Rodger Pettichord Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 Hi all. Looking over the threads on the Neill Hill Memorial Lounge, it's apparent that our lot likes music. Adam especially is good about sharing videos of our favorites. So let's take it all the way and highlight our most favorite entertainers. THIS WEEK'S MEANINGLESS TOPIC: For the rest of your life, you can have access to only one person's or group's music. You will have the whole set of that person/group's work, but only that set, nobody else. It can be a classical composer, a band, a singing group, a soloist, but only one source. Who is your ultimate musical companion? (For me, it would be Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young when he was with them). 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wain71 Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 in all honesty, I like such a variety of music, Dance (modern not waltz), rock, R & B, pop, Jazz all sorts, I say if it gets my foot going then I must surely like it....however given just one group or artist then it would be Dire Straits, started in 1982 when I heard Telegraph Road, I was hooked....Dire Straits were with me constantly on my Sony Walkman, from times in the Army to meeting my wife, to my kids being born and our soundtrack in the car....favourite track was Sultans of Swing....Mark Knopfler, legend.... 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sniper31 Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 Led Zeppelin, no question. 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Q Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 A tough one to be sure. But I'd say The Academy of St Martin in the Fields, first under Sir Neville Mariner, now under Joshua Bell. Very large discography. Ken 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BradB Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 30 minutes ago, Sniper31 said: Led Zeppelin, no question. +1 - Ditto !! . 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gumbypickett Posted April 29, 2022 Share Posted April 29, 2022 There are so many. But of the top of my head I'll go Ice House and Red Hot Chili Peppers. cheers Gumby 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerribleT Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 Being one who appreciates all types if music I found this hard to decide but I have to nominate the enigmatic Bob Dylan as the one who most influenced, and still influences, my own progress as a musician right from his earliest days until now! 6 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Heaton Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 Ron Goodwin - I can listen to his film score for "The Battle of Britain" and "633 Squadron" - for hours 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John York Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 For me its got to be 'The Seekers'. I can, and do, listen to their music for an hour or two every day. And its not only the music, the words resonate strongly with me too. Their song; 'I am Australian' could well be the National Anthem of that magnificent Country and it's people. 6 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taph Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 Andre Rieu just for the energy and showmanship in all his performances 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post W2DR Posted April 30, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted April 30, 2022 Easy for me. Tom, Gerry, and The Monarchs. That's the rock band I played with back in the late '50's. Mostly original stuff. We even managed to cut a couple of 45's. What a hoot. There is currently a group call The Monarchs. They've been around since 1962. We broke up in 1959. How come they are still around and we aren't? That's easy to answer...they're MUCH better than we ever were . 4 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boetie Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 There are so many, I even surprise my teenage kids when I stream contemporary artists on our home speaker network. The Eagles, early Bee Gees, Stones, Dire Straits........this is too hard Rodger! I'm going to have to go with an Aussie artist - Paul Kelly. He's had several iterations, Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls, Paul Kelly and the Messengers......etc. This man can tell a story through music. He's a legend : 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lifejogger Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 I have lots of favorite groups but I am going to have to go with The Beatles. 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Sawatzky Posted April 30, 2022 Share Posted April 30, 2022 For me it would be "Band Maid" 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigeaglefire Posted May 1, 2022 Share Posted May 1, 2022 Jimi, Hendrix! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adambar Posted May 1, 2022 Share Posted May 1, 2022 To many starting with the big bands in the 40's up to the day real music ended, but the group I enjoyed the most was the Allman Brothers Band. As a solo it was Eric Clapton without a doubt. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stillwater Posted May 1, 2022 Share Posted May 1, 2022 Oh Rodger, this is really a fascinating and hard question. After long thinking (and lots of music in the head), I have to join John @lifejogger: The Beatles. In a relatively short timespan they have produced so many evergreens, and covered many styles, beat, rock, ballads, psychedelic, or pure humoristic submarines. One can´t do without them. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfko Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 That's a difficult one I can't answer, because my musical taste changes on a regular basis, even genres come and go. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BradB Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 20 hours ago, Stillwater said: Oh Rodger, this is really a fascinating and hard question. After long thinking (and lots of music in the head), I have to join John @lifejogger: The Beatles. In a relatively short timespan they have produced so many evergreens, and covered many styles, beat, rock, ballads, psychedelic, or pure humoristic submarines. One can´t do without them. We just last week had Sir Paul perform here in Spokane . 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stillwater Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 34 minutes ago, BradB said: We just last week had Sir Paul perform here in Spokane . We had tickets for his concert here in Hanover in 2020, but it was canceled due to a virus. I can only hope he may try again in 2023… 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfko Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 (edited) 25 minutes ago, Stillwater said: We had tickets for his concert here in Hanover in 2020, but it was canceled due to a virus. I can only hope he may try again in 2023… At Christmas 2019 my wife bought 2 tickets for an Eric Clapton show in Munich in June 2020, which was postponed to June 2021 due to Corona and eventually to 02 June 2022. Fortunately the old tickets are still valid and we are very much looking forward to this concert. Edited May 2, 2022 by wolfko 7 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TuFun Posted May 3, 2022 Share Posted May 3, 2022 (edited) For me it's Guy Penrod and David Phelps. When those two sing together it's incredible! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gGa1w_bnvM Edited May 3, 2022 by TuFun 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingleaf Posted May 4, 2022 Share Posted May 4, 2022 All I can say is this. Cheers k 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Abernathy Posted May 4, 2022 Share Posted May 4, 2022 The Mama's and the Papa's for me, then Eric Clapton. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingleaf Posted May 4, 2022 Share Posted May 4, 2022 57 minutes ago, Rob Abernathy said: The Mama's and the Papa's for me, then Eric Clapton. Agree Rob. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Abernathy Posted May 4, 2022 Share Posted May 4, 2022 You just know I had to stop everything and listen to this! Then an early Jimi Hendrix came up next.....love it. Saw Hendrix at the Monterey Pop Festival back in the day. Still amazes me that all his genius and great guitar playing that influenced others to this day was done in less than 4 years. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Terry Posted May 4, 2022 Share Posted May 4, 2022 Mozart collection Ken 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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