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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: britman on January 10, 2020, 11:52:48 AM
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I would venture a guess I have one of most eclectic tastes in music out there. My garage CD collection consists of everything from Ralph Stanley to AC/DC with everything in between "ie' I have every CD the Chieftains have ever produced and probably every Rolling Stone cut they ever made.
I was in Wally World a couple of days ago and happened to check out their huge CD selection, about a 1/3 of a shelve, I can remember when it used to take up half of the audio section, (yes I know I am old and set in my ways.) I found a 3 disc set simply titled Classical Music for a grand total of five bucks. I have just about wore the set out while trying to wrap up some final details on my latest project. I find it truly relaxing while spinning wrenches. A number of the tracks are recognizable, having heard them as background music in elevators and Bugs Bunny Cartoons. (I will have to admit the Wedding March does tend to scare me a bit.) For five bucks I have found my happy place with a Zen moment thrown in for good measure........
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You should try the relaxing music of Sun Ra .. his band still lived 20 years after he passed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1ToFXHW5pg
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Aw man I thought this was a thread about garage rock, my favorite genre!
Here's some Garage Rock that perfect for listening to in the garage!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsUk-Q3wpuY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsUk-Q3wpuY)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFa462PofmA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFa462PofmA)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh46SBx21NU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh46SBx21NU)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=463XB3JbBjc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=463XB3JbBjc)
Those last two are different versions of the same song
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So far as "classical" favorites, I am quite fond of Beethoven's 7th.
So far as garage sound, a large bluetooth speaker + my phone work quite well.
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Britman, let us know if there is something you are looking for....you never know!!
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Dvorak's New World Symphony. IIRC, Charles Dutoit and the Montreal Symphony did a great version.
If you're thinking eclectic, follow it with Tom Waits and Charles Mingus.
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So far as "classical" favorites, I am quite fond of Beethoven's 7th.
So far as garage sound, a large bluetooth speaker + my phone work quite well.
Too bad we don’t have a “like” button. I like 6 and 9!
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Speaking of garage music, my old garage stereo system has just quit a few weeks ago. I have a turntable that works for my records, and Fay has an iPod with lots of her music on it, and I have a suitable pair of speakers, but I need something that I can plug it all into, and that also plays cassettes and CDs.
I could go down to "Best Buy" and ask, but bless their hearts, those young folks turn funny colors when I mention cassettes and turntables.
If anyone here hasn't got anything better to do (well, you know what I mean), is there something I can get at a gadget store or on Amazon that will act like an amplifier/FM receiver for those components, and to which I can hook my speakers? The ones I see all look like they already come with things I already have, or they're for stereo experts and cost big bucks. I'm looking for a $200 thing at most ....
Thanks!
Lannis
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Too bad we don’t have a “like” button. I like 6 and 9!
Everyone likes 9th.
7th is special to me. But I'll have to pull out a 6th and take a listen.
And I didn't mention the 3rd.
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I have 32 Gigs of MP3s. I have them on hard drives, thumb drives, sd cards, etc. Oh, and I do have a Nano that I got because of a bike that had the hook up for one. Not an Apple fan though.
Lately I've been streaming music. Pick a band I know and let pandora or google play stream similar artists.
I use computer speakers with subwoofer in my shop and in my home office.
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Lannis, find a local vinyl record shop and ask them. I have some friends that own a record shop here in Carrollton Georgia and they are super knowledgeable about tech such as that. If I get by there I’ll ask, but my memory is on par with Dory from finding Nemo!
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Merzbow, Plasma Birds. Relaxes the parts other music cant reach.
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Merzbow, Plasma Birds. Relaxes the parts other music cant reach.
The Dead
"Drums" and "Space"
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Leon Redbone
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A few years back, I had downloaded Rolling Stones Top 500 albums. I let my buddy copy it. He called me a couple of weeks later and asked me how much storage I had. -300 gigs- not enough. Bought a terabyte drive and he downloaded the entire library of some Kansas City rock station. All of the Elmer Fudd abadiabadi segue stuff sound effects etc. We call it the database lol.
But the garage gets a lot of Dead, Cockburn and Miles Davis.
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CT College radio station on an old tuner with a couple of old Panasonic speakers. Different genre of music every three hours.
Larry
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CT College radio station on an old tuner with a couple of old Panasonic speakers. Different genre of music every three hours.
Larry
I am impressed with Community Radio when I travel. All over Colorado, Kansas City has an excellent station. Houston (Pacifica) and Dallas too. Nothing like hearing Country Swing, going to Blues to Jazz to Bebop to Classic Rock to The Dead to Classic Country to Blue Grass and back. Great stuff for me.
Not much where I live. A local community station with a 10 mile range plays smooth jazz (bordering on muzak) and public radio NPR megastation from Okla State Univ turns the evening over to an Okla City outfit known as the Spy (which is hard to describe and not always easy on the ears). The Okla U NPR does local weekend Blues and Saturday night International Jazz and the NPR evening music. The Central Univ plays all Classical all the time. The local commercial crap is sports talk, right wing talk, preachers, commercial country, top 40, urban, and worn out classic rock.
Given that, I wish we had community radio here. Not a low watt college station or another NPR station with some part time local music show but a real local station with some local music, all the music we can't get elsewhere, enthusiastic hosts, and unafraid of expressing points of view.
rant over
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Lot's of Dead, Coltrane, Miles and Zappa but lately I've been absorbed with Coryell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmowaGAQI9Q&list=PLStWRt_SEQpvDzYn17rERnwQza5a4YAFk
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Lot's of Dead, Coltrane, Miles and Zappa but lately I've been absorbed with Coryell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmowaGAQI9Q&list=PLStWRt_SEQpvDzYn17rERnwQza5a4YAFk
Coryell? Now I'll have to get out some vinyl with Correa, Stanley Clarke, Mahavishnu, etc.
Another reason we need community radio.
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I like to listen to stuff outside my comfort zone on mismatched and damaged speakers when working in the garage. Music I can't stand to listen otherwise doesn't seem so bad when concentrating on a technical task. Music so bad it distracts me from cussing at stubborn bolts and milslaid tools.
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I use a beat up radio in the carport. Tuned to mostly local oldie station. When they play the same songs again for the 3rd time I switch to the local country station then Hawaiian.
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Mostly flea market casettes. Tangerine Dream, Weather Report, WHAM. Village Vanguard, Ray Charles.
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I listen to music podcasts mostly. Blues moose, dead radio, and some rockabilly thing I can’t remember the name of now. I also stream fm 103.3 springfield. I get a big variety of stuff new to me and no commercials.
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If anyone here hasn't got anything better to do (well, you know what I mean), is there something I can get at a gadget store or on Amazon that will act like an amplifier/FM receiver for those components, and to which I can hook my speakers? The ones I see all look like they already come with things I already have, or they're for stereo experts and cost big bucks. I'm looking for a $200 thing at most ....
Thanks!
Lannis
Maybe try a pawn shop. I have what I believe to be a more than satisfactory secondhand stereo setup out in the garage. Folks around here bring me all of their old electronic junk for some reason. :grin:
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Speaking of garage music, my old garage stereo system has just quit a few weeks ago. I have a turntable that works for my records, and Fay has an iPod with lots of her music on it, and I have a suitable pair of speakers, but I need something that I can plug it all into, and that also plays cassettes and CDs.
I could go down to "Best Buy" and ask, but bless their hearts, those young folks turn funny colors when I mention cassettes and turntables.
If anyone here hasn't got anything better to do (well, you know what I mean), is there something I can get at a gadget store or on Amazon that will act like an amplifier/FM receiver for those components, and to which I can hook my speakers? The ones I see all look like they already come with things I already have, or they're for stereo experts and cost big bucks. I'm looking for a $200 thing at most ....
Thanks!
Lannis
So I've done two systems lately for this sort of thing.
For my daughter's turntable I used an SMSL AD-18 ($140) connected to a pair of Dayton 6 1/2 Air speakers ($40). The SMSL also supports BT 4.2
For my garage Sams was clearancing a Honeywell LED shop light with Blutooth speakers ($30). It works o.k.
The cool thing about modern Class D amps is they are extremely efficient so you can just leave them on...
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As for music, a garage setting was made for streaming IMO. No need for critical listening, unlimited choices and for background quality is just fine. I stream from Amazon, I Heart, and from a Vermont alternative radio station that we listened to up in Schenectady.
Joe Rogan podcasts are also cool to listen to when you are piddling.
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Digital muzak hertz my earballs. I downloaded 3 GB in the heady days before 9/11 when sharing was wide open with Napster etc. I would now rather listen to old refurbished cassettes at 50c a whack, Jack.
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I stream pandora mostly. I have several stations set up. Gov’t Mule, Pink Floyd, Kings of Leon when wrenching is going well. Five finger death punch, Atreyu, Korn, Rage against the machine when wrenching is not going well.
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I have a garage shop for motorcycles and basement shop for reloading and pinball restoration. The garage shop had a 70's marantz until 1 channel went dead (need to fix that) so I just replaced it with a $100 modern 100W/ch Yamaha receiver with bluetooth. No more flaky channels, no more scratchy volume. Sometimes new is just better. Still running speakers I rebuilt years ago. I keep all my music on my phone, so no messing with CDs or the like. I have a garage computer hooked up if I need to stream music, but I rarely do.
The basement has a vintage 70's hitachi receiver that just works. I plug an older ipod into it and just leave that setup there. The joy of keeping 70's electronics alive has become more of a chore.
For those looking for a cheap amplifier that you can plug anything into... parts-express.com has a bunch of small 30-200W amps ranging $30-$100 that are perfect for the garage.
ebay for cheap old audio (tape deck, turn table, or even CD player)
Anyone need a JVC 200 disc CD changer?
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+1 on Bluetooth connectivity.
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When I’m in the garage I listen to a lot of buddy rich
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Speaking of garage music, my old garage stereo system has just quit a few weeks ago. I have a turntable that works for my records, and Fay has an iPod with lots of her music on it, and I have a suitable pair of speakers, but I need something that I can plug it all into, and that also plays cassettes and CDs.
I could go down to "Best Buy" and ask, but bless their hearts, those young folks turn funny colors when I mention cassettes and turntables.
If anyone here hasn't got anything better to do (well, you know what I mean), is there something I can get at a gadget store or on Amazon that will act like an amplifier/FM receiver for those components, and to which I can hook my speakers? The ones I see all look like they already come with things I already have, or they're for stereo experts and cost big bucks. I'm looking for a $200 thing at most ....
Thanks!
Lannis
I scored a beautiful old school Marantz and Dennon Receiver at a yard sale a few years ago, $50. Facebook marketplace is also a good option.
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Speaking of garage music, my old garage stereo system has just quit a few weeks ago. I have a turntable that works for my records, and Fay has an iPod with lots of her music on it, and I have a suitable pair of speakers, but I need something that I can plug it all into, and that also plays cassettes and CDs.
I could go down to "Best Buy" and ask, but bless their hearts, those young folks turn funny colors when I mention cassettes and turntables.
If anyone here hasn't got anything better to do (well, you know what I mean), is there something I can get at a gadget store or on Amazon that will act like an amplifier/FM receiver for those components, and to which I can hook my speakers? The ones I see all look like they already come with things I already have, or they're for stereo experts and cost big bucks. I'm looking for a $200 thing at most ....
Thanks!
Lannis
To plug everything into, you just need a stereo receiver, not even an AV one. They are $40-$100 all day long on Facebook, Goodwill, and thrift stores. You can plug iPod, MP3 player into one easy. Lots of people talk about streaming not, for me. I've got 4-500GB and growing of music on hard drive. So I built a headless mini-PC that hooks to my 1980s vintage Onkyo receiver. I control the whole thing with my tablet or phone. Long term goal is to have it look like a piece of stereo equipment. Right now in proof of concept phase. So far so good.
-AJ
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http://ca2.rcast.net/radio/60769/. Click for blues 24-7 no commercials. Broadcast from a dudes basement in SGF Mo.
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It's hard to pin down a favorite. I have a hundred or two stations of streaming music from online services and about 800gb on a 1tb harddrive of mp3's, range is far and wide however usually music of the last 20 years is not as prevalent. I also listen to podcasts when I remember to, typically the Jocko Podcast, Meateater, Joe Rogan. Most of my go to music is gonna be old bluegrass though now that I think about it.
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Garage Music. :cool: :cool:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4ABpbxIPFI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4ABpbxIPFI)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeuNckmt7h8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeuNckmt7h8)
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KSHE 94.7 St. Louis
https://www.kshe95.com/ (https://www.kshe95.com/)
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Garage Music. :cool: :cool:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4ABpbxIPFI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4ABpbxIPFI)
It's catchy, but feels artificial. I'd rather listen to the originals that were copied for that song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzziLiALsug
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X70VMrH3yBg
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To plug everything into, you just need a stereo receiver, not even an AV one. They are $40-$100 all day long on Facebook, Goodwill, and thrift stores. You can plug iPod, MP3 player into one easy. Lots of people talk about streaming not, for me. I've got 4-500GB and growing of music on hard drive. So I built a headless mini-PC that hooks to my 1980s vintage Onkyo receiver. I control the whole thing with my tablet or phone. Long term goal is to have it look like a piece of stereo equipment. Right now in proof of concept phase. So far so good.
-AJ
Thanks! I'm lookin' !
Lannis
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talk radio :smiley:
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KSHE 94.7 St. Louis
https://www.kshe95.com/ (https://www.kshe95.com/)
Oh yeah, my time in St Louis. The "U Man" still on?
I once got a T-Shirt from the "Feats at Five" show.
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talk radio :smiley:
NPR, all day, all the time.
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http://ca2.rcast.net/radio/60769/. Click for blues 24-7 no commercials. Broadcast from a dudes basement in SGF Mo.
+1 :thumb: for KWPQ!! Best stream for the garage IMHO.
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Oh yeah, my time in St Louis.
The "U Man" still on?
I once got a T-Shirt from the "Feats at Five" show.
Yep. More than 40 years.
:thumb:
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Yep. More than 40 years.
:thumb:
Last I was at a Cards game was 5 years ago. I don't remember if he's still the announcer.