Music

Below are a selection of links to various pages featuring artists, composers, and bands that I like. Click on any of the links to view a few pix of and comments about them. In most cases, I have not provided a discography of these performers because they can be found many other places. NOTE: These are sites I created, not links to fan pages, etc.

Alice in Chains Jeff Beck Adrian Belew Leonard Bernstein Blind Faith Tommy Bolin Terry Bozzio Brand X Jack Bruce / Cream Bill Bruford Captain Beyond Chicago Frederic Chopin Billy Cobham Chick Corea / Return to Forever Creed Claude Debussy Deep Purple Al Dimeola Dream Theater Emerson, Lake & Palmer Gabriel Faure (pending) Galactic Cowboys Genesis Gentle Giant Jerry Goodman Jan Hammer Jimi Hendrix Allan Holdsworth Greg Howe Jethro Tull Eddie Jobson

Rickie Lee Jones King Crimson King's X Korn Lenny Kravitz Led Zeppelin John Lennon/ The Beatles Tony Levin Yngwie Malmsteen John McLaughlin / Mahavishnu Orchestra Metallica Alanis Morissette Steve Morse / The Dixie Dregs Nektar Pink Floyd Jean-Luc Ponty Queensryche Rush Santana Savatage Billy Sheehan Spirit Thunderclap Newman UK Uriah Heep Vienna (pending) John Wetton Johnny Winter Wishbone Ash Yes Frank Zappa

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit as dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted. SHAKESPEARE THE MERCHANT OF VENICE

I never figured out why these bands, artists, or composers got so popular or lasted so long. I guess it's a matter of "Simple music for simple minds." Bob Dylan The Grateful Dead George Frederick Handel Steve Miller The Rolling Stones Bob Seger Bruce Springsteen The Who

"Anything too stupid to be said, is sung." VOLTAIRE

BANDS/"ARTISTS" THAT I WISH WOULD JUST GO AWAY: Bare-Naked Ladies Blink 182 The Bloodhound Gang Garth Brooks Corky & the Juice Pigs Eve 6 Everclear Fuel Goldfinger Green Day Hole Nickelback Randy Newman Oasis Offspring Tom Petty Smashmouth Almost all country bands Almost all rap "artists" Many more that I have fortunately blanked from my mind until the next time I hear them.

I'm currently working on a new site: "The Best Songs of the 20th Century". Some of the pages are done; not all.

Click on the link to visit my Web pages about ProgDay 1999 and see a few photos of bands that played there.

"Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf." OSCAR WILDE

To see a couple of photos of a band I used to play with called "DOG TALK," click HERE. Two of the members, MICHAEL BECK and CLIFF FORTNEY, used to be in "HAPPY THE MAN."

Sprinkled throughout these MUSIC pages: THE INCREDIBLY RIDICULOUS MTV-ROLLING STONE'S 100 TOP SONGS (1963-2000) I agree with maybe 10 or 12 of their choices. I have made comments about most them.

Lately (2003), I've been listening to a lot of classical music, and, in the near future, I will be adding a few pages about my favorites: Gabriel Faure, Domenico Scarlatti, and others.

POSTSCRIPT "Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future." NED ROREM

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