Music - do you love it?

[Andiamo1]

Music surely saved my life.  When I was a teenager and suffering all the problems of that age, I found drugs,  and life became very dark.  Many people retire to that place in our minds where hope is lost; some make it back out and some do not.

I found music; I would lie on the floor with my ear next to the speaker and play the slow movement of the Beethoven emperor concerto.  The music was sad, but it touched my heart and I was no longer alone.    That same music eased the pain of TX for me.  It calmed me down and helped me deal with the problems of the real world while I was working.

I love music of almost all genres.  Perhaps not elevator music and pop music that sounds as if it was designed by the people that design ugly cars specked out by a marketing survey.  If it comes from the heart, I love it; be it the cerebral  notes of a Bach cello sweet -- almost mathematical in form; the passion of a choral and, at the opposite end, the pounding beat  of rock and reggae -- music that stirs a different kind of passion.

So  -- what kind of music do you like?

[desrt]

"Now everything is so diluted."
I guess that depends on what you're listening to. The three shows I made it to this year were full strength.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQnf4qRRu_U
My favorite 58 year old radical vegetarian.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w52ase9m6cg
Totally eclipsed the headliner, Dylan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oObL3Ajmr2Y
Lead singer Dexter Holland - Masters Degree and Doctoral candidate in Molecular Biology before deciding punk rock was more lucrative.

[GoofyDad]

You got off easy - at least they didn't dump another Metro on you too....

[scratchinghead]

I'm a victim of a bagpipe break-in. I had one in the back of my Geo Metro and someone came along and broke the window and threw in another one!

[GoofyDad]

"My dad just hung up his bagpipes at 69."

Huh. I hung my bag and pipe at 69 once or twice myself. At least I don't have a daughter to go postin' about it on the internet. :)

[scratchinghead]

Yeah, I'm trying to think of a Bob Dylan radio show as a paradigm that will do to me like folk music did circa 1964 and the great guitar wars did circa 1968. Maybe I should listen to it a couple more times first. . . .
I remember no matter what was on the albums in those days, it was all good. Now everything is so diluted.

[Trish77]

Scratchy, that's a cool story.  Makes me want to smoke a fatty, eat brown sugar and brush my teeth... :)