Music Streaming Services

I don’t do music as such, but find Spotify is probably the best free player.  Google music if you pay or free if you have large collections of your own music.

Never tried apple music.

I think the answer depends on how you want to listen, and personal preference to ui. I like Spotifys ui the best.

I just use groove, its not the best but it keeps my bill with MS office and what ever other subscriptions I have with them. It has all the music I like, works well on android and the web and 10 as it happens. A bit of Jimmy Nail and many other tunes so I am happy.

Icecast Radio Directory built into VLC Player. Sort genre by using the search facility.

Is this your band? EDIT: Picture link didn’t work

Picture shows ok here.

Tippon wrote:

Bob Williams wrote:

I am looking for one vinyl LP for a band I sang with in the very early 60’s. They were originally “The Stormcats” and morphed into “The Mansfields” which tells you where the group (a band in prehistoric times) members hailed from. Both band names have been appropriated by others, after the originals broke up as I gradually faded out in’63 and ’64 then joined the Army. I wanted to do more Blues and R’n’B, lead guitar (rich kid) wanted to do carp like Ricky Nelson & Bobby Vee. We recorded one LP on which I sang a S**t hot version of Johnny Kidd singing “Shakin’ All Over” and some Chuck Berry/Stones stuff. The problem is that I cannot remember the LP Title! I cudda bin famous, me…

Is this your band? EDIT: Picture link didn’t work

Yes but I am missing from that line up: I left in early ’64 after a disgreement over dress (did not like the Penguin Look) and the stuff they were beginning to play. As I said, I preferred Blues & R&B. The others went on to become The Mansfields. Here’s another bunch I first started singing with:     https://tinyurl.com/y6v3arms     until “Johnny Gold” decided to take over vocals. He couldn’t compete: not a boast, but I had a voice, he didn’t. His parents’ money bought the band’s instruments and transport. They became Johnny Gold & The Sovereigns for a bit, then folded. I was an unreconstructed Rocker and in my teenage years I was also quite violent. I chinned ‘Johnny Gold’ and walked out.The Nottinghamshire music scene in the Sixties was packed with aspiring groups. Shane Fenton and the Fentones (later Alvin Stardust) used to practice in his Aunt’s Chip Shop in our village when it was closed. His real name was Bernard Jewry. Yes, really. Before national fame, he would play Mansfield Palais, dyed blonde hair with a purple streak. He was beaten up there in the very early 60’s for dating a the wife of a local miner. Mansfield was a hard place, still is.

I also sang in the Army, some mates and I in Germany formed a band and a mobile disco. One of us was a cousin of John McNally from The Searchers, also called John. He and another were posted out, the DJ bought his discharge and became a truckie, and a millionaire twice, twice bankrupted and jailed – last I heard an alcoholic. The whole thing had fallen apart by the time the Army got on our case and told us to stop performing. We made quite a few beer vouchers out of it and had a female following.

I still have a voice! (Well my 11 yo gdaughter thinks so) Blimey, I had an ‘interesting’ life! :wacko:  :bye: