From Rock to Blues

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Seemed like a good compromise for a name; I like everything, just about, (especially if it's from the "old very late 60's through the mid to even late 70's, although the original recordings & composers were writing some of this stuff in the 30's & 40's); "Rock & Roll", "Heavy Metal" Rock, "The Blues", "Chigaco Bluesman Blues", "Down South Blues", "Rock'n Blues", the "interim" "Blues underneath with Rock on top" styles of Leslie West, Johnny Winter, Pat Travers, and all the rest, with different styles but there's something common to all of them, if you stop & listen for a moment; Underneath the Rock N' Roll, there's an old Blues tune, and it's not as easy as it may seem to take an old Blues tune & "make it work" with the "standard" "1-4-5" Rock progression & 4/4 beat, so if the musician can really "make it work", and sound GOOD doing it, then they're "something exceptional", you just have to listen to find exactly what makes them "different" than their contemporaries; It doesn't make any one "better" than another, just "different" than each other. (I also listen to some tracks of Opera, so I really DO appreciate ALL kinds of music); My father taught me that, back when I was still in the "single-digit-years"; He taught me that music is "MUSIC", not one particular style, or one particular musician, etc.; He grew up with the Big Bands and the Swing Era, yet he bought me my Cream Live albums (both Volumes One AND Two), and we used to sit in the basement where the stereo was, listening to Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce, and Eric Clapton, playing "a tidal wave of sound" (as one music magazine writer put it so well), and we'd both be almost "nodding off" to the Concert-Hall Volume-Level strains of "Spoonful" as played by a band who was several decades younger than the tune they were playing, (Cream), and playing it WELL, and LIVE, which is when you just CAN'T "stop & try it again", while we just "soaked it all in"; My father is much older than he looks, and I'm no "Spring Chicken" myself anymore, but we'd still do it today, if I brought over copies of the albums & set up a stereo; He'd like it as much as I would, and still do. "From Rock to Blues" sums up what I was trying to both describe what I'm "into", as well as what I'm trying to "fine-tune" this "station" to play, "with a little of everything else thrown in" for good measure and balance... I'm the guy who went to work listening to Wagner's "Die Valkyrie" Opera in the car, and come home listening to Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" on the flip-side of the tape. And when I was an "active" musician, I could play just about anything, in any style, to any beat, etc., and I liked them all, and still do. If you like what I've described, or feel that you're a "kindred spirit", drop me a note, either here or on the Pandora site of someone who's ID is "n3vqk", and let us know that there are more than just a couple of "old geezers" who know what "The SuperGroup Era" was like, and who still listen to a lot of it whenever we can! We'd like to know that we're not the only ones left who are "Boomers from the "Woodstock Generation"! :)