OT: Play That Funky Music:

I love music but cannot sing worth a crap.  My grandson and I are going to take piano lessons together.  I cannot wait.  I'm like you with music playing an important part in my life and my memories.  When I hear CCR, I remember my first kiss.  Bridge over Troubled Water has been redone by Simon and it is wonderful.  It's funny how when I'm listening to a really good song, my legs just wanna do that happy dance. Music does calm the savage beast. LOL

Music plays a big part in my life. My iPod has over 7985 songs on it....all styles, all groups...
I am in a Santana and Boyzone phase right now, Queen will always be my heros...love that Freddy Mercury...

I play piano, have had about 16-17 years of classical lessons.. I think that is part of my wanting to get my life back and the issues my mom is going thru done so she can get on with hers....i wasn't to play my music....loud.....and dance around the house.....dance nekid in the back yard.......

yep, it's my life...

Even though we were dirt poor, Mama made sure we had our hi-fi and our little radios and plenty of vinyls.  We watched Lawence Welk,and Ed Sullivan, and Liberace, I know I speeled that wrong.  Every variety show that came on, we watched. So, to say music plays an important part of my life is an understatement.  My older sisters would put the hi-fi on the porch, run an extension, and play rock and roll and all the girls and boys from the neighborhood would dance in our front yard. I shagged before I could even walk good. LOL. 

Now, it's me, my grands, and our music.  My iPod doesn't have that many songs, but not because I don't have the space.  I got the fully loaded one and fully intend to fill it with music and books, but I am an on again off again downloader.  I go through spurts of looking for music. My girls, older women like myself, and I have downloading parties. LOL. We either go to the music store on line or use cds, or share each others files. 

 

98% of mine are from my cd's. I am hoping someday to be rich and famous and ge one of the machines I can play my vinyl and convert to  cd/mp3.

I have a couple movies on it also.

My friends and I who meet for our music download parties and I share our CDS.  That's how I ended up with so many albums of people I normally wouldn't listen to but have found that they are pretty good. 

I have books on mine that I listen to when I am driving long distances and hubby doesn't want to hear or when I fly. 

 

yep, I have some books also....what technology eh?

i have thoroughly enjoyed this thread and wish i had time to post-oh music...i don't have enough of it in my life right now
and i am MP3 and Ipod stupid as well.....

thanx all for this wonderful thread!!!!!!! maybe i can come back later after work and comment....

Margo,

I, too, was iPod stupid but when I bought it, I had some of my friends, younger ones, from the univeristy come over and they taught me how to sync, how to shuffle, and how to download music.  It's great.  Now, my older gals and I have downloading parties. LOL.  Get you a music piece.  They are great.

Ahhh, Jeannie, this topic truly strikes a chord in my heart.....yes, pun intended!

I was a band geek in high school, played everything I could get my hands on; clarinet, tenor sax, bassoon. Earned a music scholarship to San Diego State, but stupidly married a man who wouldn't "let" me go to college because there were men there....gee, go figure. Well, by the time I came to my senses and got rid of him, my scholarship went away too. So, with reality setting in that I had to support myself, college and my musical aspirations got put on the shelf.
Gary bought me a clarinet for Christmas one year and I cried my eyes out when I opened it. He was surprised that he got a bigger reaction from that than the diamonds he had bought me in years past. He didn't realize that he had given music back to me, and it's never left. I've played in community bands in San Diego and here in AR, and in the wind ensemble at UALR, where my son was a music theory/composition major. My biggest thrill was being in the ensemble and playing a piece that he composed!

When I walk my iPod has....what else?  Marches!!!  The tempo is perfect, keeps me at a steady and reasonable pace, and brings back great memories too (marching the Rose Parade on 1/1/1970). I also have the Monkees, Simon and Garfunkle, Billy Joel and lots of 60's and 70's, as well as some terrific classical pieces.

Thanks for another great topic!

How cool that you still play your instrument.  I played the French horn.  Grandson and I are going to take piano lessons together. 

I love my iPod and have it charging now to take with me to school so when I make those long walks to and from the building where I teach and to and from the library, I can listen to a littel Joplin. 

Before the iPod, I carried one of those CD players around and it was lovely but skipped a lot.  Plus, I had to carry the disk with me and it was just cumberson. Now, I clip my iPod to my belt and off I go. LOL.