Casting Music

[hendere]

The Gun Club, Robert Johnson, Nirvana, Slobberbone, and Woody Guthrie. I have no idea why those particular cds ended up out there but that's what I keep listening to and it works for me.

I must admit that I am pretty surprised by many/most of the answers here.

[Ben]

This is a good one :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=ruNrdmjcNTc

[Pb2au]

There's a small stack of CDs that over the past couple of years have migrated from the master collection to beside my Walkman that stays plugged into my gun room amp: JJ Cale's Naturally, Evanescense Fallen, Joe Satriani The Extremist, Steely Dan's Aja, Can't buy a thrill, and Pretzel Logic, Donald Fagen's Nightfly, several SRV hits collections, Milla Jovovich The divine comedy (yes, on CD, I bought it when it came out), and a couple of Euro-trash Trance and Techno collections, and most recently Lindsey Sterling's album.

Gear

Ha Ha! I saw Milla Jovovich open for the Crash Test Dummies way the heck back in 1994! At the time, we all wondered who the heck she was.

[torker]

I like to listen to some good jazz, ole blues stuff. Eda James, Stevie Ray, Johnny Lang. Kinda gives me a relaxing sense.

[dondiego]

Beach Boys, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Who, Dave Clark 5, Kinks, Bob Seeger, Eric Clapton............in that order.

[runfiverun]

torker that's Etta James.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-cbOl96RFM

[sargenv]

Whatever is on the station at the time.. sometimes music, sometimes the San Jose Sharks game.. it's all background noise to me..

[jwber]

I have such a wide variety of music that I love.

Common Staples when Casting/Reloading are:

Ted Nugent
Darius Rucker
Nirvana
Dream Theater
KISS
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Jimi Hendrix

[MT Gianni]

A well known commercial caster here showed me a loud ticking clock he keeps by his pot. The steady rhythm of it gives a cadence to the time spent on cooling, return to pour and kept the mold near the same temp. Music that keeps the same beat helps but varying beats might not. Thanks, Dan.
I keep no food or drink in my casting area and if I need something or to take a leak I leave, clean up take care of things and return.

[warf73]

Classic metal and rock mostly on Pandora, Pink Floyd, Led Zep, etc. Lately I've been including more modern stuff like Metallica, Rob Zombie.

Very little C&W. No rap!

I also use pandora, I use the shuffle with my stations being. Master of Shadows, Rammstein, Trace Adkins, Carrie Underwood, Kid Rock and Classi Rock rounding out the stations.

Its all over the map for kinds of music.

[Pakprotector]

Grateful Dead, played through 6L6's and JBL's...maybe some Willie Dixon and Koko Taylor.
cheers,
Douglas

[ACrowe25]

Country, WYCD here in the Deeetroit area.

I think if we could get Toby Keith to write a song about casting and shooting, we'd be a little less misunderstood...or maybe more, oops.

Hey hey, me too!

In addition, anything along the lines of tool, staind, etc.

[EMC45]

I like talk radio when casting. Car Talk (NPR), PGM's "Unshackled", AFA, etc. Music? When I get a chance it is KLOVE, or classical, mainly cello. As far as music is concerned otherwise it is anything from old Johnny Cash to Ska/reggae/dancehall/punk/NYHC/hardcore/Oi/classical/pop etc.

[390ish]

Elvis. It is the only time I listen to Elvis. have a double album on my iphone.

[whelenshooter]

Mark Levin or a football game. Doesn't soothe the soul like Axel I suppose, but does the trick for me.

David

[Dave C.]

No music. Focus on the task at hand.

Dave C.

[trixter]

Rockmaninoff

[Old Caster]

Limbaugh if the time is proper. Otherwise various talk shows that talk about scripture. Never any hippie music or its offspring.

[gandydancer]

Nothing.. Just listen to the stillness. as for music.the last five new cars I have purchased in the last 12 years I couldn't tell you if the radios worked in them or not??

[Jeff H]

Hi all,

what do you listen to while casting or reloading?..........

Rain, sleet, snow, wind against the metal roof, hiss of a propane burner, tap of a hardwood dowel on a sprue plate,....

Some sounds are inherent to the conditions which created the opportunity to cast and some are part of the process, but silence, or the absence of man-made noise, is more rare and endangered than beautiful vistas. That's one reason I like winter so much. Everyone else is in their houses instead of outside making noise.