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What are you listening to right now? [Music fans get in here!]

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You know, the first time my lovely wife went for ride in our Spitfire - 1st question was "where's the seat belt" (I buckled her in) and the next question was "What?, no radio?" (God bless her). I replied "classic British sports cars don't really need them" - after negotiating the first off camber turn, I quickly made the assumption that music was the last thing on her mind.

Anyway, we're in the Pub now. Shadows grow longer and the pitcher is full - there's a fully refurbished '53 Rock-Ola Jukebox against the wall. You can play any song - from any genre - any year, the old Rock-Ola can play it. What's it gonna be? Don't worry if your audio player is more modern - I was just trying to set the tone . . . .

Right now, It's "Old & in the Way" with Jerry Garcia and other bluegrass pro's like David Grisman. Song is Midnight Moonlight.
I'm looking forward to what the rest of you are listening to - don't be shy, I'm all over the musical map.
 
On my 1947 Sears Silvertone wire recorder, last night I was listening to ...

He wears a pair of Silver Wings, sung by Kate Smith
Come on'a My House, sung by Rosemary Clooney
Beer Barrel Polka, sung by the Andrews Sisters

(I'm all over the map too, later on it was Mahler #4, then some Sippie Wallace "The Texas Nightingale".)

Tom
 
At work, right now, over the podcast I' listening to NPR's Performance Today. Last night at home I listened to my brand new (to me anyway) In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida LP, but I also wound up the old Victrola (VVIX model) and listened to some Caruso and Fats Waller.
 
Great music here in the Pub . . . . right now Charlie "Yardbird" Parker is on the alto playing 'Cool Blues' . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Walter: I saw Iron Butterfly do In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida live at the Spectrum in Philly in 1968. The Grateful Dead also played that night. :friendly_wink:


We just towed back from the Jefferson 500 vintage race, which is about a 6 hour pull for us.

I did what I always do: I give Mommy the Ipod (which has gazzions of songs in it) and tell her to pick stuff out (we play the Ipod through the truck audio system).
With a car number like "909" we have to play that Beatle song.....and other Beatles stuff.

Also, we listened to all of these:

Joan Osborne, Dan Fogelberg, The Who, The Commitments, Josh Grobhan, Don McLean, Judy Collins, John Denver, Melanie, The Kinks, Joanie Mitchell, Willy Nelson, Eric Clapton and others.
 
Needed somthing to put a smile on my face for my 90 mile commute into work so a little Hayseed Dixie!
 
Eagles, Jimmy Buffett, Social Distortion
 
I've kinda rediscovered some "oldies", Led Zepplin's "When the levee breaks", "Kashmir" "The Lemon Song" etc...
 
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I've kinda rediscovered some "oldies", Led Zepplin's "When the levee breaks", "Kashmir" "The Lemon Song" etc...
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Yeah! Classic rock. "That's the Way" is my all time favorite from Zeppelin - no one seems to know about it though . . . Anyway, to continue the rock theme - I have cued up Triumph's "Lay it on the Line". This takes me back to the High School daze and my very first car - a '78 Ford Fiesta (the German one) with the 'S' package. I miss that car so much, I still dream about finding it in a field somewhere and just scrambling to get it running again. It was little darker than my French blue Spitfire.
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So Led Zeppelin is now an oldie...Among the things that happen when you hit 80 is the feeling you get when someone refers to a song from the 70s or 80s as an "oldie". As for the Beatles, I wonder if todays kids even know who they were. Seems like only yesterday they were on the Ed Sullivan show. They were at the height of their popularity when I got married. An oldie to me is anything before 1960.
 
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