Favorite Music While Playing

[SNOWBALL138]

When I played SNGs I liked listening to NIN a lot. Somehow pushing 92o from the SB and the album downward spiral were made for eachother.

[jzpiano14]

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I enjoy jazz from the 40's-60's while I am playing. Currently in the rotation are several Miles Davis CD's, Art Blakey, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Thelonius Monk, Bill Evans, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker and Max Roach.

For reasons unbeknownst to me I am able to focus and relax more listening to jazz as opposed to other styles of music that I find enjoyable. The one exception is that my favorite Art Tatum CD's "20th Century Piano Genius" is far too distracting to listen to while playing poker. The guy performs some inhuman things on the piano that demand the listeners full attention.

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If you think that Tatum album is distracting, try "Piano Starts Here". I actually quit playing piano for a year after I first heard that album as a teenager. I figured, "Why bother?"

I like to listen to early-to-mid-period Trane when I play, but the late period stuff doesn't work well for me while playing poker. Pharaoh Sanders on saxophone and tracking folded cards in stud hi-low are not a good mix, I've found. For similar reasons, although I idolize Ornette Coleman, I rarely if ever listen to him while playing poker. Hip hop I also can't really listen to while playing, since the music is so much more lyric-intensive than other genres.

Crowded House, Split Enz, Finn Brothers, etc. (i.e., anything with Neil Finn) seems to work well for me. So, for some reason, does Slayer. Turned up very, very loud. I think it might be because albums like "Reign in Blood" and "God Hates Us All" are SO intense that they tend to blot out all other distractions and allow me to concentrate better on the game. NYC hardcore bands like Agnostic Front, Sick of It All, Warzone, H20, Snapcase (yes, I know, they're from Buffalo) and Murphy's Law tend to have that same effect, so I listen to them a lot too.

--Scott

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Love Art Tatum, Evens, Tyner, Barron, all the piano great, but really any type of jazz, relaxes me and every once in a while I get into this zone when I'm listening and playing. Then it is just DOMINATION!

My secret weapon : Candy Dulfer, Sax-A-GoGo

SRV, Taj Mahal, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Vivaldi, Prince, anything funky

Chamilitary mang.

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Bloc Party

Will

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[FieryJustice]

slipknot and sngs go well together.

When I play MTTs, I like to listen to albums that I might listen to an a lazy Sunday morning while cooking pancakes and bacon. The Beatles, Pearl Jam, U2, Jack Johnson, REM, Springsteen, et. al.

guns n roses -- "patience"

any sublime, but especially santeria

bob marley

-grant

OAR - Crazy Game of Poker when im waiting for that big push in a Tournament im slowly blinding out in

All other times Calmer stuff - RJD2, Sublime, etc