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What kind of music does everyone here listen to anyway? Do you play and instrument, and if so, what? I'll start.

My taste in music is firmly rooted in rock, but I also enjoy jazz, funk, classical, etc. Basically, just about anything that isn't hip hop or electronica. I mostly like Japanese indie rock groups such as the pillows, Number Girl, Sambomaster, Zazen Boys, The Chewinggum Weekend, Nino Trinca, etc. I would be surprised if anybody here had heard of any of these bands (though some the pillows' music was prominently featured in the anime series FLCL).

I also like North American and British indie rock bands and artists (such as Broken Social Scene, The Wrens, The Format, etc.), classic rock (Cream, Pink Floyd, Jeff Beck), and progressive/experimental/post-hardcore (Rush, At The Drive-In, Maps and Atlases, Fall of Troy, Mars Volta, Dream Theater, etc.)

I'm an avid guitarist (mostly electric), and for a while now, music has taken over gaming as my main hobby.

So, what kinds of music are you guys into?

I started listening to the classics on my dad's records: Zep/Floyd/Skynyrd/CCR/ZZ Top, the list goes on. When Motley Crue came out, I shifted to that genre, and then I found the heavy stuff, Metallica/Slayer/etc in the late 80's, and it has become my overall preference, adding Pantera, White Zombie, and similar artists. I like electronica only in an extremely narrow range, and picked up some Jazz a few years ago, gravitating towards artists like Craig Chaquico, Fattburger, Boney James, Dave Koz..

I play guitar. I started when I first heard And Justice For All. Right then and there I decided I wanted to play that and Blackened. Then of course, the more I heard from them, the more of the songs I wanted to learn. After I did learn all of Metallica's stuff, they went and pussed out, so I stopped learning them and moved to Skynyrd and learned most of their songs. With Skynyrd leads under my belt, I was cocky enough to think that I would pick up a few Joe Satriani CD's and learn his stuff. Well, I'm still working on him...I have eight down pretty solid so far. Only took me 2 years

ok i just tried posting my whole play list and this page gave me an error...
i like all kinds of music.

Which Satriani Testi? What kind of axe you slinging these days? Better not be some Jap made Ibanez or something...

I don't think Ibanez guitars are that great, but I would take an off-the-shelf Japanese Fender over a production American model anyday. The good stuff never gets imported to the US.

If I recall, Zuruck, you have a pretty nice gear collection yourself. Les Paul, Tele, Music Man Axis, Strat (I think), and a Mesa of some sort.

Wow.... I'm different... Here is some of my stuff..

Mobi
Black Uhuru
Sheryl Crow
Shakira
Moby
Cold Play
Depeche Mode
Stephen Tyler
Collective Soul
Green Day
Danny Elfman
Charlotte Church
Statler Brothers
Sissel

Bee

Bet51987 wrote:Wow.... I'm different... Here is some of my stuff..

Mobi
Black Uhuru
Collective Soul
Sheryl Crow
Shakira
Moby
Cold Play
Depeche Mode
Stephen Tyler
Collective Soul
Green Day
Danny Elfman
Charlotte Church
Statler Brothers
Sissel

Bee

Yes Bee is one of my fav bands too

lol Bet when you said Mobi was was thinking \"Mobius\" for a sec

My favorites:
Green Day
Nirvana
Anti-Flag
Disturbed
Linkin Park
KoRn
Blink-182
(I also listen to select songs from certain groups.)

My favorite song is Letterbomb, especially if it and Extraordinary Girl are played in their normal sequence. My second is Heart Shaped Box by Nirvana. My third would be Coming Clean by Green Day.

For instruments, I play guitar (electric & acoustic) bass, drums, mandolin, harmonica, and I can play them all pretty good except for the mandolin or harmonica. My favorite song to play is Letterbomb, I can play it PERFECTLY, not a single screw-up, not a muted string, nothing. I know most of Dookie, Warning, and American Idiot, as well as about half of Nevermind, In Utero, Insomniac, and 1039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours.

I own a Gibson L-6 (Green), A Fender Stratocaster (Purple), some acoustic guitar that is pretty common, a mandolin, and some types of drums and harmonica.

My faves so far:
Metallica
Iron Maiden
Linkin Park
Daft Punk
They Might Be Giants

--BEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD:
Tchaikovsky
Dvorak
Bach
Holst
Beethoven
Chopin
Gershwin
Mozart
Rossini
Brahms
Ravel
John Williams
Rimsky-Korsakov

--NEW AGE CAN BE GOOD SOMETIMES:
Vangelis
Kitaro
Enya
Ray Lynch

--WESTERN (and sometimes more modern country)
Sons of the Pioneers
Tennessee Ernie Ford
Chet Atkins
Johnny Cash
Frankie Laine
John Denver
Johny Horton
Don Williams
Faith Hill

--HUMOR:
Ray Stevens
Weird Al
Trout Fishing In America

--RELIGIOUS WORKS (OTHER THAN CLASSICAL):
Kemper Crabb
The Wedgwood Trio
Sara Groves

--WHAT DO YOU CALL THIS STYLE, CROONER?:
Johnny Mathis
Nat King Cole

--USED TO BE TRENDY, NOW IT'S OLD:
Simon and Garfunkle
Beach Boys
Righteous Brothers

--AND, TO MY SHAME, I WILL OCCASIONALLY LISTEN TO:
Sting
Genesis/Phil Collins
Dire Straits
ONE song by Heart
ONE song by Ace of Base

List could be MUCH longer, is that eclectic enough for you?

Yes, I have two Ibanez's. They sound perfect. I don't like the stratocasters, or any others I've tried, really...don't have the smoothness or a fast neck, and worse, they're only 22 fret.

I can only play these Satriani songs:
Up In The Sky
One Big Rush
The Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing
Always With Me, Always With You
Surfing With The Alien
Summer Song
The Extremist
Ice 9
Flying In A Blue Dream
Borg Sex
Satch Boogie
The Crush Of Love
The Mighty Turtle Head

edit:: Well, here's my set list. I haven't got around to learning Floyd..I can play it easily enough, just haven't learned any...and I need to re-learn all the Nirvana I forgot.
http://www.metallisoft.com/files/boots/ ... _list.html

Do you play and instrument, and if so, what?

Oh, forgot to answer this one.
I play Saxophone, tin whistle, and fife. None of them very well.

I wouldn't mind hearing you play Summer Song. I can't stand Ibanez guitars...the necks are too thin. I like playing guitars with thick necks, my les paul has the 50s style neck which feels like a 2x4. My explorer has the thinnest neck I think...it's my little speed guitar.

For smoothness you just have to strip the neck. Get some Formby's stripper and take the laquer off the neck. When it's completely off...sand the neck and finish it off with very, very small grit. Oil the neck with linseed, buff it out, and you have a fast, smooth neck. Just be careful around glue joints!!

Ahh I love Pink Floyd. I have worked with countless amps, effects, everything to master that band. I have the most fun playing their stuff though in my band. Nothing beats smoking a joint and playing Have A Cigar...nothing.

Zuruck wrote:I can't stand Ibanez guitars...the necks are too thin. I like playing guitars with thick necks, my les paul has the 50s style neck which feels like a 2x4.

Wow, Zuruck and I agree on something!

The LP Standard 50's necks don't feel that big to me, though. The Historic '54-'56 necks feel great, although most people consider them "too big."

Alright, this is copy/pasted from my Facebook page so it's a few months old:

Aerosmith
Audioslave
Barenaked Ladies
Billy Joel
Blue Oyster Cult
Cake
Coheed and Cambria
Coldplay
Cold Suzy/Ablyss
Dave Matthews Band
Death Cab for Cutie
The Doors
Dream Theater
Foo Fighters
The Guess Who
Hootie & The Blowfish
Interpol
Led Zeppelin
Lovedrug
The Mars Volta
The Moody Blues
Muse
Nine Inch Nails
Nirvana
Pink Floyd
The Police
The Postal Service
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Steely Dan
Sting
Stone Temple Pilots
Talking Heads
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
U2

I've played the drums for 12 years now, and I'm learning -- slowly but surely -- guitar.

Much of the time Ill be listening to classical:

Moussorgsky
Edvard Grieg
Wanger
Beethoven
and a bunch of others.

But Ill also be listening to rock now and again:

MegaDeath (I escpecially like \"Sweating Bullets\")
Marilyn Manson
Motor Head
Rob Zomby
GNR
ACDC
Alice Cooper (love his night talk show BTW )
Pink Floyd
Steve Earl (Copperhead Road)

For continuity, here's my @Work playlist. It's only about half the stuff I have at home.
Acdc
Aerosmith
Bad Company
Billy Idol
Blues Traveler
Boney James
Cheap Trick
Chris Smither
Craig Chaquico
Cream
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Danny Gatton
Dave Koz
Days Of The New
Def Leppard
Dire Straits
Duran Duran
Eagles
Electronic Arts (Need for Speed 3 soundtrack)
Elton John
Eric Clapton
Fattburger
Fiona Apple
Foreigner
George Thorogood And The Destroyers
Green Day
Guns N' Roses
Hellecasters
Inxs
Jane's Addiction
Joe Satriani
Kenny Wayne Sheppard
Khaki King
Led Zeppelin
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Meat Puppets
Metallica
Mindi Abair
Nazareth
Nickelback
Nirvana
Pearl Jam
Peter White
Phish
Pink Floyd
Queensryche
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Rick Braun
Soundgarden
Steppenwolf
Steve Miller
Stone Temple Pilots
The Cure
The Police
Tom Petty
Van Halen
Yes
Zz Top

I go by Zaqx on last fm: http://www.last.fm/user/Zaqx/

You have an entry in 'Stalker Music'?

Haha yeah I'd forgotten about that. For awhile there I was just tagging everything i heard.

I'm impressed that you have the Flaming Lips on that list there Jon, kudos. They are a terrific band. I like way to much to even talk about it.

Testi, you da man if you able to hit Skynyrd. I can't seem to play their songs with the right feel...I don't know. They have too many parts going on for me to isolate one and play along.

I forgot to ask earlier...do you really, I mean really need 24 frets? 99% of the best guitarists of all time only had 22...I've had no interest in 24 frets or a 7 stringer. It's hard enough to play a 6 string...why make it worse. Plus I play out of a Mesa so I don't need any extra low end.

I use all 24, and not just the 1st string. I don't want to bend up to the 24th fret note, and I want to be able to bend a 24th like it was a 12th.

I play Skynyrd with a slightly aggressive touch. I pull from my metal background to give it a little edge. It sounds great (on a good day, hehe ) I can fit extra notes in without distracting from the main sequence.

Current songs on my now playing list:

Voices of Light
The Classic Crime - The Coldest Heart
Run Kid Run - This is who we are
Fair - Carelessness
Mae - Someone Else's Arms
Switchfoot - Meant to Live, Stars
Thousand Foot Krutch - Move


And a few Core Decision tracks

Nosferatu wrote:Moussorgsky... Wanger

Excellent choices. I need to get out "Pictures at an Exhibition" and listen to it again. And every so often you just NEED to heard "Flight of the Valkyries".

aldel wrote:Alan Parsons Project... Schumann, Robert

I should have put Alan Parsons Project on my occasional list as well. And how could I have forgotten Schumann?

HighOctane_Jared wrote:And a few Core Decision tracks Smile

guilty here as well.

I play guitar, predominantly acoustic. The Beatles are my favorite band.