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| My life has been largely dominated by The Pink Floyd Sound. I split my time between listening to Pink Floyd; its founding member Syd Barrett and Pre-War Blues. I do listen to other things; I like the Beatles a lot and I particularly like Blur. This site is thus dedicated to Pink Floyd & Mississippi Delta Blues. |
| Pink Floyd - I listen to so much Floyd people actually complain about it. Some are just tired of always hearing DSOTM, Obscured by Clouds, Animals, Wish You Were Here, Meddle, Ummagumma; others think I should listen to something else. I do have pretty broad tastes but I find most modern music unpalatable, thus I do not listen to the radio. For each of my emotions I have a special album. I really enjoyed them and now it seems they're gone. Here's my live shows. Here's SkiDog's live shows. |
| These bluesmen are just a few of my favorites. I have come to really appreciate the blues and each artist for what they bring to it. Charley Patton really started it all. His gruff baritone and virtuoso guitar ability make him my favorite. In the late 1800's he was playing the first 'slide guitar', using a penknife on the strings. It's hard to have favorites but I put Leadbelly in the Top Three. He had prison-tested soul and an unbreakable spirit. He killed a man, he served time in Angola, LA, he played the 12 string. Blind Lemon was a country bluesman from Texas. Blind at birth, he played for tips on the street. He revolutionized guitar playing; he also had a very strange ability to change time in songs. He had no lessons, he had soul. He froze to death in a Chicago blizzard. Very sad, because his finest song was "Please See That My Grave is Kept Clean". Blind Willie McTell aka 'Papa' was a 12 stringer from Atlanta. You can hear the ragtime in his East-coast 'Piedmont' blues. An excellent player and amusing singer. Blind Willie Johnson was blinded as a child by his vengeful step-mother. He went on to become the finest Gospel Blues musician of all time. Robert Johnson was a pupil of Charley Patton and Willie Brown, but disappeared, then came back very talented, some say he sold his soul, in any case he one of the most talented bluesman ever. Son House was a pupil of Charley Patton and played one of the best songs of all time 'Death Letter Blues'. House and Patton got me into Delta Blues. Bukka White wrote about what he knew; being a hobo and riding the rails from town to town. These men were true American pioneers. The list goes on. |
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| Click on their names and it plays a full song. You need QuickTime or an MP3 player. |
| Classical I like Vivaldi. Especially his Concertos for Cello. Bach is up there, I like his guitar stuff. Tchaikovsky is my favorite Russian composer and one of my favorite composers generally. Beethoven is wonderful, I like the 5, 6, 7, 8 and the 9th. Schubert and Schumann are mellow. Not a big fan of Mozart, but I like Mussorgsky. Not into Grieg, Holst, Sibelius, Copeland, Britten, Strauss. |
| Tuva and Tuvan Throat Singing |
| Earth - I only recently discovered Earth and quite by mistake. I was watching the documentary "Kurt & Courtney" for the thousandth time and started digging some of the music in the soundtrack. The producers couldn't use any Nirvana tracks |
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| Desert Island Discs There was a radio show on Radio 4 in Britain that combined an interview segment with the interviewee selecting eight of his/her "desert island discs" that you could take with you if you were stranded on a desert island. You are allowed the Holy Bible, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare and another book of your choosing. You are also allowed one luxury item Click here to see what the famous have selected 1. Pigs (Three Different Ones) -- Pink Floyd 2. Oxygene V -- Jean Michel Jarre 3. Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine -- Earth 4. I Wish -- Graham Coxon 5. I Am The Walrus -- The Beatles 6. Trimm Tabb -- Blur 7. Opal -- Syd Barrett 8. Childhood's End -- Pink Floyd Book: Memoirs of the Venerable Bede Luxury: AK-47 |