all right are you a music fan
oh by all means various types um my tastes range from
rock and roll to classical
in fact about the only type of music that i really find offensive would be uh country western
oh is that right
yeah
i take that back rap but i consider rap music to be an oxymoron
yeah i guess i i'll have to agree with you on rap uh that's uh it's not my that's not my style my uh
yeah
let's let's see one more question here do you uh do you play an instrument
yes i do i play two
a bass guitar and kalimba
okay so that's
i used to play three which was the clarinet but i've that's since gone into disuse
well now there's there's multiple kinds of country western music uh
not that i'm an expert in that uh area but
yeah
well there was rockabilly in the fifties and that's what gave rise to like Carl Perkins uh Jerry Lee Lewis uh Elvis Presley in the beginning
but there's
yeah
right
and that type of music i do appreciate
it had some it had it had the spark of creativity it was it was out there
yeah
and uh since then it's sort of fallen into formula and i guess that's my thing is i have a problem with formula music
now is is uh i guess the other thing that that uh
there there is one kind of music that i don't know i wouldn't consider it country western but
but it is in a sense
huh
and that's bluegrass what about that
well i've only been exposed to that minimally and that's usually through occasional you know viewings of concerts of said type on public television
okay
you know
did you watch the the
did did you watch it for very long or was it just
oh it was something i had basically for background it was not uh obtrusive
oh okay
it was something i could listen to and uh
and do my chores around the house
okay so you listen to it i i mean it's not
oh yes
it not
it's not completely offensive
it's not offensive to you is what i'm
yeah
oh that's that's interesting my uh there for uh a long time uh
i i liked folk music but uh folk music is you know a a back in the seventies
uh-huh
yeah
so to speak sixties and seventies and then
sure
and uh then i became a a bluegrass fan and i listened to it all the time and i've got lots of tapes of it and then
uh-huh
uh i like but i'm kind of like you i i i mean in some ways i'm like you i i don't uh
uh i don't like music that it's this uh where you where you know what the next phrase is going to be because you know they have these dumb rhymes like a lot of i mean the where the how shall i say it the words are just so predictable
uh-huh yeah
and although i do laugh at some of the country western things they have this one uh country western
song about the guy the perfect country western song and he said it had to have trains and all that stuff trains and mama i don't know if you've heard that one
oh that that that's cute i would've liked to have heard that
and then he uh basically said okay so i went back to him and finally it what he came up with was the song about
uh his mom got hit by a train and
and uh she or it was the day she got out of jail she got hit by a train and and things like that so you know and anyways went to see her in his pickup truck and stuff like that so it was kind of creative i like that but uh
oh
yeah had to have some beer too or or some sort of alcoholic substance
yeah but uh
the thing one of the things that that the northwest i've been told has has got a lot of uh it's kind of the center of activity is uh
uh i don't know if you would call it new wave music or or uh new age music i is that it
new age yes
yeah George Winston and which is he's a little bit uh
uh well he's kind of the recognized uh i don't know if he's the founder of it but
huh
yeah it's like the Windham Hill stuff it's it's
but they
yeah Windham Hill
yeah it's uh new age classical so to speak
yes
well what i what i often uh call air pudding yeah
now they have some of that uh uh some of it's very interesting and other and and others uh is
how shall i say it it's very predictable now that's interesting you'd say the air pudding some people would call it yuppie music
yeah
yeah well i only use it when i'm studying and that's the extent of it it's just it's good background filter stuff
and you know it what it is it's pleasant but it's not
talent in in my view it's not genius um when i really wish to get into
listening pleasure uh with something of that nature i put on Mozart or Beethoven something that will evoke a response
something that almost reaches in and and
hits those proverbial heart strings
the i i can respond to that a little bit by uh i spent three years in the Far East and of course the some of the i mean what kids
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