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chav:
Hi

Thought this might make a few smile. He looks in better shape than Keith Richard that's for sure.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7513571.stm

Dave

Dave in Tenn:
A man after my own heart.   ;D

Why should the Devil have all the good music? Larry Norman--somewhere in the hazy 1970's

Beloved:
This is very strange....

I have no idea what there "is" to either Heavy metal or Rap...it all seems like noise to me.  I love loud music.....but the grating on the guitars in heavy metal really irritates me....is there something I am missing..... ::)  Can anyone out there exlain it?

Rap seems like very bad poetry, with very little rhythm sung by many angry people.   :P

By the way...I do not like Elvis or Barry Manilow...when I hear something and I like it it does not matter what genre it is in... I have never heard one thing in either of the above two genre.  :D

I have to say though that at my present state I am finding myself less and less interested in music anyway.... I was just curious about what others saw in this type music .

beloved,

Dave in Tenn:
Beloved, it's impossible to account for taste.  Some people like Heavy Metal just as some people like Jalapenos.  I suspect for similar reasons, too.   :)

I'm not a Heavy Metal fan, per se...but I identify with this monk.
 

Kent:

--- Quote from: Beloved on July 18, 2008, 02:25:33 PM ---This is very strange....

I have no idea what there "is" to either Heavy metal or Rap...it all seems like noise to me.  I love loud music.....but the grating on the guitars in heavy metal really irritates me....is there something I am missing..... ::)  Can anyone out there exlain it?


--- End quote ---

I'll try.

Some of it is noise. In some genres, you almost have to be a guitarist to understand what the guitarist is doing. It is not listener friendly. Some of the lyrics are not exactly enlightening and uplifting, either, if you can somehow understand what it is they are saying. It depends on the band.

I like it because I grew up listening to it.  My parents hated it because they grew up listening to other kinds of music. And now I cannot stand the current crop of "musicians" the same way my parents couldnt stand my choices. But I also remember my dad watching a AC/DC concert video, laughing at Angus Young (the guitarist) dressed in his schoolboy uniform, doing the "Curly shuffle" on stage.

And I know that there are some Ozzy Osbourne songs my parents would like. Some, but not all...

There is nothing more irritating than current "guitarists" just standing around banging out chords and "singers" in wheir whiney sniveling cracking voices. They are all interchangable. There is no individual style anymore. I can usually pick out a guitarist just by listening to a few bars, because even if I never heard the song before, I can sometimes recognize that persons style.

Nowadays they would not know a finely crafted solo if someone whacked a Les Paul Standard over their heads. ::)

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