About me and musicI love music. My first and oldest music related memories come from when I was very young, probably around 4 or 5 years old. My father was walking around in the living room wearing these large earphones on his head. He put them on me and let me listen and I've been hooked on music ever since.
That senario was replayed 100's of times as I grew up. Not only did I acquire a taste for music, but I acquired a taste for all music. I especially love to hear a good quality system where you can hear all the highs and lows in a clean crisp sound. There's nothing like hearing the squeel of the bow drawing across the strings of a violin, or the thumping of the pianist's foot while playing the piano...
I like everything. Except for polka rap. Really though, there's not very much that I can't appreciate.
As I was growing up, once I was old enough to buy my own albums, I used to bring them home, open them up and immediately record them to cassette. Then I would safely replace the album for storage until I needed to make another copy. I learned that too from my dad who used to copy his albums on to huge reel-to-reel tapes.
Christmas time was the best when he'd play hours of old Christmas music off those old reel t0 reels. It's probably one of the reasons that I love the Christmas season so much even today. Ok, well that and the opportunity to honor and celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ!
As time progressed and we moved in to the digital age, I moved from cassettes to CD, and eventually on to hard drive storage. Today my music collection is at 270 Gigs and still growing. That's right, 270 Gigabytes. That's a lot of music.
And I have everything from oldies, (Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Perry Como, Glen Miller, et all) to country, old and current, to new age, jazz, classical, Native American, pop, rock you name it and I probably have it.