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DIGITAL TICKETING COMING TO CANES/PNC

HeyKurtz said:
Y'all need a few hours to spend with Odelay and Guero, arguably two of the best alternative albums of the last 20 years. Beck's new album Morning Phase is pretty damn good, too.

Then again, based on your attitudes toward new technology, maybe you're too old. :thumbup:
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Thanks but no thanks. I'll stick to alternative acts that I actually like. You can feel free to join me seeing Jason Isbell in November ... he's bloody brilliant
 
jeffbear said:
Thanks but no thanks. I'll stick to alternative acts that I actually like. You can feel free to join me seeing Jason Isbell in November ... he's bloody brilliant
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He's absolutely brilliant-- but I view him more Alt country/Folk/Singer Songwriter. His opening act that night-- Stargil Simpson- is very good, too. His voice is like a smooth, aged whiskey.
 
SlapShots said:
He's absolutely brilliant-- but I view him more Alt country/Folk/Singer Songwriter. His opening act that night-- Stargil Simpson- is very good, too. His voice is like a smooth, aged whiskey.
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So ... I'm gonna quote the late great Duke Ellington again. When it comes to music, if it sounds good it is good. No labels.

I believe in one kind of music. The good kind. With allowances for the fact that people like what they like.
 
jeffbear said:
So ... I'm gonna quote the late great Duke Ellington again. When it comes to music, if it sounds good it is good. No labels.

I believe in one kind of music. The good kind. With allowances for the fact that people like what they like.
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Which is exactly what I like about Beck and what was on display last night. The two albums I cited above are fairly straight-forward alternative rock, but the rest of his discography covers a broad array of genres. Last night he had the same band that recorded his 2002 Sea Change album (and which also played on his newest album), much of which can be regarded as folk.

My comment was not implying that everyone should like Beck; I was goofing on those who made comments suggesting they didn't know who he is.
 
jeffbear said:
So ... I'm gonna quote the late great Duke Ellington again. When it comes to music, if it sounds good it is good. No labels.

I believe in one kind of music. The good kind. With allowances for the fact that people like what they like.
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Weren't you the one that called Isbell an alternative act?

Music is such a personal thing-- I often wonder what family and friends will say when they stumble across my CD and album collection when I am dead and gone. I used to have the same thought about my Blockbuster account as well.
 
SlapShots said:
Weren't you the one that called Isbell an alternative act?

Music is such a personal thing-- I often wonder what family and friends will say when they stumble across my CD and album collection when I am dead and gone. I used to have the same thought about my Blockbuster account as well.
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A stranger, looking through my music collection would assume it belonged to several people. I have my favorites, and I have odd things that I just like.

I was telling a good friend of mine, just this morning, that I have twice heard a song on XM, by "Type O Negative" that I really like. And I wonder if that's a sign that I'm going crazy? I've heard OF that band, but never heard any of their music before.
 
Yeah, my music collection ranges so far you'd need an airline ticket to get from one end to the other: hundreds of CD's and 5-600 LP's and maybe 200 cassettes, even 78's & 45's. I have my parents big band 78's. Jazz going back to the 40's & 50's, even later copies of 30's; blues of all types from near forever; recorded operas and opera music going back several hundred years and classical music of many genres, from the 16th century to recent and chants that are even older. Country and I DO have alternative country as well. Classic rock from the 50's to the recent past. But... not lot of rock from this century and I don't exactly know what alternative rock is. Well, I do hear some but I don't know one from another. My stepson plays some god-awful stuff. And I still don't know who Beck is.

My wife plays 90's & 00's on her Sirius car set and I realize why I didn't pay attention then. She also has OD'ed me on Buffett. I have a friend who has the Elvis channel on constantly, I dig El but... Did I ever tell you about going to a party at Graceland? He was very much alive then and a really nice guy.
 
My tastes are weird enough to indicate some sort of psychological disorder. If I like it, I like it ... orchestral, opera, musical theater, choral, big band, brass band, trad band, jazz, 60s pop (pre and post British Invasion), blues, country blues, singer songwriter folk stuff, LOTS of 80s alt stuff, funk, punk, post punk, grunge ... let's face it, like a little bit of pretty much everything except industrial dance and disco. Oh, and classic American songbook stuff. Never really cared for that. One reason I can't stand labels like the ones I've just reeled off is that they don't define sound and taste worth a darn. They only function as a discussion shortcut for me. My son's band is getting shoe-horned by their Indy label as a pop-punk band and they freaking hate it. It's awfully limiting.

That's why I still mourn the loss of the 70s/80s album rock format radio. Deep tracks man ... those are generally where I live.
 
I really like John Coltrane.

I really like Albert King.

I really like the original Fleetwood Mac.

I really like Stevie Ray Vaughan.

I really like Iron Maiden.

I really like Dream Evil.

I really like Dwight Yoakam.

I really like The Reverend Horton Heat.

I really like Dick Dale.

I really like Muse.

See what I mean?
 
jeffbear said:
That's why I still mourn the loss of the 70s/80s album rock format radio. Deep tracks man ... those are generally where I live.
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The Deep Tracks channel on Sirius/XM is a pale imitation of the WNEW-FM in New York that I grew up with.
 
I like the ticket on a phone idea. I just wonder what happens when the phone is dead or crashes or gets lost? Can they look up your name when you get there if your phone has a problem? I've seen people use the phone for a flight but I don't fly very often so I'm not sure how popular it is now.

(yes, I know paper tickets get lost and stolen too)
 
Paulie Walnuts said:
I like the ticket on a phone idea. I just wonder what happens when the phone is dead or crashes or gets lost? Can they look up your name when you get there if your phone has a problem? I've seen people use the phone for a flight but I don't fly very often so I'm not sure how popular it is now.

(yes, I know paper tickets get lost and stolen too)
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Good point about the battery
 
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