do you have a favorite type of music you listen to
um most frequently i listen to contemporary Christian music but i like all forms
okay
i uh we i listen to country and rock and classical
jazz is probably my least favorite although i enjoy it too
uh-huh i tend to favor uh rock and roll mostly from the sixties and seventies
oh yeah some great sixties tunes
yeah i listen to KGPS classic rock
KGPS in Dallas
right
oh are you in Dallas
uh yeah i'm in Plano
uh well probably around the corner um
yeah that's a good station i listen to it every once in a while too
uh-huh do you play any instruments
no i don't
never have
i'm not musically gifted at all
well i took piano lessons in fourth grade once for one semester i'll never forget Mrs Burkhalter
Miss Burkhalter
she had that Nazi mentality
where uh uh where'd you grow up
uh in Milwaukee
oh okay
uh-huh
the uh
yeah the only thing how to play on the piano is that two handed thing or the two person thing
chopsticks
no it's not chopsticks it's the other one that has the um
oh i don't even i don't i don't know enough about music to do it but you the bottom person uses two hands and the top person just uses one hand
and it's this little melody i it may have been a girl thing
okay
well i have no idea what that is
i just know i hated it
but i took up trumpet after that and ended up playing in the University of Wisconsin marching band
oh really
which was fun
yeah i went to i went to uh Rice and we had the marching owl band which is quite a it's not known for its musical abilities more so its um comedy abilities
it uh
uh-huh
oh we had a great time in the band my uh director was heavy into the big bands so we played a lot of tunes by uh Glen Miller and Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey and people like that
oh yeah
well that that was fun
so it was a lot of fun plus i got to get to go to all the athletic events free
yeah that has its plusses for sure
well which uh sixties uh rock bands do you like the best
oh well the Beatles
uh-huh
Creedance Clearwater Revival uh Crosby Stills Nash and Young when it was still all four
right
um
there uh Black Sabbath did a few albums that i really like
is that right
yeah they i know it's kind of strange um Elton John is more seventies
um
yeah certainly but uh
Yellow Brick Road
right uh-huh
i love that album
yeah i think i've got all those
yeah i had Yellow Brick Road and something happened to it it escaped me and it was sometime in college and never have seen it again
um
oh i started my uh music collection in college when i started winning radio contests
how'd you win radio contests
well they would uh tell you to call in and be caller number nine and win
so i had a touch tone telephone in college and uh i just started calling in and winning all kinds of contests
i had forty record albums before i even had a stereo to play them on to play them on
that's great
i ended up winning about uh two hundred and thirty radio contests in two school years
so i accumulated my record collection mostly from that
that's incredible i've never won not one thing from a radio station i haven't tried i probably haven't tried two hundred and thirty times
it was
yeah well that was in Madison i i won about four times a week
it doesn't have near the population that Dallas has the contests here are a lot more competitive
yeah have you ever won in Dallas
um
yeah but not the same type of contests um
oh
they have contests on the radio in the morning and i think i won one of the movie mystery contests one time
um
they sent me a small flag in the mail that which which had postage due
you're kidding me
no
it was a
oh it's not it's probably not quite the same
it wasn't much of a victory actually i did win tickets to the to a Chicago and a Beach Boys concert
i saw them i went to a Beach Boys concert i like them too
uh-huh
um i've never been to a Chicago concert bet it was great
uh yeah they were uh they were very good i was impressed
yeah Chicago was great too
every now and then i'll go ahead and make another tape and uh record a bunch of uh old tunes like the Loving Spoonful and Grateful Dead something from the Birds Rolling Stones
uh-huh
yeah
i enjoy listening to those old tunes they don't play a lot of that stuff on the radio any more you have to pick the right station
yeah i use my scan button a lot
uh-huh
whole lot
i enjoy mainly the old the older rock and roll tunes rather than
a lot of the new stuff the lyrics are so repetitive
yeah i
that i just kind of get lost in it
i uh yeah i haven't made any kind of effort to keep up on recent music especially in rock and roll
there's not just too much uh new stuff that's well
it's not as creative
it doesn't seem to be
and the lyrics aren't as uh
inspiring if you want to call it that
yeah
yeah some of the tunes used to you know you felt like you needed to go out and do something about it
yeah lot of pop music out that just isn't very thrilling
yeah
course the head bangers i stay away from those entirely
is there still that type of music available
certainly is just turn on MTV any night
oh
no i've got small children i don't trust MTV
they'll be playing the latest of Bon Jovi or White Snake or
groups like that
yeah yeah
yeah i uh
i tried when um i guess i was in junior high high school
when uh
Led Zeppelin was real big and everybody i tried to you know really go the whole way and i couldn't go with even
with most of Led Zeppelin's music i didn't enjoy it
yeah
and some of the stuff you know the classics they were fine but
some of it was just too heavy even then
i always like the easier listening rock the the Crosby Stills Nash and Young Eagles uh in more recent Billy Joel very talented
uh-huh
yeah
yeah
Z Z Top is different very creative they they really uh made uh quite a transition
they used to be almost a country band
uh-huh
uh playing such
yeah they play they play some they get some play time on the country stations even
yeah such classics as La Grange and Touche
yeah
and
i've still got my Fandango album that one didn't get lost in college
right
but uh they they really did change
yeah
all of a sudden they became a top forty type group appealing to the younger crowd
yeah
yeah they've got they've now they've got some good videos
uh very good videos yeah i'm kind of impressed
quite creative and appealing to the younger crowd
yeah
yeah
to the pop audience i guess you'd call it that
yeah
the
Robert Palmer's got some creative pretty creative videos videos out too
i i was thinking that yeah he's his his videos are pretty wild i like his music too
oh yeah and there are some that are that get artsy to a point like Steve Winwood
uh-huh
yeah
now see i know a little bit
i know a little bit about other groups
i uh
like i said i listen to primarily contemporary Christian
uh-huh
and uh
but i spend enough time on scan that i hear what it what is still on the radio well i don't know
well who's uh who's who's popular now with the uh contemporary Christian music
oh probably Amy Grant is the biggest one yeah she's even she's got a song right now that playing on a few of the other stations it's called Baby Baby it's
i don't listen too much
right yeah i've heard of her uh-huh
uh-huh
it's neat when you think about how she wrote it and stuff otherwise the lyrics are kind of
yeah
you know it's just like oh i love you and i you know this that and the other but she write she wrote when she was talking to her baby
and if you've got a baby i mean it's kind of neat thinking about it talking up to your baby and to to an infant
right that's interesting
so it it makes it neater but
well i don't think i'd ever make a song writer
my secretary has tried to be a song writer
she's waiting for her big time
yeah well some people get lucky and i guess if you're persistent enough sometimes it works out
yeah
yeah
well
yeah i hope that it does for her she deserves it she's a nice person
uh-huh
so
i uh
well what station plays uh that type of music
uh ninety four point one is KLTY
okay
all right
and uh then there's ninety point one is KCBI they do more uh
they spend a lot of time with uh
oh this
preaching kind of stuff
right uh-huh
so i like music i like listening to music so i don't usually listen to KCBI
and then there's another one called Journey that's somewhere in between the two of those it's in between ninety and ninety four
right
i think it's ninety two
maybe i'll tune in to one of those some time
ninety four point one is fun
all right
i mean it's it's
it's mainly
um just family oriented stuff i mean yeah it's very its definitely Christian but it's not it's not hymns
right okay
you know it's not Amazing Grace every other time
okay yeah i still feel like every time if i ever feel like reminiscing over the old stuff i'll go ahead and throw on a sixties tape
yeah
get something from from the Guess Who or
