*AS and Music!*

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Wondering how many people on WP are either musicians and/or love listening to live music performance.

I love listening to small groups of people playing music out of love/passion. It's magic.

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I've actually never really been that much into music. I'll have my favorite songs I'll listen to, but that's about it. As for live music, it doesn't bother me, but it doesn't thrill me either, if you know what I mean.

Other.

I am a musican (ish), though I do not play regularly.

I dislike almost all forms of Lyrical Mysic, unless the lyrics are in another language or are essentially nonsensical/there for tonal effect.

Live Performances are OK so long as the audience is quiet.

No Moshing for me, which is too bad, since some of the bands I really like tend to be Club Bands...

I love music but my "special interest" was always in synthesized music. And I'm talking about the "good old days" before everybody and their brother could pickup a cheap keyboard at BestBuy for under $500. Back when "Switched on Bach" was released (1968) they could not even play chords on the equipment that existed back then. They had to build each waveform for each note, multi-track and mix the chord layering upwards to the finished work.

Obviously there was no way back then to do a "live performance" since this was very studio intensive. Likewise, I have an interest in early "computer generated" music. Remember HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey singing "Daisy Daisy"? All created inside a mainframe computer before the days of cheap soundcards. For me, back then, this was amazing stuff.

Since that sort of thing was my "special interest" I never really got into live music until recently.

My new favorite "live" group would be the Kelly Family (I got into them late, their best concerts were from 15 years ago!) Check them out here:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=kellyfamilytv&view=videos&start=60
They put on a great show back then.

Remember "Dark Side of the Moog"?

Wires everywhere...

I chose I love listening to a few people play live music. Some of it's pretty good and some of it isn't. What makes it good is the P.A. and the sound system, the equipment more than the talent. It can sound like crap if it's fuzzy and stuff. The clearer the better. I have been to arena concerts where I can't even understand what is being said by the lead singer because the mic is reverbing and fuzzing and echoey.

I love playing my drums and also listening to rock music, especially live. I don't mind other genres like blues, jazz, etc., but rock is the only one that I really love.

Yes, a co-venture between Klaus Schulze with Pete Namlook and Bill Laswell. What were there - 10 albums by that name total?

I have most of the earliest Klaus Schulze albums as well. Though he was a bit too minimalist for my taste. Klaus was one of the original 3 members of Tangerine Dream (only appearing on their 1st album.)

Of course, if you can Shift, there was always the Bulldaggers...

Conrad Schnitzler & Cthulu on the synthesizers... Music in non-euclidian space...





You familiar with Mat Howarth's "Sonic Curiosity" electronica review site?

I'm musician.
I do enjoy live shows, but I'm not so much for the "live feel" that many concert fans talk about.
What I do love about some live music is improvisation and the new good stuff they play, particularly stuff like Led Zeppelin's and Red Hot Chili Peppers' live jams, when they just go on and on and suddenly a 3min song becomes a 20min instrumental! That's awesome:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZIJ5saaW9U

But for just listening to the bands ordinary songs I might even prefer to listen at home.

I love live music. Preferably an informal kinda setting. Yeah, live music in a concert hall I can do and enjoy, but I like the social side of the less formal setting. And being able to get up and dance. And the intimacy of a smaller setting too. I do listen to an enjoy recorded music, but live is better.

I was a professional musician for 20 years. I loved performing, but hate attending live performances (too many distractions.) I prefer listening to studio recordings - with very few exceptions (one would be drum & bugle corps.)

i luuuuv music but i dont wotch live i have it on my pc and ipod

That's my preference too.

It would be great to be able to gather together all the people who voted that they are musicians and the people who love listening to live music. What a party/event that could be!

... goes off dreaming

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I typically do not listen to live music. I have been to one little tiny concert thing for Soul Asylum. I do not like to listen to live versions of songs as they usually sound horrible and you can hear screaming.

Music is my life. 'nough said.