OT: music

[Andrew Melamed]

What do you guys listen to while working in the shop

I normally have on:

Rush
Led Zepplin
Black Sabbath
Blue Oyster Cult
Rolling Stones

[Steve Sawyer]

What do you guys listen to while working in the shop

Oddball eclectic

Brazilian girls
Radiohead
Etta James
Funkadelic/Parliament
James Brown
Air
Gabin
Electric Light Orchestra
Steely Dan
Beatles
B-52's
Lou Reed/Velvet Underground
Frank Zappa
Cream
Zero 7
Massive Attack
Lighthouse
Carl Craig
Underground
Michael Brook
Carla Thomas
Sia
The Ronettes
Procol Harum
Imogen Heap
Moby
Marvin Gaye
The Frost
William Orbit
Beth Orton
Kate Bush
Everything But The Girl
Chibo Matto
Sneaker Pimps
Kraftwerk

I have 300 CD's on a jukebox CD player, and over 3,000 MP3's on my computer that I always set to random play, both of which can be played through wireless speakers in my shop.

[Ernie Hobbs]

Books on CD. It's a pain when running machines to keep having to pause the book but it's great when I'm doing hand work. Between driving and shop time, I get through about two novels a week.

[Doug Shepard]

Well I lunched off the first two lists to get me started, but here goes:
Funkadelic/Parliament - or just George Clinton
Electric Light Orchestra
Steely Dan
Beatles
Frank Zappa
Led Zeppelin
Cream (Eric Clapton solo stuff too)
Crosby,Stills,Nash,Young (or not Young too)-Still's solo album Illegal Stills gets a lot of play too for some reason
Talking Heads (has enybody else noticed that every song is based on a single bass riff, yet somehow manages to not sound like it? Pretty amazing)
Django Reinhardt (better yet with Stephane Grapelli)
Jimi Hendrix
Gypsy Kings
Jeff Beck
John Scofield - this guy gets lots of play
Smithereens
Eagles (any of Henley's solo stuff too)
Billy Holiday
Aretha
Miles Davis
No Doubt
David Grisman

I'm sure there's other heavy rotation CD's in my box that Ill slap myself later for forgetting.

[Mitchell Andrus]

Over 9,000 on my ipod:

jazz, swing, doo-wop, Motown.

Mitch

[Aaron Beaver]

How do you listen to music and such, do you not have a DC running all (most) of the time. Plus having on hearing protection, I would have to get those radio hearing protectors (which I have been looking at closely) to hear anything.

[Earl Reid]

I play old Country music
Earl

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Just about any old classic rock from 1964-1974.

[Mike Cutler]

For background "Noise" I'll listen to whatever the iPod is rolling through.

Sanding and "bench work" is always done to Bob Marley, or Peter Tosh. For some reason the reggae tempo slows me down, and I do better work. It makes me less impatient. Wierd huh.

[Jesse Thornton]

I've been listening to various non fiction audio books lately; one about training your ear to hear with perfect pitch, a few about time management (heheh), another about making money in real estate. As for music, I could come up with a pretty lengthy list - but as of late:
Tom Waits
Rolling Stones
Alasdair Roberts
Allman Brothers Band
Magnolia Electric Co.
Palace Brothers
Bob Dylan
Johnny Cash
Nick Cave
Dirty Three
Ray Charles
Stravinsky
Beethoven
Mozart (esp. Requiem)
Gillian Welch
Paul Simon
Vic Chesnutt
Leadbelly
...to name a few.

[Al Willits]

How do you hear when power tools are running?
Easy, I have a tri amped system and some decent speakers that sound pretty good to me.
Probably helps explain the hearing loss though..


Seems I have about 800+ CD's and a lot of different stuff, depending on mood.
But a few are,
Allman Bros
Fleetwood Mac
Bessie Smith/Billie Holiday
Sly
Funkadelic
JJ Cale
Prince
Benny Goodman/Dorsey Bros
Talking Heads
Most R&B
Notorious Cherry Bombs
Clapton
BB King
Buddy Guy
Savoy Brown


List goes on...including many of what's already been posted.

Am looking into one of the Sony 400 CD players for in the garage, need to make a better cabinet for it, have the feeling sawdust and the changer won't get a long.
Al

[Jim DeLaney]

My preference is for silence. I hear enough noise everywhere else, so don't want it in my shop.

The only 'music' in my shop is the sound of tools on wood.

[Steve Sawyer]

Doug - reading your list and your location - I'm betting you too were/are a WDET listener! Particularly before they changed their format (if you listened in the daytime).

[Steve Sawyer]

Am looking into one of the Sony 400 CD players for in the garage, need to make a better cabinet for it, have the feeling sawdust and the changer won't get a long.

Wireless speakers.

Mine are truly "wireless", but they were expensive ($200+), but I saw some in Radio shack the other day that multiplex the signal over your house wiring. $20 for the transmitter, $30 for two powered speakers that can receive, or $20 for a stand-alone receiver that you can hook your own speakers.

Sells under the brand name "Accurian" and called the "HomePlug" system.

Perfect for getting music into your shop without jeopardizing (or giving space to) the stereo equipment.

[Al Willits]

Thanks Steve, but I tried it a ways back and didn't have much luck, maybe living next to the airport had something to do with it, not sure, but got static out of the system.
Also the remote wouldn't reach from the garage to the house/basement

Also Beasty wanted all the old stereo & rack mount stuff outta the house when I bought the HT stuff, it does take up a bit of room, and we have a very small house.

But thanks for the suggestion.

Al