Lanny
Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"
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One of my favorite groups.
My daughter in San Diego and her husband follow Dave Mathews concerts all over the world...they just saw him perform in Vienna...they were in Italy and he happened to be performing so they left and went to see him there....they probably see the Dave Mathews Band at least a dozen times a year if not more. Her living room has framed Dave Mathews Band album covers on all the walls....it's like they're Dead Heads or something....good band but man......
Dave Matthews band was not my thing at all! I was a much more angsty teen than that heh. I turned to classical around 13ish and though I listened to “what everyone” listened to until about 20ish, just dont care for listening to people sing most of the time.Dave Matthews band brought an upbeat, optimistic peace to many of us at a time when grunge music was the thing (early to late 90s).
I have to say Dave Matthews Band music inspired many of us attending high school with their first album, Under the Table and Dreaming. And later on with Crash.
Each generation has their music and inspiration.
Dave Matthews band was not my thing at all! I was a much more angsty teen than that heh. I turned to classical around 13ish and though I listened to “what everyone” listened to until about 20ish, just dont care for listening to people sing most of the time.
A lot of musicians and artists like jazz and classical instrumental music to fuel their art.....I started with jazz and classical...I like listening to singers in languages I don't understand so that it becomes another instrument and not a dialogue....Cuban Salsa music is one of my favorites...or Brazilian Bossa Nova ballads...Italian Opera...etcDave Matthews band was not my thing at all! I was a much more angsty teen than that heh. I turned to classical around 13ish and though I listened to “what everyone” listened to until about 20ish, just dont care for listening to people sing most of the time.
If I have a deep dark secret musically its that I liked Linkin Park quite a bit as a kid, I didnt like to let that on though. I still once in a while go for it.I have eclectic tastes and enjoy most genres. However, I have to say Classical Music is my go-to for a relaxing environment.
First concert I went to when I was in 6th grade, Herman's Hermits at the glass palace. The Who opened for them (their first US tour).
Im gonna nerd out for a second. I just love the violin, and piano, I love how great musicians in general can touch places in my mind that nothing else seems to be able to find. It can relax me, inspire me, make me sad, make me happy. I just love the pureness of orchestra’s, classical music, and just music with no singing really makes my mind work.A lot of musicians and artists like jazz and classical instrumental music to fuel their art.....I started with jazz and classical...I like listening to singers in languages I don't understand so that it becomes another instrument and not a dialogue....Cuban Salsa music is one of my favorites...or Brazilian Bossa Nova ballads...Italian Opera...etc
First concert I went to when I was in 6th grade, Herman's Hermits at the glass palace. The Who opened for them (their first US tour).
The great poets can make the mind work the same way but it requires shutting off your own dialogue to hear it sometimes. Leonard Cohen or Dylan.Im gonna nerd out for a second. I just love the violin, and piano, I love how great musicians in general can touch places in my mind that nothing else seems to be able to find. It can relax me, inspire me, make me sad, make me happy. I just love the pureness of orchestra’s, classical music, and just music with no singing really makes my mind work.
I used to read and write poetry a lot. I still have a love for writing, it just has taken a new form in I write a ton of code, which I think of in many ways like my own creative work.The great poets can make the mind work the same way but it requires shutting off your own dialogue to hear it sometimes.
If I have a deep dark secret musically its that I liked Linkin Park quite a bit as a kid, I didnt like to let that on though. I still once in a while go for it.
I used to read and write poetry a lot. I still have a love for writing, it just has taken a new form in I write a ton of code, which I think of in many ways like my own creative work.
I can definitely understand that with my mathematical mind. Poetry is fantastic and has a meaning somewhat different for each of us.
WS Merwin's poem, The Last One, is one of my favorites.
As a teen I had 4 albums I listened to often:
Dave Matthews Band - Under the Table and Dreaming
Enya - Paint the Sky with Stars
Metallica - Black Album
U2 - Zooropa
Enya?
ENYA?!?
Yeah, her music is very relaxing. Awesome for listening while walking and meditating.
Dude, you said you listened to that as a teen. The closest a teen boy gets to meditating is masturbating.

Did it make walking difficult?Haha. Well, that was certainly a huge part of it. Walking and meditating at that time was quite easy until seeing a beautiful woman. You know the rest.![]()
Did it make walking difficult?
Enya.
Dude, you said you listened to that as a teen. The closest a teen boy gets to meditating is masturbating.
I had the Lord of the Rings sound track, used to listen to that a lot.
When I was in grade school starting in the fourth grade and possibly the third grade, they used to play classical music over the intercom in my Oswego grade school. I only recall Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake and Nutcracker but I'm sure other stuff got played. That's where my love for classical music began.Dave Matthews band was not my thing at all! I was a much more angsty teen than that heh. I turned to classical around 13ish and though I listened to “what everyone” listened to until about 20ish, just dont care for listening to people sing most of the time.
First concert I went to when I was in 6th grade, Herman's Hermits at the glass palace. The Who opened for them (their first US tour).