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Any of you an old soul?

Discussion in 'The Sound Hound Lounge' started by LTE, May 19, 2011.

  1. May 19, 2011 #1
    LTE

    LTE Member

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    Meaning the other day I'm watching Great Guitars of Jazz (Tal Farlow, Herb Ellis and Charlie Byrd). My wife asks if any are still alive. I tell her no, all have moved to play that gig in the sky. She asks some of my other favorites, I state naming Miles, Cannonball, Coltrane, Montgomery, etc. She asks if they were gone to, I told her just about every one of them.

    She mentions that I am such an old soul.

    Any of you guys here really just favor players that were gone when you were just learning to play?
     
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  2. May 19, 2011 #2
    alguit

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    Yeah, I get this.

    For me, I was grabbed as a late teen by Miles Davis and Skip James, Duke Ellington and The Carter Family...I like new artists too, sometimes, but I still seem to gravitate back further down the roots of our musical tree.
     
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  3. May 19, 2011 #3
    jpervin

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    Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf got me started. Both are long dead, though Muddy was still alive when I started playing guitar in the late '70s.
     
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  4. May 19, 2011 #4
    Glass Onion

    Glass Onion Toneful truth seeker. Gold Supporting Member

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    One said to me. Why do you keep buying Clapton albums they all have the same songs. Yeah but they Are different. No he says yeah I say you just are not really listening. I am 36 and I keep turning friends on to Django. Freddie fender con way twitty and every other old guy from all kinds of genres. Early big ears is a good thing
     
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  5. May 19, 2011 #5
    nmiller

    nmiller Drowning in lap steels Gold Supporting Member

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    I listen to little music recorded after I was born (1984); it's not a conscious choice, just a matter of taste. If you want a detailed review of the solo albums of Graham Nash, I'm your man, but don't ask me who the members of Lady Gaga are.
     
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    phillygtr

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    I see what you did there :aok
     
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  7. May 20, 2011 #7
    KRosser

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    I have no soul....didn't you hear?
     
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  8. May 20, 2011 #8
    splatt

    splatt david torn / splattercell Gold Supporting Member

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    i dunno nuthin' about no old soulyisms,
    but, apparently,
    i am an old fart.

    dt / spltrcl
     
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  9. May 20, 2011 #9
    Gotham City Blues

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    Don't worry. You're not alone. I know scales other than pentatonic minor. I lost my soul a long time ago. :eek:
     
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  10. May 20, 2011 #10
    crzyfngers

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    yup, stax, volt, all that old soul.
     
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  11. May 20, 2011 #11
    RedTiger

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    No offense, but it sounds more like you know about music history and your wife doesn't.

    Seeing as how I learned to play as a teenager in the 90s, yes, all my heroes are either dead guys or guys past their prime.
     
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  12. May 20, 2011 #12
    MartinPiana

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    OP reminded me of some who are still alive and cooking.

    Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, Bucky Pizzarelli, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock....

    For that matter, Buddy Guy is 74....
     
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    LTE

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    Part of that is true, but she didn't start listening to different things until I came along. She was all top 40. When I came along, she told me that jazz was boring (elevator music as she called it), country sucked, and classical was beyond dull.
     
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    Griz

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    I figure i must be an old soul-fart, because I so heavily dig Indian classical music and I'm 56.

    Can a soul fart?

    :dunno

    If so, 'scuse me.
     
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    Lotis

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    I'm old.
     
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    Gotham City Blues

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    ...while you kiss the sky.:roll
     
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    musicofanatic5

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    All the music I play is by dead guys.
     
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  18. May 23, 2011 #18
    LTE

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    What? Zombies! The rapture did happen! We were all left behind!
     
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