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does anybody still listen

my mucic collection contains pretty much everything ive ever liked with over 2500 titles but over the last few years ive got selective & only keep about 500 or so in rotation,mostly jazz & blues,last week i decided to get the entire collection out & check it out.

i spent the day listening to stuff from my youth like alice cooper & black sabbath,queen & deep purple & king crimson & the likes,wow i forgot how much i had enjoyed most of this music,it hit me while alice cooper was playing(i love the dead)at how truly ground breaking alot of this stuff was for its time & how much i liked listening to older 60's & 70's rock music.

i was curiouis if anybody else's tastes had changed from the music that made them take up this hobby or if you still listen to everything you've liked in the past,for me im going to start listening more to the rest of my collection,right now i got grand funk spinnin & im pretty happy to be hearing it too.

mike.
bigjoe

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r_f_sayles
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I'm with you Lugnut... it's more fun to hear whatever someone visiting wants to hear. Strange things happen. I have a large vinyl collection (records everywhere), many from my youth and it is surprising sometimes to find out that that great record we’re listening to is not from my friends bag this time but off of my self! Opps! There are very few genres of music that we don’t like. I was raised on classical, Motown, jazz, psychedelic, folk, rock, blues, you name it. It keeps life interesting, dare I say, life is a gumbo (God bless) and why not our musical tastes? I despise listening to just the stuff that sounds “audiophile” and makes someone’s system sound good. That said, there is a lot of great sounding vinyl out today and I’m glad I never got rid of any of the old Lps. As Bigjoe pointed out it’s a delight to pull out the old stuff for a spin and it does hold up quite well indeed. Cheers!
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r_f_sayles
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Hooper, I implore you to consider, if you ever rid youself of some of that old stuff, one day you may regret it. And regret falls hard on an avid collector. In my case it’s all pretty much vinyl and all those old psych rock and folk Lps (of my youth) are growing to be worth a fortune on ebay and the like. To think about the chance that I would have cleared them out years ago and now be looking to replace them would be fiscally if not logistically impossible. I’m glad it never came to that and I hope it never does. Musical tastes are not exactly evolutionary; I find them to be kind of convoluted in that we keep coming back around to where we started. For me Fairport Convention, 13th Floor Elevators, The Velvet Underground, The Stooges, Bevis Frond, The Kinks, West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, Zappa, The Animals, The Byrds, (somebody stop me!) just to name a few, are all still very relevant today and fun. Enjoy!
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I don't know... I've been listening to "classical" music since I was a child. I have an aunt that was a piano recitalist and great musical mentor and have enjoyed classical works immensely thoughout my life. And yet I can honestly say that every time I hear the 13:06 minute version of Red House from Hendrix in the West (1972) it gives me shivers. Nothing else does that to me in that particular way. Of course there are about a zillion other pieces of music that move me equally in their own way. Take as an example Ali Akbar Khan's -Indian Achitexture this 2Lp set on Waterlily Acoustics records is an education in (Hindustani) classical music and an excellent meditation. This one always brings me down to earth after a tough week. Bottom line, there is just so much great music out there, I could never limit my listening to a single genre. Enjoy!
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