Right now, I've got my heady Mars Volta live disc in...these guys are sicko's!

GratefulDead 7/22/84

Sonic Youth "goo"

Duane Allman Anthology vol 2.

what's turning you on?

This is what I'm listening to right now.

Hey man, don't I know you from somewhere?

Nah... :blink:

Ever been to NH?

Oh, once or twice... Town by the name of "Keene" seems to ring a bell for some reason...

and it's another rainy ass saturday...amazing. Yesterday was nice for my 28th b-day bar-hoppin fest though! (wink wink nod nod)

Holy sh*t, that's right. Well, happy birthday man. How's McNeils, still pumping out the finest brews on God's green earth?

Right now, I'm listening to a Clifford Brown/Max Roach CD someone sent me. Pretty good stuff, so far.

Happy belated St. Bernardus!




listening to A Perfect Circle right now

Liszt - Molto Vivo

Piano madness.

Jerk-Off

Actually, these days I mostly just put my iPod on Shuffle and let it decide what I should listen to. It's like having a five thousand-song mixtape. Although it can be very jarring to go from Bob Marley's "Sun is Shining" to Pantera's "Use My Third Arm"...

Mr. Bungle - California

One of my hallowed top-10 albums.

I'm going through and re-ripping all my CDs to MP3s, then as I put them back in the case I'm alphabetizing them. It's interesting to see what CDs end up next to each other.

And yeah, I put it on shuffle but to avoid the shock you described I do it within a genre such as Classic Rock, Rock, Metal, etc.

I've always kept my alphabetized. Its too hard to find a particular CD otherwise if you have a lot of them.

These guys:

http://www.myspace.com/collapsar

Hard rock instrumental stuff, I think people would like it.

Great overlooked jazzy-rock band Karate.

http://home.hetnet.nl/~unsolved/real/real_audio.htm

click the album on the left, then the song on the right. The stuff on "Pockets" is pretty sweet.

Jackie Wilson. Tough to beat that voice.

Buckethead - Inbred Mountain

Bizarre mix of bluegrass, arena rock and shred metal.

how do you find this somewhat obscure music? I know there are a lot of musicians and bands out there with a lot of talent, and very worth listening to, I just don't know how to find them.

do you spend a lot of time sifting through garbage to find the good stuff?

1. Get Soulseek
2. When you hear of an interesting band, download a couple tracks
3. If you like it, buy it.

Your insistence on callings sampled music "stealing" is preventing you from hearing 90% of the bands recommended. I guarantee you I don't have 12, or even 2, buckethead albums if I hadn't gotten to sample his music first. Everyone wins but the record companies trying to push their crap acts on us.

how do you find this somewhat obscure music? I know there are a lot of musicians and bands out there with a lot of talent, and very worth listening to, I just don't know how to find them.

do you spend a lot of time sifting through garbage to find the good stuff?

Depending on the area you are in, you can hit the band scene, and pick up on the current stuff. Some listen to a lot of satellite radio, which has some stations that are pretty current. Some web sites are pretty decent. Allmusic.com lets you view by genre. They also list similar artists. So, if you find one band you like, they will tell you other bands that MIGHT appeal to you. It is actually a pretty cool site. If you have any questions about music, you can find the answer there. Who does that song? Every song by every group? etc.

Allmusic.com lets you view by genre

Yes, very nice. I use that site extensively, their ratings are very accurate.

All good suggestions, one great radio station is KCRW.com, a mix of great music shows and quality talk radio.

I never called sampled music stealing. I explicitly said that as long as you're just checking it out, and buy it if you like it, it's not stealing.

Please keep your lying about my statements to the politics board. Thanks.

Allmusic.com lets you view by genre

Yes, very nice. I use that site extensively, their ratings are very accurate.

All good suggestions, one great radio station is KCRW.com, a mix of great music shows and quality talk radio.

Yeah, between Allmusic and IMDB, you can answer almost any questions regarding music or movies.

Example: Was that Richard Dreyfuss in the background of the boarding room scene in The Graduate? Why yes it was.

I did that when I lived in Detroit. I actually did stage lighting for a few bands, and met a lot of other bands through them and at their shows. It was fantastic.

But now I live in Miami where a "bar band" is three 15 year olds making a bunch of noise. Seriously.

It's all about the DJ's down here.

Sounds like a good system. I'll have to check it out, thanks.

Step #2 is the problem. Where do you hear of interesting bands? There just isn't a music scene down here like there was in Detroit. It's one of the few things I don't like about living down here.

You're sitting in front of a computer. There have gotta be at least 10,000 sites dedicated to exploring new music, 10,000 message boards listing bands, 10,000 blogs discussing them.

Just about daily I read:

rateyourmusic.com
pitchforkmedia.com
ultimatemetal.com message boards
mfdoomsite.headringer.net message boards

Some blogs on the invision boards are informative as well

how about this...

you keep reading all that stuff, and post good bands here...thereby saving me the trouble of duplicating your effort

:D

Here's one you need to buy: "Jaku" by DJ Krush. I don't know if you like the hip hop/electronica genre at all, nonetheless this album should be in the collection of every ganja smoker on the planet. Just go buy it, pop it in, and sit back with a fresh bong and enjoy. I seriously doubt you'll be disappointed.

Last few MP3's on my play mix...

1. "Doesn't Remind Me"---Audioslave
2. "Steady As She Goes"---The Raconteurs
3. "Carry On My Wayward Son"---Kansas
4. "Final Destination"---Nine Inch Nails
5. "Brown Eyed Girl"---Van Morrison
6. "Deja' Vu"---Beyonce feat. Jay-Z
7. "Gold Lion"---Yeah Yeah Yeah's
8. "London Bridge"---Fergie
9. "Luck Be A Lady Tonight"---Frank Sinatra
10. "Purple Haze"---Jimi Hendrix
11. "Six Days"---Mos Def
12. "Rocky Mountain Way"---Joe Walsh

Now, something completely different:

The last disk I made had these albums on it... (couple days ago)

















Plus a few tracks to fill the space... echoes and not now John by PF, Superstition, song called dry the rain by the Beta Band and Dear Mr. Fantasy by Traffic

Good one pats. Been too long since I heard me some Rubber Soul.

Personally, right now its Grandaddy - Sumday.