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JC Edwards wrote:

Oh yeah Chamberlain!! I am a bona-fide DeadHead! :) I followed the Dead from the summer of '84 to the spring of '87 almost non-stop.
60 times is nothing though........I have some old friends that saw them between 200 and 400 times!
I used to have 1200 hours of the Dead on tape......all concerts......the ex made sure I lost those......but now there is a web site that has many of those shows available for download and I have been busy downloading and burning to CD many of them to rebuild my collection.

The Wall was my CD. Over and over in the halls of USNA. I can recite the entire thing. Never get enough Floyd.

YES!!! What an awesome band.

Really great vids based on the art of Roger Dean:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmq7Nq5jHwM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLvEwEmo48Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldk74wA7JhE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS_vJ1W7 ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uf96X0O39E

Mmmmmmmmm, Pure Prairie League. Reminds me so much of my Dad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHWt8qZao4A

I listened to so much stuff and so many genres sheesh. LOL! Sorry JC but I have never been a fan of the Dead, at all.

The bands from my early childhood that totally make me think of Dad and that I still love and loved through all the different stages of my life:

The Eagles
Fleetwood Mac (one of the best ever, so original, so distinct, no one sounded or sounds like them, the epitome of classic. Lindsay Buckingham is one of the best and most overlooked guitarists IMHO)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVZaEUK7Jys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL84jPY829I

Pure Prairie League
And how can I forget, The Marshall Tucker Band, Fire on the Mountain, Can't you See, Heard it in a Love Song. Just great stuff.

Those had to be his big four and I still know like every lyric to every song. Just great classic stuff.

Myself though I went through two stages, first was early high school where I was a huge Floyd and Zeppelin fan. Loved tons of the classic rock stuff, Doors, Cream, Tull, Neil Young, Creedence Clearwater Revival, etc.

Old Man - Neil Young no words can describe..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKOyZjk-R2w

At the core though is The Beatles, grew up listening to them, still listen to them, absolutely the best band EVER. They still sound as relevant and fresh today as they ever did. The White Album, Sgt. Pepper's and Revolver, really pretty much every album just wow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C5vJLtT5gQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bTlZDZOj-8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvV76jDZFyk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh7bzIX3 ... re=related


The Police! Certainly one of the best and one of my all time favorites.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz1mEMiNPHQ

But what I truly loved and which is still the hook of my heart was the punk rock stuff I got into. I lived my high school years in Chicago and was very much involved in the punk scene of the later 80's. I play guitar and played for a few different bands back in the day. There are so many good bands and stuff I still can't help but love and listen too.

Sex Pistols
The Clash
The Ramones
Misfits
Samhain
Minor Threat
Fugazi
Bad Brains
Operation Ivy (best ska band ever, give it a try if you think you can handle it, JC you might really be impressed by some of these bass lines, just wow. Such energy, such passion, I still listen to these guys and can't help but smile and bounce.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AfG8MwTs_E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyvB8Sz8gjY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d32WHZ-2Yus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3RPxcol ... re=related

Social Distortion
Sublime
Screeching Weasel (played with them a couple times and was gonna be the new rhythm guitarist but then the band broke up. Ben Weasel used to hang out with a bunch of us all the time)
and many more local bands in the day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fg2jIzpl1U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_lDKfTAoyQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgupmSvBINg


At that time the whole grunge thing was happening too and I totally LOVED a bunch of bands that came out of that

Boss Hogg
The Melvins
Sound Garden
Monster Magnet
Nirvana! (who I saw, by the way, at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago, one of the best shows I was ever at and I was at a TON)

Janes Addiction
The Cult
Tool - incredible band, just amazing
NIN - I don't care what anyone says, Trent Reznor is one of the most talented artists out there. I LOVE NIN. Seen them a few times too.
Weezer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHPUy-Yfj2Q

Finally what evolved out of all that influence was a love for Indy rock and I truly have a huge soft spot for chick rock. Some of my favorite bands as I got older have been all female bands or female fronted:

PJ Harvey (brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, seen her quite a few times and she is amazing live)
Sleater-Kinney (absolutely loved these girls, one of the best live rock shows I've ever been too and I was at every show of theirs in chicago from about '96 til they broke up)
Fiona Apple
Veruca Salt
Elastica

I'm forgetting tons of course but that's a nice little start as I sit here thinking...
There is always so much out there it's hard to pin down. The 90's certainly produced a bunch of great guitar driven excellent music!

A new discovery of mine lately is Charlotte Hatherley, she's an English artist, guitarist and singer who I've really gotten into. Pretty much unknown over this side of the pond though. She's quite the fine little lass too! Yummy. But now that would be a whole 'nother thread wouldn't it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r59n7MhKxZg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9JIqoFBB-A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVin_npzHgU

Oh I love the Beatles as well PC.......so much so that I not only learned to impersonate all 4 of their voices.....I portrayed John Lennon in a Beatles tribute band called "Magical Mystery Tour" when I was 15.
One time when I was about 18, a local radio station DJ back in Reno put me on air as Paul McCartney because he really thought I was Paul!

Beatles 4 Ever!

PC- Good to see a Weezer fan! Only in Dreams is epic! Just about everything from their first two albums is great, though.

Other than them, a few of my favorite bands:

Red Hot Chili Peppers- Great in their 25th year, still put out great stuff. Been watching some of their live stuff on the youtube, and it's pretty crazy. Caution: Their is some bad hair in the following links. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsgQzVFYHeA,
Blood Sugar Sex Magik http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dusjZRbqn2Y

Beck- Loser http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJN3PGqDRNg
Beastie Boys- Sabotage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sbqIyee ... re=related
CAKE
Dropkick Murphys
Foo Fighters- Learn to Fly (w/ a cameo by Tenacious D!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BieVgyrfglQ
Gorillaz
Led Zeppelin
Moby
Nirvana- In Bloom http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InQWcq8_VPg
Pearl Jam
Smashing Pumpkins- Disarm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQtLoJlQD6E
Soundgarden
Tom Petty
Weird Al- Smells Like Nirvana http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixyTNd-Ln38
Weezer- Say it Ain't So http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU7LZts87Zg
White Stripes- Seven Nation Army http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j7huh5Egew

A pretty varied group. Thank God for the iPod!:lol:

Old Pete

THE BEATLES

My all time favorite - Great bass playing courtesy of Sir Paul (original video clip - shown on Ed Sullivan):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo9LUjjq1VU

Another original promo video (MTV before MTV):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywg-PdeGVL0

Fantastic song and long thought lost video to go with it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGrEZH7j1bQ

Wonderful song from the album "Revolver" ( lyrics inspired by Peter Fonda's near death experience )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ6r7S3_cTE

Since the ACW is one of the common threads with us members here, i'm surprised no one mentioned old Civil War Songs including the marching ones. Years ago at a reenactment suttlers tent, i bought a 'Camp Chase Fife and Drums' cassette. It has some great marching tunes some of which were played during the Gburg movie and the early battle scene in 'The Outlaw Josey Wales'.

Another item on the new game wish list would be to incorporat some of those old tunes as yet one more option maybe. When marching a division down a road to the battlefield the marching tunes could be only heard when zooming in on that division like other ambient sounds. The music would stop when the division's first member's LOS spots the enemy.



http://www.campchasefifesanddrums.com/
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...and some more inspiring fife and drum. Also from Camp Chase Fife and Drum, I believe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgt37Sr37Eo

:woohoo: WOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOO Some mighty fine a'pickin' and a'grinnin'!!!
The Father of Blue Grass - Bill Monroe :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffhqOy_A8KM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kL6TMjsygw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxgj95rKtoc

Now that's some PICKIN'!!:)

Happy Birthday John Lennon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEOkxRLzBf0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m8wvKwHqYM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBJqWpOv1x0