MUSIC THREAD TO CONNECT & COMFORT ON THIS JOURNEY

Hello Formula, Could never get Elvis Costello! His wife Diane Krall is worth a listen. Garviv

Morning all,

Hope all you lovely people are keeping well.

Working from home I now have the radio on about 8 hour's a day.

My go to station is Planet Rock, love 99% of the music played and also the presenter's.

What is everyone's go to Radio Station these days? 

No wrong answers of course.

Take care all.

Trevor 

Well I listen to a mixture : absolute radio country, absolute radio 80s rock, radio 2 and LBC with some podcasts thrown in

Hello Trevor 6am Today on Radio 4, As I prepare for golf and enjoy morning tea BBC Radio 3 or Classic FM. I find most radio a bit same. Listen to Virgin Anthems in the car occasionally. Prefer my playlist on Spotify or my LP/CD Collection.

Garviv

Great question Trevor,

I only listen to 3 radio stations LBC James Obrien , Greatest Hits Radio for all the old stuff and Radio 5 live for sport coverage of premier league football ( i often prefer to listen to commentary than watch. Alistair Mann my favourite commentary ) I dont like tv pundits at all. 

Hi Trevor,

Quite a mixture. BBC Radio 2, Radio 6, and BBC Suffolk.  Absolute, Planet Rock, and I understand I can get Caroline on AM, or online, so I'm going to give them a go.

Nice, I notice you listen to BBC Suffolk. We're looking to move to Suffolk ( well hope to all being well etc).

We're looking around Long Melford which we kind of fell in love with. Also Sudbury and maybe bury st Edmunds.

Moving is such a pain, but it's something we've been thinking about for a while but of course the diagnosis put it back a bit.

What a great thread. I must add my twopenneth if that's ok. 

I grew up in a household where my father played his guitar records Burt Weedon, Shadows, Chet Atkins....etc.

When i was 15/16 punk music had taken over everywhere. Whilst i loved the energy but the music in general passed me by except for the odd track of course.

At 19 i was travelling in a lorry with my two workmates who were chatting on when i heard a blindingly rhythmic song came on. The strong rhythm of the song gave the feeling of movement and had the cleanest glassy fender sounding solos i'd ever heard. As my colleagues chatted i subtly turned up the radio and was honestly blown away. The DJ didn't mention the song when it ended and went straight to a traffic update. I didn't hear that song again for a week but couldn't hear it very well as it was blasting out of someones open window where i lived in Deptford. So frustrating.

I eventually identified the song and band by singing what i could remember of the song to a till guy at the local record shop. It was "Sultans of Swing" by Dire Straits. I bought the album and played it endlessly as i did with the following albums. And so began my journey of trying to play guitar this way. I love to make the same sounds as Knopfler did on Tunnel of love from the "making Movies" album. To this day it is a thrill.

I went on to see them 5 times and just could not drink it all in enough. The man (Mark Knopfler) has no idea of the impact his music has had on my life.

A lot of mention of "Yes" in previous posts. About 4 years ago a guy I worked with said how much he liked them and said he would loan me 3 CDs. I can't remember what they were called now but on 1st listen it sounded all wrong to me melodically. Then keeping the CDs in the van and listening a couple of more times I started to get it. And really enjoyed how they would avoid the obvious musically. I found them really inventive and seemed to be exploring/pushing boundaries of music. 

Del.

Ooh now you're talking, always love hearing Bert Weedon, my sister had an album of his that she played a lot, saw him once at the Stables at Wavendon. And enjoy the Shadows. Saw the Rolling Stones Steel Wheels tour 1990 at Wembley.

Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler's 'There'll be some changes made' is one of my all time favourite tracks.

Don't think my knees would stand it now, but despite always struggling with co-ordination,  ever since I mastered the alternate sided headbanging to eg Status Quo 'Caroline' that's been my party piece. Unfortunately I never got OH to master it so always looking for a competent partner, or just doing a solo dance. The secret is jeans with a really sturdy leather belt to tuck my thumbs in.