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Help me create a WMCF playlist….you can only pick 1 song…. go……
Mine is Mr Brightside by The Killers
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Anything from Status Quo would do me, however you only want one so i would go for Down Down, but I do like SQ playing loud when i am driving long distance!
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A night on bare mountain ( commonly known as a night in bare mountain) played as loud as you can comfortably handle – preferably by a big orchestra to get max effect while on a quiet fast road at night
oi oi, looks like we’re back in business. Thanks wmcforum, or is it your alter ego wmcopenarms? lol
Mota History - Nissan QashqaiSeat Leon ST Mazda CX-5 Three of my four sons play guitar. Two have played in bands and my youngest son’s band was offered a contract by a subsidiary of EMI.
One of my daughter in laws and my youngest son’s partner are both brilliant singers. (they have done London stage musicals) My youngest son’s partner does occasional wedding singing at the moment, but she is now rehearsing with a girl band and they’re doing an O2 gig soon.
Another of my sons does a brilliant Johnny Cash set, and I love doing Jim Reeves, Hank Williams and Perry Como …. Our weekly Karaoke parties are quite something!
I have a USB (64gb) in the car with 6000+ tunes on it).
Wait and Bleed or maybe Duality….Slipknot.
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I have always had since year dot :
Joy Division
New Order
Pink Floyd
Talking HeadsRecently the scottish electropop outfit “Churches” and my daughter has intoduced me to “Imagine Dragons”
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Lol. I guess it’s age related. I have various playlists set up on spotify (r&b, chilled, dance, Asian etc), then I have a favourites folder which takes all my favourites from these (pointless I know) and use this.
I can’t wait until I have apple play and have the proper spotify screen in my car
OMD for me been going 40 years love their songs from messages in 79 to don’t go in 2019
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Currently my fav artist for in car is The fabulous Teddy Swims.
I have over 7 gigs worth of music on my flash drive for in car so much eclectic stuff.
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Current car BMW X2 2.0i Sport sDrive Auto 2019 with Sport pack
Last car Ford Focus Titanium 1.5 TDCI"Men fight for liberty & win it with hard knocks. Their children brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves" - D.H. Lawrence
Three of my four sons play guitar. Two have played in bands and my youngest son’s band was offered a contract by a subsidiary of EMI. One of my daughter in laws and my youngest son’s partner are both brilliant singers. (they have done London stage musicals) My youngest son’s partner does occasional wedding singing at the moment, but she is now rehearsing with a girl band and they’re doing an O2 gig soon. Another of my sons does a brilliant Johnny Cash set, and I love doing Jim Reeves, Hank Williams and Perry Como …. Our weekly Karaoke parties are quite something! I have a USB (64gb) in the car with 6000+ tunes on it).
I have Around 160 tunes stored / downloaded on to my old IPhone 5s which has been replaced by a 6s , and I connect this to various speakers at home, the TV, and the Tiguan, and the artists include Carlos Santana , Mark Knopfler , John Williams , the Shadows, Lynryd Skynrid the Eagles, America, Chicago, Fleetwood Mac, The Mavericks, the DixieChicks, loads of Beach Boys stuff, Supertramp, the Turtles, Lonestar, Status Quo, the Moody Blues, quite a wide variety.
Pops, like your sons, I was a bit of a guitar buff for a while, and I bought my first solid electric guitar , in 1962, yes ‘1962’ , In fact, I started saving when I was about 12, I guess, and when I had saved up enough pennies etc (in Tom Thumb and Harlequin cigar tins) for the deposit on a guitar, I bought a new imported guitar from the USA , a Fender Stratocaster in a sunburst colour , which I had played the year before over in California , it cost a fortune but my Dad helped with half of the weekly payments , and I played it regularly, until I left school, and then I sold it at a giveaway price.
I did practice occasionally with a couple of guys from South Wales , who eventually bent me and shaped me in fact any way they wanted -if paradise was only half as nice in those days as it is now eh?- but I was never in a group, however as a teenager I stood in with some unknown local groups from time to time, playing rhythm guitar, at the local dances Etc!
I also had both a six and a twelve string acoustic guitar which I kept until long after I was married , and I also had a Squire electric in orange for quite a while!
Then many many years later I bought a new Strat plus in Sonic light blue, with a maple fretboard, which I used with my Fender practice amp, but other things got in the way ( Parkinsons Disease ) and I stored it away, after about 30 hours use only, and eventually sold it in 2013 at 5 years old,for way over twice as much as I had paid for it.
Now I have a Tanglewood acoustic, with an electric pickup ( as I still have the practice amp ) and I fiddle about with it occasionally, like today after reading your post!
Happy days Mike 700. Music makes a big difference and I remember Amen Corner from Cardiff, so much love for all you musicians and long may you keep playing.
I really like your choice of music.
Thanks Pops,
SIX STRINGS.
When I was just a teenage lad
Back home In Wales with my Mam and Dad
I dreamed and dreamed of many things
But mostly i dreamed about six stringsSo I went & bought me a Stratocaster
Which almost became a blinking disaster
The cost was oh ever so much
My Dad said WTF ‘? We’ll have to ‘go Dutch’But l practised so hard on my posh new .shiny guitar
Hoping one day i’d become a big star
Well one Thomas Jones I did once follow
He used to come to the local club, in some sleepy hollowOf course He wasn’t really famous in those days
And smoked even while singing, what silly ways
Yeah and my gang and I each smoked a pipe
Didn’t like it at all – don’t believe all the hypeThen I gave it all up for a different thing
and anyway I freely admit that I couldn’t sing
many years and more went by
With travels far up in the skyThen one day I saw another shiny Fender
The wife said what? ” you been on a bender ”
I could have a new lounge carpet for that sort of price
But after all the arguing she lost on a throw of the diceMy Strat Plus guitar was still looking like new
Shining in a lovely bright “Sonic Blue ”
’cause our friend Parky came on me to call
And now I can hardly play it at allBut never mind eh. it’s was worth quite a bit they did say
So I thought I would sell it on the local fleaBay
But a valuer instead called from the Street named Denmark
And they sold it for more then I had paid – oh what a larkSo all was not lost it went to a good home
And anyway it was the inspiration for this feeble old poem
So the moral here folks is that yes, Disability can sometimes be tough
But There can be some smooth with that little bit of roughFender strat plus in sonic blue ….. mmmmmm! I bet you were sad to part with it.
We’ve got a music and karaoke party at home tomorrow night so the guitars will probably get an airing.
Blimey, @POPS ! Someone else who remembers Amen Corner. Gin House and Bend me etc… were great numbers. Have heard it said that Fairweather Low still does gigs? Your family music-making sounds very entertaining. 🎸😊
Oh, yeah, sorry, forgot. Don’t listen to music in-car. Get too engaged with the music to drive safely.
Other than in really slow moving traffic jams (e.g. the seemingly eternal M27 roadworks between Portsmouth and Eastleigh) I’m not safe listening to music while I drive. I sometimes imagined thundering along the A3 in the dark, listening to Welcome to the Pleasure Dome, but an inattentive close shave coming off the slip road onto the A34 listening to the end of Simon & Garfunkel’s The Boxer taught me that it’s a bad idea for me to listen to music while driving!
Besides, I like listening to the engine, road noise, wind and such. It’s part of the journey. Maybe it’s a ‘biker’ thing.
Not a just biker thing at all, Georgie. (Although me dad was a biker). I’m the same with S&G (Bridge would be lethal – waiting for then doing the cymbals) and anything by Gaby Moreno. I’ve even had to stop listening to her when cooking – burnt a cheese sauce and sink overflowed twice! I also like to listen to the car telling me what it is doing. 🚗
Pearl Fishers duet is absolutely banned too.
Speaking of duets – I love this video because they look like a couple of mums on the way back from dropping off their kids at school . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1ZL5AxmK_A
Imagine doing this at a PTA meeting. 🙂
