The Steel Guitar Forum

What other music do you guys listen to besides
country. I like indie rock, jazz, adult alternative,
folk-rock, beatles and byrds influenced pop, and
classical. Steel guitar sound great in each one of them! -Derek

All of the above, plus blues, Motown, and bluegrass. And yes, you're right - steel guitar sounds great in all of those genres!

I have used steel for chords in traditional Irish music- a bunch on my 1995 Green Linnet CD "Upslide" as well as singer Cathie Ryan's first CD on Seanachie. The old delay+reverb with volume pedal trick- works great for the "celtic mist"!

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My tastes run to instrumental music. Mostly classical guitar ensembles like The Falla guitar trio and the L.A. Guitar Quartet. My current favorite CD is titled "Forrobodo" by quartet from Brazil named "Quaternaglia". Unfortunately the CD is only available in Europe. I frioend from Sweden sent it to me.

Hawaiian Music.

Hey Derek! Nice to see you in here again! I pretty much like it all. Inspiration is a precious and rare thing that can be sometimes found in the most unusual places.
Unfortunately these days when I hear something "new" on the radio, I sometimes find myself liking it just because it doesnt suck.
When if comes to listening to radio in my car, the straight ahead Jazz & Classical stations get the most play. I can't last too long on the NCS ("country") stations...I've tried...Lord knows....also I'm pretty sure there's no Hawaiian stations...even in Hawaii.

Music besides country? Never heard of such a thing.



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HagFan

B3 Bop and Jazz, Classic R&B.

I listen to the latest top 40 stuff, but not by choice, my 13 yr old daughter takes over the radio when we go anywhere. It's either that or put up with her moping for the duration of the drive. I usually get my few minutes of Jimmy Day, Jim Reeves, Buck Owens, etc. with her just to "try" to show her who's boss :>)

During my DJ years two tunes that would always load the dance floor were "Never Been Any Reason" by Head East and "All Right Now" by Free from the "Fire & Water" LP.

i listen to all kinds a stuff as long as it does'nt have that pedestrian beat
(and yes i believe that steel fits in all kinds too)

Believe it or not, I love Alice Cooper, Rush, Thin Lizzy, Aerosmith, Eric Clapton, Pre-Hagar Van Halen, Beatles, Led Zep, Good Rock "N' Roll music. Not to be mistaken with the Rock that they're playing on country stations today.

Robbie Bossert

Hawaiian, Texas Swing, Big Band music, great vocals by Sinatra, Como, McGuire Sisters, etc. and MILITARY BAND MARCHES.

Classical music of all kinds (could never get enough of it). Light opera; especially stars like Luciano Pavorotti and Joan Sutherland.

Hawaiian music (some of it), Cajun (just love it), Dixieland Jazz (hated it as a kid, love it now), Jazz (where the melody can still be heard, IE, not progressive), Pop music like Babara Streisand sings, older type pop like Perry Como, and Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole (one of my ALL time favorties), Doris Day and Patti Page sang, big band sounds of the 30's and 40's.

Sarah Brightman and Charlotte Church singing. I could watch Sarah perform, from here to eternity.

Irish ballads, Waltzes from Vienna, Spanish music like Jerry Byrd plays. Scottish bagpipe type music, (too much gets boring though).

A limited few R & R songs:

1. Hearbreak Hotel

2. Jailhouse Rock

3. Blue Suede Shows

4. Bellamy Bros' famous tune (Can't remember the name).

5. Proud Mary

6. Knock Three Times on the ceiling.

8. I Can See Clearly Now.

9. Margaritaville and the other really famous one by whatshisface? EI, I spent 4 lonely days in a brown LA Haze

10. Hello Mrs Robinson.

12. Amy by the Allman Bros.

Southern type gospel music such as the Blackwood Bros, The Happy Goodmans, the Florida Boys (as Long as I do not have to hear Les Beasely talk ), and the now defunct Hensens (loved them the best of all).

Wow, there may be some I can't think of now, but dats more than enuff!!

carl

Mostly anything. To get right down to it though, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Basie, Ellington -Severnson- did I mention Goodman?? Ella, Dixieland, the Dorseys, and Benny Goodman. Laugh if you will, but I always liked Lawrence Welk. I did mention Goodman didn't I? Bob, Johnny Lee, and Billy Jack Wills, Cooley, Hank Penny, and that cat that played clarinet - oh yeah - Goodman...

Jimmie

Talk radio

<SMALL>9. Margaritaville and the other really famous one by whatshisface? EI, I spent 4 lonely days in a brown LA Haze</SMALL>

Carl, that would be "Come Monday" by Jimmy Buffet.

For me, it's oldies rock when I'm not listening to classic country or Gospel.

Lem

David Wright----YOU GOT IT!!!!

I now have Susan Graham's _French Operetta Arias_ playing. I found _The Merry Widow_ and _L'Elisir D'Amore_ at the library yesterday.

My favorite tango album is _Pasion_ by the Eroica Trio. Recently I also found Beethoven's _The Triple Concerto_ by the Eroica Trio. Nice work

I also have R&B to include Tracie Nelson, Both kinds of music, Bluegrass, and others.

Also recently found at the library: Lloyd Maines _60 Hot Licks_ and Ron Middlebrook's Chord chart for Day tuning.

Sherman

I like country AND western!!

Carl; for the Bellamy Bros tune, that could be "If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me" (or some part of that phrase), or "He's an Old Hippy" (my personal favorite), but you're probably refering to "Let Your Love Flow", mid '70's tune. <FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Ray Minich on 02 April 2004 at 09:22 AM.]</p></FONT>

With 40-50 hours a week at my day job, part-time single father of four kids (10-16), and practicing and playing with three bands, and a girl-friend, I rarely have time to just put on a CD of my choice and listen. On the car radio I usually listen to urban pop, country-pop (only country station available), or the local college station playing alternative and indie stuff (they're big on East-Mountain South right now). I sometimes get to go out to clubs and catch some of whatever's happening, from roots to rock to the symphony. If I do put on a CD it would probably be Delta or Chicago blues, bluegrass, '50s country, Dixieland jazz, classic bebop or cool jazz, Latin jazz, avant garde jazz, opera or classical. My girl-friend likes mellow jazz, and is reacquainting me with Nina Simone, Nat King Cole, etc. And I must say that mood does have its rewards.

I'll listen to most any kind of music. Especially if it's "ground-breaking" instead of "formula-method". My favorites are the traditional or mainstream forms of American music (folk, blues, jazz, country). I generally like avante gard, symphonic and ethnic music forms, too (don't get me started on Tuvan thoat signing). About the only music I don't like or get bored with are the pop/top-40 versions of American music, pop symphonic music and current rap/hip-hop music. Regarding rap, I do like the trend setting aspect of Gil Scott-Heron and The Last Poets even if I didn't agree with their message all the time. Both were way ahead of their time. Gil even used respected jazz musicians such as Ron Carter to back up his rap.

Keep on pickin'!
Glenn<FONT SIZE=1 COLOR="#8e236b"><p align=CENTER>[This message was edited by Glenn Suchan on 02 April 2004 at 12:40 PM.]</p></FONT>

Countrified Blues funk that you find in little out of the way juke joints down south. It's a great alternative for the Brick House kinda crowd, that is if you can find guys hip enough to want to play it.

Amazingly, as a person who prefers playing or writing music, I listen to very little. At work while driving it'd be anywhere from talk radio to oldies from 60s,70s,80s, to some country. At home I never listen to radio and for the past few months the only cd I've given a spin is Lloyd Green's Revisited. Sometimes I listen to tunes posted online by musicians/songwriters.

Django Reinhardt and the following generations of Gypsy Jazz musicians.