Talk Morgan Forums Community Vehicle Talk (non-Morgan) About Music...

How important is music to you? For me cars and music are close, very close.

I'm sitting listening to music that takes me right back to my room at 144 Coverts Road Claygate, where I grew up and made many wonderful discoveries between 1964 and 1974, when I left home. It's almost like time travel. How so? Well, I've just received a newly released triple LP of the Moodie Blues live recordings made by the BBC between 1976 and 1970.

The quality is amazingly good, given that the recordings were made on analogue tape almost 50 years ago. The performances are obviously different to the studio productions, given they were performed live. But they are enthralling.

My old LPs are clearly worn, or perhaps not pressed as well as modern discs. . The new pressings, on heavy new vinyl, and in blue and yellow..very late 60s.. sound far, far better. Or my HiFi system is just a bit better than the one I had back then....!!

What is also amazing is that I know all the words....

I buy my LPs mostly from this site...

https://thesoundofvinyl.com/

Over the last year or so I find I'm listening mainly to Vinyl LPs or streamed music. The CD's are little used.

Also music reminds me of not only people, but places and car journeys.

So, what is music to you?

Music is very important to me bringing back memories - Bridget St. John saw me over my first broken heart, For Emily wherever I may find her by S&G dating my now wife of 45 years and Mozart Requiem transports me to Florence and singing it in a beautiful church with a German youth orchestra.
Having spent my working life with Deaf people makes me appreciate even more the rich tapestry (Carole King?) which music weaves.

Music is important for both my wife and I, both in terms of listening as well as performing. our focus is definitely on classical music. It is also very much a journey, in discovering and starting to appreciate composers and repertoire.
My wife is an excellent pianist, she encouraged me to pick up singing more seriously. So since 2003 I started to take voice lessons. Practicing of new pieces, is a very nice activity as we both need to work hard. Mostly I sing German songs, Schubert, Schumann and currently busy working on Beethoven songs. We have club of about 20 and we take turns to host a chamber concert about 5x a year. This very much makes that one practices!
We visit the Amsterdam concert hall very regularly.
I don’t know much about pop, rock music.
Have adopted modern ways of listening to music and have no record player anymore...
Also in terms of music performance I typically prefer musicians to use state of the art tools rather than use the tools from the days the music was composed.
I am used to the fact that classical music is looked at as something as a niche and strange. Nevertheless, wanted to share my story. Thanks for asking Peter.

When I was 19 I was a roadie for Level 42 as well as spending most of my spare time going to parties as a DJ.

We try and attend two or three concerts every year as mini-breaks. This year was Tears for Fears and it was fantastic. They still have their voices and the timing and energy on stage was pretty amazing.

I have an amp and speakers in my office and use background music to help set my mood for different tasks. Dance and D&B for getting things done quickly. Laid back music for more serious or creative work. I tend to let Apple Music suggest things and then find new stuff where possible.

I don't drive without some music playing. I do have to make certain i don't play the fast stuff when driving though.

I don't tend to be as fussy about the quality anymore. I was very serious about HiFi and even worked in a a HiFi shop as a weekend boy many years back. I don't get the time to appreciate the quality so much now. My ears are definitely not as good as they were.

Peter and all who are interested in this I feel that this thread is of very deep relevance to you. That immediately hit a nerve. Of course I can talk about guitars or sound reproduction or different music. But I suspect here it is about the intimate connection of life communication, feeling and the embodiment of time perception. Also about drama, stories out of sound, the captured moment of experience in the flow of time, the beauty of sound worlds and much more.

Perhaps music when it touches us is the most immediate manifestation of a divine message, transcendence. No matter if someone gets goosebumps with Jimmy Hendrix, reverence with Bach on a (real) Silbermann organ in a church or the feeling of a space flight with Herbie Hancock and the headhunters of the 70s e.g. with "Butterfly".

There are so many memories, I love all kinds of music when it touches me. Life music I've heard I won't forget most of the time, from Woody Shaw in a club to Weather report on big stage to Gidon Kremer or Murray Perahia in a concert hall.
And also the memories of the youth. I was also stage hand in the 80s in a local crew that was booked on international tours in our area. After the sound check I played soccer with Deep Purple in the sports hall or on other occasion I prepared the catering for John Mclaughlin and Paco de Lucia in a club. At that time it was a temporary job and today it is an invaluable memory.

Listening to music and being able to play a little bit is for me a great gift in this life in this world.

Bert, what you say is very captivating and it sounds like a very serious and focused approach to the good and true in music. You and your wife will certainly have a lot of pleasure making music and working on the compositions.

I don't actually listen to much recorded music, but when I do I'm quite happy with pretty basic equipment, my ears just don't have the sensitivity they used to.

But generally I much prefer going to see live musicians (mainly at my local pub, but I do go down to Bristol for the odd gig) and playing guitar, either on my own or with pals.

Making music with friends is about the best fun you can have and I'm very pleased to read of Bert's experiences - although the music that we make is very different, the joy is the same!

Not having television I always have music in the background to drown out the Tinnitus except in the Morgan of course where I can't hear it anyway

I have transferred just about all my collection to the laptop and backed up to external drives. So far just cd’s and downloaded music. I am considering looking for a cassette to digital conversion as I have a lot of cassettes. Same for the vinyl collection.
The cassettes were a regular in the car either commuting or on returning home in the early hours after a fishing session. I also have a small ipod that is handy for playlists and plugging into the car system.
We go to gigs but selectively. Last one was Status Quo (again).
Last week I played a bit of classical off the laptop. Four Seasons by Vivaldi. A good backdrop to the book I was reading about F1.

Music is important to me. I carry music on my phone & ipod.
Certain tunes remind me of certain times / places / events.

Great question. I love music, and couldn't enjoy a day without at least some time set aside to really listen to some music - usually late evening, when the family have gone to bed.

Tastes range from classical to punk (both UK first-wave and US second-wave) to blues, rockabilly and a big love for flamenco guitar. Guilty (well, deeply unfashionable) pleasures include Gong, Conway Twitty and Shonen Knife - from genres I don't much care for, but these artists always top my most-played counts on Spotify.

Mechanism wise, I use my phone because it's just so easy to cast to a TV in any of our main rooms - all of which have 2 or 4 B&O speakers networked to the smart TV function. Classical does sound better from a CD though...

Very jealous of Heinz having been at a Murray Perahia recital - I have five or six of his recordings and find his Beethoven quite an emotional experience - his phrasing is unique, the way he almost plays out of time to make the melody 'hang' and then 'flow' faster to catch up has a very yearning or wistful quality - very different to the bombastic Beethoven most virtuouso pianists think audiences want.