cafeteria. Then the school board made the vendor remove it. Something about making money from the students. Never mind that there was a pay phone booth right outside the cafeteria entrance. A lot of us were pretty salty over the whole thing. So one night 6 or 7 of us, all dressed in black, made a commando raid, managed to get up on the roof of the second floor, and hung a huge banner that read "The Jukebox Lives." About the time we got it hung, several cars pulled up in the bus lane and parked. We ducked down, crawled to the edge and watched several people head into the school.

After we made our get-away someone asked what we thought was going on. "It's a school board meeting". My best bud, Pete McCarthy. :"How do you know it was the school board?" Pete answered "Because I saw my dad and he's on the school board." (Famous quote from Doc McCarthy during a school board meeting, in response to an ill conceived project: "That plan isn't worth a rat's ass." Doc was kind of direct that way.)

Somehow the identity of us pranksters leaked back to the school administration and we all got called into the Vice Principle's office. We got a good lecture but nothing more. To quote Bart Simpson, it was a case of "I didn't do it; you didn't see me do it; you can't prove a thing."

 

Mike, you devil you.