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Scuba Forum / General / July 2005Calming music
Needless to say I like to be calm before I go out into the water. Recently a friendo of mine that works with Universal gave me a copy of Ronan Tynan's CD. I really like it, I find it relaxing and something I can easily listen to before I go out. I was curious, though, because I hadn't heard much about it. Has anyone else around here heard his music? What do you think of it? If you've no idea who I'm talking about I believe his website ( www.drronantynan.net) has some clips and you may know him from when he sings the national anthem at Yankee games. > Needless to say I like to be calm before I go out into the water. Recently > a [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > sings > the national anthem at Yankee games. Now that we got rid of Deeper Blue, can we do something about this ScubaMonster crap? Greg... Elizabeth M is Ronan's sister. She's only trying to help a brother out. LOL Personally, if I want to listen to music that is calming to the point of hypnotic mediation, I listen to a CD that I got while in Bali of traditional Bali music. I'd be happy to send you a copy. It's certainly not jazz, opera, rock n roll, country, blues, blue grass, gospel, soul, rap, disco, dance, heavy metal, or Yanni. It's in a catagory all it's own but, IMHO, is kinda close to Japanese "tea music". > Personally, if I want to listen to music that is calming to the point > of hypnotic mediation, I listen to a CD that I got while in Bali of > traditional Bali music. Simon & Garfunkel... CSN&Y... Moody Blues... Pink Floyd... Stevie Nicks / Fleetwork Mac I set up my web server to wake me up in the morning by playing a series of songs that I've ripped from my CD collection... Starts off fairly soft and builds up... 1 -- Led Zeppelin -- "Going to California" 2 -- Sting -- "Fields of Gold" 3 -- Simon & Garfunkle -- "The Sound of Silence" 4 -- Simon & Garfunkle -- "Scarborough Fair" 5 -- Simon & Garfunkel -- "Boxer" 6 -- Fleetwood Mac (Stevie Nicks) -- "Landslide" 7 -- Fleetword Mac (Stevie Nicks) -- "Rhiannon" 8 -- Melissa Eldridge -- "Breakdown" 9 -- Melissa Eldridge -- "Angles Would Fall" 10 -- Willie Nelson -- "Living in the Promiseland" 11 -- Toby Keith & Willie Nelson -- "Beer for my Horses" 12 -- Willie Nelson -- "City of New Orleans" 13 -- Toby Keith -- "Should've Been a Cowboy" Basically an hour of steadily increasing volume and tempo to wake me up gently instead of having a damn buzzer go off in my ear and then me knocking the alarm across the room... Works pretty good other than the fact that it takes all the way until #8 before I'm really awake... The earlier songs are so relaxing that I just fall deeper to sleep... Oh well, it seemed like a good idea at the time... > > Personally, if I want to listen to music that is calming to the point > > of hypnotic mediation, I listen to a CD that I got while in Bali of [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > so relaxing that I just fall deeper to sleep... Oh well, it seemed like a > good idea at the time... No wonder you're so imbalanced. You need to throw in some Tinsley Ellis, Little Charlie and the Nightcats, Saliva, Staind, Tom Waits,White Zombie, Coco Montoya, Patti Loveless, Jim Thackery and the Drivers, Sarah Brightman and, of course, ZZ Top. And really, you have to have Wild Cherry doing "Play that funky music white boy." If you like I can burn you a cd or dvd... <BFG> > No wonder you're so imbalanced. > > You need to throw in some Tinsley Ellis, Little Charlie and the Nightcats, > Saliva, Staind, Tom Waits,White Zombie, Coco Montoya, Patti Loveless, Jim > Thackery and the Drivers, Sarah Brightman and, of course, ZZ Top. ZZ Top would be pretty good... Santana would be good early on since they're kind of mellow... LOL I like your idea !!!! WHat if you just upped the volume a bit ??? > > Personally, if I want to listen to music that is calming to the point > > of hypnotic mediation, I listen to a CD that I got while in Bali of [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > songs that I've ripped from my CD collection... Starts off fairly soft and > builds up... > 9 -- Melissa Eldridge -- "Angles Would Fall" Interesting title for a song... was she really into geometry or what? ;-) > Interesting title for a song... was she really into > geometry or what? ;-) Ooops... Finger fumble strikes again... Kind of like when you meant to type "the" and you get "teh" instead -- except this time, it made a real word... <grin> s/Angle/Angel/g > Greg... Elizabeth M is Ronan's sister. She's only trying to help a > brother out. LOL [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > catagory all it's own but, IMHO, is kinda close to Japanese "tea > music". Hey gal! Me, I'm trying to think of the last time I saw any diver on the boat with a discman plugged in. I know for sure I haven't seen any shore divers soothing themselves with mellow tunes prior to a dive. For me the dive mellows me out . . .the sound of my breathing, my bubbles and the water . . . now that's calming. Still didn't hear about your trip. > For me the dive mellows me out . . .the sound of my breathing, my bubbles > and the water . . . now that's calming. And the narcosis... Mustn't forget about the narcosis... <evil-grin> > > For me the dive mellows me out . . .the sound of my breathing, my bubbles > > and the water . . . now that's calming. > > And the narcosis... Mustn't forget about the narcosis... <evil-grin> The narcosis is more like having had a couple of martinis. Makes me feel randy once I'm back up on the boat. All that calm, shot to hell. From: "chilly" The narcosis is more like having had a couple of martinis. Makes me feel randy once I'm back up on the boat. All that calm, shot to hell. ------- Who is Randy and what how does he react when you start feeling him ??!! <evil grin> Good to see ya gal. :) > From: "chilly" > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Who is Randy Randy's the guy that I'm in the mood for. >and what how does he react when you start feeling him ??!! The usual way. > <evil grin> (wg) > Good to see ya gal. :) :^) Salty wrote: > > Good to see ya gal. :) > :^) I might need to email you but I thought I did recently. Did you get it ?? > Salty wrote: > > > Good to see ya gal. :) [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > I might need to email you but I thought I did recently. Did you get it > ?? No. > "Salty" <babette7401@hotmail.com> wrote in message > > I might need to email you but I thought I did recently. Did you get it > > ?? > No. Ok... incoming soon. > "Salty" <babette7401@hotmail.com> wrote in message > >>Greg... Elizabeth M is Ronan's sister. She's only trying to help a >>brother out. LOL > Still didn't hear about your trip. Yeah, Barb, when are ya gonna report on your trip? How can one defend oneself unless you say what you have to say? You could start with the kidnapped moose. Or the diveskin fashion show. I'll correct you as needed. g From: George Cathcart <gcath...@umd.edu> chilly wrote: > "Salty" <babette7...@hotmail.com> wrote in message > Still didn't hear about your trip. Yeah, Barb, when are ya gonna report on your trip? How can one defend oneself unless you say what you have to say? You could start with the kidnapped moose. Or the diveskin fashion show. I'll correct you as needed. g ------- You know that I hardly ever finish a trip report. I've posted just a few completed trip reports. I posted several "part one" sections to trip reports and then never completed them. It's no reflection on the trip... it's just that I can't get it together enough to have the time to write it. Now, here's the funny thing... I actually started writing a trip report last nite !! Then, I got tired. I didn't hit 'save' and so before I knew it, I had the " I hit the wrong button and deleted everything blues ". I doubt that I'll be writing it all over again real soon. Hahahahahahaha I'm sure you can defend yourself. I saw you do it when the video guy stuck a camera in your face and imposed on you. You did a fine of job of defending your right to tell him to get lost... but you did it nicely. LOL I had nothing to do with kidnapping that moose !! You know that's true !! I admit that I questioned y'all about how one would know if the moose had been raped. That was a silly question and the answer y'all gave me led me to severe laughter. But I was innocent of the actual crime. As for the diveskin fashion show, I might be guilty as charged. I have even more diveskins than the ones you saw me wearing. Hey...I have to amuse myself somehow without getting into trouble. LOL And yes, I know you'll correct me. So, that just means that ** you ** should post the trip report !! You have a much better way with words. I actually can't believe that we went on the trip and are home for several weeks now. Time is flying by !! Thank you so much for inviting me. It was great !! I have to get hub to sort out our pictures yet. Post-trip party.... > From: George Cathcart <gcath...@umd.edu> > chilly wrote: [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > g > ------- > I'm sure you can defend yourself. I saw you do it when the video guy > stuck a camera in your face and imposed on you. You did a fine of job > of defending your right to tell him to get lost... but you did it > nicely. LOL I didn't say I needed to defend myself. Just that "one" can only defend "oneself" once the offense has been put out there. Did you think I was being defensive with Bill the Camera Guy? I just told him I "almost" saw the sharks. > I had nothing to do with kidnapping that moose !! You know that's > true !! I admit that I questioned y'all about how one would know if > the moose had been raped. That was a silly question and the answer > y'all gave me led me to severe laughter. But I was innocent of the > actual crime. I don't know anything. The moose came back and never explained what had happened. As far as I know no rape kit was done, and probably Michelle was just happy to have him back and didn't ask any more questions. And it was Matt that almost killed you with laughter. I tried to warn you not to ask the question. But you went right ahead anyway, even knowing that Tom had nearly killed me the night before when he talked about smokin' Cubans. You're dangerous people. Whether you kidnapped the moose or not, you are really dangerous. That's why I love ya. > As for the diveskin fashion show, I might be guilty as charged. I > have even more diveskins than the ones you saw me wearing. Hey...I > have to amuse myself somehow without getting into trouble. LOL I've got good pictures of your entry in the show, and good ones of Dominique, but I never got Bill in his tiger skin, unfortunately. I should have gotten all three of you lined up at some point, but I was too busy shooting sponges and stuff. > And yes, I know you'll correct me. So, that just means that ** you > ** should post the trip report !! You have a much better way with > words. Nah, I just like disagreeing with people. And I have to wait for them to say something I can disagree with. As I have done here. > I actually can't believe that we went on the trip and are home for > several weeks now. Time is flying by !! It's true, but my post-trip depression was relieved when the new job came through. I've been trying to call you. E-mail me for details. > Thank you so much for inviting me. It was great !! I have to get > hub to sort out our pictures yet. Post-trip party.... Same here. Still working on slide show. We were all glad that you guys and Matt and Dawn all joined up. It made the trip so much more fun, albeit dangerous. I gotta practice my underwater tightrope walking... Talk soon. g > I didn't say I needed to defend myself. Just that "one" can only defend > "oneself" once the offense has been put out there. > Did you think I was being defensive with Bill the Camera Guy? I just > told him I "almost" saw the sharks. I didn't think you were defensive at all. Not one bit. I wondered how you came up with the commentary that you gave him so dang fast. You were like a guy on Comedy Central. :) > I don't know anything. The moose came back and never explained what had > happened. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > knowing that Tom had nearly killed me the night before when he talked > about smokin' Cubans. Laughter is always the best medicine. :) > You're dangerous people. Whether you kidnapped the moose or not, you are > really dangerous. That's why I love ya. Same here. And we're innocent of the moose charge. Honest. I swear. > I've got good pictures of your entry in the show, and good ones of > Dominique, but I never got Bill in his tiger skin, unfortunately. I > should have gotten all three of you lined up at some point, but I was > too busy shooting sponges and stuff. I think Bill's dive skin was the absolute best !! Dominique said she was gonna send a pic of us into the lady who owns the company. I wonder if she did. LOL > Nah, I just like disagreeing with people. And I have to wait for them to > say something I can disagree with. As I have done here. Don't tell me that you're getting that "I Wanna Argue Flu". I had that forever. It's fun sometimes. > It's true, but my post-trip depression was relieved when the new job > came through. I've been trying to call you. E-mail me for details. I'll phone you this week from work. > Same here. Still working on slide show. We were all glad that you guys > and Matt and Dawn all joined up. It made the trip so much more fun, > albeit dangerous. I gotta practice my underwater tightrope walking... > Talk soon. > g The underwater tightrope walking... now how extremely cool was cool was that ?!! Leave it up a bumpkin from Kentucky who is now married to and living with a bumpkin in Ohio. :) As you know, Matt / Dawn and hub and I travel at times with a group of 12 divers. Well... our counterparts didn't favor as well as we did on their liveaboard trip last week, partly due to the hurricane and partly due to a GI virus. I've come to the conclusion that any dive trip I take where : 1. I don't get bent, die or get sick 2. Friends of mine don't get bent, die or get sick 3. Nothing from the ocean or land attacks me 4. I enjoy the ppl on the trip without wanting to pull out their reg and drown them is a good trip !! If I can look back and smile on it, then it was a good trip indeed. <smiling at you big time> > is a good trip !! If I can look back and smile on it, then it was a > good trip indeed. <smiling at you big time> Any flight you walk away from ended with a landing. > > is a good trip !! If I can look back and smile on it, then it was a > > good trip indeed. <smiling at you big time> > Any flight you walk away from ended with a landing. In these times of weird terrorism acts, you are so right !! I hate to say this but : I want to visit my uncle in North Carolina again soon. He's the uncle that I went to live with two years ago so that I could care for my aunt/his wife who had end-stage cancer. I met rec.scuban Jim Frei on that trip. At any rate, I don't really want to spend the cash to fly down to NC and I don't want to put the miles on my car to drive down. Several years ago, hub and I did a dive shop trip for the North Carolina wrecks where the store van drove us down and we dove for the weekend. Then my uncle picked us up there and he brought us back to his house for a few days. When it was time to come home, my uncle drove us to the Amtrack station and we took the train home. It worked out very well. So this time, I thought maybe I'd take the train down and back. Now they pull this stuff in London. I dunno. If those dickweeds decide to bomb the "north corridor" for Amtrack, we'd be in trouble for a while. From: "chilly" Hey gal! Me, I'm trying to think of the last time I saw any diver on the boat with a discman plugged in. I know for sure I haven't seen any shore divers soothing themselves with mellow tunes prior to a dive. For me the dive mellows me out . . .the sound of my breathing, my bubbles and the water . . . now that's calming. Still didn't hear about your trip. ------- Hi chillybean !!!! I don't think I've ever seen a diver at all with discman. I guess the divers that I know don't care about music either. LOL I don't listen to music before a dive. I agree that sometimes diving is relaxing. The dives that are a bit harrowing like my 'whisk' in Indonesia wasn't relaxing until I saw the turtle and decided that if I died then so be it. LOL Re: music, actually I hardly listen to music at all anymore. I listen to news during my work commute, or to NPR or a talk-radio channel. At home, I prefer the silence... or the noise of crickets chirping, owls hooting, horses baying, roosters crowing or even a tractor mowing in the distance. I usually find music, TV, phones, etc to be unwelcomed noise and so I seek to quiet them whenever possible. The rare occasion exists when I wish to hear music but then it's music of my choice via one of my CDs on my stereo or thru a Directv station. The music of my choice might be anything from Jimi Hendrix to Frank Sinatra. I used to be a jogger who wore a headset to listen to music while I ran. Now I don't even like to walk with a headset on. I dunno. Age does funny things I guess. :) > Needless to say I like to be calm before I go out into the water. Recently a > friendo of mine that works with Universal gave me a copy of Ronan Tynan's CD. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > www.drronantynan.net) has some clips and you may know him from when he sings > the national anthem at Yankee games. When I want to mellow out, I turn to the Red Hot Chili Peppers "Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magic" album. It goes something like this... "I don't ever want to feel, like I did that day, Take me to the place I love... Take me all the way" <me snoring to the tune> > Needless to say I like to be calm before I go out into the water. Recently a > friendo of mine that works with Universal gave me a copy of Ronan Tynan's CD. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > www.drronantynan.net) has some clips and you may know him from when he sings > the national anthem at Yankee games. Although, when I go diving, I am a "type A" person... I do like the musical selections. My musical tastes run all over the place. But, the bulk of my listening is with the "softer" kind of music. I just hope the recording is of a high standard. Nothing like listening to an over engineered, harsh digital CD on close to $10g's of stereo equipment. > Although, when I go diving, I am a "type A" person... I do like the > musical selections. My musical tastes run all over the place. But, the > bulk of my listening is with the "softer" kind of music. > I just hope the recording is of a high standard. Nothing like listening > to an over engineered, harsh digital CD on close to $10g's of stereo > equipment. Which is why vinyl is highly prized. >>Although, when I go diving, I am a "type A" person... I do like the >>musical selections. My musical tastes run all over the place. But, the >>bulk of my listening is with the "softer" kind of music. >>I just hope the recording is of a high standard. Nothing like listening >>to an over engineered, harsh digital CD on close to $10g's of stereo >>equipment. > Which is why vinyl is highly prized. I still have my vinyl rig (VPI turntable, Koetsu Black Goldline and Grado Platinum) and love the way it sounds. I have bought CD's of the same recordings (for the most part, recorded in analog, some digital) and the vinyl just sounds better. Yes, the ticks and pops are there. And, you can't easily skip tracks without getting out of your chair, but it is about the sound. I do have some excellent CD's that I enjoy, but Monty Alexander Full Steam Ahead is tremendous! > Needless to say I like to be calm before I go out into the water. How can music which reminds one only of the dentists office be calming to anyone? Relax .. Mellow Out .. Enjoy your root canal.. I still get tense and angry every time I hear ABBA.. The Ramones on the other hand..
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