[speaker001:] type of music is hot down in Texas
[speaker002:] uh well I don't know exactly what's hot down in Texas I know what's hot down here with me so that's about all I can feel apt to discuss with you since I just know I don't ever listen to the radio and that's usually what's hot around here so
[speaker001:] oh okay
[speaker002:] so what kind of music do you like
[speaker001:] uh mostly folk music
[speaker002:] folk music
[speaker001:] yeah I find myself uh listening to a lot of uh uh either old timer or New England uh dance bands as well as uh just more popular folk music and new artists coming up
[speaker002:] uh-huh well we're on totally different wavelengths
[speaker001:] okay
[speaker002:] I'm I'm more uh old rock and roll uh some new newer I guess you would call it heavy metal rock and roll type
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] you know uh Van Halen that kind of thing any
[speaker001:] yeah what about uh classic rock type stations
[speaker002:] uh I don't listen to the radio at all we live in a fairly small town so uh classic rock for me is what I have which is like uh Doors Eagles Jimmy Hendrix
[speaker001:] oh okay so some some of the older Eagles stuff was good
[speaker002:] uh yeah
[speaker001:] I I didn't like uh they started getting a little more you know the type of music at at least to me it's uh sounds like it's only sounds good at a high volumes and I don't like listening at high volumes
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] but uh some of their older stuff stuff was uh you know quite enjoyable to me
[speaker002:] yeah well it's
[speaker001:] you know Hotel Hotel California and that era
[speaker002:] yeah yeah that does that's something you don't doesn't even sound good loud really
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] so yeah definitely so anything new you like coming out now other than folk music some I might know of I don't know any folk music at all
[speaker001:] well down in Texas uh you know little listen to a little country every now and then
[speaker002:] yeah oh yeah we hear
[speaker001:] I'm sure I'm sure there's a lot of that down there
[speaker002:] oh plenty way way more than I can stand down here I I don't care for it at all that Texas twang or whatever you want to call it I
[speaker001:] well there there's a Conway Twitty twang then there's the uh Dolly Parton uh Hollywood sound type
[speaker002:] yeah yeah that's more even more commercialized form of country music but uh it's getting uh uh getting pretty big everywhere as I see it Garth Brooks is outselling Guns and Roses so it's
[speaker001:] yeah yeah I think some of them the artists are even uh hitting the pop charts
[speaker002:] yeah it's it's kind of strange that it's getting as big as it is concert tours for country and western singers is it's it's quite quite odd but uh I don't know it's music is kind of going an odd direction nowadays I think it's becoming not necessarily good music just popular music you know it's it's it's
[speaker001:] hey I I I think most artists are in to make a few bucks
[speaker002:] yeah and that's all it's it's
[speaker001:] but they're not in it to say anything or give a message which is what they were do late late sixties early seventies they were they were definitely pushing a message
[speaker002:] yeah yeah that's what it it was yeah that's what what you say and and then music is wrapped around now now it's the other way around
[speaker001:] yeah and I don't I don't think gun at least to my mind Guns and Roses doesn't have too much of a message too much to say
[speaker002:] no no they don't have anything really important you want to hear but you know it's kind of odd it's like doesn't have to be good it's just who does it you know you hear a you hear a Paula Abdul song and you and I think if somebody else were to play that
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] you know they wouldn't they nobody everybody would think that's lousy but because she did it it's supposed to be good you know it comes to the point where it's your name not what you do
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] more than anything Madonna can do anything and it would be considered good because it's Madonna you know
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] Madonna could start playing folk music and folk music would be huge just because Madonna does it so it's it's it's really backwards how things are working now but
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah it it it's the artist not the merit
[speaker002:] yeah exactly so I don't know I I don't know that that's I don't think that's a good thing at all but that's that's what the point we've reached so I don't know
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] how how much farther we can digress before we have to turn it around and go the other way at least
[speaker001:] well I don't know I know for myself that uh for the most part I don't know which artist is which so I listen to a song I either like the song or I don't like it and then if I really like the song eventually I'll figure out who it was
[speaker002:] yeah you yeah yeah that's about how I am on popular music I don't you know you don't I don't know enough about it because I just listen uh everything I listen to is what I buy not whatever they play on the radio so
[speaker001:] well you have to figure out what to buy or do you just buy along the same artist and
[speaker002:] uh I yeah I just mostly buy along the same lines all the time I don't really switch around to new things very often
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] it's just it's you know it's way to hectic and too confusing it's
[speaker001:] yeah so you keep buying the same artists until you don't like an album then you stop
[speaker002:] uh yeah generally or about the only new music I hear is somebody else that I know will buy something new that I haven't heard and I listen to it that way but
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] as far as yeah I don't go out on a limb and buy something new very often unless I've heard it
[speaker001:] yeah see that's one thing I like about the uh some of the folk music scenes you know there's a couple of nice uh small coffee houses up in New Jersey
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] and it's very nice you go into the coffee house and you know an artist is there and very often the artist will have a demo an album and so if you like the artist you buy the album
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] so you definitely get to try before you buy
[speaker002:] yeah yeah that's definitely I that's
[speaker001:] though it you you you don't always quite get it right