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Post by Charlie O. on Jan 20, 2021 2:23:02 GMT
Any of you have any experiences with pets or other critters responding to music you were playing (whether live or recorded)?
YouTube is full of clips of, for instance, dogs singing along with their masters (or playing a keyboard), or farm animals - cows, usually - gathered around to listen to someone playing for them.
I've witnessed such things myself on occasion. But my old dog didn't seem to notice much when my brothers or I would play or sing. There was one time when my sister-in-law's brother and I were hanging out late one night by a lake in the Adirondacks, playing acoustic guitars, and we fell into this really hypnotic improv duet that probably lasted ten minutes or more - we were really deep into it, but then we heard a strange noise that made us both stop suddenly. We eventually figured out it was a coyote, some distance away, trying to join in with us. Well, either that, or he was yelling at us to knock it off - hard to be sure.
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Post by tory on Jan 20, 2021 9:58:48 GMT
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Jan 20, 2021 10:37:13 GMT
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Jan 20, 2021 11:50:33 GMT
I don't have any footage, but our old dog Agnes used to howl along whenever one of us would play the harmonica.  Our current dog, Jenny, doesn't seem to have any musical inclination. |
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Sneelock
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Post by Sneelock on Jan 20, 2021 20:41:45 GMT
they used to put on some swell public event when we lived in Eagle Rock CA quite a few years back. one year they had some people who loved elephants. they had two with them. the elephants painted at canvases and swung back and forth when the people played an upright piano. it was absolutely entrancing. I'd been around elephants as performers or beasts of burden before. this was the first time I'd just seen them enjoying themselves. it was pretty thrilling for some reason.
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Post by Charlie O. on Jan 20, 2021 22:01:19 GMT
they used to put on some swell public event when we lived in Eagle Rock CA quite a few years back. one year they had some people who loved elephants. they had two with them. the elephants painted at canvases and swung back and forth when the people played an upright piano. it was absolutely entrancing. I'd been around elephants as performers or beasts of burden before. this was the first time I'd just seen them enjoying themselves. it was pretty thrilling for some reason. Oh, there's a MESS o' piano/elephant clips on YouTube. |
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Post by sloopjohnc on Jan 20, 2021 22:30:32 GMT
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Post by sloopjohnc on Jan 20, 2021 22:31:23 GMT
I don't have any footage, but our old dog Agnes used to howl along whenever one of us would play the harmonica. Our current dog, Jenny, doesn't seem to have any musical inclination. Ours too when I played. |
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Post by fearlessfreap on Jan 21, 2021 11:57:32 GMT
Our dog is very critical about sell outs.
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Post by Charlie O. on Nov 29, 2023 0:57:17 GMT
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Sneelock
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Post by Sneelock on Nov 29, 2023 18:28:36 GMT
I think of this bird whenever I hear this song.
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Post by Charlie O. on Nov 30, 2023 4:40:18 GMT
^ When he started going with his feet, I had a flashback to an early-'80s CREEM piece - a pisstake history of Queen written by Rick Johnson. One of the items from his timeline was "1980: 'Another One Bites The Dust' achieves ridiculous heights of popularity for a song that sounds like Trigger counting to six."
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