[speaker001:] all right are you a music fan
[speaker002:] oh by all means various types um my tastes range from rock and roll to classical in fact about the only type of music that I really find offensive would be uh country western
[speaker001:] oh is that right
[speaker002:] yeah I take that back rap but I consider rap music to be an oxymoron
[speaker001:] yeah I guess I I'll have to agree with you on rap uh that's uh it's not my that's not my style my uh
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] let's let's see one more question here do you uh do you play an instrument
[speaker002:] yes I do I play two a bass guitar and kalimba
[speaker001:] okay so that's
[speaker002:] I used to play three which was the clarinet but I've that's since gone into disuse
[speaker001:] well now there's there's multiple kinds of country western music uh not that I'm an expert in that uh area but
[speaker002:] yeah well there was rockabilly in the fifties and that's what gave rise to like Carl Perkins uh Jerry Lee Lewis uh Elvis Presley in the beginning
[speaker001:] but there's yeah right
[speaker002:] and that type of music I do appreciate it had some it had it had the spark of creativity it was it was out there
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and uh since then it's sort of fallen into formula and I guess that's my thing is I have a problem with formula music
[speaker001:] now is is uh I guess the other thing that that uh there there is one kind of music that I don't know I wouldn't consider it country western but but it is in a sense
[speaker002:] huh
[speaker001:] and that's bluegrass what about that
[speaker002:] well I've only been exposed to that minimally and that's usually through occasional you know viewings of concerts of said type on public television
[speaker001:] okay
[speaker002:] you know
[speaker001:] did you watch the the did did you watch it for very long or was it just
[speaker002:] oh it was something I had basically for background it was not uh obtrusive
[speaker001:] oh okay
[speaker002:] it was something I could listen to and uh and do my chores around the house
[speaker001:] okay so you listen to it I I mean it's not
[speaker002:] oh yes
[speaker001:] it not
[speaker002:] it's not completely offensive
[speaker001:] it's not offensive to you is what I'm
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] oh that's that's interesting my uh there for uh a long time uh I I liked folk music but uh folk music is you know a a back in the seventies
[speaker002:] uh-huh yeah
[speaker001:] so to speak sixties and seventies and then
[speaker002:] sure
[speaker001:] and uh then I became a a bluegrass fan and I listened to it all the time and I've got lots of tapes of it and then
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] uh I like but I'm kind of like you I I I mean in some ways I'm like you I I don't uh uh I don't like music that it's this uh where you where you know what the next phrase is going to be because you know they have these dumb rhymes like a lot of I mean the where the how shall I say it the words are just so predictable
[speaker002:] uh-huh yeah
[speaker001:] and although I do laugh at some of the country western things they have this one uh country western song about the guy the perfect country western song and he said it had to have trains and all that stuff trains and mama I don't know if you've heard that one
[speaker002:] oh that that that's cute I would've liked to have heard that
[speaker001:] and then he uh basically said okay so I went back to him and finally it what he came up with was the song about uh his mom got hit by a train and and uh she or it was the day she got out of jail she got hit by a train and and things like that so you know and anyways went to see her in his pickup truck and stuff like that so it was kind of creative I like that but uh
[speaker002:] oh yeah had to have some beer too or or some sort of alcoholic substance
[speaker001:] yeah but uh the thing one of the things that that the northwest I've been told has has got a lot of uh it's kind of the center of activity is uh uh I don't know if you would call it new wave music or or uh new age music I is that it
[speaker002:] new age yes
[speaker001:] yeah George Winston and which is he's a little bit uh uh well he's kind of the recognized uh I don't know if he's the founder of it but
[speaker002:] huh yeah it's like the Windham Hill stuff it's it's
[speaker001:] but they yeah Windham Hill
[speaker002:] yeah it's uh new age classical so to speak
[speaker001:] yes
[speaker002:] well what I what I often uh call air pudding yeah
[speaker001:] now they have some of that uh uh some of it's very interesting and other and and others uh is how shall I say it it's very predictable now that's interesting you'd say the air pudding some people would call it yuppie music
[speaker002:] yeah yeah well I only use it when I'm studying and that's the extent of it it's just it's good background filter stuff and you know it what it is it's pleasant but it's not talent in in my view it's not genius um when I really wish to get into listening pleasure uh with something of that nature I put on Mozart or Beethoven something that will evoke a response something that almost reaches in and and hits those proverbial heart strings
[speaker001:] the I I can respond to that a little bit by uh I spent three years in the Far East and of course the some of the I mean what kids
[speaker002:] uh