The music that shaped my life.

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Skinny Puppy. Discovered it in high school through a friend. Up to then had listened to I guess normal top 40 or classic rock and didn't even know such a thing as Skinny Puppy even existed. Skip forward a minute if desired to get to the music. "Music" (some may not call it that).

Led me straight down the rabbit hole to Front Line Assy, KMFDM, Front 242, Ministry, etc. It's much of what I still listen to today, and in a way how I met many of my friends.

 

[Francis Eric]

Wow That reminds me of Tom Waits
What's He building in there

Heard KMFDM

Not the same album , but I love SwordFishTrombone

I'd go to ,and still do go to a CD shop or thrift shop with a CD player to listen to all the Cd's
Been yelled at a few times (what I am spending $80 and been here all day think I am stealing)
When I go on bike rides 100's on miles sometimes not the best idea (with records too)
Had my back bike rim collasp , and walk a entire day
(10 - 20 miles maybe with a wobbly back rim throwing every thing off balance as I walk all day.


whats He building in there

Tom waits
Swordfishtrombones

 

[Francis Eric]

Dynamics = it is the notes are played at different levels of volume

Listen to No cheer Tom Waits , and the song before, and the last song Rainbirds
So Beautiful

I get mad when I play fast people think it is so good My slow songs
man playing till your lower legs get Numb in the same chair for a month
raised catholic so 40 days for lent to play --- those slow songs very hard with tricky rhythm.
people say I have it in me, but your brain gets old, and rottin so who knows if I will ever be able to play like I did.

 

[Nokie]

Even tho I came up on punk and hardcore (which is usually playing whenever I’m working alone) the last few years I’ve really been into older country ie... Johnny Cash,Waylon,Hank Sr, Jr and 3
Mike Ness’ solo stuff tends to blend the 2 for me.

 

[Brew_Dude41]

Great thread guys!
@wsmith1625 nice pull on Fugazi, I am going to have to see if pandora will pull them up or go find the cd as I head out to work in the garage tonight!
Did I miss it or did nobody bring up Pink Floyd?
Simon and Garfunkel got alot of play as I was growing up in the house, and other bands that I can't name but my parents owned the vinyl. The soundtrack to Jesus Crist Superstar was fixed into that rotation as well.
Grew up and got my CD player and hit Circuit City for a healthy mix of grundge, classic rock, and nineties metal (with some Beastie Boys, Snoop, and Dre sprinkled in).
Not much I won't listen to.

 

[Nokie]

Great thread guys!
@wsmith1625 nice pull on Fugazi, I am going to have to see if pandora will pull them up or go find the cd as I head out to work

 

[Francis Eric]

Not the fegazie
Heard the evens

brain is not working fu all yoy

can look it all up on your own

 

[grampamark]

All of it.

From the show tunes, Dixieland Jazz, and movie soundtrack albums my folks listened to in the ‘50s, Elvis, Buddy Holly, doo-***, and girl groups in the late ‘50s-early ‘60s, the British Invasion, bubblegum pop in the mid ‘60s, the swing band music I played as a sax player in a high school swing band in the mid 60s, to the country I started listening to when Disco came along, to the classic rock I listen to today.

All of it.

 

[corkybstewart]

In college this dude played a concert on campus and it was like nothing I had ever experienced.

 

[wsmith1625]

Thanks @Nokie for linking that. I'm brewing an English Bitter tomorrow. Got my grain milled and collected my water already. Now I know what I'm listening to. Great thread @corkybstewart !

 

[corkybstewart]

When I lived in Mobile AL back in the 70's we listened to an excellent radio station, WABB FM. They played such an amazing mix of music that I was probably 15 years old before I realized some people differentiated between blues and rock.. WABB played "regular" stuff like Beatles, Stones, Moody Blues, Allman Brothers mixed with Taj Mahal, BB King, JJ Cale, Bobby Bland, etc.
When I moved to New Mexico in 1976 the first bunch of people I met were musicians, several of who formed a band. They played a lot of Grateful Dead covers, but also a lot of music that was somewhat new to me.

 

[grampamark]

Guy Clark is probably my all-time favorite songwriter. This is my favorite GC song-

 

[corkybstewart]

Guy Clark is probably my all-time favorite songwriter. This is my favorite GC song-

My favorite from that album is The Randall Knife. It meant more when my Dad died a few years ago.

 

[Francis Eric]

Corky I do like that classical gutairist
Thank you I think I forgot his name (it's been years)

I remember finding the evens on myspace by chance
Fugazi ( Ian MacKaye ) more mellow stuff
I added a bunch of bands I liked so Okay to look through
I liked the Kramus band with Matt Ledford used to Jam(bass guitar) to that one a lot
I Play Guitar too but I liked jamming to bass with the evens as well
Lucid Fly was good


Finally Riding my bicycle in Chicago I one day stopped in a music store and saw these two Cd's
was so happy

Shelter Two

Cut from the cloth



Corky You might like this as well
Tools Singer band Perfect Circle
Album
Thirteen step




Speaking of that Classical player
I just bought a Claasical Guitar ($2000) didn't pay that much
I finger pick (not supper fast, and bland ) a lot of technique (tonal)

got to go, but I like a cheap guitar more then the $2000 classical
not the style I play (haven't learned ) all technique I made up is lost on classical.
(that of coarse takes years for me to play to come up with my techniques)

(edit Oh Will check those out when I have more time
I Remember Eric Clapton doing a lot of covers by that artist just listened to him JJ Cale)

 

[corkybstewart]

Corky I do like that classical gutairist
Thank you I think I forgot his name (it's been years)



I remember finding the evens on myspace by chance
Fugazi ( Ian MacKaye ) more mellow stuff
I added a bunch of bands I liked so Okay to look through
I liked the Kramus band with Matt Ledford used to Jam(bass guitar) to that one a lot
I Play Guitar too but I liked jamming to bass with the evens as well
Lucid Fly was good


Finally Riding my bicycle in Chicago I one day stopped in a music store and saw these two Cd's
was so happy

Shelter Two

Cut from the cloth



Corky You might like this as well
Tools Singer band Perfect Circle
Album
Thirteen step




Speaking of that Classical player
I just bought a Claasical Guitar ($2000) didn't pay that much
I finger pick (not supper fast, and bland ) a lot of technique (tonal)

got to go, but I like a cheap guitar more then the $2000 classical
not the style I play (haven't learned ) all technique I made up is lost on classical.
(that of coarse takes years for me to play to come up with my techniques)

(edit Oh Will check those out when I have more time
I Remember Eric Clapton doing a lot of covers by that artist just listened to him JJ Cale)

I like The Evens, I'd never even heard of them but that's a great sound. My daughter and her boyfriend are huge Tool/A perfect Circle fans. We listen to a lot of that while we're visiting them in Phoenix.

 

[corkybstewart]

Several friends and I took a year off college and worked on the drilling rigs in Hobbs New Mexico in 78/79. I went from a dead broke college student to bringing home $800-100 every 2 weeks. With my first paycheck I went down to the local record store and a really good looking, young(married) clerk took one look at me and suggested 2 new artists: Dire Straits and George Thorogood. I bought their first albums that day and have been hooked on them ever since.

What an amazing and unique sound.

 

[Francis Eric]

You Mentioned M<oody Blues
Everyone seems to have that White Album
I love Threshold of a dream

I like Tony Joe White
tony joe white polk salad annie

 

[Francis Eric]

Thank you Corky or is it Bs stewart hahahah
I like you like I mentioned sometimes some people must be on the same brain lengths
still find it facinating you mentioned all these bands and I happen to be listening to them

I find this Unfortunate Black Sabbath ALBUMS like sabbatage
or even a later album with Dio like heaven and hell
I love that album as well as Born again (stupid google had to think n my own)

Went to the thirst store Asian lady doesn't like me there
it is like a Seinfield epesode where I want another person to buy me stuff I like
Yes Dug stuff out of the trash (even discovered new music)
I am afraid she might see what I like, and raise the prices
Yes I was at check out they said NO wrong price
yes I dug a 3 sided Mirror out of the trash they took it out, and resold me it
could of used that garbage can full of bandanas (cops called)

so I got to laugh

anyways

I found this album at the Dang place
They Spanish people are nice , but a older white woman tried to charge me so much
so it has been a hassle
(I am good with money and math so I know better, but had to say just give me the sh**
AND my credit because you over charged me I do not have time (that day) )

Anyways after A while of new albums Learned of this.

Tim Buckley Good bye Hello
Love this album
Like to sit for 12 hours soaking in the bath tube listening to it, with others come out like a prune
No man can Find war


great Dire Straights He is a great Guitar player
Most people do not know
still have not got a chance to look at those bands I am sorry
will let you know what I think ( at least I am being honest.)

 

[day_trippr]

[...]
great Dire Straights He is a great Guitar player
Most people do not know
[...]

Mark Knopfler. Not only an amazing guitar player, an awesome performer who gets the audience.
I've been on a Dire Straights (and Fleetwood Mac/Stevie Nicks) jag of late, my go-tos in the brewery and work shop these days.
Knopfler is one cool dude who can kill with a guitar...

Cheers!

 

[Ogilthorpe2]

My philosophy on music is that there is never a better time for music than right now....because, the classics never die, and there is always someone, somewhere making great new music. Depending on you tastes, it might not be easy to find, but it’s out there.

That said, for my money the best songwriter, and my favorite band in the world right now, is Jason Isbell and the 400 unit. If you’re not familiar, and you like songs with words that actually mean something, give it a try.

 

[Ogilthorpe2]

Mark Knopfler. Not only an amazing guitar player, an awesome performer who gets the audience.
I've been on a Dire Straights (and Fleetwood Mac/Stevie Nicks) jag of late, my go-tos in the brewery and work shop these days.
Knopfler is one cool dude who can kill with a guitar...

Cheers!

In the conversation of the greats, Knopfler is quite possibly the most underrated guitar player on the planet.

 

[Ogilthorpe2]

I love the bluegrass mixed in with the mainstream stuff. My dad loved bluegrass and Johnny Cash when I was a kid and I hated it. I listen to it now and it brings me home. I also paid paid 5-6 bucks to see a show, but in dive clubs to see lesser known punk and hardcore bands. They were sweaty fire traps but a lot of young angry talent played those clubs. Arenas never appealed to me. I didn't like the idea of having a chair and being so far from the stage that you had to watch the show on a jumbotron. Do they still call it that lol!

Sturgill Simpson just came out with a bluegrass album.

 

[Francis Eric]

Great I looked at the Guy clark the cape song
WHEN I got free 8 tracks got into that Paul Simon album
(the one with the regae sounding song at the begining )

I do play guitar , an have some lightning speed
people say wow so good
do not realize that very slow song is a pain to play

 

[day_trippr]

In the conversation of the greats, Knopfler is quite possibly the most underrated guitar player on the planet.

The raters are idiots. The soul expressed in Brothers In Arms is profoundly moving and of consequence...



Cheers!

 

[wsmith1625]

Sturgill Simpson just came out with a bluegrass album.

Never heard of him, but wish I had sooner. Damn good stuff. Didn't hear any bluegrass, but some pretty gritty live county rock stuff. Thanks.

 

[Ogilthorpe2]

Never heard of him, but wish I had sooner. Damn good stuff. Didn't hear any bluegrass, but some pretty gritty live county rock stuff. Thanks.

he’s one of my fav’s. His newest album is called Cuttin Grass Vol 1. It’s all covers of his previously released material done with more of a Blue Grass vibe.

His Albumn “Metamodern Sounds In Country Music” is, IMO one of the best albums in the last decade.

 

[corkybstewart]

Sturgill Simpson just came out with a bluegrass album.

This is the first I've heard of him, but after watching a few videos on youtube I really like his music. Thanks

 

[corkybstewart]

he’s one of my fav’s. His newest album is called Cuttin Grass Vol 1. It’s all covers of his previously released material done with more of a Blue Grass vibe.

His Albumn “Metamodern Sounds In Country Music” is, IMO one of the best albums in the last decade.

Very nice. I'm not much of a country fan anymore, but he reminds me a lot of Waylon and Willie's Outlaws album.

 

[Ogilthorpe2]

Very nice. I'm not much of a country fan anymore, but he reminds me a lot of Waylon and Willie's Outlaws album.

I don’t like most Country Music anymore either. A lot of todays popular country is too manufactured sounding, too cliche. But there’s still a handful of artists out there keeping the genre alive in my world.

I know you said you watched some videos, not sure if this is one of them, but it’s one of may favs even though it’s a few years old now.

 

[corkybstewart]

I don’t like most Country Music anymore either. A lot of todays popular country is too manufactured sounding, too cliche. But there’s still a handful of artists out there keeping the genre alive in my world.

I know you said you watched some videos, not sure if this is one of them, but it’s one of may favs even though it’s a few years old now.

Again, his voice and guitar sounds just like Waylon Jennings, and that' not a bad thing. I don't have easy access to much new music-I live out in the boondocks, I don't have a terrestrial radio station nearby and really only listen to music when I drive, which I avoid as much as possible.