[speaker001:] music yeah
[speaker002:] music huh
[speaker001:] always an interesting topic
[speaker002:] oh yeah I uh I have a little bit of an interesting experience with music I've been a part-time disc jockey uh
[speaker001:] so oh wow
[speaker002:] work for a a company a little company in Virginia that does uh DJ stuff for weddings and uh birthdays and things like that
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] so we've uh we've had to play quite a bit of of music uh over the past several months so it's interesting to see what people like and that sort of thing are you involved at all in music or uh
[speaker001:] um uh uh a strong appreciator of it um yeah I I did the typical piano thing back uh when I was young and I even played trombone in band for a number of years
[speaker002:] um-hum hum ah hum
[speaker001:] um but I don't actively uh play anymore I just listen and spend too much money on discs
[speaker002:] yeah um-hum right yeah it's interesting now there all going to uh CD's now also
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] I uh have a little bit of an involvement in uh in square dancing and and round dancing and that's all all all still on forty fives and uh so they're they're having an interesting problem when it comes to the music for that because the uh the forty fives are generally played on a variable speed turntable so you can speed it up or slow it down for the dancers
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] so now they're wondering how they're going to do that with CD's it's going to be a little tougher if if it ever goes to CD's it's not it hasn't converted over yet I think the only group of folks who even use forty fives for music anymore
[speaker001:] um yeah yeah that's interesting
[speaker002:] yeah I think that even the aerobics people are using uh all their music is on cassettes or CD's
[speaker001:] yeah yeah well that you know technically it shouldn't be difficult to uh modulate the the speed on a compact disc yeah
[speaker002:] um-hum right yeah I should be able to and cassettes I know that they do have some that are variable speed
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[speaker002:] uh I think those are machines for for aerobic instructors
[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] so uh and uh I found that uh at least at the things I've DJed people like things they can dance to if you can get them to dance
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] it's kind of the hard part uh at these parties they tend to want to sit around or stand around and talk or uh drink and talk or whatever and
[speaker001:] yeah um-hum
[speaker002:] and then getting them to dance and then they they have different taste in dance music some of them like the fast stuff and some the slow
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] we're kind of uh into oldies right now in our in our family for some reason we're most of what we listen to is oldies
[speaker001:] hum-um um-hum
[speaker002:] so and yourself you you just mostly listen then yeah
[speaker001:] yeah yeah um I guess I'm towards the uh other end of the spectrum um I listen to a lot of uh
[speaker002:] hum hum
[speaker001:] techno dance um you know electronic compilations things like that uh really alternative and and progressive music
[speaker002:] um-hum  hum uh-huh
[speaker001:] um so
[speaker002:] huh
[speaker001:] it's kind of the other end of the spectrum for you
[speaker002:] yeah I got uh some albums I've picked up that I've kind of recently gotten interested in it's uh the uh African music
[speaker001:] um um-hum
[speaker002:] uh there's a a group that Paul Simon has uh featured uh well on his album Graceland
[speaker001:] right right
[speaker002:] it's called Lady Smith Black Membazo
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] and they're a uh African uh group that sings a cappella
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and um
[speaker001:] yeah they're a very good group
[speaker002:] um-hum much of their music is sung in Zulu in the Zulu language so that's uh
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] it's a an interesting and uh I guess it kind of falls into the I guess the reggae category uh whatever that is I'm not quite sure what reggae is actually
[speaker001:] yeah yeah that that  um that's that's more like Bob Marley and the Whalers um a lot of the other Jamaican uh groups it's so it's a strongly Jamaican based music
[speaker002:] um-hum ah ha uh-huh hum
[speaker001:] um but it it it's interesting too I'm not terribly familiar with with reggae itself I know it's influenced a lot of of stuff especially some of the more modern dance stuff they take a lot of the more complicated rhythm structures
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker001:] uh from reggae and try to translate that into uh more current hits
[speaker002:] you ever hear of a musical from called Zydeco I had never heard of it before
[speaker001:] um I've heard of it but I couldn't give you a definition of it
[speaker002:] um-hum we had uh what were we doing we were DJing a uh I think it was a company party and they had gotten a request for some of that so I did a little research on it it's uh Louisiana
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] the uh French uh Cajun music
[speaker001:] oh okay okay yeah
[speaker002:] yeah and that's that's called Zydeco I'd never heard of that term before and uh and I I was able to listen to a few tapes from the library of of what it was like and it was definitely different Cajun type music I'd never actually even heard it before
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum yeah