clearly I should write entries about music more often

[winterbadger]

I'm just sayin'. Quite an out pouring of comments. :-)

It would probably explain a lot to those totally horrified my my listening habits to know that I DETEST commercial radio and have refused to listen to it since some time in the early '80s. I can't abide the aural equivalent of spam that it's infested by. So the only way I hear new music is by being around someone who listens to new stuff or pretty much picking things at random and buying them. And I was married for 17 years to someone who *only* listens to folk and show tunes. ;-)

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[winterbadger]

john_arundel and bidger used to come over to my place in the evenings and, under the guise of painting figures, we would all sit around and talk and drink beer. And the two of them would have these fascinating long conversations about music I had never heard of. They'd start with whatever tiny accumualtion of CDs I'd have lying about and discuss the roots of this group and where the sound of the at group came from, and riff for hours about related bands and cross-cutting influences. It was fascinating and eye-opening; I should have been taking notes!