Quadman2
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Ted- Here are a couple to find for your daughter.
Great share...potential looks good as well.
Thanks.
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Ted- Here are a couple to find for your daughter.
What gets weird is a guest not used to critical listening, trying to sit still and listen.
I only go to small venue concerts now. People tend to be more respectful of the performing artist than in a huge arena. I don't go to many live shows anymore, but when I go it's to enjoy the music. What is really getting distracting are all these people holding up their cellphones to film parts of the concert. One guy just stood up and held his phone out for a whole song and blocked everyone's view behind him.
I like to experience the group and music live, but I'm more comfortable and feel like I can enjoy the music more at home. Plus, if I want a snack or have to go to the can, I can stop the music until I'm back in position.
To clarify...does all this aspect of "isolated listening" hold true for the concert experience where at times it's full of comments/screams/and meyham?
Just shak'n the tree, eh?
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Quadman, I'm not sure where you are , but I am lucky in Buffalo, the tribute bands and the Philharmonic present pops concerts, Beatles, Pink Floyd, Zeppelin and others all been fantastic concerts. Good fun to see the marriage of the 2.Another event I tend to like offering is to share with some one an obscure/little known/unique or rare recording that I sorta know he/she hasn't heard before. Some times after hearing the recording, they either want me to either burn/tape a copy or they want to get their own copy. This leads to further listening.
For example I've some sad ballad-type Everly Bros tapes that few have heard and are taken back by their folk renditions. Also, I've shared some composites of past humourous tunes I've put together... some they remember, others are new to them. It's good for a laugh or two.
Lately, I've been trying to introduce my daughter to classical music after I discovered she didn't have any background in this genre. What brought this on was when I shared a Deep Purple and London Phil Orchestra who got together to produce a great arrangement of the two music worlds. She knew the hard rock band but just couldn't fully appreciate the meld of the two vastly different playing styles/content.
So now I'm buying classic for her and sharing what my classic background has to offer. She's now on board with a new interest after tasting the classical side of music.
So, for what it's worth, sometimes you can enlarge others' world of music by the sharing.
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Last night the wife and daughter were yakking it up while I was trying to listen. Similar irritation. I changed the record to something poppy-backgroundy. All good, TT...
Last night Mrs Grillebilly was talking to me while I was listening to something for the first time and I hate to admit it but I was irritated at her. I kept it zipped up to keep the peace, of course.
My wife does not like some of the bands I like or enjoys the music made by some of my friends. So Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead, and a few others can only be played when she is not home. If she is home and I must listen to these bands, I use headphones.
She returns the favor by not playing disco or such stuff when I am home.
My wife and I mostly compatible in our music tastes. It's almost scary, even, how much alike we are in our tastes. But yeah, she cannot tolerate a few of my choices, including the Stones as well as some of my punk and grunge albums. She also likes a few things I don't like... Def Leppard and the Eagles, among them.YOU ARE NOT ALONE, I ASSURE YOU!
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