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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Based on the comments in another thread, it seems that a lot of folks taste in music, both what they listen to and play changes not only with the general passing of time, but with age.
Just wanted other peoples opinions on this.
For me, I started out listening to John Denver, Carpenters, Harry Chapin, Neal Diamond, etc.. and around 1976 discovered Boston, Blue Oyster Cult, Black Sabbath, etc..
Around that same time I started playing guitar a bit more seriously, and although I never could master the "Heavy Metal" sounds, I played stuff along the lines REO, 38 Special, Boston, Nugent, AC/DC etc.. usually picking the "heaviest" songs I (or the groups I were in) could handle.
These are the styles of music I like to play when I can, and of course still what I listen to. Not exclusively because I have always liked listening to good musicians do their craft even if I don't understand it and can't really relate to it.
So for me, nothing has changed in 30+ years except the artists. Today I'd probably play Velvet Revolver, Maroon 5 and the like if I just HAD to do covers, or I would just do my own stuff.
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | As I aged I went from pop/rock/folk to slowly develop an interest (if not an understanding) for classical and jazz.
I also like bumping into music I've never heard before. The hEMIsphere label has been a wonderful discovery.
And originals, my own and others.... |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | I feel very much the same way as you do Mr.O ..Allthough liking a variety of music,incl.Classical( " Sheherazade " by Nikolaj Rimsky Korsakov has been one of my fav.compositions for over forty years ),it`s very much the same type/style that I`m fond of,However...playing an instrument got me to hear differently..kind of hear things that passed by..like,since I got my J-9 ( very decent slimline jazzbox),I appreciate "blues" more than before..due to the Bigsby tremolo/tremelo/ whammy..odd how the "right tool" can alter ones perception..
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Location: south east Michigan | I concider myself rather stuck.
I've been open to new music and there are more than a handful of newer songs I really like, but nothing has really displaced the 60's / 70's music I grew up with.
I have always liked a little of everything... from country to classical. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Most of the music I liked "back-then" I still like, but I still seek out new and different stuff, whether is new music being made today, or stuff that I haven't discovered from years gone buy.
So, I'm not stuck....I think there is a ton of great music being made today by new talented artists and my appreciation for broader genres is expanding as well, whether by new artists or long dead. |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | My two kids (23 and 17) have opened my tastes over the years. But, as far as playing, I still prefer the late 60's to late 70's music of all types. |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | I'm all over the place. Like JW (Brad and I would assume many others here), I'll never get by some of the stuff I fell in love with "back then", but I've always been relatively obsessed with finding new and different stuff. Not necessarily obscure material although it doesn't bother me at all if it is. Listen to Lyle Lovett - absolutely a great blend of big band, blues, country, jazz - he's got it all. When I finish listening to him I could throw on The Chairman, Ray or any number of great artists. A couple years ago I went through a bit of a stage listening to acoustic remakes, blues if possible. Now I'm wondering if some of the new country acts can bring anything new to the table. Over time I've just come to the realization that I love it all and I'll never be stuck in a rut. Just not possible. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I always want to hear something new. That has never changed from when I first started listening to music.
I used to listen to much more electric stuff and play more electric. Now I have3 electrics out and they're downstairs with the amps. Upstairs are 20 or so acoustics and they get played all the time.
Now I listen to channel 65 ot track 16 depending on which car I'm in. When that gets bad I go to the bnlues and then the jazz-cafe and then back. I did listen to lots of bluegrass in college too so that isn't a new thing, I'm playing it more now which is.
I used to listen to a lot of country, Merle, Hank Jr, Possum and the like, this would have been the mid 80's. Merle is still good but the rest have run pretty thin.
In the last 10 years I've gotten into the real original stuff, Robert Johnson and friends. It's good but I like Keb Mo's interpretation better most times. The whols New Orleans thing is pretty interesting with the Zydaco stuff and you can't forget Sonny Landreth who is f@cking awesome.
Long way around to answer the question which is that I'm more acoustic now than then, in playing and listening. |
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Location: Waurika OK | I thought I knew the answer until I started thinking about it.
Been through several decades of music, from the late 40's on. Don't really seem to have time to listen to new music. The kids are gone so that influence is gone. There are so many genres that it boogles my mind.
I like to listen to classic rock 50'-70's and am really trying to play more blues.
I think the main thing age has done to me is to make me want to play slower songs with more of a real meaningful story, (the blues?) rather than just a bunch of lines that rhyme.
I also enjoy finding songs familar to me by one artist and then finding who originally did the song and hearing them do the song. I believe the writer of a song will perform it in the manner he or she perceives it should be done. Example: I learned Willie Nelson's version of Pancho and Lefty, then I found Townes Van Zant's version on youtube, then I found another of his songs which I plan to learn. I know many here are probably familiar with Townes songs, but I was not until recently. |
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Location: NJ | always changing always finding something new.
but respect and still play things from my past. I love it so why not?
I hated jazz when I was a kid, could not stand it now I listen to it more and more. simply because I respect the musicianship it takes to play it and know that I have to really work to play learn the stuff.
new respect for solo acoustic players also. just love that fingerpicking stuff where it sounds like 2 people playing one guitar.
only thing I lack is talent. |
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Location: Michigan | The music that I play is still all of the 60s/70s stuff that I grew up with.Alot of it was hard rock Cream/Zepplin ect.. but ever since the MTV UNPLUGGED series started I find myself changing up the songs to please myself and enjoying hard rock songs played in an acoustical manner.Im having a ball re-creating the songs my way.Its like hitting your first F chord that sounded good.I just dont want to learn any newer music for it doesnt fit my style,to much older stuff that I would rather learn.GWB |
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Location: Canada | My musical taste has varied considerably over the years - only exposed to classical as a child. As a teen listened to Gordon Lightfoot, Neil Diamond, Chicago, Doobie Brothers, CCR, Neil Young, CSNY. Moved onto some of the more radical Alice Cooper - and heavy metal Deep Purple, Led Zepplin. Interesting to note that my kids are listening to the same type of screaming stuff I used to listen to but 30 years later. Missed 15 years of N/A music while in Europe - different music, different language. Upon return though INXS was inks - shows how "out of the loop" I was.
Today still listen to folk, classical and light opera more than anything. Rejoiced at the music of Buffy Saint-Marie Saturday night at the Ottawa Folk Festival. Introduced to a great new trio - the Virginia Chocolate Drops - and enjoyed - not over ecstatically - Kris Kristofferson. Great jamming during the afternoon - a festival that has grown tremendously in the past 3 years with a great line-up and open opportunity to jam with some of the best.
Most interesting though is that today's teens are claiming our music - Yeah, it was that great!!
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | My interests now range over a much wider spectrum than when I was younger, particularly in the classical area. I never could get into the head banging era nor rap (although I wrote one on commission 15 years ago), but have varying appreciation for just about everything else. I am most likely a balladeer wannabee at heart. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | yup, ch ch ch changes...: Started with Segovia, switched to The Allman Brothers Band Live at Filmore East, now it's AKUS, J.D. Crowe, Tony Rice..... |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | Part I
One thing that I've noticed recently is that I find it hard to relate to angry music anymore. I love and appreciate good musicianship, even if it's far too heavy for my taste, but if it's angry , overly dark or depressing, I find it irritating and hard to enjoy.
This is interesting to me, because I often find myself conflicted, and not knowing why. I LOVE Alice in Chains...the dark harmonies, the songs, but I don't ever find myself in the mood to hear it. It actually makes me feel irritated or angry when I listen, yet musically it's so interesting and likable. Same thing with Sabbath. Great stuff, but those cds sit on the shelf. There's something about a 'kill your mother with a meat cleaver' lyric theme set to a electric tuned down a whole step that just doesn't fit my agenda. Strangely, though, I thoroughly enjoy Evanescense, though their sound is dark and heavy. Something about her voice and the melodies balance it out somehow.
It could be that I've just gotten "OLD", but I don't know. I think vibrationally, certain sounds and frequencies just resonate with your being and your body based on who you are and what your life is about, or where you're at. These days my thoughts lean more to creating/finding peace internally since there's so much chaos and stress in life happening around me. I want to listen to music that just makes me feel happier, uplifted and calm. Doesn't necessarily mean mellow, but certainly not angry. I emotionally just can't stand voluntarily adding someone else's anger to my life sonically and finding pleasure in it.
Part II
I find that in some sort of weird way, a lot of what I like to listen to these days is actually influenced by what I IMAGINE I am able to play on guitar or even sing (not saying I can, but imagine someday I can). It impresses the hell out of me to hear Steve Vai and Al Dimeola, but it's hard to relate to that music for very long. The guitar hero thing doesn't motivate me or move me, where as a good singer/writer at a local cafe' can really grab my attention. Probably if I was a better musician, I'd like that intricate guitar playing more.
Part III
I think the music of our youth will always move us, and link our subconscious to the past..Either when things were happier, more fun and carefree, or when we felt the music was all we had to hold onto when things were so shitty. I hear some of the CRAP I used to listen to...and damn does it suck...but it's still fun to hear occasionally and brings back a lot of memories. I remember when listening to a record was an actual activity...it was something to do in itself. Friends would come over and listen to a new record and hang out. We bonded over a lot of music. Today, it's hardly a priority. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Compadres
You, and I, love what we grew up with. Music is generational, the best of yours and mine is OUR LOVE. What is new is what is beyond us, and in our opinion, CRAP. BUT we have no say in what those teeny bobbers love, WE ARE NO LONGER TEENY BOBBERS, we are adults with our own memories, they are developing their own. I could never reproduce my life of driving home to Ohio through Virginia in the 50's, listening to my AM 49 Ford radio, Patsy, Earnrest Tubb, Hank Snow, Hank Williams through those all night drives.
That's how it starts.
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Location: North Carolina | My experineces are similar to Miles', almost parallel. Over the years I've found that my tastes don't change, they expand. I still play stuff I learned over 40 years ago, and I play current stuff. It's all good; if it isn't, you can make it good. It's just a matter of imagination and musicianship. |
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Location: Hicksville, NY | Though we might have different tastes and preferences with regards to music genre, my experiences are similar to Miles and First Alternate.
As a child, I recalled listening to the singer/songwriters of the time with the likes of Jim Croce, Carly Simon, James Taylor, John Denver, Neil Young, Simon and Garfunkel, Carole King ... too many to even mention and remember. It was back in the days when songs were simple, straightforward and yet effectively pierces through the heart of the listener.
It was through my teenage years when I started to show an appreciation for rock classics (The Who, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Animals), while simultaneously listening to the hard stuff of the time from Guns N Roses to Smashing Pumpkins.
Later on, I was introduced into classical music and later with jazz and grew an appreciation for that as well. My classical disc collection outnumbered all the other genres combined.
In the here and now, I'm basically all over the place as stated above earlier. The concerts I've attended to ranged from venues of cultural prestige (e.g. Carnegie Hall) to the dives where most musicians got their start before hitting it big elsewhere.
Performance-wise, while I do appreciate all kinds of music, I still tend to play the simple contemporary folk songs that I used to listen to during my childhood years. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I've always loved a wide range of music, except as I've aged my taste has become more sublime. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I can't answer this because I haven't aged. My hairline just shrunk as my waistline expanded. I also parallel Gil, Miles and FA, but I mixed in a few other rock bands like BTO, that I don't listen to anymore. I've mellowed some and even got into the New Age stuff for awhile, but I still like something with a singable tune and decent lyrics. |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Hey Mark,I was wondering where you were..do you know " SHARK " with James Woods ?
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | ..I meant,Watch.. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I only catch the endings just as I turn on the CBS news. I don't like most lawyer shows. I find myself correcting all their mistakes. |
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OT- Do your musical tastes and styles change with age?
