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Main Boards => The Bowyer's Bench => Topic started by: Pat B on February 05, 2021, 12:56:05 PM
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...listen to when you are working on bows. My wife like absolute quiet while she's doing her art. I like to have music and my choices are pretty eclectic. I like Mozart and other classical music but also jazz like Scott Joplin, Miles Davis, Benny Goodman and others. I also like Afro-Cuban All Stars, Buena Vista Social Club and it's individual members. John Prine, KD Lang, Peter Rowan, Doc Watson, Grateful Dead, Neal Young, Carol King and Rita Coolidge, Dolly Parton, Hank Williams, Jimmy Rogers, The Gershwins, all of Motown and Southern Rock and most Rock in general and so much more.
So, what do you listen to while building bows, if anything?
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Classic rock, 60s and 70s, listened to country for awhile, but could only take so many songs about her terrible and bad boyfriends. Ya know what I think - if you been married 9 times, maybe it's you....
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I usually roll with metal or rock. I like to break it up every now and then with some country and a little salsa or merengue.
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Classic rock, 60s and 70s, listened to country for awhile, but could only take so many songs about her terrible and bad boyfriends. Ya know what I think - if you been married 9 times, maybe it's you....
LOL
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I only listen to music in the car. There's a radio on my bench and once or three times a year it might be heard playing country or classic rock.
In the car it's often tuned to a station that plays outakes from comedian sets 4 or 5 minutes per. Keeps me chucking. :)
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I just talk to myself mostly...
But like the 60 and 70 classic rock music like the ole timer up there does.
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Combination of Talk Radio, Community Radio, Sports Radio.
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Usually I'm listening to the shop tools and dust collection making noise. I don't like wearing ear buds or the blue tooth ear muffs and I can't play the radio loud enough to hear it much over the tool noise so I don't turn it on. For actual listening I like 90's alternative, hard rock and maybe a bit of classic rock.
Mark
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No music for me.
I just listen to myself, MF, SOB
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I like it all... Can only listen to so much Country... The new Country aint Country to me... It's like Rap... It all starts sounding the same... :tongue:
I listen to Pandora in my shop... I put on a music depending on my mood... But if I got some real thinking to do and problem solving, concerning bow design I either turn it off or I turn it down super low and usually put on some easy listening type stuff...
Here is some cool stuff you might want to try that's off the beaten path... Some of these are really good chill music if you don't want something in your face and just some background music...
Karunesh.....Nataraj.....Gypsy Kings.....Rusted Root.....Benise.....Blue Stingrays.....Anugama.....Budos Rising.....Desmond Dekker.....Rising Appalachia.....Jimmy Cliff.....
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There’s an old radio above my bench but I haven’t turned it on in years. When I’m making something I get so focused that I close out the rest of the world.
If I thought of it I would put on some classic rock, older country, classical or even a good movie soundtrack.
Dave.
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I listen to public radio, so pretty much everything Pat listed. Plus Flamenco, Punk Rock and Indy Chill.
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Shredd - I listened to Jimmy Cliff a thousand time while building my house back in the 70s! Still listen to him sometimes, The Harder They Come The Harder They Fall. You ever see the movie?
Otherwise, musicwise, I’m across the board - except I don’t do rap ... or Facebook for that matter.
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I have a TV so whatever channel that comes thru best with my cheapy antenna.
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Cool... Good stuff... I seen him perform down here at a night club... I will have to check out the movie...
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Radio wont pick up at My house much less inside the bow shop room, inside a metal building.
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Radio wont pick up at My hose
What?
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You know what he means horsefly... :biglaugh:
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Knock it off butter cup..
:biglaugh:
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OK now childern. Don't make me come down there. :smileystooges:
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I have widely varying taste in music, in fact I would say a like a little of every genre but a lot of only a few.
Top of the list will be Christian music but honestly, as much as I like to praise my God and Savior, Christian music is really kind of lack luster.
Past that I just bounce around by mood and skip over stuff that I find offensive.
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Wow. I really misjudged you guys. I just assumed other bowyers were normal like me :laughing:
Sometimes I like silence, but I've played guitar for 40 years so usually I want to hear guitar jammin tunes. Nowadays you can't trust the radio for that so I use a docking station for my Ipod. No commercials and only stuff I like. Southern rock, classic rock, hard rock, Texas blues, delta blues, old country blues... and no, that's not at all like todays 'country music'.
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Classic rock , classic country and right wing talk radio which usually gets me in a bad mood, then I need to listen to Credence or something happy .
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I'm like Shredd, match the music to the mood/need.
Ol' school rock like pink floyd, led zeplin, dire straits into blues, jazz and if I need to get some hard work done put on some dub step or drum and bass.
Spotify/pandora are great for finding different artists you wouldn't normally come across, I've found a few local and Australian artists I wouldn't have found on 'mainstream' music platforms and a couple I'm still trying catch a live gig for. When I met my wife I was introduced to a whole world of music I wouldn't have come across otherwise as she's a native spanish speaker.
In no particular order a quick glance at my recent playlists...
Joe Bonamassa, Kenny Wayne Shephard, Brooklyn Funk Essentials, Paul Simon, Nils Lofgren and from my time in NZ, Salmonella Dub, Trinity Roots, Black Seeds, locally Richard Perso, Bondi Cigars and Brent Lewis.
Can't stand 'country country' but there are a few I listen to that might veer into a corner of that genre :o
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Can only listen to music when doing hand work as I have hearing protection on when the power tools are in play. But man I do like turning the music on when using files and sand paper. Then it is time for Rage Against the Machine, Disturbed, Tool, Korn, Five Finger Death Punch, Metallica, Hailstorm, Bush, Seven Mary Three, Slipknot,,,,you know - stuff like that, anything loud and hard. Listen to it when I am shooting too.
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Pat I figured you for dueling banjos:)
:wavey: :thumbsup:
Any of ya ever listen to Indian flute music?
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That too, Roy. I have 4 NA flutes but don't play. It is very soothing music.
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Can only listen to music when doing hand work as I have hearing protection on when the power tools are in play. But man I do like turning the music on when using files and sand paper. Then it is time for Rage Against the Machine, Disturbed, Tool, Korn, Five Finger Death Punch, Metallica, Hailstorm, Bush, Seven Mary Three, Slipknot,,,,you know - stuff like that, anything loud and hard. Listen to it when I am shooting too.
My man!
Anyone listen to The Dead South, Nathanial Rateliff, or Colter Wall?
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Wow... Cool thread.. And I pegged all you guys to listen to country or bluegrass... :laughing:
I'll have to try out some of you all's music...
I love me some Zepplin, Santana, Motown and War to name a few...
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70's Rock is number 1
but I like alot of different kinds
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Words out that Roy just go awarded the most loyal fan trophy in the Barry Manilow Fan Club...
Good going Roy... Proud of you Buddy...
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Country or “classic rock”.
For you oltimers, that’s just rock. :biglaugh:
If I could find a station that played “classic country”, that would be sweeeet.
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Bluegrass, I think everybody that learned to build a bow with me has hated it, but they knew listening to it was the price of admission into my shop to build a bow.
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LOL Rich, thanks dude...
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What ever is on the local 89-90s rock station, radio reception is poor in my shop.
Once I really liked the sound track from the movie Braveheart, strangely when I played it in my shop I would have a lot more goof ups making bows than when I played plain old rock and roll. I never understood this and tested this theory a bunch of times, it always came out the same.
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LOL Rich, thanks dude...
Anytime... :thumbsup: :laughing:
Eric... That's crazy... Maybe something to be aware of... Roy builds a great stick bow... Maybe you should listen to some Barry Manilow... :biglaugh:
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Not funny, as a kid I had to listen to Lawrence Welk every night:)
That was moms favorite...
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:laughing: :biglaugh: :laughing:
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Not funny, as a kid I had to listen to Lawrence Welk every night:)
That was moms favorite...
Yikes! That show gave me the creeps :scared: Still does....... Except for the costumes
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Not funny, as a kid I had to listen to Lawrence Welk every night:)
That was moms favorite...
That was one of my Mother's favorites too. And Liberace. :)
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Liberace
Oh god that one too, it was worse then Welk:)
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It's all good in it's place. My generation grew up with musical movies, variety shows on TV, Dick Clark, Soul Train and of course the beginnings of rock, Motown and classical music on all of our Saturday morning cartoons. I feel fortunate to have grown up during this period. I guess this is where my love for music began.
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I agree with the wife.
...quieter the better. :dunno:
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“A-wonaful, a-wonaful”
Lawrence Welk
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Watched Lawrence Welk many many times. Seems it was on every time we went to visit my grandparents. "Thank you-a Bobby and Sissy."
Got bubbles?
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Guess I’m a generation behind most of y’all.
As a kid my musical shows were Hee-haw and Solid Gold.
I’m not sure who had it worse you or me. :biglaugh:
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Hee-haw fits ya just fine:)
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Pat, my wife is the same. She likes it very quiet. I'm the opposite. Classic Rock for me. I just cannot stand the quiet. Can't really lose myself if it is quiet. If that makes any sense. And, I like to work alone. However, lately my son has been showing real interest in learning so I've made an exception.
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I went through a phase where all I listened to in the shop was The Vitamin String Quartet. They’re so good. There’s also a Chess Music playlist on Spotify that has a good selection of really cool classical numbers. Lately, though, last year or so, I’ve been nerdin’ it up with a podcast or audiobook. Half the time I just like hearing somebody talk and I completely forget to pay attention to what they’re talking about. It’s a lot better to do that with an audiobook than it is with a lady, hence the reason I have to put on a podcast to hear somebody talking.
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I only listen to metal. Ozzy, Cooper, Maiden, Priest, AC/DC, Five Finger Death Punch, Metallica, Machine Head, Testament, Dio, Haltstrom, etc... A fast beat helps me sand and file quicker, better, and longer. As Halestrom said, “I like it heavy”.
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Loved country music up through The Haggard after not so much. Couldn't tell you the last time I had the radio on. If only there was a Bob Wills, Jimmy Rodgers station. I also like bluegrass but not new grass.
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I like it quiet. :) Jawge