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Post by Erik Rupp on Sept 15, 2009 9:08:22 GMT -5
It's always interesting to see who the board members' favorite bands and artists are.
List 5, list 10, list however many represent the bands/artists you prefer to listen to most often.
Who are your favorites???
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Post by wrongo on Sept 15, 2009 9:43:33 GMT -5
As reported by MediaMonkey at work Top 10 Artists played | Tracks | Artist | Length | File size | | 477 | Jethro Tull | 13:31:05 | 4.69 GB | | 466 | Emerson, Lake & Palmer | 18:53:58 | 6.69 GB | | 401 | Genesis | 14:33:19 | 5.17 GB | | 353 | Pink Floyd | 11:05:42 | 3.54 GB | | 353 | The Who | 8:02:47 | 2.96 GB | | 329 | The Rolling Stones | 9:20:07 | 3.12 GB | | 283 | Rory Gallagher | 10:08:34 | 3.92 GB | | 265 | Led Zeppelin | 9:30:14 | 3.57 GB | | 244 | Yes | 11:26:25 | 4.10 GB | | 197 | Alan Parsons Project | 5:36:42 | 1.86 GB |
I'm not sure how long I've been using MM, and so the number of tracks and the "length" of time listening is over quite a period. |
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Post by Erik Rupp on Sept 24, 2009 22:37:22 GMT -5
That's a pretty cool list. I don't necessarily like all of those bands/artists, but I respect all of them (and like a lot of them).
Anyone else??
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Post by donconca on Sept 25, 2009 17:00:53 GMT -5
Alright boys, I'm in - although not posting under SleepingGiantsFan here.
Don Conca was the original drummer of Arthur Lee's band Love. Don passed away of a heart attack three years ago. If you read anything about the band, you will see Don's surname spelled Conka, with a "k." That's because although Arthur was once a brilliant musician (having penned among other things most of the tunes on what Rolling Stone considers one of the 100 greatest rock albums, "Forever Changes"), he was never the sharpest tool in the shed otherwise and never spelled his long-time friend's name correctly. (Don's father immigrated to the U.S. from Italy and there is no "k" in Italian.)
Don and Arthur met at Hollywood High in the mid-sixties, forming a band originally called the Grass Roots, later changed because another group with the same name got a recording contract. Arthur kicked Don out of the band when his drug use became so unmanageable that Don couldn't be counted on any longer. The two had a temporary falling out not because of that, but because Arthur was so concerned about Don that he wrote a great song about him which can be found on any Love best-of collection, "Signed D.C."
For several years, Don was like a surrogate father to my oldest son, who similarly loved rock music and himself struggled with addiction.
Because I also love rock, I'll be posting here. Perhaps a lot in time. However, right now I'll just say to both of them R.I.P.
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Post by Bob Forsythe on Oct 1, 2009 21:58:17 GMT -5
Alright boys, I'm in - although not posting under SleepingGiantsFan here. Don Conca was the original drummer of Arthur Lee's band Love. Don passed away of a heart attack three years ago. If you read anything about the band, you will see Don's surname spelled Conka, with a "k." That's because although Arthur was once a brilliant musician (having penned among other things most of the tunes on what Rolling Stone considers one of the 100 greatest rock albums, "Forever Changes"), he was never the sharpest tool in the shed otherwise and never spelled his long-time friend's name correctly. (Don's father immigrated to the U.S. from Italy and there is no "k" in Italian.) Don and Arthur met at Hollywood High in the mid-sixties, forming a band originally called the Grass Roots, later changed because another group with the same name got a recording contract. Arthur kicked Don out of the band when his drug use became so unmanageable that Don couldn't be counted on any longer. The two had a temporary falling out not because of that, but because Arthur was so concerned about Don that he wrote a great song about him which can be found on any Love best-of collection, "Signed D.C." For several years, Don was like a surrogate father to my oldest son, who similarly loved rock music and himself struggled with addiction. Because I also love rock, I'll be posting here. Perhaps a lot in time. However, right now I'll just say to both of them R.I.P. I'm sorry, but I find it rather ironic that Arther Lee would kick out any band member for using drugs given his problems with addiction. Still, Love was a damn fine band who managed, through their addictions, to come up with some damn good music. I suppose it shouldn't be all that surprising, considering composers. Moussorgsky was a total drunk, but when an artist friend died, Moussorgsky attended a retrospective of his work and came out of his drunken state for 6 weeks and wrote what I consider to be the most incredible piano work of all time - "Pictures At An Exhibition". "Genius" is what it is and quite often addiction had a ton of effect on what they wrote. =Bob |
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Post by John, Your Pal on Oct 2, 2009 23:35:26 GMT -5
I'm sorry, but I find it rather ironic that Arther Lee would kick out any band member for using drugs given his problems with addiction. =Bob Yeah like when the Allman Brothers fired Dickey Betts for drinking. Like, WTF? |
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Post by John, Your Pal on Oct 2, 2009 23:43:18 GMT -5
It's always interesting to see who the board members' favorite bands and artists are. List 5, list 10, list however many represent the bands/artists you prefer to listen to most often. Who are your favorites??? Wow. Right now I'm listening to a lot of British Invasion/Mod stuff (Pretty Things, very early Who, etc.) and also early '70's power pop (Big Star, Raspberries, a little Cheap Trick, etc.) All time favorites are hard to lsit. I'll start with the obvious: Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin. Mellow stuff: James Taylor until about 1974. Joni Mitchell until about the same time. America Bread (they've done better stuff than you've heard) Rock: Doobie Brothers until 1977 Chicago from '69-82 Blue Oyster Cult "New" Wave: Elvis Costello until 1982 Msot of the Britpub guys like Nick Lowe Metal: Priest until 1980 and not a moment later Scorpions same Metallica, almsot all of it Ask me again tomorrow and it'll all be different. |
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Post by uwshooter on Oct 3, 2009 9:49:05 GMT -5
Rolling Stones - 64-73
the Who
Allman Bros. (w Duane)
the Animals
Clapton (Cream and Blind Faith)
Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green and Danny Kirwan)
Hendrix (Band of Gypsies)
Grateful Dead (till 1975)
Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Joni Mitchell
Stephen Stills
Bob Marley
Peter Tosh
Neil Young
Lynyrd Skynrd
80's
Pretenders
U2 (Joshua Tree)
UB 40
90s
Pearl Jam (ten)
Stone Temple Pilots
Guns & Roses (Appetite)
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Post by donconca on Oct 19, 2009 14:35:11 GMT -5
I'm sorry, but I find it rather ironic that Arther Lee would kick out any band member for using drugs given his problems with addiction. =Bob Yeah like when the Allman Brothers fired Dickey Betts for drinking. Like, WTF? It comes down to reliability. Almost nobody in rock gives a rat's ass about victimless crimes until there's a victim and it's them. As an example, the long-time pitcher on our slow-pitch softball team was in a duet with a guy he met at UNLV in the early seventies with whom he had the #3 selling album in California in about 1974. The other guy was the son of a member of Duke Ellington's band who introduced his kid to pot and pills since he apparently lived on them for years. Unfortunately, the son's drug of choice became heroin, following which my friend could no longer count on him to be sober enough to perform and that was the end of the duet. Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" campaign was the most naive "war on drugs" slogan in history in that it lumped all illicit substances in the same grab bag. Those who aren't so naive know there is a huge difference in the effect on a user's life of marijuana and heroin, for example. And although most people who drink are able to do so without too much of an affect on their life, there is a percentage who simply can't drink without it upending their life. Dicky Betts presumably fell into the latter category. |
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Post by Mike Rose on Nov 28, 2011 3:06:14 GMT -5
Alright boys, I'm in - although not posting under SleepingGiantsFan here. Don Conca was the original drummer of Arthur Lee's band Love. Don passed away of a heart attack three years ago. If you read anything about the band, you will see Don's surname spelled Conka, with a "k." That's because although Arthur was once a brilliant musician (having penned among other things most of the tunes on what Rolling Stone considers one of the 100 greatest rock albums, "Forever Changes"), he was never the sharpest tool in the shed otherwise and never spelled his long-time friend's name correctly. (Don's father immigrated to the U.S. from Italy and there is no "k" in Italian.) Don and Arthur met at Hollywood High in the mid-sixties, forming a band originally called the Grass Roots, later changed because another group with the same name got a recording contract. Arthur kicked Don out of the band when his drug use became so unmanageable that Don couldn't be counted on any longer. The two had a temporary falling out not because of that, but because Arthur was so concerned about Don that he wrote a great song about him which can be found on any Love best-of collection, "Signed D.C." For several years, Don was like a surrogate father to my oldest son, who similarly loved rock music and himself struggled with addiction. Because I also love rock, I'll be posting here. Perhaps a lot in time. However, right now I'll just say to both of them R.I.P. I'm sorry, but I find it rather ironic that Arther Lee would kick out any band member for using drugs given his problems with addiction. Still, Love was a damn fine band who managed, through their addictions, to come up with some damn good music. I suppose it shouldn't be all that surprising, considering composers. Moussorgsky was a total drunk, but when an artist friend died, Moussorgsky attended a retrospective of his work and came out of his drunken state for 6 weeks and wrote what I consider to be the most incredible piano work of all time - "Pictures At An Exhibition". "Genius" is what it is and quite often addiction had a ton of effect on what they wrote. =Bob |
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Post by Mike Rose on Nov 28, 2011 3:17:04 GMT -5
Heart attack? Certainly not. I knew Don, and especially his daughter Paige. Don committed suicide the night before he was due to go back to jail. He fired up a big speedball in the bathtub and drowned (naturally). Actually, suicide may be too strong a word, but as a lifelong heavy user, he certainly knew better than to do that in a bathtub. He really didn't want to go back to jail, and I think he figured he'd do a nice big blast first, and if he didn't wake up - oh well. . . Rest in peace Don  |
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