What kind of music do you like?

man i have been playing that song for over 30 years , its considered a steel guitar classic
the very first song i learned to play was " mansion on the hill" i its an old hank williams tune but man it sounds beautiful played on the steel, i think " together again" was the 2nd thing i learned to play
i wish this new generation of musicians would learn to play the pedal steel, there just not enough of us old players left, there is a few new players but this new generation doesn't want to take the time to learn to play any instrument let alone one as complex as the pedalsteel
 
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if you geta chance listen to a pedal steel instrumental of Gene Watsons " farewell party " it is another pedal steel great
 
grumpyoldman said:
man i have been playing that song for over 30 years , its considered a steel guitar classic
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When I was a kid, I hated steel guitar, because I heard a lot of earlier players, like ‘50’s players, and it always sounded so thin and too…tropical, like slack key guitar.

Then I heard Brumley’s break on Owens’ “Tender Loving Care” - the lyrics and melody are pretty run-of-the-mill, Buck probably knocked it out in his sleep, but that steel…it moved me, and for the first time, I knew what people meant when they said, “…the cry of a steel guitar,” because he nursed all this sorrow and sadness out of it that just broke my heart.

Since then, I’ve loved to hear a good steel player.
 
the pedalsteel is hard for new musicians to get started on for several reasons
one being money, even a student model will cost at least $13-1400
then you have to have a volume pedal $100-250
a decent tuner $150-250
i use a special amp thats made just for the steel guitar $500.00+
then the bar and picks add another $100.00
and thats just to get started !!!
the blue guitar you see me playing in the picture cost me $ 3800.00 fifteen years ago .
and another thing to consider is that over 90% of the people that try to learn to play simply quit before they can even play one song . by the time they realize how much time and pratice is required , they get frustrated and give up
 
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In a couple weeks I’m going to see an amazing lineup of Canadian rock musicians. The bill includes:

Treble Charger
Bif Naked
I Mother Earth
Headstones
The Tea Party

I recently saw I Mother Earth with the Tea Party back in October, but the last time I saw Treble Charger was in 2000 I think. I’ve never seen the other two. Super stoked!
 
grumpyoldman said:
the pedalsteel is hard for new musicians to get started on for several reasons
one being money, even a student model will cost at least $13-1400
then you have to have a volume pedal $100-250
a decent tuner $150-250
i use a special amp thats made just for the steel guitar $500.00+
then the bar and picks add another $100.00
and thats just to get started !!!
the blue guitar you see me playing in the picture cost me $ 3800.00 fifteen years ago .
and another thing to consider is that over 90% of the people that try to learn to play simply quit before they can even play one song . by the time they realize how much time and pratice is required , they get frustrated and give up
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Pedal steel is my absolute favorite instrument. Back in the day guys like Rusty Young, Al Perkins, Buddy Cage, John David Call, Tom Brumley were incredible players and added so much to the music.
 
I know I answered somewhere in here but can’t find it. The Allman Brothers Band is my favorite band. Except for those awful albums on the Arista label. I’m into jam bands. Grateful Dead. Dead & Company, String Cheese Incident, Wide Spread Panic. Tedeschi Trucks Band, Greensky Bluegrass and lately Billy Strings.
 
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At present I enjoy silence and spoken podcasts. My daughter's earphones broke down, so I get served some fresh 'trap' music in the evenings, which has its bright and ibteresting moments, its not all bad.

On my own I want to listen to some of Dvořak's symphonies, as I don't think I have much insight into them.

Heard a part of his 2nd symphony, while the school year was still on, and it is beautiful.

In the car, being driven from a to b by my b9yfriend, we listen to a radio station with very interesting off mainstream song collections, from different eras and localities. Some 'house', some rock, some pop, some current hits, sone electronic, minimalist ...all sorts...curious to hear.
 
I’m going to see these guys in a couple of weeks:
View: https://youtu.be/B1zCN0YhW1s?si=Do8A9ppOcQCSn9X5


The last time I saw them was at Ozzfest 2001. My mother probably thought that my 17 year old self would eventually grow out of wanting to go to concerts with active mosh pits where men wearing scary masks would scream songs full of swear words.

I am pleased to report that my 40 year old self has done no such thing. Can’t wait!
 
I favor classical and jazz. My favorite classical composer is Mozart because his music is lively and positive for the most part. My favorite jazz man was Oscar Peterson, a Canadian pianist who trained in classical music at the Julliard School and developed a jazz piano technique that was phenomenal. I heard Peterson play in jazz clubs in 4 cities. I became a real fan. Sadly he died several years ago.

I like a lot of other things as well. I play piano a little and I play mostly blues because it is easy with as much jazz as I can muster which is mostly Latin jazz. As a youngster I played drums with a dixieland jazz band which developed in me a love of that style as well. My favorite Mozart composition is Eine Kleine Nachtmusik. I can't list my favorite Peterson recordings because there are so many.

Allow me to tell a little story about Peterson. The pianist in the Dixieland band was a friend and very talented jazz pianist. He once applied for some training by Peterson. Peterson invited him to his home, listened to him play and told him to go back to the hotel and practice so that he could perform "Satin Doll" for him the next day. When he returned the next day, Peterson said "Okay let's hear Satin Doll in the key of B" My friend said, "It's written in C. I can't play it in B." Peterson invited him to come back when he could. For those unfamiliar with music, C would be considered an "easy" key because there are no sharps or flats in the major scale. But hardly anything is written in B. That was a demanding prospective teacher to be sure.
 
Mozart, I love. I'm also a great fan of Beethoven, Brahms, Berlioz and Schubert ( I used to sing his "liede" - songs)
However, my passion for classical music is Renaissance and Baroque. I could listen to it all day and all night. I detest 20th century "classical"music.
Jazz? No particular favourites, but I just love the boogie woogie from the 20s, 30s and 40s!
 
karadekoolaid said:
Mozart, I love. I'm also a great fan of Beethoven, Brahms, Berlioz and Schubert ( I used to sing his "liede" - songs)
However, my passion for classical music is Renaissance and Baroque. I could listen to it all day and all night. I detest 20th century "classical"music.
Jazz? No particular favourites, but I just love the boogie woogie from the 20s, 30s and 40s!
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Beethoven was the brilliant link between the Classical style of Mozart and the Romantic style of Brahms and others. He was an iconoclast. I play Fur Elise and the Moonlight Sonata (How did he get the idea to write something in C sharp minor?)

I too like the jazz of the 20's and thirties. It was in the 40's that we began to get progressive jazz from people like Oscar Peterson and it was just prior to the 1920's that Dixieland was in its heyday. Good stuff.
 
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