Who are you listenin' to?

Post by **Dr. Strangelove** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 8:37 pm

Sirius radio
--Sirius Disorder-24
--Coffee House-30
--Chill-35
--Jam-on-17
--Spectrum-18

and Gypsy--from your playlist, you'd probably like G. Love (and Special Sauce) and Tristan Prettyman

John

Post by **taosports** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 9:28 pm

YES!!! Tristan Prettyman and her current (?) boyfriend Jason Mraz are fantastic.

Post by **GypsyRR** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 9:42 pm

ScooterCop wrote:

Never tried listening to music when I ride though. I have given a ticket or two for it.

Uh, ScooterCop, I was just making up that whole thing about listening to an iPod while I ride. .

Actually, it's not against the law where I live.

and Gypsy--from your playlist, you'd probably like G. Love (and Special Sauce) and Tristan Prettyman

Thanks, John. I'll check out your suggestions. In fact, I've been checking out several of the different ones listed if I didn't know them already. I'll take more suggestions, as long as they aren't Merle (or Ted) Haggard. (Sorry, Mac

)

Post by **taosports** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 9:54 pm

NHighCotton wrote:Well that sounds good but, then I can't hear my radar detector (I'm using a splitter between the two)

I've tried the iPod by its self with "blasters" helmet speakers....I'll try the separate earbuds next time with the speakers plugged to the Valentine

What you need is one of these NHighCotton :
http://www.cyclegadgets.com/products/pr ... ?Item=HARD

$$$$$$ - it never ends does it?

Post by **wncbmw** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 10:39 pm

As I peruse this thread, I am downloading some of my CDs onto the Mac for downloading onto the iPod I bought used from a lady at work. (Her husband upgraded to a 30 GB model).

R.E.M.
Counting Crows
Spyro Gyra
Van Morrison
Dave Mathews
lots and lots of Santana

and of course, the Classics

Beatles
Temptations
James Taylor
Jethro Tull
Moody Blues

This might be fun!

chadmck · Post by **chadmck** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 10:53 pm

I have a little mp3 player with a bit of everything but what really makes the musical experience worthwhile is a set of moulded silicon type plugs which have a 2mm tume going into each one. The music is piped from small speakers which measure about 10mm long x 4mm x 4mm. These speakers then have wires that go into the MP3 player.

The moulded earplugs cancel out almost all external noise = very low volume on MP3 player.

The Red Hot Chilli Peppers need to be played loudly anyway so perhaps it doesn't matter.

Seriously though even with no music the wind noise is hugely reduced which is great for the long trips

Post by **GypsyRR** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 11:21 pm

Sorry to butt in again on my own thread - but

VANN -

Yes, of course!! Van Morrison. How did I leave him off my list when I have everything he's ever done? And for some reason I remember reading a thread once where you mentioned, or someone mentioned to you John Prine. It caught my eye, because I had just discovered John Prine about that time - and ended up with several of his CD's as well. At least two or three John Prine songs are on every playlist I make.

I didn't mention this guy because I figured no one but me knows of him, but I also listen to Jimmy LaFave daily and he is on every playlist too. But I don't think you guys would like him much. Probably too romantic. He also covers a lot of Dylan songs.

munchmeister · Post by **munchmeister** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 11:43 pm

How 'bout these:

John Martyn: Solid Air is one of my all time favs, as is Don't Wanna Know About Evil, May You Never

Eric Andersone: Blue River

Clannad

Traffic: Low Spark of High Heeled Boys, another in my all time top ten.

Cream

Gotta have some Nick Drake, (RIP)

Haven't seen Shawn Colvin listed, or Joni Mitchell for that matter. Must have these great songwriters

Lorenna McKennitt

If ya like Prine, Earle, ya gotta love Greg Brown... and how 'bout Steve Forbert?

Bonnie Raitt

Suzanne Vega

Mindy Smith

geez, this thread could be a long one.....

Post by **jb44** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:12 am

Don't listen while riding... here's the list from My Music folder:

Al Green
Al Jarreau
Barry White
Bob Dylan
Count Basie
Dean Martin
Diana Krall
Dr. John
Eric Clapton
Frank Sinatra
Fred Astair
Gene Kelly
Jim Croce
Jimmy Buffet
Larry Carlton
Leon Redbone
Lou Rawls
Meat Loaf
Mel Torme
Michael Buble
Norah Jones
Randy Newman
Ray Charles
Sam and Dave
Smokey Robinson
Stevie Wonder
Van Morrison

...found a few more:

Spyro Gyra
Sam Cooke
Ella Fitzgerald
Louis Armstrong
James Taylor
Jackson Browne
Grover Washington
George Benson
Etta James
Eagles
Doobie Brothers
Don McLean
Santana
Beatles
Aerosmith

The most recent CDs I purchased were by: JJ Cale, Maria Muldaur, Bob Dylan, and Diana Krall.

...I'm living in the past, and enjoying it.

jb

Post by **Dr. Strangelove** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 6:18 am

aw-reet, just a couple of other suggestions:

The Moody Bluegrass Project cd and the cd by Mark Knopfler/Emmylou Harris--both wonderful mostly undiscovered gems

(and of, course, van Morrison, too)

John

munchmeister · Post by **munchmeister** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 9:32 am

OK, but we're missing (for the most part) the great American invention, da Blues:

Robert Johnson
John Hammond
Canned Heat
Guitar Shorty
Howln' Wolf
BB King
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Jonny Lang (already mentioned but worth another)
Ledbelly
Taj Mahal
Indigenous
Andy Fairweather Low
Alvin "Youngblood" Hart
Mississippi John Hurt
Johnny Winter
Bessie Smith
Koko Taylor
Big Mama Thornton

and of course

Aretha

Yeah, baby !!
Be careful though. A playlist like this may cause you to start moving those handlebars to the beat.

Post by **MikeCam** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 4:40 pm

All Beatles, all the time.

Post by **toner87** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 5:59 pm

http://www.radioparadise.com

A great mix of mostly blues, rock, alternative and everything in between...

I also like SomaFM.com, especially the Groove Salad channel...

Over vacation, I found myself listening to Led Zeppelin on my nearly 6 year old first gen iPod as I jogged on the beach down in Gulf Shores. Coda and Physical Graffiti...

Also, R.L. Burnside... There are some great funky tracks on "A Bothered Mind". I have a serious blues addiction...

T.

Post by **wncbmw** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 9:54 pm

Gypsy - I am a John Prine fan (and so is Boxer, he even has a JP hat!) but alas much of my music collection is on vinyl

and several of his albums are stuck there, along with every Gordon Lightfoot album (18 or so) and more jazz than I can remember and much more. Sometime down the road, I intend to get a new turntable that hooks straight into the computer, then to the iPod and I will be singing along with John and Gordon too! And grooving to Tom Scott, Dave Sanborn, Grover Washington, JR., Earl Klugh and . . . . oh well, you get the idea.

I really need to get that turntable!

Post by **yjleesvrr** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 10:22 pm

Oh boy, where do I start? I don't listen to music while riding, but music is a big part of my life.

Classical: Bach, Beethoven, Berlioz, Bernstein (yeah, he composed as well), Bizet, Brahms, Chopin, Copland, Gershwin, Handel, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Mussorgsky, Orff, Rachmaninov, Ravel, Rimsky-Korsakov, Schubert, Schumann, St-Saens, Strauss (Richard, Johann Sr. & Jr.), Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Vivaldi, Wagner

Jazz: Armstrong, Basie, Brubeck, Coltrane, Davis, Ellington, Getz, Mingus, Parker, Sinatra

Rock/Contemporary: Allman Brothers, Beatles, Billy Joel, Def Leppard (yeah, I'm a Gen-Xer), Doobie Brothers, Eagles, The Police, Rush, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Sting, The Who, Van Halen (again, the Gen-X coming out)

Post by **wncbmw** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 11:23 pm

Yong - throw in some of the current headbanger stuff, leave off the jazz and your list sounds more like my son's than mine.

Classical and rock!

Post by **yjleesvrr** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 9:51 am

Vann - Hey, it sounds like your son has good taste!

Post by **rdsmith3** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 2:17 pm

wncbmw wrote:Gypsy - I am a John Prine fan (and so is Boxer, he even has a JP hat!) but alas much of my music collection is on vinyl and several of his albums are stuck there, along with every Gordon Lightfoot album (18 or so) and more jazz than I can remember and much more. Sometime down the road, I intend to get a new turntable that hooks straight into the computer, then to the iPod and I will be singing along with John and Gordon too! And grooving to Tom Scott, Dave Sanborn, Grover Washington, JR., Earl Klugh and . . . . oh well, you get the idea.

I really need to get that turntable!

Vann

Can you do that easily?! I must have ~ 500 albums. Let's say 200 of those are still worth a listen. At 45 minutes each, that is about 150 hours of music to transfer to MP3 files. Hmm ... maybe I could pay the kids to do it.

Nah, kids don't know how to handle vinyl.

Post by **toner87** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 3:03 pm

If you value your time, it's actually cheaper to just go out and buy the CD or pay to download it, if it it's available, of course. I've transferred a few vinyl albums and it is time consuming. You can't trust the software to put in the gaps between tracks and sometimes you have to baby it and ride the record/pause button. Then you also have to manually enter all the information about the album, track names, etc. I would transfer only those albums that you absolutely cannot find on digital media. YMMV, of course, and there are those of you who will enjoy that process.
T.

Post by **wncbmw** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 4:10 pm

I am not sure I would enjoy the process of transferring the vinyl but I am quite sure I can't afford to replace all of them!

There are turntables available with preamps that supposedly will download directly into the computer, of course with some sort of software. Tony brings up an excellent point however, that all the album and track info will have to be input manually. More research is required!