Author Topic: Garage Music (Read 5299 times)

britman · « **on:** January 10, 2020, 11:52:48 AM »

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........

fotoguzzi · « **Reply #1 on:** January 10, 2020, 12:43:09 PM »

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

Mayor_of_BBQ · « **Reply #2 on:** January 10, 2020, 02:48:43 PM »

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=rFa462PofmA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh46SBx21NU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=463XB3JbBjc

Those last two are different versions of the same song

LowRyter · « **Reply #3 on:** January 10, 2020, 02:53:13 PM »

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.

dguzzi · « **Reply #4 on:** January 10, 2020, 03:41:33 PM »

Britman, let us know if there is something you are looking for....you never know!!

john fish · « **Reply #5 on:** January 10, 2020, 04:46:19 PM »

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.

rjamesohio · « **Reply #6 on:** January 10, 2020, 05:12:15 PM »

Quote from: LowRyter on January 10, 2020, 02:53:13 PM

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!

Lannis · « **Reply #7 on:** January 10, 2020, 05:45:58 PM »

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

LowRyter · « **Reply #8 on:** January 10, 2020, 07:56:23 PM »

Quote from: rjamesohio on January 10, 2020, 05:12:15 PM

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.

twowheeladdict · « **Reply #9 on:** January 10, 2020, 08:48:18 PM »

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.

GeorgiaGuzzi · « **Reply #10 on:** January 10, 2020, 09:41:48 PM »

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!

JukeboxGothic · « **Reply #11 on:** January 11, 2020, 03:27:57 AM »

Merzbow, Plasma Birds. Relaxes the parts other music cant reach.

LowRyter · « **Reply #12 on:** January 11, 2020, 11:23:05 AM »

Quote from: JukeboxGothic on January 11, 2020, 03:27:57 AM

Merzbow, Plasma Birds. Relaxes the parts other music cant reach.

The Dead

"Drums" and "Space"

tcunnien · « **Reply #13 on:** January 11, 2020, 06:06:40 PM »

Leon Redbone

drbone641 · « **Reply #14 on:** January 11, 2020, 10:40:11 PM »

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.

larrys · « **Reply #15 on:** January 12, 2020, 08:02:14 AM »

CT College radio station on an old tuner with a couple of old Panasonic speakers. Different genre of music every three hours.
Larry

LowRyter · « **Reply #16 on:** January 12, 2020, 10:47:57 AM »

Quote from: larrys on January 12, 2020, 08:02:14 AM

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

flower_king001 · « **Reply #17 on:** January 12, 2020, 10:51:39 AM »

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

LowRyter · « **Reply #18 on:** January 12, 2020, 10:54:53 AM »

Quote from: flower_king001 on January 12, 2020, 10:51:39 AM

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.

ozarquebus · « **Reply #19 on:** January 12, 2020, 01:56:14 PM »

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.

Tom · « **Reply #20 on:** January 12, 2020, 02:39:41 PM »

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.

ozarquebus · « **Reply #21 on:** January 12, 2020, 08:02:48 PM »

Mostly flea market casettes. Tangerine Dream, Weather Report, WHAM. Village Vanguard, Ray Charles.

Guzzistajohn · « **Reply #22 on:** January 13, 2020, 06:14:16 AM »

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.

BrotherJim · « **Reply #23 on:** January 13, 2020, 12:11:03 PM »

Quote from: Lannis on January 10, 2020, 05:45:58 PM

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.

Dilliw · « **Reply #24 on:** January 13, 2020, 12:33:24 PM »

Quote from: Lannis on January 10, 2020, 05:45:58 PM

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...

Dilliw · « **Reply #25 on:** January 13, 2020, 12:37:03 PM »

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.

ozarquebus · « **Reply #26 on:** January 13, 2020, 09:21:27 PM »

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.

GeorgiaGuzzi · « **Reply #27 on:** January 14, 2020, 04:39:54 AM »

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.

kirb · « **Reply #28 on:** January 14, 2020, 07:35:30 AM »

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?

BrotherJim · « **Reply #29 on:** January 14, 2020, 09:58:07 AM »

+1 on Bluetooth connectivity.

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Author Topic: Garage Music (Read 5299 times)

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