JanMM

The stereotypical bentrider is Old, Rotund and adorned with a Gray Beard. The stereotypical bent music is yet to be set. Laid Back has been suggested. As a teen, I was the second trumpet player in a band that did nothing but songs by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. That's pretty Laid Back. Certainly not the music of the Youth Rebellion.

Allegheny Jet

Over the past few years I'm been a changing from classic 70's rock to blues. Just can't get enough of dem blues, from BB to Maria Muldor to early Zep, love it all. My 24 yr old son has been raiding my collection of rock inculding the vinyl LP's. What's new is old and what's old is new!

dclaryjr

So what's the ugliest part of your body?

dclaryjr

Likewise. I once played a game of H-O-R-S-E with Mary. They played the Loyola Field HOuse in New Orleans every year and I was the student-manager for the basketball team. I had to let them in for set up. Mary saw a rack of basketballs and next thing I knew, we were shooting hoops! Very cool.

My musical taste are VERY wide ranging. On my Zune you will find Zappa, The Berlin Philharmonic, George Straight, three hours worth of Led Zepplin, and even a little Eminem. But you reminded me of someone I haven't listened to in decades. I'm going to have to see if Rhapsody has some Tom Leher:

Egypt's going to get one too
Just to drop on you know who
So Israel's getting tense
Wants one in self defense
The Lord's our Sheppard says the psalm
But just in case, we're gonna get The Bomb!!!

stapfam

Don't know if you have them over there but certain UK bands still get me.

One of which is "Status Quo" and although they have been performing for 40 years now-They seem to have improved over the years.

I used to play in a Rock group and my likes in music changed over the years. At one time I changed over to Folk Music and got regular bookings on the folk club circuit. But I am afraid that now my Music of choice has gone back to the "Blues".

So the I-Pod now has 4 hours of Status Quo- Blues with John Lee Hooker being the main artist and a bit of Classical.


But the music event of my life- wasn't there but have the music running through me. Woodstock. and one artist that I always had a problem understanding. Joe Cocker will never be the same after watching this link

https://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=T4_MsrsKzMM

big john

Phil Ochs! What a tragic genius. He appeared at a club called The Troubador some months before his suicide and came on stage so drunk he couldn't perform. He smashed his drink on the stage and stomped off. I thought he wrote some great stuff, including "The Scorpion Departs, But Never Returns". Once a roommate of Bob Dylan.

Condorita

The truck-driving woman (actually currently a dispatcher, but still has her CDL and all her endorsements) here does both. And actually rented a house once simply because it was on a street bearing the name of her favorite composer.

Kurt Erlenbach

That is seriously cool. I trust you whipped her. If I recall, she didn't seem like the athletic type.

Wildwood 

you should have introduced him to Catholic Girls - perfect song for a 17 yo boy.

JanMM

All most of us over here know of Status Quo is Pictures of Matchstick Men.

dclaryjr

Hell, yes!

BTW, she traveled with more shoes than Imelda Marcos!

dclaryjr

I have four grandkids, two of whom basically live with me, and the other two are here quite often. Their friends think I'm cool because I know the words to some Eminem songs, but I couldn't get the kids to appreciate my classic rock.

Then came Guitar Hero.

My grandkids now rock!!!!

zonatandem

Tandemistas?

DnvrFox

And we have some of us old enough to be others of us fathers (or mothers)!

maddmaxx 

^^^^^
And as proof of our diversity, I present you with this thread..............

tntyz

Yet young enough to still be children.

rideon7

Recently went through my album collection, which I retrieved from storage. I worked in a record shop for three years right out of high school so my collection, while not large, is as eclectic as this forum. Anybody remember Tonton Macoute (no, not the Haitian secret police, the album)? They only made one record. It's awesome. How about Rare Bird? I have an original British pressing of "Two Virgins" with John and Yoko butt naked on the cover (man, I'm glad they sold that with an oversleeve).

The irony is that after looking over my collection I realized that there's no way for me to listen to it. I don't have a turntable.

BluesDawg

I recently went through my CD collection, moving it to a new storage cabinet. I found that my estimates have been very low, I have over 700 CDs.

The largest category is rock, with blues making a strong second place. Jazz, bluegrass and old time country (not the Nashville noise) and comedy are other categories represented.

Artists/bands with several CDs in my collection are The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Who, Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, John Hiatt, Van Morrison, Buddy Guy, James Cotton, R.E.M., Allman Brothers, Zappa, Led Zeppelin, Bob Marley, Robert Cray, Keb' Mo', Stevie Ray Vaughan, B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters and many more.

big john

If I found a copy of "Two Virgins" I would be glad I had no turntable.

Garfield Cat

That was an interesting era at UCLA. You would have seen John Wooden and those wonderful basketball teams. Lew Alcindor, Bill Walton. The campus unrest in 1970 with Mayor Sam Yorty ordering the police to quell the student riot on Cinco De Mayo.

NOS88

You might appreciate the joke my son (an aspiring guitarist) shared with me yesterday.

How many guitarist does it take to cover Stevie Ray Vaughan?

Apparently all of them.

rideon7

Yeah, I still can't remember what the music was like on that album. Fact is, I can't even remember if there *was* music on that album.

dclaryjr

I have around 200 LPs, most that have been played five times or less because I recorded them all to tape (open reel) back in the 70s. A couple years ago I bought a a turn table from Radio Shack that has an internal amp, and I ran it straight to my sound card to capture a bunch of them as mp3s. Now you can buy turntables that will connect via USB.

big john

I still cringe whenever I'm reminded of the "Plastic Ono Band". I mean, John Lennon was great, a legend, but that noise that came out of Yoko was....I don't know the words to describe it.

I still have a Garrard SL125 turntable and if I move a bunch of my girlfriends stuff, I can get to my LPs.
Got some Jeff Beck, Cream, American Flag and their spinoff The Fabulous Rhinestones, 2 Jews Blues, Super Session, Dave Mason, Traffic, David Crosby, Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks, Procal Harum, Allman Bros, and some Jazz, too.

Garfield Cat

Bill Evans Solo Sessions