| Author | Message | ||
     Pwnzor |
Many of you likely know that I've got diverse musical tastes. There is no genre of music that I don't find some enjoyment in. That being said, it's a simple thing to observe the musical lines of division between cultures. Something I have enjoyed over the years has been exposing people to musical realms with which they may not have been previously familiar. Likewise, I enjoy trying out new music just to see what's there. Something that's popular these days are "reaction" videos on YouTube. I've been having a lot of fun over the last week watching a couple of different guys who are primarily fans of hip hop, as they listen to heavy metal or progressive rock for the first, second and third times. Here's a couple of guys reacting to YYZ by Rush And this one, AyeJaye is reacting to a Neal Peart drum solo... one of my favorite videos so far. Anyway, that's enough about this... I've just been enjoying the heck out of these two guys and a few others. | ||
| Aesquire |
There's an Aussie voice coach reacting to Disturbed doing their cover of Simon & Garfunkle's Sounds Of Silence........ But in life... I'm delivering down a street in a 'hood the papers would call a war zone. Jamaican gangs had displaced the Puerto Rican ones, and there was daily machine gun fire at it's peak. I'm approaching this house with about a dozen Jamaicans with a blaster the size of a large guitar amp, cranking Reggae, and they see the blue uniform & red beard hit their walkway as Buffalo Soldiers starts up, and turn the volume down in reaction to an "authority figure". I tell them to crank it, that's my favorite Wailers tune. They do, and I drop the mail in the box, pause, light up a cigarette, and stand there, nodding my head as this porch full of dreadlocked BAs just stare at this incredibly white guy grooves on their tunes. Song ends and one of them says "the mailman likes Marley!?!????". I ask them if they know what that song is about, they shake their heads, and I deliver a 3 minute lecture on the 10th Cavalry in Kansas & Texas, how they got their name & the respect they got from the natives they went to war with. "Bunch of Bad A$$3$! Look them up." Then left with " Like Marley? I and I, Mon, I and I. " touched my forehead, and walked off, leaving a bunch of open mouths. I was on that route for four months, same time, every day, like clockwork, and never had an issue. | ||
| Teeps |
Pwnzor, Thanks for YYZ,a Rush song I can get into. I have acknowledged that Rush are exemplar musicians; but I just can't stand Geddy's vocals. This instrumental is gold! Check out Rick Beato's youtube channel. | ||
| 86129squids |
Rush and Aerosmith were my first two concerts as a teen. Rush is easily my first or second favorite band, hard to pin them in places. You all have seen me post up about WDVX, my local radio station here in Knoxvegas. Listener supported, they play a live show every day except Sunday at noon- got them on now, a nice woman is singing and playing piano as I type this. They've turned me onto more great music than I can say. Every night of the week they'll have a different show... Fridays is a blues show, Saturdays is Cajun/Creole, all good stuff. Saturday morning they have an early show a friend of mine does talking about local foods, farms, etc, from 10-11, "Kid Stuff" fun kid's songs, after that from 11-12 a kid named Judah does a killer show called "Judah's Jams", all kinds of vintage funk. If you can stream them, check them out. My people. | ||
| Fireboltwillie |
I find myself watching quite a few of the reaction videos, usually of Tool songs. seriously good modern prog rock band. |
