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15 Feb 2012, 12:46 am

hank williams, sr.



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15 Feb 2012, 10:14 pm

Stargazer43 wrote:
Gustav Mahler by far, although technically he was more composer than musician.


Mahler is my favorite as well, with Jean Sibelius a close second. 8) For pop musicians, I would have to go with Richard Wright from Pink Floyd. I've always loved that raspy speak-singing voice of his, and the simple but instantly memorable keyboard melodies he wrote.



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16 Feb 2012, 12:31 am

Are you ready for this?





















Pete Quaife, the original Kinks bassist.


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16 Feb 2012, 12:57 am

^ :heart: :)


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16 Feb 2012, 2:11 am

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Klaus Nomi. I love his voice; I've never heard anything like it before. He probably would've been really famous if he hadn't died such a sad death just as his career was starting to take off.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKYpepxGkyY[/youtube]

I love Klaus Nomi!



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16 Feb 2012, 4:37 pm

I like Queen, and most of Queen was Freddie Mercury, and he's dead, so him.
And I like Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. He wrote Swan Lake, and I like the story of innocent Odette being corrupted by Odile, the black swan, and then drowing in a lake of tears with her lover prince at midnight.

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16 Feb 2012, 10:00 pm

I don't think anyone has mentioned two of my favorites yet:

John Denver and Dan Fogelberg


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16 Feb 2012, 10:29 pm

goodwitchy wrote:
John Denver

i liked his political commentary, and he did one song i liked, "ya don stomped on my heart [an' ya mashed that sucker flat!]."



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17 Feb 2012, 12:18 am

auntblabby wrote:
goodwitchy wrote:
John Denver

i liked his political commentary, and he did one song i liked, "ya don stomped on my heart [an' ya mashed that sucker flat!]."

wow, that's a nice (slightly obscure) older one :)

auntblabby, I wonder how wonderful your music collection must be 8)



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17 Feb 2012, 5:04 am

goodwitchy wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
goodwitchy wrote:
John Denver

i liked his political commentary, and he did one song i liked, "ya don stomped on my heart [an' ya mashed that sucker flat!]."

wow, that's a nice (slightly obscure) older one :)

auntblabby, I wonder how wonderful your music collection must be 8)

i've been collecting various odds and ends from all sources [phonograph recordings, cassettes, open reels, CDs, DATs, airchecks, mp3s] for the past 40 years or so. i have a room full of these things and at least one hard drive full of music also. my struggle has been to organize this stuff. i made some CDs for some other WPers of stuff of mine they expressed an interest in hearing. one of these CDs has the aforementioned john denver song, that i dubbed off of a mint-condition LP. since i was a teen, i've been listening [where i could] to the dr. demento show as well as a local program here called "music with mosqowitz" [long defunct] where i'd taped all the high points. so i have 3+decades of these airchecks that i'm going through right now.



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17 Feb 2012, 8:50 pm

Definitely the late great Freddy Mercury!



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17 Feb 2012, 9:06 pm

Either Jimi Hendrix or Kurt Cobain



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18 Feb 2012, 7:26 am

Alright, so one of those people in the above post is my favourite...but can you guess which one?



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18 Feb 2012, 8:14 am

Not me, I don't know/remember what type of music you like.


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18 Feb 2012, 8:17 am

Well, there's a picture of three of my CDs and one of them will explain it...



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18 Feb 2012, 8:23 am

So far only saw you holding a Stone Temple Pilots CD...


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