Shop Tunes

A

akivory

Joined
Feb 5, 2001
Messages
808
What do you listen to? For a town our size we have a lot of radio stations but not one of them plays music to my liking. Until recently I had talk stations on in the background. A couple of months ago I bought a remote speaker and have been listening to Internet radio. I have not had much time to explore but on Live365 you can chose from over 10,000 stations. There are probably that many more that broadcast independently. It is amazing how some good mountain music can improve the atmosphere.
 
I make my own CDs and play them on a Big Lots special AM/FM/CD player I bought there for like $19 and some tax. Works fine for me that way in case I damage a disc in there. This way I'm out just a few pennies and the trouble of making a new copy which is no trouble at all really these days.

As for what I listen to. I like stuff that inspires me and makes me think good things, smile or feel upbeat. Typically I listen to a lot of JJCale, and my son turned me on to Collective Soul and Train which I enjoy a lot also, and here lately I have rekindled a passion from my days in Illinois with Allison Krauss music(AKUS) as well as some other Bluegrass and folk tunes from my roots in West Virginia that are pretty old banjo and fiddle tunes. I also really like Keb Mo a lot and can listen to his 'Just Like Me' CD over and over again without wearing it out.

STR
 
I love to listen to country or rock or heavy metal or even some techno (even swedish techno). I listen to what has a good beat. I think the heavy metal goes great with the sound of grinding metal. :D I too prefer to make my own CDs or just turn up the speakers on my computer. One of these days I'm going to get an MP3 player and keep that in my pocket with the wires running thru my shirt while I work on knives. That is once i have the time again. :D
 
Got a MP3 player, download what ever you want it seems. I can wear it under the ear protectors when forging, got a set of rechargeable batteries, it will play FM or downloads or I can put cd's on it. I look at it as a poormans IPOD. Cheers Ron.
 
I listen to the drone of the my grinder through my earplugs... Just like to hear things so I'm more aware of what is going on. I feel a little too 'closed off' with earphones or loud music Damn I'm boring!

Lang
 
Have a boom box playing with an "Oldies" station playing 70's and 80's rock. Hammering to the beat seems to get things moving faster.

Chuck
 
I have an mp3 player hooked up to a good 3 piece computer speaker/ subwoofer set I got at Staples for $70. The mp3 player plugs right in, with just one cord. It's loud enough to hear, I don't need headphones, and best of all it's practically dustproof!
Here's the speakers' complete with cord and remote:

http://www.staples.com/webapp/wcs/s...0051&productId=150300&cmArea=SC3:CG6:CL140479
( It's usually cheaper in-store)

As for music- Tool, Les Claypool, and a lot of Tom Waits gets played in my shop.
 
My Grampa Jones tape wore out last year but as luck would have it I found a Lynard Skinnard CD on the road by the mail box last week. It dont get better than that.
 
I can't receive radio stations either and rely on internet feeds. I listen to Live365 a lot.

I listen to a wide variety from Classical, to surf,..Bosa Nova..to head banging metal.

Anything I can find online is fair game.

-Rob
 
I received a great gift while home last weekend. My son loaded his entire music collection, 85 Gh, onto my external hard drive. I won't have to repeat anything soon.
I like everything from Nine Inch Nails to Japanese tea music.
Fred
 
My sound system for the shop consists of an old pair of B&W bookshelf speakers driven by a stereo receiver, fed with my computer hard drive (something to the tune of 175 gigs of music).
Predominantly I listen to hard bop jazz, classic rock, drum and bass (or many other veins of techno and electronica). I find that listening to things that my generation usually associates with 'aggressive grinding' reduces my focus and screws me up, so it's rare if I listen to anything too hard or angry. Anyone that knows me likely knows that it's the last thing I need, anyway!
 
When my wife upgraded from her Rio to an iPod, I inherited it (lucky me it has a 20 gig hard disk in it). I plugged it into an old preamp/amp I had on a shelf with a pair of Advent 300(?) car speakers and a Yamaha Computer subwoofer I had laying around in my garage. Instant, FREEEEEEEEEEE stereo heaven. I took the 1200 tunes she had on it and filled it up the rest of the way with stuff off my PC theatre system . Now I am working my way through it a tune at a time.

No repeats and lots of pleasant surprises................ The Mojo Nixon stuff surprised the hell outta me. The copy of William Gibson reading Neuromancer was a MUCH bigger surprise.

Syn
 
liveing in switzerland as i do iam stuck with only makeing knifes on tuesday night when drs3 has its country segment..yodeling just dont cut it (was that a pun?:jerkit:) when shaping steel
 
I have an mp3 player with earbuds, don't need hearing protection unfortunately because files don't make too much noise :D I like heavy metal and orchestral music, not much in between.
 
I usually have one of two bands in my CD player... TOOL (almost always) and sometimes Flogging Molly ...other then that theres a alternative/metal station I pick up sometimes I listen too...I find it hard to concentrate unless TOOL is playing though...
 
Last night I listened to old cowboy tunes on http://www.cowboyculturalsociety.com/ . This brought me back to my roots in Arizona and time spent on the ranch of a family friend in the summer time.
I like old folk (not the hippy kind) blues and music from that is from people close to the land.

I bought a ACOUSTIC-RESEARCH-AW811-OUTDOOR-WIRELESS speaker a few months ago .You plug the transmitter into your earphone jack .It takes rechargeable batteries and recharges them when it is plugged into AC ,
 
I've been listening to a rock band called "Spock's Beard" lately. I learned of them from my satellite radio in my car. I found some cd's and found that they are very much to my liking. Great band!

Ickie
 
Everything from Slipknot, Tool, Alice in Chains, Linkin Park, Death Cab for Cutie, Gackt, and FLOW (Japanese rock), to things like bagpipes and Celtic music. Not into country.

-Mike Sheffield
 
Here is the station I listen to in the shop about 99% of the time.The rest is country.

http://www.wqlt.com/home.php

This station was started by Sam Phillips owner of Sun Record,just a little trivia..

These guys let you listen to the station over the net and even have a live chat to talk to people.I log into it everynow and then as knifemaker if you are on there and ask them to shout out to me I will get on the net and chat with you if I am in the shop:D

My old stereo system has had the speakers from a old surrond sound system hooked up to it and I jam out in the shop while I work.Nothing better than loud music and a anvil ringing or a grinder running to let me loose the world.Man I have been missing it but amd getting back out in the shop again.

Bruce
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top