What is your musical Identity?

b0b · Post by **b0b** » 27 Nov 2008 10:54 pm

I picked "other", because my favorite music is instrumental music. I don't care what style very much, as long as it doesn't have words getting in the way.

Mike Perlowin RIP · Post by **Mike Perlowin RIP** » 28 Nov 2008 12:57 am

b0b, I feel the say way you do about vocal and instrumental music. Taking that as step further, I like to listen to music I can't play myself.

However, is this thread about what kind of music we play, or what we listen to?

I assumed it is about what style we play. Hence my previous answer.

Ronnie Boettcher · Post by **Ronnie Boettcher** » 28 Nov 2008 10:12 am

I like good ole country music. Now called classic country. I am 50-50 with that, and traditional bluegrass. My time is divided between the 2 of them. Maybe I am in a box, but that's what makes the world go around. I do not care for the new country, or the new bluegrass. Pedal steel, and 5-string all the way.

Pat Carlson · Post by **Pat Carlson** » 28 Nov 2008 7:19 pm

The Pedal Steel Guitar can play good ole Gospel music

In full 3 string harmony as sweetly as a church organ! Per haps even better

Cal Sharp · Post by **Cal Sharp** » 29 Nov 2008 12:13 pm

What I like is anything 4/4, with a shuffle or swing feel, whether it's Ray Price, Buddy Guy or Miles Davis. What's fun, if you don't confuse the drummer, is, when you're doing a song in 8th's, like "Silver Wings", to play your solo in 4/4. I'm also a big fan of walking bass lines in waltzes, like "The 24th Hour" and "Bottle, Bottle". Junior Pruneda used to walk the bass in "Waltz Across Texas" with Ernest when the guitar and steel took their rides, and it was way cool.

Brett Day · Post by **Brett Day** » 29 Nov 2008 1:14 pm

I'm a country steel player, so country is my favorite kind of music, but I love other types of music, like soft rock, eighties music(I was a kid in the eighties), I also love songs from the 50s, 60s, and 70s. Although I'm a country steel player, I love to add steel to some soft rock stuff. I love bluegrass too.

Brett

James Cann · Post by **James Cann** » 29 Nov 2008 7:45 pm

How about "standards" (which admittedly has a broad beam)? . . . or maybe I should ask what 'standards' means?

I do agree with you, b0b, and enjoy trying out "good instrumental melody from wherever."

Danny Bates · Post by **Danny Bates** » 1 Dec 2008 1:00 am

I picked "Western Swing" because it's so much fun to play!

Over the years, I think I've played just about every classic country song ever written. I love them all but I really love playing country swing songs the most

Lately, bluegrass pickers are really getting my attention!

Mark Lind-Hanson · Post by **Mark Lind-Hanson** » 5 Dec 2008 6:34 am

I would say more folk-rock than country-rock, though I do love "the genre". The four players I most emulated as a youngster learning were Jerry Garcia, Bruce Langhorne, Clarence White & George Harrison. I prefer the blurriness between the two idoms. I grew UP on classic rock, but I consider a good portion of the country-rock people to qualify for that, too. Now, just try & shoehorn us into the Wal-Mart bins!

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