Listening to The Dubliners, The Clancy Brothers and Dropkick Murphy. Tried to listen to the Pogues but that sounds too much like drunk men and who can't sing trying to sing anyway.
@motie2 I think currently there are only two places on the web that still have samples of my music available and that's MySpace and Soundclick. I haven't been on either for so long I've actually forgotten my passwords so I can't update them with different tunes. One day I'm going to have to simply upload my entire catalog to YouTube since I'm no longer really marketing the stuff anyway. There was a point in time where I was doing really well. Nothing to really make a career of it and retire ... but I had checks coming in regularly from around the globe. Progressive rock is a really specialized genre that appealed to people mainly during the 70s and 80s' (bands like Genesis, YES, King Crimson, Camel, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Moody Blues) ... then had a bit of a resurgence with neo-prog bands in the 90s' (IQ, Pallas, Marillion, Pendragon, Porcupine Tree, The Flower Kings, Dream Theater, Spock's Beard, RPWL) ... but for the most part it's the foreign market where I had my most success. Places like Italy, Germany, Sweden, Japan, and of course Great Britain. Believe it or not I had a regular customer from Israel. I think the postman thought I was an international drug dealer because I'd have packages going to so many different countries when I'd make a trip to the post office to send out packages. I barely made a dent in the US market although I did get several really positive reviews. Of course you can't buy the baby new shoes with a good review. (LOL)
Today in honor of Saint Patrick's Day I'm playing some Celtic music from two of my favorite bands of the genre ... Planxty ... who play traditional Irish folk music, and Clannad ... an excellent vocal group that mixes Celtic, new age, and pop.
@motie2 Love the band Horslips. I have three of their CDs "Book Of Invasions: A Celtic Symphony", "The Train", and "Short Stories/Tall Tales". Another similar Irish progressive band is Fruup ... a sort of early Genesis light. I have two from them "Future Legends" and "Seven Secrets". Glad you brought up Horslips, been a long while since I listened to them, and today's the perfect day to dig back in the shelves and locate the discs.
Ever since I was a kid there is something about Saturday Nights and watching old black & white horror or cheesy 50s' 'B' sci-fi films that is ingrained into my DNA. It stared in 1957 with the Chicagoland version of Shock Theater hosted by Marvin as time progressed Chicago area had shows like Creature Features and Thrillerama, in the 60s' & 70s' and Svengoolie at present. So with my library of DVD I always devote Saturday nights to old monster movies. But throughout the day today I found myself listening to compilation albums and soundtracks from old sci-fi flicks while smoking in the garage. And it proved to be perfect music to smoke my pipe to. Got the imagination shifting into over-drive.
@ghostsofpompeii As a huge fan of MST3K, I've developed a fondness for the old B-movies of the 50's and 60's. Never thought to listen to their soundtracks, but after thinking about it, these movies did have great music.
Currently listening to one of my all time favorite American rock and roll albums - "Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus" by Spirit. That albums has some really great tunes : "Nature's Way", "Love Has Found A Way", "Mr. Skin", and "When I Touch You" are just a few. Not a weak track on the album.
@Woodsman Speaking of 'Night On Bare Mountain' there is an excellent American progressive rock band from New Jersey who produced their version of 'Night On Bare Mountain' back in 1975. The album became something of a symphonic rock legend and a highly sought after LP by collectors of the genre. And after forty years of legal wrangling (the album was originally released by the defunct Passport label which went under in 1988 - making acquiring the rights to re-release the album on CD a tangled maze) the CD was finally released on CD in 2014. A true classic. If you're also a rock fan as well as classical you might find their rendition pretty interesting. Most people associate prog/rock artists of the 70s' with British bands like YES, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Genesis, King Crimson, The Moody Blues, Jethro Tull, or Pink Floyd ... but America had quite a few - and this is considered a classic example of one of the best of that era. Listening to it as I write this. Great pipe smoking music.
I generally just sit in peace at night. If I do listen to music it's usually oldies me and my dad would listen to like creedence Clearwater, Steppen Wolf, Steve Miller Band etc.
Ghost, I went out and found a Quad DVDA version, it's 2 Gb FLAC with a single seeder so it's going to take some time to wrangle in. I'll tell you what I think. Thanks for the info.
Thanks xDutchx I smoke late at night out on the porch with the leaves off the trees I can see the rolling light show of the trucks out on I 287. "Rambling Fever" shows a lot of those lit up trucks very well.
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Ever since I was a kid there is something about Saturday Nights and watching old black & white horror or cheesy 50s' 'B' sci-fi films that is ingrained into my DNA. It stared in 1957 with the Chicagoland version of Shock Theater hosted by Marvin as time progressed Chicago area had shows like Creature Features and Thrillerama, in the 60s' & 70s' and Svengoolie at present. So with my library of DVD I always devote Saturday nights to old monster movies. But throughout the day today I found myself listening to compilation albums and soundtracks from old sci-fi flicks while smoking in the garage. And it proved to be perfect music to smoke my pipe to. Got the imagination shifting into over-drive.
Isao Tomita did a great job with Debussy in his "Snowflakes are Dancing" album.
Oldfield is a genius.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9X-cgihXqQ
@motie2, here's a live version from 65......
Woops.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0aHmMfZTEw
Almost forgot The Doors version.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPv12pjykVk
@Woodsman Speaking of 'Night On Bare Mountain' there is an excellent American progressive rock band from New Jersey who produced their version of 'Night On Bare Mountain' back in 1975. The album became something of a symphonic rock legend and a highly sought after LP by collectors of the genre. And after forty years of legal wrangling (the album was originally released by the defunct Passport label which went under in 1988 - making acquiring the rights to re-release the album on CD a tangled maze) the CD was finally released on CD in 2014. A true classic. If you're also a rock fan as well as classical you might find their rendition pretty interesting. Most people associate prog/rock artists of the 70s' with British bands like YES, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Genesis, King Crimson, The Moody Blues, Jethro Tull, or Pink Floyd ... but America had quite a few - and this is considered a classic example of one of the best of that era. Listening to it as I write this. Great pipe smoking music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkdoDicNmUI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIVe-rZBcm4
"The Pines / Fountains of Rome" series of Tone Poems by Respighi.
@Woodsman, glad you enjoyed that one!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5CSsF0bLB0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBseZ6y7hDQ