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Hi All,

I think I ask this on every message board I go on out of plain curiosity and love of music. What types of Music does everyone listen to? Groups? Singers? Styles?

With a group as diverse as HAZ I'm sure we'd get a really wide range of answers, and hikers are a pretty cool demographic to look at I think.

I thought this would be a fun one for Friday afternoon and to add some more Peace to the Forum after that last one I started! :roll: he he

My Musical Tastes: Rock, Blues, Bluegrass, Raggae and various other bits and pieces.

Groups: Rolling Stones, Hendrix, Bob Marley, Phish, Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, Black Crowes, Widespread Panic, G Love and Special Sauce to name a few.

Anyway hope you all have great hikes and enjoy your weekend, see you on the trail!



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Jimmy Buffett, Van Morrison, Indigo Girls, George Clinton (with the Pfunk Allstars), and most anything released between 1991 and 1995...for the college memories..

Yeah I totally agree Colin!! 91 - 95 was great for music, those are my college years as well. Michigan State Spartans in the house!

P

Survey says...

From the old board

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"Two weeks ago I was hiking down the S. Kaibab and a group of 8 guys passed me. One had music playing so I was happy to let them pass and get out of earshot. Several had handheld radios which were also annoying.
*Static squawk...Hey teva, I just hiked another 20 yards....Static Squawk...That's great Ben, I'm still in front of you!*.... Pretty annoying!

Good Hiking!

-GW"
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"These are popular with my crew...

Toad the Wet Sprocket
Lenny Kravitz
Sting

Mike S."
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"I tend to go for easy listening and light ROCK. Boston, Kansas, Eagles, Bad Company, and just about anything that has way above average vocals and harmony! And...if it has a lot of good keyboarding in it...I'm hooked!

RODNEY
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"Hey, maybe Mike and Rodney and any other musicians out there can get together and compose some trail music for the site !!!

Annette

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"I normally wouldn't listen to music on the trail as I'd hate to miss the sounds of the coyotes and even more the wolves !!! But, if I had to choose, then:

Mannheim Steamroller's ""Saving the Wildlife""
Paul Winter's Wolf Eyes"
Native Spirit (Native American Flute – hey Kokopelli on the cover)
Spiritlands (Native American Sounds)
Cusco (the ""Apurimac"" series)
The X-Files (for camping in Sedona, especially around Bell Rock)
Pure Moods (I and II) ... and, by special request ...
""Dark Side of the Moon"" (for our usual night-time journey back down the trail)


Annette "
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I can just see (and almost hear) it now: new band called ""The KokopelliAnnette"
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"Like many of you, I prefer to leave the music at home. But once in a while, if I'm on an extended trip I do get a hankering for... Velvet Underground.



On another thread, I mentioned the Soundscape composer Hildegard Westerkamp. Westerkamp did a really astounding piece with crickets!! (bizarre modulations etc. with a really eery and lonely effect--makes me think of the prairies). Though I don't think I'd take Westerkamp on a hiking trip, her work really draws ones attentions to subtlties in the sound environment. Tres cool.

And, oh ya... I'm a classical pianist. Is there room for me in the band?

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Let's see...classical = really good keyboardest...Hmmmmm, Todd, I think we do have an opening......for a flute player!!! LOL Just teasing! I was one of those people that had to play by ear, Always wondered what it would have been like with a classical background!

RODNEY
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"Personally I don't care for music on the trail. I do enjoy watching the chics bite the dust on Squaw while trying to adjust their ""stations""...

When I go hiking with one of my buddies, we sing boot camp songs... it's pretty funny, and never the same!

Instead of music my favorite thing in the Sups is to chat with the old men. They have great stories, what better way to spend 4-6 hours hiking.

If I had to choose my favorite... it's passing through Gardner Valley on the PCT listening to Enya.

- teva"
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Always wondered what it would have been like with a classical background!

RODNEY

Wondered what it would be like? Traumatic, mostly!


If I had to choose my favorite... it's passing through Gardner Valley on the PCT listening to Enya.

- teva


Enja? Traumatic mostly

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"Over the 12 plus years, it was pretty much Traumatic without the classical background!<img src=icon_smile_cool.gif border=0 align=middle>

RODNEY"
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"I pretty much leave the music at home and use the time to enjoy nature or think about life. If that gets to heavy I turn the mental jukebox on to CCR ""Lookin out my Backdoor"" or ""My Way"" by Limp Bizkit.

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"I would anything by Van Morrison, or conversly, Jimmy Buffett are appropriate trail music. I have noticed over the years that when I hike, ride or climb, a song by one of those two guys is in my head...although singing a few of Jimmy's songs on the trial can be offensive to some people...(""why don't we get drunk, and screw..."")

I also learned long ago to turn the radio off well before the trailhead if listening to radio stations...I remember quite clearly a 3 day trip with ""ICE ICE BABY...VANILLA ICE ICE BABY"" stuck in my head. Talk about a living hell.

Explore Risk Reach

ck1"
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"I thought I was the only one that liked the 'Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?' soundtrack. Nealz, did you see the movie?

I never listen to music on the trail. Although I have listened to NPR on Squaw Peak a few times.

Whenever it's quiet on the trail and my thoughts are in neutral, my mind's jukebox will roll some Steve Vai, ""John Wayne's Teeth"" from the Smoke Signals soundtrack, John Coltrane, Miles Davis or Laurie Anderson's ""O Superman"", ""Born Never Asked"" and ""Walking and Falling"" always seem to play.

GTG

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"Being a DJ, I listen to more than my fair share of music so when I'm hiking I never bring music. In fact, as soon as I leave the house heading for the trailhead, I don't even have my truck radio on. Just peace-n-quiet the whole way.

Brian Davis (DJ-Brian)

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Finally! Somebody to back me up that I'm not crazy!

Thanks!

- teva"
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"I'm with you two all the way. Maybe KTAR news to the trailhead in the AM, and maybe some jazz CD on the way back, but nothing but nature when I'm on the trail. Its the most beautiful sound of all.

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"I can never userstand why people go to the wilderness to listen to loud music.

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"I'm a funny sort when it comes to music and hiking. I guess I'd understand someone listening to talk radio more than music. Of course, once again I remind people that I'm old and my defense against loud music coming from lowered cars is to put my ""Itsy Witsy Yellow Pokadot Bikini"" tape on full blast with the windows all down when I an next to one of the ghetto cruisers at a light. It tends to screw with their heads when I do that.

Did I mention that I'm old?

Rick" (snick33)
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"I do take music to listen when I hike but in camp I like to listen to radio broadcast of football games.

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Have to agree with Nighthiker..... i`ve been known to search for the Cardinals games at camp..but no Music!
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Fleetwood Mac, Dan Fogelberg, Peter Gabriel, and good ole Huey Lewis and the News! Dates me, huh? Oh, and most any Bluegrass

teva wrote: Finally! Somebody to back me up that I'm not crazy!

Thanks!

- teva"
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:P I'm keepin' it zipped :twisted:

I'm all over the road, music taste wise: 70's progressive rock esp. Yes, Strawbs, Gentle Giant, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Genesis (old style)....Blues like Paul Butterfield, Cream, Keb Mo, ... late 60's San Francisco Psychedelic like Byrds, Jefferson Airplane/Hot Tuna, Quicksilver or Dead....jam bands like Dead, ( "You said Dead Twice! I like the Dead") Phish, and String Cheese Incident (just saw them on Austin City Limits-way hot) and Brit artists like John Renbourn, Colin Williamson, John Martyn and the great Richard Thompson. Favorite driving music to or from Trailhead is a toss up between old James Gang funk or Sonia Dada- a Chicago R&B rock band with a former gospel trio up front. -Randy

I forgot all about Gentle Giant and Genesis. thanks for bring back some wonderful memories Randy!

Hey Randy, I just saw that austin City limits as well, the String Cheese Incident are great!

"Jam Bands" are my top catagory of groups and music. Since you like String Cheese you should give Leftover Salmon a try as well, good stuff for sure.

P

Any of the "Golden Oldies" of Rock and Roll; after all I was a teenager in the 50's when R&R started. CCR, Eagles.
Jazz: Coltrane, Davis, Gerry Mulligan, Thelonius Monk (there's a great album, "Mulligan Meets Monk" out on Riverside CD with added cuts not on the original LP) MJQ.
Big Band..Basie, Ellington
Diana Krall with a voice that can melt my heart, and she's great on piano as well; new singer with only one CD out, Norah Jones who is the daughter of Ravi Shankar has a silky, jazz delivery with her on piano.
Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard; little lady with a huge voice, Martina McBride.
Have about 400 CD's, about 1/4 classical, 1/4 R & R, 1/4 country and the rest a mix of pop and jazz. Like just about anything except rap which may be poetry but ain't, to my mind, music. Figure if you can't hum it or whistle it it ain't music......but I'm an old fart, remember?

I am everywhere on this. The last three CD's I purchased was Cusco, Puddle of Mud, and Creed. And the music has to be awesome for me to purchase the CD. My taste is what sounds good to me, what grabs me, what moves me, what makes me think, what makes me mellow, what gets the heart pumping, what mood I am in. Everything from; Sons of the Pioneer, Martyy Robbins, C.W. McCall, Fleetwood Mack, Boston, REO, Journey, The Floyd, Moody Blue, Flock of Seagulls, Kitaro, Enya, Yanni, Cusco, Puddle of Mud, Collective Soul, Creed, Elton John, Gorfe', Copeland, Ect.......on and on.

Abe wrote:Everything from; Sons of the Pioneers...

Hey speakin' of these guys. I just read in the Joe Bill book about AZ fire lookouts that the lyrics to 'Ghost Riders in the Sky' was written by a lookout after observing the cloud patterns around his tower. Pretty cool, huh?

-Nealz

Randy wrote: Sonia Dada- a Chicago R&B rock band with a former gospel trio up front. -Randy

Randy - love them also! Saw them at Taste of Chicago many moons ago...excellent selection...

Okay - I know I'm the resident music geek around here so I'll just list a few of my favorites

Opera: anything by Vivaldi, Puchini, Strauss, Mozart and a little Wagner. There are a few other composers who have had the occasional good opera, but by and large, those are my favorites.

Vocal: Carmina Burana by Carl Orff is by far and a way one of my all time favorite pieces. I have a fabulous recording with Harken Hagegard as the baritone - just tremendous. I love German Leidsong (Schubert, Schumann, Wolf) and my favorite recordings of that are by (no surprise) Fredrich Fischer-Dieskau accompanied by Gerald Moore - truly the height of tallent with Leid. If you haven't heard it - you're missing out.

Instrumental: I am a big fan of Aaron Copland, Beethoven, Bach, some Mozart, and a bunch more that I don't have time to list and you might never have heard of. I'm especially prone to 20th century music (Stravinsky being a big favorite) - and a lot of the atonal stuff. I appreciate the level of tallent it takes to pull that stuff off successfully, so I listen more with a sense of awe at the artistic element. Don't give me John Cage though - not very enjoyable stuff. Philip Glass is also on my yuck list.

"Normal" music: I listen to just about anything except for hard rock, acid punk and country music in any form (it grates on my nerves like fingernails on a chalkboard - just atrocious to me). I don't own many CDs that arent classical in nature, although I am in possession of almost the full Billy Joel collection, and most of Bruce Hornsby's albums as well. I am partial to new age (especially if it's in the vein of neo-impressionism) and jazz (smooth, classical, swing, all of it).

Radio: I listen to 96.9, 101.5, 101.1, 95.5, 89.5, and a few others on a less frequent basis - whichever one isn't playing a commercial at the time.

There - that about does it. I think this post is now longer than Joe's compilation post.

I am one long winded dude. Take your best shot Hoolie

olesma wrote: I am one long winded dude. Take your best shot Hoolie

Have you experienced SACD (Super Audio CD)? I have Miles Davis Kind of Blue in multi channel; also Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, Erich Kunzel...well, I'll PM you with the details

W may have had a little rain in Central Arizona, they music that I have not heard this year out on the desert this time of the year are the toads.

Pixelfrog Is it true that they went to Astro Turf on the Football Field to keep the cheerleaders from grazing during the game? I'm an Ann Arbor guy myself

Tracy Chapman and Puchini except in everyone of his operas someone has or dies from consumption

John Denver, Hank Williams, Dean Martin, Randy Travis, Kenny Loggins, Billy Dean, John Williams, Beethoven, Michael McLean, Afterglow, Blackhawk, Air Supply, Simon & Garfunkel, Garth, Alabama, Anything bluegrass, Bing Crosby, and anything that sounds good. And I don't mean to offend anyone who listens to rap, but talikng isn't music is it?

Is this a "what kind of music do we like" thread? I say Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, Led Zepplin, Hendrix, Beethoven, Marty Robbins, The Dregs, John McLaughlin, Duke Ellington, and Bing for sure.

OK, I don't know how you guys are doing quotes, but...

Randy said "( "You said Dead Twice! I like the Dead")"

I see you also like Mel Brooks. Obviously a man with taste.