Hey Phil,
I like classical music, but otherwise, you and I have similar 
tastes.  You know, the album, "Dark Side of the Moon," can be enjoyed 
when sober.  I've done it.  Now, Chicago, yah, their good, but I 
always considered them almost Jazz.  "Oooooh, wishing you were here."
Kathy


At 10:54 PM 7/2/2006, you wrote:
>Of course, back in the early sixties, I was only 8 to 12 years old but I
>listened to a
>local rock and roll station in Des Moines, Iowa where I grew up.  In the
>late sixties, I really got into all the acid rock bands since that
>paralleled my friends and the drugs we were doing.  One of the stations I
>still listen to once and awhile here in Denver is a classic rock station.
>It makes me mad, though, because they play way more Led Zeppelin than I care
>to hear, and not enough Grand Funk Railroad, Iron Butterfly, of course they
>only made one song, haw, I can't remember hearing one Cream song in years on
>this station, and they definitely don't play hardly any Chicago.  Now how
>can you call yourself a classic rock station and not play any of that?  We
>used to have, every Sunday night, on a country station, two hours of super
>great blue grass.  One of the Christian stations also used to have an hour
>program on Sunday afternoons of great Christian blue grass but I haven't
>heard it for a long time.  It was, I believe, a national program.  I miss
>it.  I listen to old jazz and new jazz, new age type stuff some times, I
>also enjoy listening, for awhile, to a FM station that plays, I think on
>Saturday nights, a lot of techno music.  Yes, I actually like some of that
>stuff.  I used to listen to the national show called Echoes on National
>Public
>Radio on Sunday nights.  I'm still on their mailing list.  It was all things
>new age ambience type electronic stuff.  I'm sure there is a name for it but
>I just can't remember now.  If I could play a little better, I mean, if I
>could play at all, I would love burning my own stuff using one of those
>fancy electronic keyboards.  I have a list of one word songs to which I
>have different songs in that type of music, whatever its called.  Like,
>ocean, sky, moon, sun, fish, wave, rain, light, dove, creation, and there
>just is no end to that sort of thing.  Nope, I don't care much for
>classical.  I listen to some of it once and awhile but not often.  My friend
>Keith really hacks me off.  He is that guy who comes and prays with us on
>Fridays.  He just turned 50 and still has long hair.  It is turning gray, of
>course, but he doesn't care.  He is 6 foot 3 and weighs, I know this
>because he saw my new talking bathroom scale in my office and stepped on to
>it, he weighs 161 pounds.  He did way too much coke and other speed
>related drugs back in the seventies so he hardly eats today.  Before he was
>born
>again, his doper friends, those who got arrested and put into the state pen,
>he would smuggled dope into them.  A little harder to do these days.
>Anyhow, Keith made me mad two or three years ago.  He went to a Chicago
>concert here in Denver, outdoors, and he never told me there were in town.
>I missed it.  I jumped his case big time.  I just could not believe he would
>not think to tell me so I could have gone.  So, if you know what that spacy
>music is called these days, let me know.  I'd buy some of it but as weird as
>the performers are they describe in between songs, I don't want to support
>them.  I told somebody the other day that I was going to make a CD of our
>dogs
>barking and sell it on the internet.  Oh, I also like nature sounds.  I'd
>own a ton of those if I could afford that many.  One of my favorite groups,
>I'm still tempted to buy just the 9 releases they have made, is a group
>called Yutoka.  It is pronounced you taka.  They are a very sophisticated
>sort of a Caribbean sounding group which might be called Brazil 66, 77, 88,
>99, and what happened to them after that.  Anyhow, forget it.  That is a
>very poor comparison compared to this group I am talking about.  Oh, yeah, I
>forgot.  I liked Pink Floyd but you had to be high, like they were, to get
>anything out of their music.  Yes, I know, they are still around and they
>have improved but I lost interest in them years ago.  I did go to a Grateful
>Dead concert once when I was about 17 but I never saw why people liked them
>that much.  Again, you had to be stoned, as they were, when they played to
>appreciate them.  Nope.  I never really liked the Beatles and still don't.
>Sure, I listened to them a lot but never bought one of their records back in
>the sixties.  Say, have you noticed the trend of words the travel across
>radio?  The latest hot word is jandra.  That's what it sounds like.  Like
>the name Sandra but it sounds like it starts with a jay.  I can't even find
>how it is spelled on google.  My dictionaries don't show it, not spelled
>that way any how, so I give up.  Does anybody know how it is spelled?
>
>Phil.
>
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