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Ok all you rabble rousers(this is a compliment just in case you started to get all huffy)
WHAT IS THE BEST TYPE OF MUSIC TO FRAME BY, AND WHY?’
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I prefer no music at all. Should this be a Shed topic?
Why no music? I actually like my music straight - without the masking noise of a construction site. And, music interrupted by construction noise is just cacophony.
*Pink Floyd. Just the way it is with us. Of course, I once worked on a house that had clear-finished oak trim. The woman who filled the nail holes had a palette of about 16 different colors of wood filler, and blended them so that for each nail hole, it was a perfect match to the trim. As you can imagine, it took about two weeks, and the entire time she listened to classical music. I must admit, towards the end I didn't think it was too bad...but don't tell the other guys, please.
*Rock and roll..........Hard and loud.......I prefer Tool.............Phish is great, not hard, but great long jams.Yes, this question belongs in the Tavern.But that's someplace I will go no more.(Like anybody cares)Ed. Williams
*light jazz.(I miss seein' your posts in the Tavern Ed.)
*Here in Abilene, Texas it's definitely Tejano! It sounds even better at the end of the work day after drinking a couple of Coronas.
*Dwight Yokam. Never have cared much for CW but for some reason, Dwight just seems to set the mood for some serious sawin' and hammerin'....
*I got to agree with Ed. Phish is good work music. It pretty progressive for an old fart too! I generally only listen to the voices in my head, if they aren't saying anything, some local talk radio is good too. For some reason I play the same Cracker cd's over and over too.Tom
*Geez. Am I that old?
*Old Fart?.......Well I guess so.......I was there when the Beatles came out with "Meet The Beatles". It was a had to have kind of thing in 1964. Great stuff for the times. I bought the Hendrix "Experienced" album and went ape. Nobody was doing that kind of music at the time.Music is like life........if you stop listening to the new stuff, you might as well just stop living and learning. Dave Matthews, Train, Everclear, Three Doors Down, Rage Against the Machine.......and the Beatles......I like it all.Ed. Williams
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We just got done with the first floor of the most recent project, and I beleive "Rage Against The Machine" would have to be the answer to this one. Oh, by the way, we didn't rent a Lull for this particular job.
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I've never been into "types" of music, but love listening to it when framing, or anything else, unless I need to figure something out---it needs to off for that. I like to work the music into my movements, especially when framing. Whoohoo! Fun. You know, a hammer blow on the 2 and the 4...etc.
*I'm with Ralph. No music. To be heard, it has to be so loud that you can't hear things you should be hearing. And you should be thinking about the job, your safety and the rest of the crews'.
*Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, AC/DC, and Aerosmith have great beats to their music. Makes framing and hammering much more fun and interesting (unless client is around, then it's NO music at all) ZZ Top runs close, but I usually stop and just enjoy the music when their tunes come on. Jammin...James DuHamel
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A fella I worked would get upset the minute we broke out the radio, as he was always hollering:
b "MAKE THE MUSIC WITH YOUR TOOLS"
Works OK for framing but finish work got real quiet. .
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Ed, you took the words right out of my mouth. As much as I love the old stuff, there really are some great things happening out there musically today. My philosophy for most things also applies here, "the only thing you can do wrong is to go in with a closed mind". Just because it hasn't stood the test of time yet, doesn't mean it won't. When I was framing, it seemed like any new rock station (not top forty, too repetititive) would do a good job of keeping the tempo of the crew hopping at a nice rate. and subsequently, now that I mostly trim, I tend more toward the softer stuff, jazz etc.
*We like kisw rock on our Dewalt charger/ radio , for putting a little more toe on the nail !! Metallica, ac/dc , creed, days of the new,turn it up while their gone and down when their home, but keep up the pace, and don't forget to have fun you bunch of sawdust sniffers.
*Can't tell you how glad I am not to have to listen to KISW anymore. Dudes even play the same songs at the same time each day, you can set your clock by it. I think it was some hairspray band like , well I can't remember their name and I aint gonna try no more or that crap will start running through my brain again. Corporate rock is LAME LAME LAME.Sorry you took my grief Pro Deck, but I suffered under your LAME rock for 5 LAME years and I'll stick twenty .148 3 1/4's into the next boom box I hear with that cr...... HA, that WAS fun :0)
*b I just think I know everythingGotta be hard rock or heavy metal!!Heavy, rough work deserves heavy rough music.Country makes you too depressed to work, besides she's just gonna get the house when she leaves(taking your new truck and yer old dog too).R&B makes you want to make love(and while surrounded by sweaty men carrying tools-might not be healthy)I happen to be a HUGE Floyd fan but I spend way too much time daydreaming instead of working....Metal is the way to go.
*Wow Nathan, sounds like you just tuned in from 98.9 SMOOTH JAZZ. sorry the repetitious corporate crap rattles your nerve,So what is it exactly that you do like to listen to??
*Pro-Deck: i don't start in with my one good nerve, buddy. Over the years I've found no music the best music. Besides, if you've got your tunes cranked up, how you gonna hear how I'm dissen your frame from the next unit over? Or do you think deck joists constitute framing? HeeHaHa HoHo. Rolly Polly little deck frame. One post two post three post four.Music is i sortof like cigarrettes on the job, they really don't help at all. You just think they do. Keep your digits connected.
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Hey Nathan .... That amazes me that you listened to KISW for 5 years, With "107.7 the end" (Korn,Limp,Blink 182,powerhouse,Rage,311 etc.)just down the dial. That tells me that you were'nt allowed to touch the radio on your jobsite. Just how long ago were you in the area....And last time I checked, more cutting edge music has come out of the NW then any other place on the planet in the last ten years...So take your Billy ray Cirrus loving butt elsewhere. And by the way....Pro-dek makes more in 3 months than your monkey ass could make all year framing.
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I thought this was supposed to be fun. see the post title.
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glad to hear your swimming in cash. Loan me 750k no interest for one year?
*I kinda go for Rush Limbaugh. What with taking on the competition with "one hand tied behind my back" and "talent on loan from God" he reminds me of me.Of course those singing parodies don't ALWAY'S qualify as music ("just a liberal guy and a liberal gal in a Yugo.....") but the rhythm you can get going to the lyrics..."just a (wham) guy and (wham) gal in a (wham)".....ahhhhhh, yessssss! Makes a guy want to sharpen up that waffle head with a file and smack things a little harder...
*LED ZEPPLIN OR AREOSMITH
*I have also trimmed with classical and like it alot...It all depends on what you are doing, base and case- no drainer something fast and hard Metallica-MegadeathOther trimming that takes a little more thought like doing stairs- you need something a little more mellow like Steve Ray Vaughan...Or there is always some of that big band music....Can you tell I play in a band yet?
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Neither band has written any music that meant anything for a long, long time.
*Well, Led Zep hasn't been a band for about 25 years, so that might be a problem.Aerosmith's as good as ever,if you ask me. When you know that "Dude Looks Like a Lady" was written about Vince Neil of Motley Crue, it only shows the beauty of Aerosmith's perspective.
*never given him much thought.
*Soon as the lines are snapped I turn to classic rock or modern rock, then get out of my way - I'm framin'.
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Ok all you rabble rousers(this is a compliment just in case you started to get all huffy)
WHAT IS THE BEST TYPE OF MUSIC TO FRAME BY, AND WHY?'