The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #48772 Message #735038
Posted By: Kaleea
23-Jun-02 - 01:06 AM
Thread Name: Help! Music overload
Subject: RE: Help! Music overload
Seems the latest thing is listening to the old stuff, and finding the 33 1/3's, & 78's, buying up old record players at "antique" shops! My 31 yr old nephew had me go with him recently to a sale where he found about a ton of records, to pick out some of the 78's I thought would be worth $$. My old music history prof had a mono record player. Yes, Mono. He had the walls covered in his house with records, many were 78's. I was sometimes invited over with another student or 2 (very few ever entered the inner sanctum!) to listen to some of his incredible collection. He had everything from Castrati singing Latin (a giant subject in & of itself!) to the greatest interpretations of the classics by giants like Pablo Cassals & the great Maestro Leopold himself which we may never hear again unless we happen across the old records in ...gulp (I'm not really THAT old!) an antique shop. And yes, I have CD's I don't listen to much. Please! don't shoot me, I find myself listening to my aol radio when I'm online alot. Otherwise I'm out playing Irish & Bluegrass & Traditional American music. What would my Prof think of that you ask? He taught me that Bluegrass had the same roots as Gospel & various genres of jazz, and as far as I'm concerned, teriffic instrumental bluegrass is a form of Jazz! That's my opinion as a musicoligist aka a student of music history who is always learning. And yes, there IS a banjo player in my band! OK, let's get all those banjo jokes out of our system. Not to mention the Bodhran jokes--yes, I play it also!