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Mar 13, 2011 - 3:28AM

Re: The sounds we don't like - for a change :)

Jamey Hall

First time I heard the accordion was at the Saturday matinee (remember those? Of course you don't, Christian, you're way too young

Not really way too young, but way too far from Louisiana (France). You must mistake me for someone else. And I am not Peer either.

Very interesting to read about the various ways our favorite instrument suddenly appeared in our lives.

Christian

neal

Mar 12, 2011 - 7:54PM

Re: The sounds we don't like - for a change :)

Philip Alleman, the steel guitar player with Aldus Roger and the Lafayette Playboys, looked like my daddy, so when I saw those TV shows on KLFY in the early 60s, I immediately was fascinated by steel guitar.

This picture from the Liberty Theater tribute to Aldus Roger with Philip Alleman is scary how much he looked like my father as he got older:
http://web.lsue.edu/acadgate/music/alleman5.jpg

For sounds I don't like? It's not an instrument in particular, but I don't like angry sounding music, whether it's in the field of rock, rap, jazz, etc. What's the point of that?

Mar 12th, 2011 - 7:54 PM

LarryC

Mar 12, 2011 - 9:25PM

Re: The sounds we don't like - for a change :)

Bagpipes really sound creepy, to me. I love accordions. Fiddles are beautiful. I wish I could play one. I've tried, but continue to fail.

Mar 12th, 2011 - 9:25 PM

Rick Reid

Mar 12, 2011 - 9:58PM

Re: The sounds we don't like - for a change :)

I don't like:
Golf
Swimming
Opera singing
Jaw harps
Zithers
Chinese bowed instruments like the Jinghu or Huqin

I continue to not like:
The Gypsy Kings
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Justin Bieber
Vangelis
Captain Beefheart
The Cure
The Smiths/Morrissey
King Uszniewicz & His Uszniewicztones

I refuse to like:
Progressive Nash Vegas country (keep it real and Texas, please)
House/Drum & Bass techno dance horse-hockey
Iroquois medicine chants
Brazilian thrash metal

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Mar 12th, 2011 - 9:58 PM

Jamey Hall

Mar 12, 2011 - 11:09PM

Re: The sounds we don't like - for a change :)

Man, I love those Chinese bowed whatchacallits! And Captain Beefheart was pretty good on "Bongo Fury" and "Safe as Milk".

I also have a very cool album cover titled "Zither Magic" . . .

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Mar 12th, 2011 - 11:09 PM

Jamey Hall

Mar 12, 2011 - 11:12PM

Re: The sounds we don't like - for a change :)

http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=1768488

She wants you, Rick . . .

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Mar 12th, 2011 - 11:12 PM

Jamey Hall

Mar 12, 2011 - 11:17PM

Re: The sounds we don't like - for a change :)

But this one's still my favorite:

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kpdmoqYFgR1qzeqqeo1_500.jpg

What's Homer looking at?

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Mar 12th, 2011 - 11:17 PM

lepiquant

Mar 13, 2011 - 11:32AM

Re: The sounds we don't like - for a change :)

I remember my mom playing the radio and they were playing "french" music. I heard the accordion for the first time. I was drawn to it then and I have been all my years since. I used to watch Aldus on KLFY like Neal and was capitivated by the sounds of the music. My list of what I don't like is way too extensive to list on this thread so I will just mention what I do like.
Cajun music-some new mostly the old
Country and Western music-not the garbage they play today. George Jones recorded a song a while back titled "Who's gonna fill their shoes" the anwser appartently was no one.
Rock a Billy and real rock and roll. The Beatles killed it for me.
Le Piquant

Mar 13th, 2011 - 11:32 AM

Joe

Mar 13, 2011 - 4:52PM

Re: The sounds we don't like - for a change :)

LP, even though you didn't list the sounds you don't like, you didn't mention the sound you don't like the most...the sound of Randy typing up a post to this discussion page.

lepiquant

Mar 13, 2011 - 5:01PM

Re: The sounds we don't like - for a change :)

I knew I was missing something. That is a horrible sound. I never could stand the sound of stealing.
Le Piquant

Mar 13th, 2011 - 5:01 PM

randy4u

Mar 14, 2011 - 2:01PM

Re: The sounds we don't like - for a change :)

Stealing in your mind of a d u m b marine whose head or in your case the other end you usually speak out of is still stuck in a jar. This is the new world we can take advantage of the things that are offered for free Le Pig. Thats why we all have library cards.

Rick Reid

Mar 14, 2011 - 2:58PM

Re: The sounds we don't like - for a change :)

Whoops! Forgot to include I don't like witches, especially zither playing witches! Lol...

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Mar 14th, 2011 - 2:58 PM

Bryan Lafleur

Mar 13, 2011 - 7:30PM

Re: The sounds we don't like - for a change :)

I really really don't like the sound of the steel guitar in Cajun music.

The first instrument that stood me in my tracks and raised the goosebumps was the harmonica played by my dad's friend Hersey Delafosse, and the song that did it was Chere Mom. I can't remember ever not loving the sound of the Cajun accordion.

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Mar 13th, 2011 - 7:30 PM

fiddler2007

Mar 14, 2011 - 3:42AM

Re: The sounds we don't like - for a change :)

Bryan Lafleur

... I can't remember ever not loving the sound of the Cajun accordion.

Well, after a night of jamming boozing and party-ing i wouldn't be so sure about that ... - N

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Mar 14th, 2011 - 3:42 AM

Phyllis

Mar 14, 2011 - 10:22AM

Avant-garde

I never seem to like anything that is "avant-garde" - I remember being in NYC many years and was taken to a club where a guy made sick respiratory noises on a saxophone and another fellow banged on a piece of sheet metal. The cover charge was $5. I thought that was wrong, but I've never lived north of the Mason-Dixon line.

Mar 14th, 2011 - 10:22 AM

Christian

Mar 14, 2011 - 3:30PM

Re: Avant-garde

Phyllis

...a guy made sick respiratory noises on a saxophone...