Trivia, more trivia

[Mosey]

OK, it's quiet today, so here is another unimportant question.... what do you listen to on the radio in your shop while working?   

[vcutajar]

Don't laugh or roll your eyes.

Mostly Trance and Dance.

Vince

[mklotz]

http://www.kusc.org/

The last surviving all classical station in LA.

[steamer]

Yes

99.5....Classical Radio Boston.

Dave

[fcheslop]

Classic FM

[Mosey]

Just as I suspected. I listen to classic rock. Jimi, Stones, Zeppelin, Janis, etc.
M.

[fcheslop]

And a little Floyd 

[mklotz]

Just as I suspected. I listen to classic rock. Jimi, Stones, Zeppelin, Janis, etc.
M.

Be assured, you have our sympathies (and hopes for a timely recovery).

[chucketn]

Country and Western...
 
Chuck

[Mosey]

Anything but opera or grunge or Bruce Springstein.

[zeeprogrammer]

I'm all over the place on this one...

Overall I'd say my favorite music is folk music from around the world. Anything that gets a leg hopping up and down. Having said that...as a way to remind people of some of the old stuff...here's a sampling of other music/artists that I enjoy (in no particular order)

50's rock - motown, the stuff you heard on American Bandstand (like 'James, Let the Ladder Down')
German folk music as well as hiking music
Early Beatles
Locomotive Breath from Aqualung
Various movie stuff - Chocolat, Cider House Rules, Last of the Mohicans, Little Women
Fleetwood Mac
Crosby Stills Nash and Young - particularly 'Woodstock', 'Almost Cut My Hair', and 'Deja Vu'.
Greatest hits from Patsy Cline (love her)
Greatest hits from Dean Martin (lots of memories)
When it comes to folk music - stuff like you hear from 'Oh Brother Where Art Thou'.
Good banjo stuff (originates in Ireland I'm told)
Ozark Mountain Daredevils
Elton John
Western Music (Rawhide, Clint Eastwood movies, Liberty Valance, old classics)
Santana
Simon and Garfunkel
Enya
Joan Baez
John Denver (Annie's Song makes me cry. Was our wedding song). I was not happy he split with his wife.
Tina Turner
Stevie Wonder

Beethoven, Holst, many many other classics
Marches of all kinds (having drown up on army bases and Dad was in the band).

That's enough...so much more to mention.

But to answer your question Mosey...NPR 

Oh...quickie joke I just heard...

Deja Moo

Bullcrap I've heard before

[Tennessee Whiskey]

Now being a redneck I usually listen to the classics too, Marv. Southern rock classics. Skynard, Marshall Tucker, Allman Bros., Charley Daniels, Eagles and the likes. I also like classic country, not this whiny Taylor Swift crap. Merle, Wille, Waylon, Strait, Coe, Jones. Ain't nothing like a long neck bottle and a crying steel guitar I may be a little partial to the country, the old boy that wrote Tennessee Whiskey and The Chair and many, many others and I will reunite and be neighbors and pals again for a couple of months in the morning.

Y'alls Redneck
Eric

[Mosey]

Well, it's not easy to find on the radio, but I prefer Mingus, Mulligan, Getz, Holiday, or Son House, Johnson, Crudup, (take that Eric) but never Coltrane. (The soprano saxophone is not a musical instrument).
M.

[Walsheng]

When I'm not listening to the voices in my head, I'm listening to chips flying.
I rarely listen to music any more but when I do it's usually traditional Irish music.

John

[Kim]

I listen to NPR.
Kim

[Bluechip]

Classic FM or this ..

http://www.mygoldmusic.co.uk/

Dave BC

[Deko]

I never listen to the radio, I play my cd's, Just about anything recorded between 1940 and 1970 (when they stopped  recording "music")   Anything from Pop, swing, jazz, easy listening, depends on the mood I am in at the time.    Mosey,  (a soprano saxophone is not a musical instrument) EXCEPT when played by Sidney Bechet.  Just listen to his first recording of Petite Fleur, pure soul.

Cheers Dek. 

[Mosey]

Dek,
I stand corrected. The exception proves the rule.
M.

[Lew Hartswick]

< I listen to classic rock.>
I'd call that an oxymoron of the worst sort. :-)
I'm with Marv on the sympathies. :-)
   ...lew... 

[Captain Jerry]

I listen to music.  But it takes my full attention.   I run my machines. They take my full attention.  Can't do both.  No radio in the shop.

Jerry

[Rayanth]

I have an odd and miserable combination of both having a near eidetic memory for music -- I can hear a song twice and remember it for life -- and being incredibly susceptible to earworms (the term used to describe a song that gets 'stuck in your head')

As a result, I avoid music like the plague. I would have been a pro at Name That Tune -- give me three notes of a song, and the whole thing'll be stuck in my head for a week.

That being said, classical and "new age" instrumental (Mannheim Steamroller, Yanni, Blue Man Group's non-lyrical numbers, that sort of thing) are not as bad to have stuck in my head, so I will occasionally pop one of those cd's in, but not in the shop. I would get caught up in the song and forget that I was out there to make chips.

-- Rayanth

[Bogstandard]

I'm with Jerry on this one.

No distractions at all in the shop, except for the 'musix' produced by my machines.

But out of the shop, pop from 50's to 70's (after that it is just repeats and destruction of good music), almost all classical, my real favourite is opera.


John

[Maryak]

The time to listen to music is in a ladies boudoir, preferably with one arm gently wrapped around the owner of same and the other hand holding a long stemmed glass of Abrau Duseau. What happens next can be of Wagnerian proportions or the gentle strains of Mantovani. 

Best Regards
Bob

[b.lindsey]

I have to agree with Bogs and Jerry here...no music in the shop. Hearing, as much as sight and feel is an important part of the machinine process. Outside the shop however, I prefer classical, NPR, more modern bluegrass, and more traditional country.

Bill

[ScroungerLee]

I usually just listen to machines.  If I want music it depends on my mood.  I have been know to listen to anything from The Doors and Joan Jett to the Sound of Music soundtrack, with some Mozart thrown in for jobs that require more thinking.

Lee

[steamer]

Funny thing...if I run the machines...I listen..quietly...to classical....but if I'm scraping....NOTHING....go figure?

Dave

[ScroungerLee]

Steamer, perhaps the muttering and bad language while scraping is enough to listen to? At least that's what I would hear if I were to try scraping.

Lee

[John S]

Just as I suspected. I listen to classic rock. Jimi, Stones, Zeppelin, Janis, etc.
M.

Be assured, you have our sympathies (and hopes for a timely recovery).

How can ANYONE in this game not be into heavy metal ? Especially with the price of scrap.

[steamer]

Steamer, perhaps the muttering and bad language while scraping is enough to listen to? At least that's what I would hear if I were to try scraping.

Lee

Its usually not swearing...more of a "conversation"....though it only talks to me through mark up and dial indicators....kinda like sign language.....though I "TALK" to it...which is wierd enough

Dave

[mklotz]

All this talk of music reminded me of a story I heard on WGBH many years ago.  I'm sure you will enjoy it...


An orchestra was going to perform Beethoven's 9th symphony. A few days before the performance, the bassists decided that since they had a little section to play in the beginning and a little one at the end, they would quietly put their instruments down, exit the stage and go have a beer at the bar across the street during the section they had nothing to play.

When they did their performance, once they got to the part where they had nothing to do they put down their instruments and left as they planned. When they entered the bar they met a man who kept buying them drinks, telling them all stories of when he used to play in an orchestra. Over the course of time, two of the bassists passed out. Another bassist looked at the time, and with a shock, discovered that they only had three minutes get back into their positions to finish the symphony. They tried desperately to bring around the two bassists that had passed out, but it was no good. They thanked the man and ran out the door.

The bassist who came up with this idea in the first place told the others that he had come up with a plan in case such a thing happened. He explained to them that he had tied the last few pages of the score together so the count would have to slow the symphony way down so he could try to untie it with one hand.

Luckily, his scheme had worked...they made their entrance just in time, but one look at the count told them he was furious. And he had good reason to be, after all, it was the bottom of the 9th, the score was tied, the count was full, two men were out and the basses were loaded.

[Goldstar31]

Almost clair voyant?

9 hours ago the news broke that Vienna opera director collapsed during  the first act of Wagner's Parsival

Franz Welser-Moest- to be more precise

After 4 and a bit hours, I might have joined him

[chuck foster]

i listen to what ever station i can get in my little shop.
 i tried listening to shortwave but i found myself fiddling with tuning of the stations and i was not getting any work done.
so now i just listen to what ever is on.

chuck

[Tennessee Whiskey]

Not to worry Norm, the chap just had a little spell of lumbago-itis. I recall our chaps having a spot of the same as we entered that little country in Southeast Asia, know as Viet Nam. Dreadful humidity, couldn't keep the damn Decker from the rust. Ruck for a FNG weighed 90 pounds, at DEROS, maybe 25 pounds.perhaps the old boy just needs to clean out his ruck if he's " marching for 4+ hours"
 
"E"

[Walsheng]

Good one Marv. Don't know if our English friends would get it.

John

[Captain Jerry]

Only in the car,

     Willie
     Bob
     Johnny
     Waylon
     Merle
     Lyle
     Warren

Jerry

[TerryWerm]

Bluegrass, Country Western.  Once in a while I'll plug in a CD. I also like Cowboy Western, like the old cowboy songs. But I keep the volume down a bit. Running machines make just enough noise to block out the radio so it is not so much of a distraction.

[Goldstar31]

Good one Marv. Don't know if our English friends would get it.

John

Whilst most of us actually need three wires as opposed to the American two to create music, a few of us do have an ear for music somewhat better than Van Gogh.

The odd- very odd, were known to come out of Sam Ash's in NY with a sop. sax.

I think that the funniest recollection was a 'bringing culture to the natives' during our Boston visit. There was this Faneuil Hall thing with  an old toothless wonder with his empty jaw packed with cotton wool and - a Masonic apron
There was a rumour that he and some of his mates had come out of a lodge meeting - got kitted up in Red Indian costume and chucked tea into the harbour.

After that- and Dan Brown, people think that the Brits will believe anything.

[John S]

We can't even understand some of the English either 

[Mosey]

Good one Marv. Don't know if our English friends would get it.

John

Whilst most of us actually need three wires as opposed to the American two to create music, a few of us do have an ear for music somewhat better than Van Gogh.

The odd- very odd, were known to come out of Sam Ash's in NY with a sop. sax.



I think that the funniest recollection was a 'bringing culture to the natives' during our Boston visit. There was this Faneuil Hall thing with  an old toothless wonder with his empty jaw packed with cotton wool and - a Masonic apron
There was a rumour that he and some of his mates had come out of a lodge meeting - got kitted up in Red Indian costume and chucked tea into the harbour.

After that- and Dan Brown, people think that the Brits will believe anything.

Thanks for  clearing that up.
Mosey

[steamer]

Good one Marv. Don't know if our English friends would get it.

John

Whilst most of us actually need three wires as opposed to the American two to create music, a few of us do have an ear for music somewhat better than Van Gogh.

The odd- very odd, were known to come out of Sam Ash's in NY with a sop. sax.



I think that the funniest recollection was a 'bringing culture to the natives' during our Boston visit. There was this Faneuil Hall thing with  an old toothless wonder with his empty jaw packed with cotton wool and - a Masonic apron
There was a rumour that he and some of his mates had come out of a lodge meeting - got kitted up in Red Indian costume and chucked tea into the harbour.

After that- and Dan Brown, people think that the Brits will believe anything.

Thanks for  clearing that up.
Mosey

 

[Jo]

We can't even understand some of the English either 

I am with you John. I have not idea what that was about. 

Jo

[mklotz]

We can't even understand some of the English either 

And some of us are glad we can't.  [No offense to our English friends who manage to write clearly.]

I see that Norman has unveiled the dreaded Masonic apron.  We're in for it now. 

[Mosey]

and DeMolay the Commandery!!

[John S]

We can't even understand some of the English either 

And some of us are glad we can't.  [No offense to our English friends who manage to write clearly.]

I see that Norman has unveiled the dreaded Masonic apron.  We're in for it now.

Just need the endless veiled references to WWII, George Thomas and tool and cutter grinders to have it all.

[steamer]

OK guys......thats enough.

[Goldstar31]

Dave,

 Think- if they are getting at me- they are not getting at others!

Kind regards

N

[steamer]

All,

This will remain a place where good fun and education will be had and expected.    A poke now and again at someone in good fun is one thing,   but mobs will be severly frowned upon.

Norman,

 

Dave,

 Think- if they are getting at me- they are not getting at others!

Kind regards

N

One need not be a martyr...see previous comment.


Lets all just speak plainly shall we?...hyperbole begets hyperbole....

nuf said

[Troutsqueezer]

Rush Limbaugh, Dennis Miller 

[steamer]

Rush Limbaugh, Dennis Miller 

Sorry Dennis....it's probably me...don't get it?

[Bogstandard]

This post is turning into gobbledygook, so I am locking it up.

I am not going to put up with any more of this garbage, if it cannot be understood by everyone, then it doesn't need to be here and so will be deleted.

John