Whistle While You Work???

[XXXWriterDude]

I'm the same way. Music is, as Shakespeare once said, the food of love, and I am ALWAYS eating! That's one of the reasons why I chose entertainment journalism as a career, because I get to write about one of my main interests -- and I get to interview some of my favorite performers and artists. There's NO better job!

I shower to music, I drive into work to music, I work with music on my iTunes, I have sex to music, and I put music on to fall asleep to. I'm almost always listening to music.

I've met people who claim they just don't get into music, and I'm almost absolutely blown away by a statement like that. I simply can't understand how anyone could not LOVE music. It's one of the most amazing things in the world. Besides movies (my other major passion), there's nothing that I use as a tool for personal catharsis and therapy more than music. And yes, I'm all over the place with the music that I listen to. Alternative, rock, pop, indie, classic rock, punk, R&B, hip-hop, experimental, showtunes, folk, country... you name it, I love it. (Except for rap and metal, I'm pretty much into it all.)

To me, there's no more beautiful moment than when a musician bares his or her soul in a way that cuts right through your heart and you are on the "same page" with them. It's an emotional connection that transcends the fact that you may have never met.

My whole thing about the arts is that people love it because it brings people together. People don't go to the movies to "lose themselves." They go to find themselves. They go to share in a common experience. They go to relate. They go to not feel alone. It's the same with music. It's an experience that joins people together on somewhat of a cosmic plain where we are all just people with hopes, fears, loves and losses that we want to express.

I wish I was a musician.

[IdolKnights]

Paco,

Did you ever get a chance to check out Alarm will Sound?

[gaybucks_chip]

I enjoy music and I actually spent 5 years in the music biz as tour/business manager for touring musicians, and never tired of watching some of the artists I worked with perform night after night. And my taste is pretty eclectic, everything from jazz to new age to rock to go-go (if anyone remembers that).

The weird thing is, though, I don't work well with auditory stimulation while doing other things. I'm usually not effective at listening to music while writing, working, reading or studying, and I can carry on 4 IM convos and do work on my computer, but I absolutely can't talk on the phone and do anything else at the same time.

BTW, if everyone isn't already familiar with Pandora.com, you should definitely check it out. You put in the name or names of artists or songs you like, and it plays some selections from your list, and also plays you a bunch of new stuff that has similar attributes.

[basschick]

i love music above all things, but because it draws my attention i can neither accomplish as much nor do it as well with music playing. i tend to focus on the music rather than the work.

[SPACE GLIDER]

i love music above all things, but because it draws my attention i can neither accomplish as much nor do it as well with music playing. i tend to focus on the music rather than the work.

Who is your favorite bass player?




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[gaybucks_chip]

i love music above all things, but because it draws my attention i can neither accomplish as much nor do it as well with music playing. i tend to focus on the music rather than the work.

Hey, Patti... this never occurred to me before to ask... so of bass players, which of these are your favorites, assuming you're familar with some/all? (I know I'm missing all the heavy duty rock guys, I'm more of a jazzer...)

Jaco Pastorius
Michael Manring
Victor Wooten

[basschick]

a lot of people consider Jaco the most important bass player. my favorite bass players are local - brian allen and foster from extra fancy. but i also love fieldy from korn, who i consider one of the biggest names who brought bassplayers forward from being hidden in the mix to being a big part of the entire toon. and don't forget les claypool - the man is mad, and i respect that in a musician. and i like the entire idea of carol kaye - when virtually NO musicians were women, she became the first studio bassist.

but honestly a lot of my faves aren't bass players. i love hubert laws, and he's a flute player who did one of my all time favorite jazz albums which include doing some wonderful jazz versions of some classical music. one of my very first musical influences was leon russell from his early phases - like his album, leon russell, his work with the shelter people and the stuff he did with joe cocker and all the mad dogs and englishmen back in the late sixties and early seventies. i also revere frank zappa's music from his early-ish days.

often albums are more important to me than artists: strong early influences for me include hot rats, captain beefheart's trout mask replica and joni mitchell's ladies of the canyon.

enough about me - what were your formative artists or albums?

[longboardjim]

..."let there be music!"...

there is always something playing , including when i finally lay down and go to sleep. (thank god cd's do not wear-out like records on continous play!)

sincerely ~ ..."i just find quiet "distrubing!"... (and this comes from someone living in the middle of 250 acres of ranchland) :fool:

[SPACE GLIDER]

enough about me - what were your formative artists or albums?

I like so much. But if i had to STRICTLY narrow it down to groups and artists that really got to me:

Bee Gees - Best of the Brothers Gibb
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Kate Bush - The Red shoes
Sly and the Family Stone - Stand
Michael Franks - Tiger in the Rain
Prince - Sign o' the Times
Fleetwood Mac - Tango in the Night
with Steve Vai as my favorite guitarist and Bootsy Collins as my favorite Bass Player


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[Paco]

Paco,

Did you ever get a chance to check out Alarm will Sound?

...glad to meet you. I am Brian Eno.

oh hellz yah!
After you FYI'd me (BTW - where do I send the payment?) I actually found some downloads and added them to my list of tenting tunes, which I enjoy, after a day of skinning & skiing, while staring out of my tent (sleeping bag) at the stars.

Oh yah - at this very moment I am noddin' to DJ Cam's Attica Blues.

[DonMike]

...glad to meet you. I am Brian Eno.

I love Music For Airports. It's one of my favorite things to write to. I found a podcast where this musical group recreated the entire thing live on stage using modern instruments, painstakingly recreating each tone, note and sound perfectly. it's really amazing to hear.