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Tom Brody (1969)
This is to respond to this week's question (post #991), "What type of music did you like best while at Pacific? What type of music do you like now?"
WHILE AT PACIFIC. While at Pacific and in the decade that followed, I mostly listened to jazz, rock'n'roll, and Motown-sound By jazz, I mean Max Roach (drums), Sonny Stitt (sax), Dexter Gordon (sax), Paquito D'Rivera (sax), Hubert Laws (flute), Eric Dolphy (sax), and Gary Burton (vibes). By rock'n'roll I mean Byrds, Cream, the Fab Four, the Stones, The Ventures, The Who, Drifters, and Yardbirds. By Motown-sound, I mean, Impressions, Sly and Family Stone, Supremes, Chiffons, Shangri-Las, Temptations, and Stevland Hardaway Morris.
AFTER PACIFIC. After Pacific and up to 1980, I mostly listened to classical music, but continued buying jazz albums. After Pacific and up to the present, I also bought a handful of albums in various other musical genres, such as albums by, Ray Charles, Celia Cruz and Fania All Stars, Gloria Estefan, Spanish guitar (music by Isaac Albeniz), bluegrass fiddle (Vassar Clements, Byron Berline), country & western (Merle Haggard, Don Williams, Willie Nelson, Loretta Lynn, Randy Travis, Dolly Parton), and gospel music (the great album LOVE ALIVE II by Walter Hawkins). My classical collection includes Gustav Mahler, Aaron Kernis, Liszt (especially piano concertos), Jennifer Higdon, Vivaldi (especially, oboe concertos), Bach, Monteverdi (Vespro della Beata Vergine), Charles Ives (especially, Holidays Symphony and Symph. No.4), Brahms (especially, piano quartets and quintets), Schumann, Beethoven, Hindemith, Bela Bartok (especially, piano concertos), Stravinsky (especially, Dumbarton Oaks), Olivier Messiaen (Turangulila), and everything by David del Tredici (S.F. Bay area native). In the year 1967, a friend from John Muir Jr. High School (Dennis Pulizzano) turned me on to Mahler.
FROM YEAR 1980 to 2020. The New Wave/Punk era began in 1978. In 1980, one of my friends introduced me to the song, Warm Leatherette by Normal, to Brian Eno, and to Killing Joke. Although I continued listening to jazz and classical music, most of my listening from 1980 to the present was to New Wave bands and to the punk band, Killing Joke (to their first 3 albums). My New Wave and punk favorites include, Devo (e.g., Through Being Cool, Superthing, Whip It), Talking Heads, Bow Wow Wow, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (especially, their album, English Electric), Gang of Four, Human League, and Black Flag. In the early 1980's, rap was considered part of the New Wave movement, and I bought rap albums by PUBLIC ENEMY, WUF TICKET, and GRANDMASTER FLASH.
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