Question of the week: Vinyl, CDs or Streaming? Who cares, let's talk music
By Tom Peterson
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This week's question is: How do you get your music - Vinyl, CDs or Streaming?
Stephanie & Austin VanBeever, both 36, Portland
“I prefer vinyl for aesthetics,” said Austin. “Currently, we’re streaming.”
“I like classic rock,” Stephanie said.
“I’m into melodic progressive house music,” Austin added.
The couple said Led Zeplin, AC/DC, Jimmy Hendrix, were staples in their playlists.
“We’ve seen two Pink Floyd cover bands,” Austin said. “The Pink Floyd Experience and Floydian Slips.”
“We’re going to see Roger Waters at the Moda Center in Zeptember,” Stephanie added.
Waters is a former member of Pink Floyd - like you didn’t know that.
Ron Graves, 73, The Dalles
Graves was watching his great-grandkids at Thompson Park.
“CDs, usually,” Graves said. “I like ‘60s music. Beach Boys. Johnny Horton. Johnny Cash.”
He also said Cash’s A Boy Named Sue was a favorite.
Who could forget these lines:
Well, I hit him hard right between the eyes
And he went down, but to my surprise
He come up with a knife and cut off a piece of my ear
Then I busted a chair right across his teeth
And we crashed through the walls and into the street
Kicking and a-gouging in the mud and the blood and the beer
And what do the grandkids listen too, Russ?
“Whatever is on Disney Jr.,” he said.
Chris Bolton, 71 and ⅞, The Dalles
“Yes,” he said.
Tick, tick, tick
“I do all three and don’t forget cassettes.”
“I listen to everything but opera, and I am not a real big on fusion jazz. I like New Orleans Jazz, Sons of the Pioneer and JIVE radio when it comes in.”
“I love Frank Zappa,” he continued, naming albums Hot Rats and Zoot Alores.
And don’t forget “Antsy McClain and the Trailer Park Troubadours,” he said.
Tiffany Carr-Ford, 49, Dallesport
“No,” said Carr-Ford. “I heart a lot.”
She was referring to radio app on her phone.
“I listen to a lot of Z100 and The Bull,” she said referring to the Portland Radio Stations. “I love Post Malone. Every song he makes I love. But I like everything. I’m listening to music when I’m working.”
RC Cloud, 32, The Dalles
“I listen to YouTube,” she said. “I listen to almost everything. I was born in the late ‘80s, so I like the old stuff too. AC/DC, I like pretty much all of it, yeah. And there is always Journey. Oh, and Pink Floyd.”
Favorite Floyd Song? “Wish you Were Here”, she said.
Classic RC!
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl
Year after year
Running over the same old ground
What have we found?
The same old fears
Wish you were here
Susan Houston, 54, The Dalles
We caught Susan spraying weeds at Discounts Plus where she is a manager.
“I stream my music at this point,” she said. “I used to have a copy of Meet the Beatles on Capital records.”
“I also had Joe Jackson’s I’m the Man. It was a box of 45s. Each 45 had its own jacket and its own photo. It was really cool. I also had a Japanese pressing of David Bowie’s Alladin Sane.”
Houston, like the city in Texas?
“I am a direct descendent of Sam Houston,” she said.
Houston was the first president of the Republic of Texas.
“If I lived in Texas they treat you like royalty,” she said. “I’ve never lived in Texas. I never would. I’d rather be drug through carpet tacks and rubbing alcohol.”
Jeff Ehrhardt, 63, Watseka, Illinois - a town of 5,000 plus
Jeff had been working with Chuck Gomez at The Granada. He said he was a tech guy assisting with shows such as Marty Stuart.
“Whatever I get up on my iPad,” Jeff said. “That or on my mp3 sticks.”
“I like Allman Brothers, Ozzy Osbourne, Judas Priest, most of the hair metal bands, classic rock, southern rock.”
“Judas Priest - that’s attitude rock.”
Doobie Brothers’ Listen to the Music got me playing guitar.
You play an Epiphone?
“No, I don’t play on that @#$@.”
“I have a real Les Paul.”
Russ, no last name given/ no photo, 73, traveler
“I listen to the radio,” he said. “I like Def Leppard. They are excellent. They got a great backbeat.”
AC/DC?
“No, too much screaming,” he said.
Russ said he winters in Corvallis and then is off to the Mid-West in the summertime.
I’ve been to the Strawberry Point Blues Fest in Iowa twice.
“I saw Paul Butterfield Blues Band there.”
“And B.B. King did a street jam before a University of Iowa football game.”
“I’m headed to Minnesota next,” he said.
