This page is dedicated to my love of music. I play two instruments - trombone and guitar. I've played trombone since 6th grade and hope to continue playing in college. I've played guitar since June of 1999 and have been teaching myself. I can't read sheet music because guitar is in treble clef and I only know bass clef from playing trombone. Maybe I'll learn when I start learning scales for solos. I can read tab however, and there are lots of tab sites with almost any song you could possibly want.
And now for for something only a band dork can truly appreciate...
Top Ten Reasons to Play Trombone
And Some Not To
10) Doubles the flow of Testosterone. - ?
9) Chicks dig the big cases. - That's pretty vague
8) It's Shiny!!!! - Oooh, me likey shiny-shine-shine-shine!
7) Works as a lightning rod. - That can't be a good thing
6) Tastes like chicken. - Mine tastes like spit
5) Slides nicely when lubricated. - Get your mind out of the gutter
4) Takes care of pesky clarinet players who march in front of you. - Highly effective
3) Outblows any woodwind. - See #4
2) No Batteries Necesary. - What marching instrument uses batteries?
1) It's the only instrument that doesn't suck!!!! - it just blows
My CD Collection
This color denotes "not recommended" - meaning I would avoid buying it.
This color denotes "highly recommended" so do yourself a favor and buy it.The white names mean they're just average to good CD's.
1. The Beatles/1962-1966 (2 cd) - Early Beatles hits2. The Beatles Anthology 1-3 (6 cd) - Studio work with popular and obscure songs, conversations, some live stuff.
3. Weird Al Yankovic "Bad Hair Day" - Funny songs w/Amish Paradise, Gump, and signature polka medley.4. Star Wars and other Sci-fi Themes - The 3 Star Wars songs and "Blue Danube" are classical but the rest are disco - Superman, Star Trek, Close Encounters, 2001.
5. Come Together - An country tribute to the Beatles and I hate country. A waste of $16.98.6. Oasis "(What's the Story) Morning Glory?" - Wonderwall, Champagne Supernova, good songs by Beatles wannabes.
7. The Beatles "Revolver" - Eleanor Rigby, For No One, Tommorow Never Knows, I'm Only Sleeping. If you like the Beatles, get it.8. Eric Clapton "The Cream of Clapton" - Hits from Cream, Blind Faith, Derek and the Dominos, and his solo career.
9. The Beatles "Abbey Road" - If you don't already have this record you're seriously missing out.10. The Beatles "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" - I think only 1 of the 13 songs on it hasn't recieved massive radio airtime.
11. Neil Young "Harvest Moon" - follow-up to the successful "Harvest" with a laid-back country-style music.12. Jimi Hendrix Experience "Are You Experienced?" - The first three songs alone (Purple Haze, Manic Depression, Hey Joe) would make me want to buy this, but it's got 14 more classics like Wind Cries Mary, Red House, and Foxy Lady.
13. Led Zeppelin "IV", "Zoso", "4 symbols" - Stairway To Heaven, need I say more? How about Black Dog, Rock and Roll, The Battle of Evermore, Misty Mountain Hop, Four Sticks, Going to California, and When the Levee Breaks.14. Cake "Fashion Nugget" - They have many good tunes like Frank Sinatra, The Distance, and Friend is a Four Letter Word.
15. Jimi Hendrix "Woodstock" - This guy rules and if you haven't seen the Woodstock movie go rent it. His playing left 300,000 in a trance by the end of his set.16. George Thorogood "The Baddest of GT and the Destroyers" - Most songs he writes are really good but he doesn't do too many and almost all of them are on the album, with some covers. Rock and blues in a raspy voice.
17. The Simpsons "Songs in the Key of Springfield" - If you like the Simpsons (and who doesn't?), then you should get this just to hear the great music made for the show. It's also funny and you'll hear some of your favorite quotes .18. The Doors "Greatest Hits" - Morrison, Manzarek, Denzmore, and Kreiger made some great songs and 12 of them are here.
19. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers "Greatest Hits" - This guy's been around a while and has made some good songs although his voice tends to get annoying.20. Oasis "Be Here Now" - This has good songs but they've taken the wall of sound approach with lots of guitars and cymbal crashes. Also the singer, Liam Gallagher, is twice as annoying as Tom Petty.
21. Santana "Abraxas" - Nobody sounds like Santana's mix of latin, blues, and rock and this CD has lots of each element with some favorites like Oye Como Va and Samba Pa Ti.22. Black Sabbath "Paranoid" - Sabbath's second effort has eight great songs by the founders of heavy metal. Ozzy, Tony Iommi, Bill Ward and Geezer Butler pump out the power.
23. Blessid Union of Souls "Oh Virginia" - a free single with 3 mins, 58 secs of music. I've never listened to any of their other songs.24. Blue Rodeo "Nowhere to Here" - another freebie of a whole CD. They've got a rock and country sound and if you're tired it's guaranteed to put you to sleep. It's still pretty good though.
25. Neil Young "Decade" (2 cd) - Neil Young is one of a kind in both personality and music writing. These are his earlier years and he's a great acoustic guitar player. If you like him, you should get this.26. Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon" - This album speaks for itself by having the longest run on the charts of something like 450 weeks. I think Pink Floyd is one the most underrated classic rock bands and this is some of their best stuff.
27. Eric Clapton "Slowhand" - Like the title says, it's laid-back and if you have Cream of Clapton already I wouldn't really recommend it.28. Dave Matthews Band (DMB) "Crash" - These guys can groove like no other and nobody sounds like them. The acoustic guitar, sax, flute, violin, bass, drums combo is infectious to listen to and I highly recommend it.
29. Ozzy Osbourne "Ozzmosis" - Pretty recent Ozzy and the Backups with rockers like Perry Mason and Thunder Underground. I think his best solo song is I Just Want You, which is on "Ozzmosis" and also "The Ozzman Cometh".30. Allman Brothers Band "A Decade of Hits 1969-1979" - These southern groovers have two drum sets, two guitars, a bass, and an organ. This makes for superb jams, but they can write good shorter songs too.
31. Grateful Dead "Skeletons from the Closet" - A "best of" album that I would recommend even for non-Deadheads.32. Bob Marley and the Wailers "Natural Mystic" - he made so many great songs you'd have to make about five greatest hits CD's. I'll admit that raggae all sounds the same to me after Bob. He covered all the bases during his lifetime. This CD has 15 of the best raggae songs I've ever heard like Iron Lion Zion, War, Easy Skanking, and Trenchtown Rock.
33. Led Zepplin (2 CD) - A nameless box set that has the songs not included on the 4 CD set I'll mention later. It is not a collection of their worst songs, it's just what Jimmy Page didn't put in the box set.34. George Thorogood "Live" - Has most of his hits, some covers, and a quality rendition of SRV's The Sky is Cryin'.
35. Santana "Santana's Greatest Hits" - About 4 songs from "Abraxas" and some other hits.36. Led Zeppelin "Physical Graffiti" (2 CD)- There are only 15 songs on these two CD's but long songs like Kashmir, In My Time of Dying, In the Light, and Ten Years Gone make up for it. Every song is good and there's a wide range of song styles.
37. The Brian Setzer Orchestra "The Dirty Boogie" - I figured I had to get one swing cd and this was it. It's got good songs but they get old and repetitive after about five listens.38. Sublime "Sublime" - These guys have rap and punk grooves and tons of good songs. I wish their lead singer and guitarist hadn't OD'd so young.
39. DMB "Under the Table and Dreaming" - This came out before "Crash" and it's almost as good. Some good songs are Rhyme and Reason, Typical Situation, Ants Marching, and Satellite. Dave rocks because he can play a mean guitar and sing while he's doing it.40. Led Zeppelin "Led Zepplin I" - Their first album and all the songs are classics.
41. Jimi Hendrix Experience "Electric Ladyland" - Lots of quality songs and a feel that you're in the studio while they're recording. Jams and a Mitch Mitchell (the drummer) song highlight.42. Led Zeppelin "BBC Sessions" (2 CD)- Live from when they were breaking onto the scene. An 18-minute rendition of Dazed and Confused, and the first live performance of Stairway to Heaven.
43. Schindler's List Soundtrack - If you can stand classical at all I would get this. It's pretty violin heavy, but there are some haunting chants and dirges.44. Steely Dan "Aja" - It's got all the hits of these two studio musicians and they can funk-da-fie.
45. Page and Plant "Walking into Clarksdale" - The reunion of these two in the 90's brought this album about, but it only has a few good songs and you can tell Plant's voice is kind of shaky.46. Bob Marley and the Wailers "Uprising" - At first listen I thought it was a waste of money but after a while the songs grew on me and now I like it.
47. U2 "The Joshua Tree" - Has many hits like With or Without You and Running to Stand Still. These political activists can, no doubt, rock.48. Ozzy "The Ozzman Cometh" - Greatest Hits including two Sabbath rareties. All songs are good except 3 or 4 he made in the eighties.
49. Eric Clapton "Unplugged" - This guy can really play and he's a great blues guitarist (duh). Has many blues songs and also acoustic renditions of some hits.50. AC/DC "Back in Black" - Many rock anthems and headbangers. The same guitar sound and Brian's voice made me content with just one of their albums. Their recent comeback is, I think, a bit pathetic because they still haven't changed their sound and they still look like they did ten years ago, only older. Nowadays the singer's voice sounds like he's singing while trying to crap - there's just no power in it. Now I'm done.
51. James Brown "Live at the Apollo" - James Brown is a good singer and this shows off his talent. He's also got a good back-up band and anything else you need to know is in the liner notes.52. Counting Crows "August and Everything After" - I bought this because my birthday's in August and was surprised to find a very good band. This is another West Coast, folk/soul? band (think Hootie) and I recommend this CD.
53. R.E.M. "Out of Time" - R.E.M. tends to sound so much alike that you could sub in lyrics from one song into another flawlessly (that pushing an elephant song and Man on the Moon), but this has a wide variety of sounds. It also has Losing My Religion so go get it.54. The Eagles "Hotel California" - The Eagles are really hard to hate even though they kind of sound like Jackson Browne and all the songs on here are hits.
55. The Who "Who's Next" - This has loads of hits and some other good songs, but I would buy it just to hear one of my favorite songs - Behind Blue Eyes.56. Peter Frampton "Frampton Comes Alive" - The best selling live album ever and for good reason. It's got blues, rock, pop, jams, and best of all a talkbox -you'll know it when you hear it.
57. Neil Young "Harvest" - Some good tunes like Old Man, Heart of Gold, and The Needle and the Damage Done.58. Nirvana "Nevermind" - The epitome of grunge rock squeezed into one easy-to-carry musical tour-de-force. This has psyched me up for many sporting events.
59. The Moody Blues "Days of Future Passed" - Hits like Tuesday Afternoon and Nights in White Satin. They blend music and poetry well. I would recommend a greatest hits instead of this, though.60. Marvin Gaye "What's Going On" - Probably posed as a statement not a question of what life is like in the inner city. To me, this is soul music at its best.
61. Counting Crows "Recovering the Satellites" - More of the same as "August and Everything After", but with more wacked-out guitar.62. Weird Al "Running With Scissors" - As he has said himself, "Every album I make is a comeback album". This comeback is as funny as the cover picture, so go get it.
63. Led Zeppelin "Box Set" (4 CD) - Combined with the mini box set already mentioned (#33), the entire studio repetoirre is there. If you are into Zeppelin pretty hardcore then get this.64. Dire Straits "Brothers in Arms" - The Money for Nothing band is skilled and they can rock, swing, and play blues and latin. This CD attests to that well.
65. R.E.M. "Eponymous" - I think it's greatest hits and if you like them go for it.66. U2 "Achtung Baby" - The best song on here is One but there are more good ones too.
67. Beck "Odelay" - He plays almost all the instruments you hear on it and I recommend listening just to hear how effortlessly he shifts from rock to punk to country-western to rap.68. Paul Simon "Graceland" - Has quality African beats with a Cajun twist.
69. Nirvana "Bleach" - Their first effort and I thought About a Girl was the only standout.70. Green Day "Dookie" - Punks with contagious headbanging riffs and rolling bass lines.
71. Nirvana "Incesticide" - I'm not sure when this came out but it's not that great.72. Santana "Supernatural" - I thought I'd take my only chance to get with the popular kids and buy a Rob Thomas song, but Santana hasn't sold out at all. He's got his touch on every song and he also a few songs without guests.
73. Jimi Hendrix "BBC Sessions" (2 CD) - Live stuff from the earlier days and multiple Hey Joe takes.74. Grateful Dead "Workingman's Dead" - eight favorites with a laid-back, slide guitar feel, and some sing-along grade accapella on Cumberland Blues.
75. Nirvana "In Utero" - redeeming themselves with raunchy songs and Kurt's trademark e5, g5, d5, etc... chord progressions, this is a good listen for Nirvana fans. My favorite is Heart-Shaped Box.76. R.E.M. "Document" - Don't get this, especially if you have "Eponymous" (#65).
77. Pink Floyd "Wish You Were Here" - It only has five songs but it's well worth 17 or 18 bucks.78. Leo Kottke "One Guitar, No Vocals" - My dad and I saw him live and he sang, but he also has a million stories to tell while he's tuning. There was a standing ovation so he played a rendention of Little Martha that was light years ahead of the Allman Bros. original. He plays twelve and six string acoustics and he's so good it sounds like two guitars playing at once. My music teacher said a guy called Stanley Jordan can sound like three at once but he probably plays electric and I'm not sure my ear could pick it up anyway. The CD is good with driving tunes and no singing. It can get sort of boring after a while so if you want to hear him go see him live.
79. The Beach Boys "Pet Sounds" - Brian Williams (the bassist) called "Rubber Soul" his inspiration for "Pet Sounds" and McCartney called "Pet Sounds" his inspiration for "Sgt. Pepper's Loneley Hearts Club Band". Sounds and Sgt. Pepper's are both super-fantastic. "Pet Sounds" has Wouldn't it be Nice, Sloop John B, God Only Knows, and more.80. Grateful Dead "American Beauty" - More obscure songs than Workingmans' Dead (#74), but also Truckin' and Sugar Magnolia.
81. The Allman Bros. Band "The Fillmore Concerts" (2 CD)- They played till dawn one night because of rain delays and it's on the second CD. There is a 20-minute Whipping Post and the 30-minute Mountain Jam. Jams and hits are the norm.82. Stevie Wonder "Songs in the Key of Life" (2 CD)- I was taking a chance on this one but is payed off big. This is the best R&B record ever - everyone else is just pretending to be original. In fact two songs got ripped off - I Wish and Pastime Paradise, by Will Smith (Wild Wild West) and Coolio (Gansta's Paradise). What I don't understand is why Coolio got mad when Weird Al parodied his song (Amish Paradise) - that's called hypocrisy boys and girls. I highly recommend this to any type of listener.
83. The Who "Tommy" - A rock opera about a deaf and blind kid who can play pinball. A movie was made with lead singer Roger Daltry as Tommy. I admire guitarist Pete Townshend's efforts to make rock extravaganzas like Tommy and Lifehouse, but what made the Who great was the music. I recommend the CD but not the movie.84. Nirvana "Unplugged" - Here's where you can hear something besides static in their music. This CD features the Meat Puppets making a cameo and a cool 4-string acoustic bass the bass player has. It's a good CD but you should check out the video on MTV - it's scary at the end.
85. Guns N' Roses "Appetite for Destruction" - mostly they play like the hair band they were but songs like Sweet Child O' Mine and, well, that's it... break the monotony.86. Jimi Hendrix "Band of Gypsys" - This is live from New Year's Eve one year and it's got six songs. It has Jimi, Billy Cox (from the Experience) on bass, and Buddy Guy on drums. It's got some good jams.
87. Pearl Jam "Ten" - Angst defines singer Eddie Vedder and this has a lot of songs that sound good and make you feel your life isn't so bad.88. Metallica "Metallica" (the Black album) - Probably their best CD. It mixes headbangers, ballads, really heavy electric, and acoustic guitars.
89. Pearl Jam "vs." - This is leaner and punkier than "Ten" but its got good tunes like Daughter, Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town, and W.M.A.90. The Eagles "Greatest Hits 1971-1975" - I think this is the best selling album ever and if you don't have it you should get it, if only for background music at parties.
91. Red Hot Chili Peppers "What Hits" - Earlier hits that have more rap-like beats and less singing than "Californication". There's also some funk going on. It's got "Under the Bridge" which is really fun to play.92. Pink Floyd "The Wall" (2 cd) - A classic double album by the mystic masters of space and time. This has the classic anthem "Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 3" where they shout, "We don't need no education!" It also has Comfortably Numb, Mother, Young Lust, and Hey You.
93. Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds "Live at Luther College" (2 cd) - This is duet concert with two acoustics and a singer from 1996. I think it's just Dave playing his songs and a few others, while Timmy adds parts and doodles around. Tim has been on a few DMB cd's so he knows what he's doing. He also has amazing speed for an acoustic and a few cool tricks like looping and sound effects that he throws in from time to time. It's got DMB staples and also phat jams and I highly recommend it.94. The Rolling Stones "Exile On Main St." - This album has a lot of rock and blues, which is what the Stones do well, so if you like rock and blues this is the CD for you. I like Ventilator Blues and Tumbling Dice the most. It's seventy minutes or so long, so it's great for background music too. A good record by any standards.
95. The Rolling Stones "Let it Bleed" - The cheesiness of the cover does not belie the masterpiece inside the case. It's got different layers of music, like the cake, but they're all good layers. Seven of the nine songs are radio hits and all the songs are good. If you get one Stones CD get this or Sticky Fingers.96. Limp Bizkit "Significant Other" - Their best CD which mixes Wes Boreland's smashing guitar and DJ Lethal's beats. If you haven't heard this yet and you like hard rock at all, then you need to get a song or two off Napster or buy the plastic. It has cool interludes between songs where you can listen to bonus beats and snippets from the recording session. All the songs on here have memorable parts so I recommend it.
97. Korn "Issues" - If you're mad at someone or you just feel like some good, old-fashioned headbanging, this is the album for you. My brother and I were listening to this while we painted the house during summer a couple years ago. We got a few weird looks from people walking their strollers while Johnathan Davis was talking about the deepest despair and depression, but it was worth it.98. Fleetwood Mac "Greatest Hits" - All the songs you heard on the radio but never knew the name of are here - Rhiannon, Sara, Everywhere, Gypsy, and Tusk. Try to hum the melody for three of those songs. It's hard, ain't it? Weighing in at sixteen songs (only on of which I'd never heard), this song was a steal at zero dollars from my brother. He got it from a record club promotion, and I got if for free. It's still good even if you have to pay for it.
99. Bush "6teen Stone" - Unlike the title states, there are actually twelve songs on here. Or maybe it's a reference to the band and two buddies getting high in the 80's. They're not quite as heavy as Nirvana, but almost as distorted. They do lack a screechy-voiced singer. Gavin yells a lot, but it's not as piercing as Kurt's voice. After a few listens, Everything Zen, Machinehead, Glycerine (of course) and Alien stand out for me.
99. Pink Floyd "Animals" - A five song masterpiece by the masters of BME (beginning middle end) albums. The Division Bell, Dark Side of the Moon, Animals - each tells a story. I had the cd on mp3 before I got it, but it was too good to listen to at less-than-cd quality. It's depressing and has songs about the subtle, slow decay of the soul by greed, pride, and power. The jacket has cool pictures of flying pigs.100. Elysa's Mix For Me - None of you have this so I won't waste your time writing about it.
101. Dave Matthews Band "Live at Red Rocks". This was recorded in 1995, I think, at an outside amphitheatre in Colorado. It has a lot of songs from their cd's, but it also has Seek Up, Recently, and All Along the Watchtower, which I don't think were on their cd's at that time. I like how they cover Watchtower because it's unique from Hendrix's or Dylan's version in that it really moves and jams, but it still retains the laid-back feel of its predecessors. They also have some extended jams on songs off their cd's, which is good.
102. Radiohead "The Bends" - This is the first cd I got by them. I had OK Computer and Kid A on mp3, so finding that The Bends was mostly rock was kind of a surprise. I've grown to like it, though, and it's cool to see Radiohead's stylistic progression from straight rock to an electronic/rock mix that sounds even better. The song I can't get enough of is Street Spirit(Fade Out). Whenever I play guitar I always attempt that song once. It's not too tough finger-picking, but with a pick, it's tough to sing and play at the same time, but I'm working on it.
103. The Dallas Brass "Dallas Brass II" - Me and my Dad saw this quintet at the Vilar Center over Xmas break in 2001. They were really professional musically and also entertaining. The line-up seems to haved changed a lot over the years, with the exception of the founder, who plays trombone. When we saw them, they had a tuba, a french horn, a trombone, and two trumpets. The did classical, dixieland, big band, and even brought up a special guest and also the local high school bands. I haven't listened to the cd much, but the show was good.
104. Radiohead "OK Computer" - This doesn't have a song that's as good as Street Spirit from The Bends, but the whole album is a continuous flow of quality music. It's kind of like a Pink Floyd album in that it's a whole album experience, not just a collection of songs.
105. Pink Floyd "The Division Bell" - This is one album they did without original bassist Roger Waters. It's still very good and I didn't even notice that he was gone. The songs are also somewhat hopeful, as opposed to Waters' pervading negativity on the albums he did with the Floyd. It's pretty long and pretty mellow, so it's great for doing homework to.
From here on you're going to be missing some of the cd's I have which I burned. I don't want to post what I've burned because the RIAA is always watching
106. Crash Test Dummies "God Shuffled His Feet" - A steal for 10 bucks down at my favorite store on campus - Wherehouse Music. Used and new cd's, dvd's, and everything else that ends in "d"...except computers. Anyway, this is a good buy, even if you only know "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm". I know you remember it. They're a soft alternative rock group and their most distinct characteristic is the singer's bass voice. There's one piano song at the end that I really like too. I would recommend this. In fact I do recommend it.
107. Staind "Break the Cycle" - This is one the new-ish hard rock bands that you either despise or love (Creed, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, etc...). I happen to like them and Creed, but I can't stand Linkin Park. That rapper dude just ticks me off so bad. Talk about superfluous and detrimental. Then they go and release a remix album of stuff they already did. Why? So you can revisit all your great moments? Oh wait, you've only had one so far, so you'd better squeeze the most of it that you can before your 15 mins are up. Staind, however is different. Different singer (one in my range), no turntables, unique tunings, and some musical talent (see Aaron Lewis singing Outside acoustically w/Fred Durst on the Family Values Tour disc). I admit some of the songs bring a sense of deja vu from other parts of the cd, but they're good, so who cares if they repeat riffs/rhythms some? If you're in high school, go out and buy this instead of the new Nelly cd.
108. Alice In Chains "Dirt" - If you feel like crap, listen to this. It'll make you feel better. It's one of the saddest collections of songs around, and the fact that the singer (Layne Staley) is practically prophesying his own demise via drugs only makes it more poignant. The songs range from somewhat happy and light to severly depressing and heavy. It really does make you feel better though, when you compare your troubles to Layne's. At least it works for my troubles.
109. Dave Matthews Band "Busted Stuff" - They did some stuff called the Lillywhite Sessions before they put out "Everyday" which was never released - till now. That sounds corny, but it is kind of like a briefly lost recording session. "Busted Stuff" is basically a collection of the files floating around in mp3 land with the Lillywhite tag on them but with some different lyrics and some songs replaced with new material. Personally, I like them both, as each gives you different songs and different versions of the same songs. So bust out your wallet and your Kazaa and get both of these albums which return to the pre-Everyday sounds of DMB.
110. Moby "Play" - This is the first techno that I ever heard and after 3 years I finally bought. Nowadays it doesn't seem as much like straightup techno, but back then it was revolutionary (to me). It doesn't have as much of a mechanical feel as techno, but it does have the same endlessly-repeated-phrases-with-minor-variations style as today's common techno. Not to sound like I know everything about electronica (I don't even know the difference between house and techno), but I would say that this album is techno with some humanity added. Anyways, it's good and if you have a Wherehouse Music nearby, go get it.
111. Jimmy Eat World "Jimmy Eat World" - Apparently this was to be called "Bleed American", but it was released around Sept 11, so they renamed it eponymously. Whatever the name, I highly recommend this. It's one the few good pure rock albums I've heard recently. There are no overly detuned guitars or belching/singing vocalists. They actually use the treble strings on their guitars outside the solo. Spend your money and buy this cd with your last paycheck.
The marathon is over and for those of you who read it I hoped it helped you choose or get more informed. This list will get longer so check in about once a month for new recommendations. Also, a word of advice/warning - record clubs are addictive.
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