CWB

It's great seeing you enjoying what you love!!! 👍👍
CWB

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

You are always so kind with your replies, Joe. Thank you for now and for all those in the past.
Mark

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

Wonderful!!
Mark

bobbyjohn Loc: Dallas, TX

Mark, I also have a large collection of MP3 files, some taken from YouTube (as you did), and I use "Any Video Converter" as the program to make the YouTube into MP3. I don't listen to these regularly. I do use the MP3s as background music to videos created in "Sony Movie Studio 12 Platinum," or slide-shows created in ProShow Gold (which as you know is no longer), and some having gone through "Morpheous Photo."

Some examples:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B7i9EovuJeI_OG1pT3NER2VSX00?resourcekey=0-U8UDebs4UIfx9udjkkqdJA

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

Cool videos!! Thanks for sharing.
Mark

gpc

I like both kinds.

Actually, I let Pandora choose my music. I listen to it pretty much daily on my walk.

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

I stopped playing about 6 years ago and gave my Bach trumpet to my Grandson. Last year, I borrowed my trumpet from my Grandson and tried playing. No embouchure! Stopped trying and gave the trumpet back to him. Do you still play? I still have a valve trombone but have not played it for 10 years. Doubt if I could anymore.
Mark

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

Music is also one of my great loves in life, although I wasn't born with any talent necessary for playing it. I have very little dexterity in my hands to play an instrument, and vocally I can't carry a tune. Not for lack of trying though, my mother had me and my siblings take piano lessons, I tried clarinet in the high school band, and I tried my father's instrument, the accordion. I just never could get past just trying to hit the right notes, much less giving it any kind of expression. I think it gives me more of an appreciation of music though, as I see musical virtuosity as a kind of superpower.

My family didn't do much listening to music, except for the car radio. I got a transistor radio, and then a cheap record player in my teens. I started out with singles, but I remember my first two albums - The Rolling Stones "Aftermath" and Jefferson Airplane "Surrealistic Pillow", both of which I still listen to. After going through LPs, cassettes, and CDs (which I accumulated some 500 of) I am all digital now. I got the first iPod, and am on my third one now. I converted a lot of my CDs, and now I get music from Apple Music. I don't have a car, so I do a lot of walking for exercise and transportation and I also ride transit a lot, and I can carry my entire music collection with me when I am out and about.

I really missed live concerts during Covid. My all time favorite musician is Jeff Beck, who I have been seeing whenever I had the opportunity since 1975, when I saw him with the Mahavishnu Orchestra. This year I was able to see him twice, the first year that has happened. At 78, I think he is better than he ever has been.

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

Thanks for sharing your “musical life” and preferences. I have not been a “rock” aficionado. My preferences are classical, jazz and some pop. My wife loves country - I tolerate it.

Regards,
Mark

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

I also love jazz and blues. Country I like the old classic stuff - Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash - nothing of today's country. I also listen to a bit of folk, reggae, cajun, and Mexican music.

Dan Thornton Loc: Corpus Christi, Texas

Thanks for the information, I set up an account and did a couple of downloads without a hitch. It will be my go to place for music from now on.

camshot Loc: Peterborough ontario Canada

Ah, a trumpet player! Love the instrument (don't play though) a local pub gets the good stuff going on Saturday nights. Piano, drums, trumpet, sax. base, clarinet, and trombone, all take turns and fit in when they can. I ask the trumpet player if he knew "I Can't Get Started", by Bunny Barrigan, he said no, but came in the next week and played it beautiful. Good music is still around, and will never die!

raymondh Loc: Walker, MI

Impressive!!

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

Thanks, Dan!! I think you'll love the site.
Mark

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

"I Can't Get Started, on 78' by Bunny Berrigan, was one of the very first records I began "playing along with". It was instrumental as well as vocal. I can still here it! Played with it 100's of times. "Playing along with" was my learning mode for 50+ years. I played with Miles Davis, Harry James, Ray Anthony, Chet Baker, Lee Morgan, Maynard Ferguson, Nat Adderley, Fats Navarro, Chuck Mangione, Ziggy Ellman, Louis Armstrong and a host of others. BTW: I was born the year Bunny recorded it.
https://youtu.be/z2BuWDhuT2I


Thanks for the comments,
Mark