Speaking of art and science...

[Brad]

I am actually many things but a Prince fan isn't one of them. I respect the guy for his extreme talent but not my kind of music.
I'm more a 70s rock to metal kinda guy. I usually tell people that if you would dance to it then I probably don't care for it.
My wife and I aren't big fans but are likely going to Lincoln to see Iron Maiden this summer. Sort of a bucket list kinda thing.

Music is like art. We appreciate certain things because they resonate with us. We are all different in what that might be. I can appreciate much art or music for the talent and still not care for the actual work.

Sort of like me appreciating the work the BPCR guys do but also say it isn't my cup o' tea.

 

[RBHarter]

Van Haggar . Diver down was my favorite sort of an identity crisis album .
I had a road tape that ran from Glen Miller, In the Mood to Foreigner Rev on the red line via Mac the knife , Jamaican Farewell and rebel yell .
I grew up on the Dixie cups and recognized the Ventures when covered and lyrics were added . I had the money put away for the traveling Wilberries Roy's death sucked all that summer .
I went to Tom Petty for Joshua Tree we wound up like 6 rows off the stage .

It weird being around people my age . When I was 16 the young people around were 35-50 . At 19 I was apprenticing for my A&P under Truman's Crew Chief in 1986 . Just 15 yr ago I discovered that people my age were actually around and listened to AC/DC , Black Sabith and Ozzy . It was serreal . Now I make a Prince reference ,pretty tame by Rap standards, and everyone knows who and what song it is from ...

Country is OK in small doses . Who can't agree with the sentiment of Some Beach and doesn't have friends in low places . Those raspy voices of the Bonnie's ,...... Raitt was never much to look at Tyler must be about 80 now .
Not to big on the pop country and Kenny never did much for me .

 

[Brad]

Van Hagar? Never. Real VH or not at all.
AC/DC is a long time favorite and was great live.
I appreciate the innovative and original bands who stay true to who they are. Rush and Queen come to mind.
Rap for me ended with the Beastie Boys.
Oddly, I find myself suddenly having an affinity for Rob Zombie and Megadeath.

 

[KeithB]

My Pandora station started with Led Zep and I added Bowie, Moody Blues, the Who, and Pink Floyd. By going thumbs up/down I've "tuned" my station to my tastes. Lately its been picking out stuff from Rob Zombie, Disturbed, Korn, Limp Bizkut and similar. Of course AC/DC, Ted Nugent and the Eagles get their airtime. I also enjoy Yanni and David Lanz for a little change. Can't take too much country, most of it just doesn't reflect any aspect of my life.

Every year the better half and I go to the University's Madrigal Dinner. Nothing better to kick off the Christmas season than well performed live choral music.

 

[freebullet]

I thought they quit making new music in about 95. What they are calling music today.....nah, I'll pass.

Personally I like old country. Even some really old twangy stuff. Rock, light metal, & such to break up the flow. I'll pass on rap, pop, & other noise type stuff. Another fella my age had me listen to something called headpe. That is just plain terrible- cruel & unusual punishment to me.

Hard to go wrong with Hank, DAC, or Waylon imo.

 

[Brad]

On a slightly different note, anyone here know why fluorescent lights hum?

 

[Rick]

On a slightly different note, anyone here know why fluorescent lights hum?

Uh, cause they can't sing?
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[freebullet]

Yes.

 

[Brad]

Uh, cause they can't sing?
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Don't know the words

 

[fiver]

dang it,,, I read too slow.

I listen to a bunch of the new stuff, most of it isn't radio played and you have to go look for it.
tonight it's K-pop and J-pop [Korean pop music]
yesterday it was female vocal chill step.

 

[smokeywolf]

My musical tastes are somewhat eclectic, but metal, grunge and rap are not acceptable.

Hank Williams, Roy Orbison, Bonnie Tyler, Willie Nelson, Beach Boys, Credence Clearwater Revival, Eagles, Bob Seger, Heart, Kenny Logins, Huey Lewis, Foreigner, Don McLean

 

[Rally Hess]

Man Smokeywolf, throw in a little Santana, Don Wiliams, and BB King and I'd go on a road trip with you anytime.
Most of what goes as art is beyond my comprehension. I fail to see any real beauty in it nor am I moved by it. Never could stay awake to watch Star Wars either.
Real art, to me, is found in the outdoors. I find looking at the root structure of an upturned tree to be quite fascinating. I've spent hours and hours watching beaver build dams, lodges, and feedpiles, while being amazed at the careful placement of each stick and wad of mud. Always found it amazing the way a beavers body is shaped and pliabable as it swims and moves underwater. Hard to believe they have 450,000 hairs per square inch on their body. Beaver also change their environment to facilitate their lifestyle.Otter have 750,000 hairs per square inch, and can swim down a fish, sleep in a snowbank during a blizzard, and eat a fish and regurgitate the majority of the scales.
Ever take a close look at an abandoned nest of a paper wasp? Building that is an art.
Watching schools of minnows swim in unison.
Watching schools of walleyes herding smelt into the shallows, so they can ambush them, each grabbing them in turn and then returning to the formation.
Watching stone rollers, suckers, or redhorse work the bottom of a river in formations, turning over rocks and getting worms or aquatic bugs, sucking them up and discharging just the sand and dirt through their gills.
Ever seen a badger pull an entire roadkilled deer underground? Now that is an art.

 

[fiver]

I sat and watched a badger and a beaver fight for about 40 minutes one day.
at first I couldn't imagine what would have caused the ruckus between the two.
but remembered how badgers are and figured it was nothing more than proximity that caused the trouble.
after checking the area out it looked like the beaver [young male] was new to the area and just got into the wrong place.

 

[smokeywolf]

While I can get pretty grumpy and cantankerous, those adjectives don't come close to describing the nasty temper of a badger having a good day. YIKES!

Dad always told me that when it comes to dangerous critters, aside from the obvious; humans, bears, humans, big cats, humans, etc., two of the meanest critters walking the planet are badgers and wolverines. Dad had a streak of badger in him.

Oh, I do like Santana. Also Glenn Miller and Billie Holiday.

 

[JonB]

I had no idea there were so many fans of " The Artist " formerly known as Prince ....... You guys must have been in college trying to woo freshmen

I don't recall all the details, but Prince choose to change his name to the "symbol" as protest to a record contract gone awry. once that deal was settled, he reclaimed his name.

Back to Art. I posted about this buyback (on the other forum), ran and funded by mostly private monies. I do like Art and I like Gun art...but I wouldn't have donated to this cause.

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2016/08/23/guns-handed-over-in-mpls-buyback-to-be-used-in-art-project/

 

[Rally Hess]

Fiver,
Beaver end up fighting alot in the spring. The almost two year olds are kicked out in the spring, by their parents to make room for the new pups, normally born in mid May. They travel through the country in hopes of finding a place to call their own. Mostly via waterways but the more arrid the area the more likely to be cross country. Here that means traveling through already established colonies of beaver, which have adult males more than willing to defend their already bred females in lodge. I've caught spring traveling beaver that were so chewed up it was doing them a favor killing them. That's also the reason most people see beaver out and traveling in the daylight hours in spring. If the travelers keep moving during daylight hours they are less likely to encounter the adult males and get mauled less doing so.

 

[freebullet]

Interesting...mother nature can be unforgiving & cruel.

 

[Pistolero]

I have consulted on restoration and rebuilding and displaying a good bit of art for one of our
local art museums. I work with the conservation dept, and have to laugh at some of the silly
crap that is called art. I do enjoy a lot of what they have but a major piece is
'Shuttlecocks' by Claus Oldenburg, which I kind of laugh at, but have spent literally
years keeping them from crumbling. Search on Shuttlecocks by Oldenburg, if you want
to see these beasts.

OTOH, I have lived in Italy and visited much of Europe over many decades, and find that
their ancient art, even up until around 1920s when it all went to garbage. Picasso could actually
draw, I have seen a few of his pencil sketches that show real talent. His big $$ paintings, I wouldn't
even take for free if I had to hang it on the wall. If I could do what I wanted, sure,
and sell it immediately.

Being an engineer, I appreciate the Roman engineering and architecture VERY much.
The Pantheon is both a beautiful building and an amazing piece of engineering. A
140 ft clear span concrete dome, that is as beautiful today as it was when it was built
2000 years ago, essentially unrestored to any great extent. It was not surpassed in
free span until the late 1800s.

Trajan's Market is spectacular, using side arches to support their vaulted arches over the two story
atrium area, flooded with daylight, and the huge number of individual stores in what
is actually the world's first shopping mall - all intact, being converted to a museum now.
The side arches solve the exact same problem as the flying buttresses used on the great
cathedrals of the middle ages, but 1300 years ahead of them

Right nearby is Trajan's Column, 126 feet hight, built in AD113, with an internal staircase,
and stands exactly as it did when built, other than a pope in the middle ages pulling down
Trajan's statue and substituting St. Peter. The Roman engineers were able to design anb
build it, carving a continuous bas relief history of Trajan's conquests wrapped all around
the exterior. The drums of Carrera marble that they stacked weight over 30 tons each,
yet they could figure out how to stack them to just short of 100 ft high with wood and
rope. The top block weighs well over 50 tons, lifted to over 110 ft in the air.

Tons more of beautiful and advanced art and architecture in the ancient world.

As to music, the only one here that I seem to match up real well with is smokeywolf.

Bill

 

[JWFilips]

I'm an Ian Anderson / Jethro Tull .....guy!
But I do Like Led Zep/ Who / Floyd / King Crimson
A child of the 60's!

 

[Tony]

I like Mozart, Brahms, Dave Brubeck and a host of others.