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What kind of music do you play and who do listen t
What kind of music do you play and who do listen t
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chromaticblues
56 posts
May 07, 2009
8:28 AM
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I play blues/funk style. I play a stomp box that I built and play straight and syncopated rhythms with my feet!
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chromaticblues
57 posts
May 07, 2009
8:31 AM
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sorry It should read who do you listen to.
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Buddha
369 posts
May 07, 2009
8:35 AM
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Please post an mp3 of your funk. I hear so few harp players play that way.
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the frozen canuck
31 posts
May 07, 2009
8:44 AM
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I listen to sonny & brownie,mitch kashmar,charles paso,paul butterfield.Play sonny &brownie,butterfield .Our small band plays contempary,IE mat mayes,the hip,& some oridginal writen by a young lady,who sings as well
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chromaticblues
58 posts
May 07, 2009
8:58 AM
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I'm trying to get my kids to help me with posting some youtube videos. I don't know much about it. I hear alot of people talk about the bad quality of the audio portion of the vidios. Is that just youtube or is there a way of make high quality videos! Anybody? This is something I'm going to do soon. I just want make sure I buy what need before I get anything.
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Buddha
370 posts
May 07, 2009
9:03 AM
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The quality of YT is what it is. I don't have a problem with any of it. HQ sound is what CDs are for.
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jonsparrow
250 posts
May 07, 2009
12:03 PM
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right now i mainly listen to jason ricci, little walter, big walter, wolf, james cotton, muddy waters, robert johnson, son house.
i play the blues. i havnt been playing long enough to define wether i play mainly modern or classic blues as i still have alot to learn.
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RyanMortos
160 posts
May 07, 2009
12:31 PM
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Would be great to see/hear your funk playing Chrome!
I listen to so much. I consider myself an eclectic listener. Id also like to be an eclectic player one day.
As far as listening, lots of blues, with harmonica & not. Listenings to modern blues harmonica players really adds excitement & motivation to learn.
Im also listening to more & more jazz like Coltrane, Davis, Monk, Ellington, Mingus. Really hope to learn how to translate licks from jazz to harmonica one day. I know a slow downer is part of it, then what, lol?
And other stuff on my iPod including rock music, very little metal & punk these days, & classical music.
Im practicing to play blues harmonica at the moment. I want a strong foundation of technique & music before venturing to harder(?) forms. I cant wait to add overblows (when I can finally do them), & do some jazz & funk playing as well.
So much to learn & Im trying my best with youtube videos & books. Im not so sure about the teachers Ive been able to find locally.
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~Ryan
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snakes
216 posts
May 07, 2009
1:01 PM
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Wow - well I listen to blues, gospel, rock, R&B, Reggae, African, Jazz, Brazilian jazz, Country, classical, calypso, folk, beat box, alternative, ska, rock-a-billy, punk, Klesmer, John Philip Sousa marches, pop, heck pretty much everything except most rap. I love to find a type of music to give a listen to see if I like it (I loved the thread that exposed me to the esoteric instrument called the pennywhistle). I am sure there are several types of music I have yet to find. Finding new music is very exhilerating to me and I try to get to know it at least from the listener's standpoint once I've found it. I am by no means an expert, though.
I play mostly blues, rock, folk, and gospel.
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jbone
62 posts
May 07, 2009
1:19 PM
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i listen to a lot. every afternoon i can i have the radio on the blues show locally. i have some good ol' stuff here at home but i don't get to buy many cds the past few years.
what i really like is either catching live blues in the delta, or playing live blues myself.
i blow harp and sing, mostly diatonic but when i get with the right guys doing the right groove i get the hering 5148 out. mostly i love blues and many of its children- the subgenres, and funk, jazz, spiritual, gospel, country, a bit of folk, etc etc. in our duo we do a lot of very old stuff, public domain, rj, memphis minnie, little walter, muddy, wolf, even some cash, hank sr., and dylan.
youtube and all that is a mystery to me also. i did post a few songs on tunecore a year ago and they were available through several stores but sales for the year didn't even cover the fee to post and host, so i pulled them. next cd i will put on snocap or someplace and also try to get them mounted on my myspace page.
i am real into the delta style lately ala rl, junior, and others. my harp playing is what it is, years of searching and trying different things out, developing my own sound as much as that's possible.
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Aussiesucker
265 posts
May 07, 2009
4:18 PM
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My preference is country but I listen to everything except rap & heavy metal. With blues I like it slow and soulful.
Every wireless in the house, car etc is glued onto a country music station ie until one of my adult offspring changes it.
Would love to be able to post on you tube sometime but all this space age technology doesn't fit with my stone age skills.
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MagicPauley57
6 posts
May 07, 2009
5:59 PM
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Mainly good old chicago blues , memphis , anything like that , also rockabilly , rock and roll, soul from the 50's and 60's
Faves , harp players ,it's gotta be thE old suspects , Little walter , walter horton , junior wells , sonny boy, also jerry portnoy, Paul butterfield etc
as i'm into blues guitar , muddy , howlin' wolf , buddy guy , johnny guitar watson the list is endless really
There're some great players about in the uk , who tour around now
Paul lamb , west weston , and Alan Glen are my faves at the mo , check em out!
basically if they kick ass and swing like a mutha then i'll love it !
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Tuckster
190 posts
May 07, 2009
6:38 PM
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I play blues and some rock in an open stage host band. I also sit in whenever I can with my buddy's country band.I also attend some local bluegrass jams. These are really cool--a bunch of bluegrass fanatics rent out a motel. Besides regular bands in the conference room,there's jams going on in people's rooms.You just walk around and listen and sit in if it seems appropriate. When there's as many as 3 banjos,2 mandolins,3 guitars,and maybe a fiddle or 2,I find it best to just sit and listen. As for what I listen to: just about everything. Except for opera and some top 40 country. I'm particulary fond of "roots" music,. jazz,and classical.
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Oisin
243 posts
May 07, 2009
7:03 PM
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Sex Pistols, Dead Kennedys, Stiff little fingers, Undertones, Charlie Musslewhite, Bad Town Blues, Dr Feelgood, Steve "West" Weston ( I listen to him at least once a weak on YT) Neko Case, early Kings of Leon, Credence Clearwater Revival, Jason Ricci, Afro Celt Sound system and BBC Radio 4. Anything that rocks really.
Hey Magic Pauley57....have you heard of Giles King?, he used to play with bad Town Blues has his own band now. He's a great UK player. If your ever up London way check out excellent jam in Leytonstone...
www.heathcotebluesjam.co.uk
Liked your video BTW but looks like your face was pixelated ...couldn't get a good look at you man!!
Oisin
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chromaticblues
62 posts
May 08, 2009
5:16 AM
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jonsporrow I like your list. I love the tone of muddy's early guitar playing. What caught my eye was the son house. I like remaking this music right here!
I feel like Delta blues gives me the room to my thing. I don't feel so confined. Some times you have to play along with a song, but its more fun when the drive of the song is coming from you!
Ryan motors Yeah technique and timing! I like the funky side of jazz like the late sixties early seventies Jazz, Funk, Soul period before disco!!
Snakes I felt the same way about rap as you, but I have changed my tune(sorry couldn't help it). I think some rap music has a great grove. I just don't like the gangsta crap, but you have understand some of it is just young black kids trying to be cool the only way they know how! Go to youtube and type in "hip hop harp" A young black dude from Vegas bad something brown. I don't remember his name right now, but he's doing some cool stuff. This guy could be gig time in a couple years.
Jbone sounds cool! I'll check it out. Have fun and do your thing!!
Aussiesucker Yes I do have some of your computer skills. I'm not good at typing either so this takes me a while.
Magic pauley Paul lamb is a name I haven't heard in awhile. He knows how to play the harp for sure!!
Oisin Charlie Musslewhite
I could spend a lot of time on this, but I can't now. Anyone that likes blues, but wants to bring the harp a little further down the road(so to speak). Should have CM Ace of harps and Signature. This is the starting point. Next is Satan and Adam. Then jason Ricci. Each one extended what the other had done! If that's your goal? try listening to them in progression. Oh did I mention you may have to do it 1000 times! What a shit load of lessons in a hand full of CD's!! I wish I was 25 and some one said listen to this and tell me what you think. I really dig what those guys did and are doing, but at the same time find it just as interesting what dennis gruhling and joe filisko are doing!
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GamblersHand
17 posts
May 08, 2009
6:09 AM
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I basically like most stuff that you would hear at the New Orleans Jazzfest - jazz, gospel, blues, old school r'nb, funk, soul, zydeco, reggae, Latin, afrobeat.. anything organic. I even like some rap that is *musical*, or at least has a nod to the past - Cee-lo Green, Andre 3000, Spearhead.
Also been getting into good songwriters ore and more - and finding that to my taste a lot of them seem to be coming from country music, or at least alt-country/Americana. For the early part of this decade I thought that Ryan Adams was probably the best songwriter out there, or at least tied with Lucinda Williams.
Also I really like artists who take an old or retro genre and do something original and interesting with it - right now I can't get enough of a band from Oregon called Sassparilla. It's jug band music played with fire, with a hint of the Pogues and Tom Waits. Some nice harp, too.
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The Gloth
21 posts
May 08, 2009
6:29 AM
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I have listened exclusively to metal for several years (86 - 91), then discovered Faith No More, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple, bands that expanded my horizons...
Now I listen many different musics : extreme metal, old blues, african, gipsy, folk, reggae, jazz...
These times, I'm almost exclusively into old style blues : Robert Johnson, Kokomo Arnold, Scrapper Blackwell, Blind Willie McTell, Willie Dixon, Howlin' Wolf, SBW II and so on.
Oh, and myself I play blues on diatonic harp, sometimes I pick the chromatic and improvise badly.
Last Edited by on May 08, 2009 6:31 AM
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Honkin On Bobo
65 posts
May 08, 2009
8:10 AM
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Listen to: mostly blues and rock 'n roll. Defining what I listen to always seems problematic to me because to my ear there seems to be so much overlap. I guess I would say blues based rock would be my sweet spot, and I've worked my way out from there into some straight ahead blues.
Really started listening to music seriously in the early 70's (so yeah, I'm an old f**k). Really HATED when the disco scene came along, it sucked big time, but that's a story for another day. But back then, when I was listening to all that great classic rock I had no idea it's daddy was the blues. Just started really investigating the blues about 10 years ago.
No jazz, no classical, just a pinch of country (though most country enthusiasts would probably call what I like country rock or country pop, see what I mean?).
And absolutely, under no circumstances, ever, any rap. Despite Cadillac records attempt to point out the parallels between rap and the blues, and the fact that it is often thrust upon me from vehicles passing by on the street.
I think Buddha makes an excellent point about having to listen to other instruments and music genres if you want to be a true musician. I just can't seem to do it though. Everytime I put on jazz or classical I find myself getting bored. I will admittedly, win no music knowledge or appreciation awards.
Play: I play the same stuff that I listen to (obviously), badly. Fortunate enough to have some local musician friends who invite me up to sit-in, jam from time to time so I guess I don't completely suck, though there are a lot of places to hide next to 2 guitars, bass and drums. I would say my musical style is: the more buzzed me and the audience are, the better I sound. I'm kidding....well, maybe not entirely.
Last Edited by on May 08, 2009 8:12 AM
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MagicPauley57
7 posts
May 08, 2009
5:07 PM
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This goes out to Oisin , I haven't heard of Giles King ,yet but i'll check him out , Is he on Myspace ?
sorry about the quality of the Vid , I had to put it on a lower quality , coz otherwise it takes hours to load up , some come out better than others, I'll load up some more from the gig when i get chance , the others are of me playing guitar , but there is more !
Thanks for the feedback btw, always welcome.
Paul
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TheBlackNote
16 posts
May 08, 2009
11:16 PM
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I listen to Jason Ricci, Sugar Blue and Billy Gibson. But I play Hip-Hop and Blues only.
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Oisin
246 posts
May 09, 2009
4:52 AM
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Pauley...yep he's on myspace
http://www.myspace.com/gilesking. Keep an eye out for him..brilliant player.
Oisin
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chromaticblues
68 posts
May 09, 2009
8:19 AM
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That's some serious harp your listening to!
I like the hip hop blues only thing. I find hip hop/ rap easy to play. That is one Genre where someone is going to come along and blow the lid off that music. I don't know how far along you are or anything, but I play hip hop different than blues. I play it choppy quick percussive blasts trying to keep rhythm with either the vocals or something that stands out in music. Or go back and fourth! play along with the vocals and lock into music during the break!
Just some to through at ya. Get back I'd like to hear what your doing!
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Andrew
296 posts
May 09, 2009
9:00 AM
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I've noticed that some people reach the age of 55 and they are still only listening to the stuff they listened to when they were 15-25. So I'm trying to avoid that trap (I'm 49) - I ask people I work with who are in their twenties what they listen to and when I watch TV shows, I research the soundtracks. It means, as in most things in life, I dabble in everything I can, and I'm a jack of all trades and a master of none.
I don't think there's any genre I don't listen to, even if it's only one artist in the entire genre (e.g. in Country and Western it's k d lang!). So I listen to breakbeats, Drum 'n' Bass, Trance, techno, punk (including later stuff like Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Gossip, Riot Grrrl), everything that's out there. On the other hand I am ignorant about a lot of the names of the genres (there are plenty of jokes about house/jungle/garage/etc disco music). How do you describe the Infadels? I've got some Snoop Dogg, but I don't know if it's Rap or Hip Hop. I like Trip Hop. Industrial (Consolidated, e.g.). How do you describe Lemon Jelly? (and what's happened to them, anyway?).
There's not a lot of Blues in the mix, I'm ashamed to say! And as for new blues, Jason Ricci is all that interests me at the moment. Jill Scott is great. I still buy everything the Tiger Lillies bring out, although they bring out too much (if I could find a good YouTube clip, I'd post it). Marilyn Manson, Nick Cave (Stagger Lee has to be one of my favourite songs). Peaches. There's more, so I'd better give up typing.
Last Edited by on May 09, 2009 9:25 AM
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nacoran
4 posts
May 09, 2009
10:06 AM
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Lately I've been listening to a really strange mix or Joan Osborne, Pearl Jam, Fiona Apple and Lucinda Williams covers.
I grew up on the Beatles and play a lot of their melodies when I'm just practicing. I'm still having a hard time playing anything unless I've heard the music a million times before. I'm trying to get my band mates to record their parts first and give me a tape to practice to. I picked up the harp because even although I wanted to be a singer mostly, so I could get my lyrics sung, but our band already had two other guys with lead voices. I have a history of carpel tunnel so I needed an instrument that wasn't going to aggravate that. I still have a hard time not just following the melody line note for note. Sometimes I deliberately play the melody to a different song, like playing 'Stranger With Blue Eyes' over 'Wayfaring Stranger' to force myself not to follow to closely. I tend to get those show tunes we had to sing in high school choir stuck in my head. I play a pretty mean 'I feel pretty' which is pretty funny coming from a 300 pound guy like me. I'm working on Bohemian Rhapsody.
I really like playing over recordings of my friends better than anything else.
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TheBlackNote
17 posts
May 09, 2009
10:04 PM
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Oh yeah chromaticblues you can find me on myspace.com/theblacknote also you can add me
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