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[LuzArt]

Wife has retired but I stayed up playing dj to myself, quietly so as not to wake her. Hopefully my rubbish voice hasn't either. Managed to play songs by Jackson Browne, Warren Zevon, Dire Straits, Pink Floyd, David Gilmour, The Beatles, Paul Simon, Ellie Goulding, Tex, Don And Charlie, Fleetwood Mac, The Church, The Stranglers. Theres nothing more inspiring than the right songs at the right time. Hope your Saturday night took you somewhere grand too.

[JohnA]

for some of us, its the main reason we are into this crazy hobby. Enjoyment of music
Glad you had a wonderful Saturday night playing DJ

[caddisgeek]

It's pretty great, thats what I like about this site, it's about the music, not the gear

[JohnA]

It's pretty great, thats what I like about this site, it's about the music, not the gear

not for all

[Vortexjah]

Wife has retired but I stayed up playing dj to myself, quietly so as not to wake her. Hopefully my rubbish voice hasn't either. Managed to play songs by Jackson Browne, Warren Zevon, Dire Straits, Pink Floyd, David Gilmour, The Beatles, Paul Simon, Ellie Goulding, Tex, Don And Charlie, Fleetwood Mac, The Church, The Stranglers. Theres nothing more inspiring than the right songs at the right time. Hope your Saturday night took you somewhere grand too.

Thats awesome LuzArt, i usually wake up nice and early, before the woman does, to get a few albums in.

Not for all indeed, but it is still at the root of this hobby. What is the use in owning the gear, if you don't like music?

Music is the only reason i have started striving for the greater sound.

[turntable]

Without the music our hifi is nothing. Been addicted to music since I was about 12 and that ain't never going to change.

Cheers

[JohnA]

Without the music our hifi is nothing. Been addicted to music since I was about 12 and that ain't never going to change.

Cheers

same mate. music was always a love of mine, hifi came much later.
As a kid i could sit in my room for hours on end just listening to music

[caddisgeek]

same mate. music was always a love of mine, hifi came much later.
As a kid i could sit in my room for hours on end just listening to music

I think that would be the case for a lot of us here, and is the general vibe of the site

[turntable]

same mate. music was always a love of mine, hifi came much later.
As a kid i could sit in my room for hours on end just listening to music

I remember back when I was around 12/ 13 and listening intently to the top 40 every Sunday night after countdown. I used to listen to my dad's small boom box in my bedroom. I used to tape my favorite songs onto my one cassette and play during the week.
Ah, the simple easy days of our youth.

I used to love going to my Uncle's place as he had a huge Pioneer turntable with at the time seemingly massive speakers. I was inspired to one day get a system like my Uncle Don's

Edited by turntable, 18 March 2012 - 08:51 AM.

[Batty]

Yes indeed, the music. I started with a little mono Philips cassette player and Sgt. Pepper and Led Zep II. having grown up to the likes of Sammy Davis Jr and Frank Sinatra on my Dad's list and Sandie Shaw and Petula Clark on my Mum's. Top 40 on a battery powered transistor radio in my room on Sunday evenings.

[LuzArt]

Some great stories. Of course music and the love of it is the motivation for most on these fora but lately I've found it a bit disturbing the concentration on the minutist of pedantic details which could make a bees dick of difference to said enjoyment. The joy for me hasn't ever left my consciousness, although im rapt to enjoy stuff in the quality that I do.

turntable - I too would make takes of the Top 40 with Barry Bissel, some 23 years ago now. Ahh tapes, what fun it was. TDK SA90 Chrome from memory, a richness and top end better than "Normal" type but without the harsh edge that I seem to remember Metal tapes having.

[Grumpy]

Great little story Luz. That quiet time music can be very soothing to you at times. I remember going to sleep nearly every night as a kid back in the 60's with a transistor Radio playing quietly on the pillow next to my head. I went through a lot of batteries listening to the latest hits of the day.

[Zammo]

Wife's out the house, so Muddy's bluesin' away this arvo. "The Captain so mean!"......hehe......all about the music. Good post Luzart.

[desap0]

And why is it that wives (some) (a) Can't just sit and listen to music ( think they can sing better than the recording artist and preceed to drown them out with their own version of the song © even have to hum along badly to instrumentals ?

Or am I being too harsh ?

[myrantz]

( think they can sing better than the recording artist and preceed to drown them out with their own version of the song

This! Means I'm doing something right if my better half does this...

© even have to hum along badly to instrumentals ?

Even better

And don't forget toe tapping...

So far havn't get her (or me for that matter) to dance yet ...

[:) al]

this is just what its about. for me its weekend morning, or yeah later at night. some mornings my little daughter will come join me. can be some lovely moments. love pulling out a disc that havent listened to in a while and giving it a run.

ah yeah barry bissels top 40 remember those days, and yeah hours making compilation tapes hehe

[surfpurple]

And why is it that wives (some) (a) Can't just sit and listen to music ( think they can sing better than the recording artist and preceed to drown them out with their own version of the song © even have to hum along badly to instrumentals ?

Or am I being too harsh ?

Nah, can never be too harsh on them! After all they are the only thing standing between us (listeners) and the 'music'.

My 'window' is Friday arvos, from 3.30pm (when she leaves) until 7pm (when she gets home).

I grab a couple (ok a LOT) of beers and set up in the lounge room with my lappy and stream music for 3 1/2 hours LOUD, just like a concert!

The misus reckons that she can hear the music at the top of the hill, 200 metres away (in the car) as she is driving home.

Gotta take those 'windows of opportunity' when you can!

[Yamaha Man]

Music is crap! I just like looking at the "status symbols" we aquire.

[desap0]

Gotta take those 'windows of opportunity' when you can!

Very true - luckily I get a few such windows

[surfpurple]

I remember I saved up for a tiny $1.90 crystal set that came with a small earphone. This was to pick up 3UZ from the city, as my country town local radio was mortifyingly humdrum. One of the earth- moving days of my life was the night they premiered WHITE ROOM and ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER one after the other. I just lay in bed in total wonderment at what I had just heard. Another high was the night I heard I AM THE WALRUS on the earphone, for the first time. I can remember thinking 'they can't do that', that breaks all the rules!
I have never lost the sense of mystery and wonder- I just achieve it with a better system.
All three tracks still stop time for me, and have never been diminished by familiarity.
Howling nostalgically, Dingo.

Love to hear that stuff!

'White room' AND 'All along the watchtower' were two of my all time fav. when I was younger (and still are).

When I was about 13, I had a 'crude' transiator radio set up in my bed-head (the old bedhead with a shelf built in), and I wired up 2 extra extenal speakers.I used to listen to the radio when I went to bed. I remember listening to Phil Collins 'In the air tonight',(when I was supposed to be asleep!), and back then it was one of those 'alternative' sort of songs that didn't fit the mold of the 2 minute 'radio' song. I never can forget that 'atmosphere' of listening to an alternative sort of song on the radio, in the dark, (which heightened my senses) at that time, and really took me somewhere!

[LogicprObe]

Yes...........those three songs right there did it for me too.
(White Room, All Along The Watchtower and I am The Walrus.)
The sounds in those songs just blew me away..................still do.

Oh................the other one was Eleanor Rigby by The Zoot.

[surfpurple]

Yes...........those three songs right there did it for me too.
(White Room, All Along The Watchtower and I am The Walrus.)
The sounds in those songs just blew me away..................still do.

Oh................the other one was Eleanor Rigby by The Zoot.

One of my first memorable songs (that I can remember) was the Beatles 'Here comes the sun' .Was only a toddler but I can never forget it.

Wonder what 'this' generations memerable songs are!

[rehabitat]

Music is my lifeblood, my first true love (don't tell the wife), the saviour of my sanity and my reason to continue (apart from the kids).

Music first and foremost; the gear is just an indulgence for those of us who can afford it.

[LogicprObe]

One of my first memorable songs (that I can remember) was the Beatles 'Here comes the sun' .Was only a toddler but I can never forget it.

Wonder what 'this' generations memerable songs are!

It may well depend on what their parents are listening to, I suppose.
(that's what you get when you're a toddler...........unless you have a hot babysitter with some new funky sounds!)

[surfpurple]

I was influenced by the 'radio', as well as my parents record collection (mostly 70s rock, Eagles, Elton John, Rod Stewart,). But that was in the days when those bands were BANDS and made ROCK music, oppossed to today when they produce 'radio hits'!

[LogicprObe]

I'll tell you what, I've decided I really like the sound of Abbey Road recordings around that time.

It sort of gelled when I was listening to some Badfinger................



...........and then I heard that this song was recorded there as well.

[LuzArt]

I remember I saved up for a tiny $1.90 crystal set that came with a small earphone. This was to pick up 3UZ from the city, as my country town local radio was mortifyingly humdrum. One of the earth- moving days of my life was the night they premiered WHITE ROOM and ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER one after the other. I just lay in bed in total wonderment at what I had just heard. Another high was the night I heard I AM THE WALRUS on the earphone, for the first time. I can remember thinking 'they can't do that', that breaks all the rules!
I have never lost the sense of mystery and wonder- I just achieve it with a better system.
All three tracks still stop time for me, and have never been diminished by familiarity.
Howling nostalgically, Dingo.

THAT is a great yarn dingo! Would have been extraodrinary to hear those songs one after the other.

[LuzArt]

Yes...........those three songs right there did it for me too.
(White Room, All Along The Watchtower and I am The Walrus.)
The sounds in those songs just blew me away..................still do.

Oh................the other one was Eleanor Rigby by The Zoot.

LP- The Zoot's Eleanor Rigby is the best cover of any song. Ever. Brutal and compelling, a stunning interpretation.

[LogicprObe]

LP- The Zoot's Eleanor Rigby is the best cover of any song. Ever. Brutal and compelling, a stunning interpretation.

When you look at the covers of Beatles songs around that time (we'll leave Dylan out for the minute) there were some absolute crackers.

We have the Zoot doing Eleanor Rigby................Doug Parkinson doing Dear Prudence..............and then we have dear old Joe Cocker with Help from my Friends and Bathroom Window!

[LogicprObe]

Choice Cuts!!!!!!!!! IMHO the greatest Australian rock album of all time. How do I love it, let me count the ways!!!!!
waxing poetic, Dingo.

I can't recall hearing the album all the way through................expensive though!
http://www.amazon.co...s/dp/B00000JSM6

edit - dingo..............is that your review on Amazon as Dingo Dave?

Edited by LogicprObe, 01 April 2012 - 10:24 PM.

[LogicprObe]

Well, It inspired me to order a two album set from Germany via Redeye records.

[LogicprObe]

MASTER'S APPRENTICES - CHOICE CUTS / TOAST TO PANAMA RED - CD

That's the two..............3-4 weeks delivery.
Could be a thread needed then!