Your Favorite Genre(s) of music, Time Period and why......

pleschette.reed · #1 01-31-2010, 03:07 PM

Trying to get to know people a little better within the talkbass community so I thought I'd ask a few simple questions:

What is your favorite genre of music, favorite time period for music and if you could meet any musician and tour with them who would it be and why?

For myself, my favorite genre(s) would Jazz Fusion, Funk, New Age, Smooth Jazz and gospel. Well I guess a bit of techno would be in there too. I LOVE old school funk, so my favorite years are around the 70's-80's. But when it comes to ever going on tour with ANY musician I would choose Ottmar Liebert hands down, he is amazing and I love his style of playing the guitar.

((Thanks Mike)

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tycobb73 · #2 02-01-2010, 01:19 PM

late 80s / early 90s thrash

to me artists need to push and comment on society. You had great albums that did that, Master of Puppets, Peace Sells, Rust in Peace. I don't identify with love songs. I don't identify what party songs. I want my music to make me think about what I and people around me are dong.

Largedon · #3 02-01-2010, 01:21 PM

For me its 70's funk. Herbie, Eddie Henderson, P-Funk, Earth Wind & Fire, Brothers Johnson, etc. Some of the best stuff is on those compilations from the 70's with bands you never heard of but dang they're funky.

DeluxeRed · #4 02-01-2010, 01:25 PM

Classic-era Motown. Def my desert-island genre. As far as musicians, it would be fun to be able to talk with the late James Jamerson, but I'd settle for dinner with Smokey Robinson--the dude did it all: writing, producing, performing.

InspectorEddie · #5 02-01-2010, 01:30 PM

'90's britpop - the bass is always in the front.

Evil Undead · #6 02-01-2010, 02:03 PM

My genres are so widely varied!
My favourites are definitely thrash and alternative metal
but I'm also into nu-metal, punk, pretty much all other types of rock and metal from the 60's to now, electronica, disco, motown, the occasional pop song, drum n bass, some gospel, some trance, a little hip hop, very small amounts of funk and jazz... the list is endless!
Only things I've never really been able to get into are happy hardcore, rave, garage and house

Pilgrim · #7 02-01-2010, 02:26 PM

Two categories...

60's rock including most of the mainstream artists like Beatles, Stones, Cream, Doors, Steppenwolf, Paul Revere, The Who, Moody Blues, Led Zep, Creedence Clearwater, Booker T & the MGs, and I include artists like Motown, Ray Charles, Sam & Dave and James Brown in this category because they were played on mainstream stations.

And surf from the 60's up to the present - Dick Dale, Ventures, Chantays, Surfaris, Beach Boys, Astronauts, Los Straitjackets and others in that genre.

My bass idol? Duck Dunn.

Mrdak · #8 02-01-2010, 02:29 PM

Late 60's thru the mid 70's.... Rock.....Anything from The Beatles to Captain beyond.
Now, if I could tour with any major act today, I would have to choose Clapton. It would be like dying and going to heaven.

Dark Horse · #9 02-01-2010, 02:30 PM

Motown, Stax, Volt....

Alt Country....

Old School Country...

British Invasion....

Why ? Don't know. Those are just the things my ear naturally "gravitates" to.

pleschette.reed · #10 02-01-2010, 02:31 PM

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Originally Posted by DeluxeRed

Classic-era Motown. Def my desert-island genre. As far as musicians, it would be fun to be able to talk with the late James Jamerson, but I'd settle for dinner with Smokey Robinson--the dude did it all: writing, producing, performing.

I love me som Smokey, saw him in concert with my mom a little while back and it stuns me just how good he STILL sounds after all those years. He darn well looks as good too.

pleschette.reed · #11 02-01-2010, 02:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Largedon

For me its 70's funk. Herbie, Eddie Henderson, P-Funk, Earth Wind & Fire, Brothers Johnson, etc. Some of the best stuff is on those compilations from the 70's with bands you never heard of but dang they're funky.

I feel you on those artists, I love EW&F- fantasy has got to be my favorite song by them, a close seconf is reasons. I would give anything to become a protege of Louis Johnson. By Herbie did you mean Herb Alpert? I like that one song Aranjuez (Mon Amour), that bass line is delicious!

pleschette.reed · #12 02-01-2010, 02:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Evil Undead

My genres are so widely varied!
My favourites are definitely thrash and alternative metal
but I'm also into nu-metal, punk, pretty much all other types of rock and metal from the 60's to now, electronica, disco, motown, the occasional pop song, drum n bass, some gospel, some trance, a little hip hop, very small amounts of funk and jazz... the list is endless!
Only things I've never really been able to get into are happy hardcore, rave, garage and house

Seems I have a whole lot of researching to do, I had no idea there were some of those genre names out there. O.o

Any particular artists within those music types?

higgi · #13 02-01-2010, 02:56 PM

I really like the new stuff out now.

Iron and Wine, Rasputina, Imogen Heap, Muse, Clutch, RJD2, Acey Alone, Ester Drang, System of a Down, Shiny Toy Guns.

LongHairFreak · #14 02-02-2010, 01:31 AM

Time period is very difficult. It really depends on what I'm listening to. My favorite C&W is from the 50s/60s; favorite blues/funk is from the 60s/70s; pop metal/grundge from the 90s; and I dig bluegrass from all eras. Perhaps my favorite timeline would be the 60s and 70s. This could cover anything from Stevie Wonder and James Brown to Grand Funk Railroad and Rare Earth to T-Rex and Alice Cooper to Jimi Hendrix and Santana to ELP and Yes to... The list goes on.

My all time favorite genre though, would be rockin' blues. Humble Pie, Cream, Ten Years After, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Marino, Janis Joplin, Stevie Ray Vaughn, The Allman Brothers Band, Johnny Winter, Rory Gallagher, Blackfoot, Molly Hatchet, Z.Z. Top, The Faces, Indigenous, and many, many more.

I couldn't say who I'd like to travel with, but the only "musician" I'd really care to meet is Alice Cooper. I mean no offense to any TBer though.

Evil Undead · #15 02-02-2010, 01:44 AM

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Originally Posted by pleschette.reed

Seems I have a whole lot of researching to do, I had no idea there were some of those genre names out there. O.o

Any particular artists within those music types?

Hehe, tough one!
Metallica, Slayer, Tool, Audioslave, Soundgarden, Creed, Nine Inch Nails, Korn, Otep, My Ruin, Prodigy, Pendulum, N-Trance, Kelly Lorenna, Greenday, Misfits, Smokey Robinson, Supremes, Martha Reeves, Carol Kaye, Lauren Hill, DMX, Jamiroquai
They're only some of my favourites, I've got somewhere around 500 albums on my Ipod!

JulienJeff · #16 02-02-2010, 02:02 AM

My favorite genre is "grunge / indie" music. Period: 90'-96'.
I'd tour with pearl jam any day

Essen · #17 02-02-2010, 02:19 AM

Prog rock, metal. Mostly 90's - 00's. I'm in love with the grunge movement in the eraly 90's (pearl jam etc). Also the prog rock and metal that came at that time, Tool, Muse, Opeth etc.

Elrend · #18 02-02-2010, 02:43 AM

Post-bop, M-BASE, Free jazz, noise, psytrance, DnB, ambient, IDM, hip hop, jazz hop, "contemporary jazz" (Putting this in quotation marks because it could mean anything from Medeski, Martin & Wood to Mikko Innanen.)

The late 50s, 60s, late 90s and the 2000s.

Bruce Lindfield · #19 02-02-2010, 03:02 AM

I like the end of the 19th, early 20th Century Classical music in Austria and Germany - my dream would be to see Gustav Mahler conduct one of his symphonies in Vienna!!

DeluxeRed · #20 02-02-2010, 08:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Bruce Lindfield

I like the end of the 19th, early 20th Century Classical music in Austria and Germany - my dream would be to see Gustav Mahler conduct one of his symphonies in Vienna!!

There's one in every crowd!