leftybassman392

I feel I should thank the OP for starting this thread. In following it I have been reminded of some of the music and musicians I listend to as a much younger man, most of which almost certainly wouldn't be popular around these parts. For example:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXJWO2FQ16c

 

or perhaps

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hPkJW95jsw&t=147s

 

 

I've posted them as links, partly for brevity and partly because I feel fairly sure most around here won't have the stomach for them (they're both over an hour long). No offence intended, but they require plenty of commitment to get through.

 

Thank you @Mykesbass.

 

Does this count as an instrumental?

 

 

Evan Parker.

 

That is all.

 

1 hour ago, Leonard Smalls said:

You won't like what's for dinner then!

😁

 

Twerp!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2 hours ago, Nail Soup said:

I was really not referring to people such as how you describe yourself. Open-mindedness is great.

It's just the answer "Anything" is uninformative (doesn't give you any idea of what their listening is), and usually inaccurate (as you say, you don't listen to some stuff twice).

 

BTW I'm not a ghetto a dweller.... I listen to a wide range of music. For example the albums I bunged on my MP3 today are : DakhaBakha (Ukrainian folk) Naomi Bedford (English Folk), F**8 Buttons (Electronica), and The Fall (Post-punk) Gang of Four (post punk) and ALbertine Sarges (Indie) , Lorelle Meets the Obsolete (Pyche).

 

In the interest of clarity, the 'ghetto dweller' comment wasn't aimed at you (or anyone else particularly). It's just that from some of the posts I've read on this thread there seems to a bit of a 'I haven't tried it because I don't like it' vibe surfacing from time to time.

 

And while I'm here, it could be that in saying 'anything' to my host I could just as easily be checking out his/her musical taste. Just sayin'...

21 minutes ago, Nail Soup said:

It's better than people who say "Anything".

 

Well that would be me then...

 

After close to 30 years in the music business, there's nothing that I wouldn't listen to at least once. Twice is a different matter of course, but then I already said that some time ago.

 

There do seem to be a few ghetto dwellers around these parts. I can't think why anyone who thinks of him/herself as a musician would refuse to listen to something they haven't heard before sight unseen (so to speak), whatever the genre. Call me {insert vaguely offensive adjective here} if you must, but it's an attitude I simply don't understand.

 

 

Surprised nobody's posted this yet:

 

 

 

34 minutes ago, Buddster said:

I don't agree that vinayl sounds better than cd's

 

Yes, I'd rather hold a record sleeve than a CD case, but I'd rather listen to a CD. 

 

It's a matter of perspective I think. In technical terms, digital recording is demonstrably cleaner and more analytical than vinyl. That ship has long since sailed.

 

On the other hand, vinyl has a certain sound character that many listeners find very appealing. A limitation made into an asset, so to speak.

 

 

You pays yer money, you makes yer choice. Personally I'm happy to listen to either.

2 hours ago, Raymondo said:

Ok, ok, you've dragged it out of me...

 

I bought this...

 

 

And NOT because I was a pathetic teenager who fancid Thereza Bazar, I actually quite liked some of their songs.

 

 

Happy now?   I've tried to keep that a secret you know?

 

😉

 

 

 

My work here is done.

 

1 hour ago, ezbass said:

Is this meant to be an unpopular opinion or something else? 

 

Depends what you think of Frank I guess. I like him, but then I've never been - how can I put this delicately - downwind of him under duress.

 

An alternative take on it would be that I suffer uncontrolled paroxysms of anguish at the thought that I might have unintentionally offended somebody for real.

 

 

12 minutes ago, Frank Blank said:

I will be withdrawing my services forthwith you unformed guff of a man.

 

Only joking.

 

You're one of my favouritest people really.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just don't tell the others, ok?

1 hour ago, ezbass said:

Hang on. Are you asking me if I’m a mason? Didn’t think that was the protocol. 🤝

 

 

 

Well I wasn't, but since you've raised it...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Are you?

 

Asking for a friend, obvs.

 

 

28 minutes ago, Frank Blank said:

I’ve been on a level crossing if that counts?

 

Wasn't talking to you!

 

Twerp!

 

27 minutes ago, ezbass said:

Is it 42 opinions holding the key to it all?

 

Are you on the level?

35 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

The only opinion that counts is mine, so keep yours to yourself.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

😇

 

Twerp!

 

2 minutes ago, Clarky said:

A diss-fest is always likely to get more traction.

 

 

 

...which I suspect says more about us as musicians than we might like.

 

Everybody's entitled to their opinion of course (and like everybody else here I have a list of things I don't want to hear any more of), but if I wanted a checklist of stuff people hate I would spend my time on soshul meeja.

To OP:

 

@Mykesbass, this thread can contain stuff you actually like that you suspect others might not. Is that correct?

 

 

 

2 minutes ago, cetera said:

I love the sound of bagpipes (played well), particularly if the sound is floating across a valley/loch or the Edinburgh skyline.....

 

Ah yes, bagpipes. I forgot to mention that I like bagpipes too.

 

There is no style of music or style of playing any given instrument that I intrinsically dislike. I love music as an activity to play, record and listen to, and like to think I can give anything and anyone a fair shake.

 

That said, there's musicians and/or musical performances that, having heard once, I have no wish to listen to again.

 

 

 

This means that (among many other things) I like Jazz in all its many forms, I like slap, I like rap, I  like opera, and I have no issues of principle with the use of any specific recording technique or technology (pitch correction software being a case in point that has come under discussion on these forums in recent history).

 

You're welcome.

 

@fretmeister Thank you for your contributions to this thread. I'm not interested enough in the outcome of the case to care much either way, but it is refreshing to hear from somebody who knows how it actually works.

Haven't tried it but it looks like a decent idea. I'll have a closer look at it some time soon. 

 

I do a lot of voice editing in my role as lead sound editor for my local talking newspaper. I use Audacity most of the time but have a sub to Adobe Audition for those special jobs that need a bit more polishing.

 

Thanks for the links chaps.

 

 

Call me a hard-bitten old fart cynic, but I feel a 'tonewood' thread coming on, so I'm going to bow out.

 

Have a good one guys.

 

 

Not in and of themselves, no.

 

OP is making massive assumptions about how the instrument is to be used.

 

So many factors to consider here that the question is entirely academic.

2 hours ago, Geek99 said:

Apart from the not offending part. It’s de rigeur around these parts 

 

Twerp!