I think that one of the most delightful things in life is music. Depending on how large your collection of music is I have I consider to be rather large collection myself. I have around 1400 CDs in the goodly amount of downloaded music. I won’t even pretend to add up what I have spent on music in my life as my interest started around the age of 12 as most people’s does.
By the age of 15 I was playing lead guitar in a small house band. Now granted I never went past the stage of playing in the local community centers around the state, but I can say unequivocally that there is no better feeling than standing in front of people and making music. 
It’s utterly beyond my imagination to think of what someone like Led Zeppelin or the Grateful Dead must have felt as they performed in front of thousands and thousands of people.
It is true that when a band is on the mark, the band and the people can feel it. There is nothing more enjoyable than the feeling that everyone is playing along with you. How strange it would be if a person really does retain everything that they hear and see in their lifetime. To be able to relive those times would be so incredible. Of course this is the time that the turtles, the Beatles, Elvis Presley were big. Okay, I’m talking about 1965, 1966 and a little later. At that time there was an incredible music explosion in the types of music that was being played. I could listen to anyone from Buddy Holly, Jan and Dean, the Dave Clark 5, and the Ventures. The Ventures were my favorite band for a while and really is who got me into playing lead instead of rhythm guitar.
By 68 I was well into the psychedelic scene in heavily into the Moody Blues, Eric Clapton and others. Most of my music collection runs from streaks from 1967 to 1975, with some music from the 80s. I have very little music from the 1990s until the ambient chill out sound started coming. It’s hard to say now where the heaviest section in my collection is. I have been downloading incredible amounts of music and no longer use the same software that I used to use to catalog my music.
My current musical interests now run from Buddy Holly all the way up to the very latest ambient lounge music. There is a vast array of music out there that previously was not accessible to people. And now through filesharing and to places like MP3.com and a tremendous amount of artists are capable of getting their brands of music out to the public. The number of radio stations that run on the Internet is also a great help in spreading the music. In fact, I do not listen to the radio in my car or local radio anymore, I have satellite radio that allows me to listen to what I want to hear instead of what I’m forced to hear. Here at home in the house I listened to SomaFM, a lounge style radio station. Internet radio will be a subject for another post however.
I have found a new player that I very much enjoy using it is called Songbird. I currently use It to play over 20,000 songs and it performs flawlessly. To be continued
