some music opinions

Grateful Dead, Allmans, Gov't Mule, Dave Matthews Band, Jack Johnson, Clapton, 90% is live shows.

Any band that can take a perfectly good 5 minute song and play it for half an hour, keeping it interesting the whole time, is all right with me.

Is that a '77 Sean? Had one of those..what a cool old ride.

john

Gary S wrote: Kind of stuck in the 80's myself, Rush,The Cult, The Police and since I'm an Illinois boy,Cheap Trick

Yup, so am I. Forgot to mention The Police and The Cult... I forgot quite a few

Classic: Creedence

New: Breaking Benjamin

What?! No Yanni?!

I think from here on out I will refer to you as "Burt" doesnt the 77 have an 8 track?
those were the air pump days, big V-8's with 178 hp

I ditched the 8track, that ws to 70s, upgraded to the alpine cassette deck. 220hp with the high output 400 and i ditched that for a 72 455 i found with a cam and high compression pistons. Witht the Hurst 4 speed it was a ride.

I hear ya, I got pulled over a lot but rarely got a serious ticket.

I like to drive it up to the lake, park it out front of the old school cottage with the 75 out back, kinda completes the package for me.

I came go back to when my favorite,and still is, was traveling with the Les Brown big band and later went into the movies. Her name was Doris Day. Time, later 40's early 50's.
Also, June Chrisy who sang with the Stan Kenton organization in this same time frame. Saw them at Purdue several times while I was in school. Kenton made a live LP from one of his road shows at Purdue. It was great to meet those musicians for I was also playing with a couple of big bands in the local area. One of which I got do a USO SHOW in Europe the summer of 1960. What a GREAT time. Not a better place to perform than for a group of military. We played on 48 bases. Would be fun to do over.

The Lake wrote: Kind of surprised that no one has mentioned Manilow yet. Chuck

Chuck,
I havent had to listen to Manilow or the Carpenters since I got Pam on the "hook"!

As for music, depends on my mood ...always any blues or southern rock.... SRV, BB King, Clapton, Tinsley Ellis, Kenny Wayne Shepperd, Skynard, etc...

Also have to get the Jethro Tull, ZZ Top, Alice Cooper, Uriah Heep, etc. out. (is my age begining to show?)

No Country and Western here. I listen to most of what's been listed here. Some of my CDs and Albums:

Buddy Holly, Elvis, Roy Orbison, George Benson, Kiss, Styxx, Eagles, Kansas, Foreigner, ELO, 38 Special, Pat Travers, The Cars, Oingo Boingo, The Pretenders, The Plimsoles, The Bangles, Missing Persons, The Go Gos, Pat Benatar, CSN&Y, Black Sabbath, The Clash, Sex Pistols, X, Black Flag, the Dead Kennedys, Social Distortion, Wall of Voodoo, B52s, Talking Heads, Elvis Costello, Toy Dolls, Jimmy Buffet, Elton John, Madness, Bob Marley, Bubba Sparks, Custom, Green Day, and about 400 others which are all over the map and which I rarely have time to listen to anymore.

Seems like its news radio and whatever my wife has on the radio these days.

BKH

I have to agree M3, i just thought it was funny that Freddy was born and raised in India, sorry about the other comments, call em like i see em,
I guess there is some showmanship with Taylor, no one compares to the Bonham clan

your from Libertyville? Federal Marine is over there...watch that guy, he likes to dig deep and confuse you with specs

jbear

I now have electric for the LP. Even have some of the original charts from when I was playing in the bands.

Was in FL last wk and was going to give you a call; however, it was a quick turn-around taking my 88 yr old in-laws back home. Was in FL only 2 days doing repairs to their home in Ft Myers. Hope to get back that way come first of the year or early spring.

Is there still talk of maybe a get together for us snow birds in late March, after our boats are out of winter storage?

Sorry that you did not have the time for a visit Steve...next time.

As far as the March thing....I have gotten way to busy running our thrift store the past 2 months to put in the legwork. Looks like we are gonna settle for a re-run of the St. Johns river trip we took last year with Reid's posse. Awesome day trip. We will try to get some area info on. The date will be the 14th of Febuary.

john

BKH - Never figured you for any old school punk. Right on, brother.

I'm all over the map:

Top 5 - Tom Waits, Replacements/Paul Westerberg, The Hold Steady, Pixies/Frank Black, Pavement.

Classic Rock - Aerosmith, Queen, The Who, Stones, Bowie, Zappa, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Van Halen, Kiss, Cheap Trick, Guns N Roses, Hanoi Rocks, Motley Crue, Oasis, Pretenders, The Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Proto punk/Punk - MC5, Iggy, New York Dolls, Ramones, Television, Sex Pistols, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, The Clash, The Cramps,

Indie/Alt - Pavement, Pixies/Frank Black, Replacements, Husker Du/Sugar/Bob Mould, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Concrete Blonde, Bright Eyes, Wilco, The Dandy Warhols, Jane's Addiction, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Social Distortion, Morphine, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, They Might Be Giants, Weezer, The Wonder Stuff.

Current - The Killers, The Whigs, The Hold Steady, Lucinda Williams, Wilco, Lucero, M. Ward, Beck, Reverend Horton Heat, Silversun Pickups.

Hard Bob - Miles Davis, Coletrane, Monk, Brubeck, etc.

Thats about 1/16 of the collection...

Lewy - My favorite Aussie export is Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, although I'd much rather look at Natalie Imbruglia or Naomi Watts.

XXXX or VB would be my favorite export, but I can't get it here. The damn shame of it is that I can get Vegamite. Some things just are not fair...

The Who is a band that will never be replicated. Pete Townshend, John Entwistle and Keith Moon comprised the only band that could all essentially solo concurrently and somehow still make a right brilliant song out of the chaos. Genius, they were, and underrated today.