Music and Watches go together!

It’s summer time. The days are long, it’s hot and there’s been plenty of great music to be heard. I love live music and I go to a lot of concerts.

Last night I went to rock concert and saw Stone Temple Pilot and Rival Sons. Two weeks I was at reggae show and saw Pepper and Stick Figure.

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This Saturday I’m hitting another reggae show, Rebalution and the Expendables. Sometime in the next month or so I’m going to a few more, Royal blood and Bad Religon. I’ve also checked out a couple of old school punk bands The Descendents, Offspring and Sublime with Rome. You get the idea. I like music.

I know my taste in music isn’t for everyone. But I’m product of my environment. It’s the music I heard and loved growing up in the surf and skate scene in the 80’s in California.

So how does this post relate to watches?

Music puts me back to the places I’ve been, to what I saw and to what I was doing. It reminds me of a time in my life. Music is all about memories. Music let’s you feel the time. Aren’t watches the same?

I buy a watch because I love it, for an accomplishment or a milestone. Every time I wear that watch and check the time I remember how I felt and what I doing at the time.

Music and watches go hand and hand.

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Now I know there has to be some Taylor Swift, Elton John or Metallica fans out there who feel the same way I do. Tell me who you saw?

Maybe you have a picture of the concert? And a watch too?

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You're doing summer right!

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Right on! "Sounds" like a great time.

I do Watches and Wine add the music and life is all good.

Enjoy!

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mc_fly

You're doing summer right!

I try to make a year round affair. But there’s nothing better than a warm evening and some music in the summer.

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jcwatch

Right on! "Sounds" like a great time.

I do Watches and Wine add the music and life is all good.

Enjoy!

Wine is a good mix. We have the Mountain Vinery near by that has an outstanding amphitheater. It’s beautiful. It’s the go to for wine, dinner and a concert.

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whystopatone

Wine is a good mix. We have the Mountain Vinery near by that has an outstanding amphitheater. It’s beautiful. It’s the go to for wine, dinner and a concert.

Sounds like a great time. Can't go wrong doing that. Enjoy those moments!

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I call this the "Tool" watch. It's a Casio Bio-Rhythm. It's my choice when I spin the Tool album Lateralus. Nothing says "Tool" like numerology and astrology and this watch is built from those ideas.

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I call this the "Tool" watch. It's a Casio Bio-Rhythm. It's my choice when I spin the Tool album Lateralus. Nothing says "Tool" like numerology and astrology and this watch is built from those ideas.

Another Tool fan here! That watch definitely embodies the band. Time for us to say "spiral out" twenty times before chanting the chorus to "Schism" while drinking Maynard J Keenan's wine.

Super cool Bio Graph, I'd love one for my biology class!

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I call this the "Tool" watch. It's a Casio Bio-Rhythm. It's my choice when I spin the Tool album Lateralus. Nothing says "Tool" like numerology and astrology and this watch is built from those ideas.

Nice. I’ve seen Tool a few times. I think when they played with Primus was the best. Ozzest was really good too.

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My taste in music is far more varied than my watch collection. While my collection consists mainly of dress watches, I listen to anything from Ethio-pop to whatever confusing subgenre of metal came out this week. I haven't been to a concert yet (I am a very young fellow, after all) but I would most love to see Slipknot, Rammstein and quite a few others live sometime. One of my great sadnesses in life is the fact that I'll never get to see Linkin Park, which is quite possibly my favourite band, live one day.

Great post with some great photos; enjoy those concerts!

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I was supposed to see Royal Blood a few years ago. They were opening for the Foo Fighters at Fenway Park. We showed up too late and missed them. ENJOY AND ROCK ON!🤘😤🤘

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Ryan_Schwartz

My taste in music is far more varied than my watch collection. While my collection consists mainly of dress watches, I listen to anything from Ethio-pop to whatever confusing subgenre of metal came out this week. I haven't been to a concert yet (I am a very young fellow, after all) but I would most love to see Slipknot, Rammstein and quite a few others live sometime. One of my great sadnesses in life is the fact that I'll never get to see Linkin Park, which is quite possibly my favourite band, live one day.

Great post with some great photos; enjoy those concerts!

I’m not much into Slipknot or Rammstein but Linkin Park was really good live. Of all the concerts I’ve seen I never saw Soundgarden. I could have and should have but never did. I feel you.

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I was supposed to see Dead & Company, but being hospitalized at that time, I missed. But I did see the Grateful Dead about a month before Jerry passed. I also paid homage to the boys in Haight Asbury so many years ago!

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MMerc5

I was supposed to see Royal Blood a few years ago. They were opening for the Foo Fighters at Fenway Park. We showed up too late and missed them. ENJOY AND ROCK ON!🤘😤🤘

I bet that was a great show. This will the second time seeing Royal Blood. Foo Fighters are on my list to see. I want to see David Grohl play the guitar. I saw him play the drums.

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Wifethinksimnuts

I was supposed to see Dead & Company, but being hospitalized at that time, I missed. But I did see the Grateful Dead about a month before Jerry passed. I also paid homage to the boys in Haight Asbury so many years ago!

Sorry to hear that. Jerry’s a legend. I to saw the Dead before he died. 🤝

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I would love to have this watch, because Brian May is a legend!

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whystopatone

My wife and I took the kids to the Universal Studios a few years ago. We drove by the Hollywood bowl on our way to drop them off and we saw Rod Stewart with Jeff Beck playing tonight. Gametime, a credit card and an hour later we were at the show. I never thought I’d get to see Jeff Beck play especially with Rod Stewart. Sometime LA isn’t all that bad. 😂

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Here's Danny Elfman and I in his studio. I also got to see him perform "Deadman's Party" at the Hollywood Bowl. It was the first time he had performed the song in 20 years since the Oingo Boingo days.

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Here's Danny Elfman and I in his studio. I also got to see him perform "Deadman's Party" at the Hollywood Bowl. It was the first time he had performed the song in 20 years since the Oingo Boingo days.

Ok that’s a really good flex that I can’t match. All I can say is I worn out both “Deadman’s Party” and “Violent Femmes” tapes around the same time. Very cool!

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whystopatone

Ok that’s a really good flex that I can’t match. All I can say is I worn out both “Deadman’s Party” and “Violent Femmes” tapes around the same time. Very cool!

Here's my wife with Melissa Etheridge visiting the bar in Long Beach where Melissa earned her chops.

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People thought they were sisters!

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Music and memories might be a more intense pairing than watches can conjure up but that is my personal take. This is going to date me terribly but The Beatles, Blood Sweat and Tears, Bob Dylan, Blue Rodeo, Cowboy Junkies, Madonna, Eurythmics, Frank Sinatra with Liza Minnelli ( Sammy Davis Jr was sick) Neil Young.

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TOwguy

Music and memories might be a more intense pairing than watches can conjure up but that is my personal take. This is going to date me terribly but The Beatles, Blood Sweat and Tears, Bob Dylan, Blue Rodeo, Cowboy Junkies, Madonna, Eurythmics, Frank Sinatra with Liza Minnelli ( Sammy Davis Jr was sick) Neil Young.

Your good. I’ve seen the Eurythmics and Neil Young. Both were great live.

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Great post. I’ll check out some of those reggae bands.

You lot are a lot cooler than me. I’m an unapologetic country fan. Here’s a photo of Canadian artist, Tebey, last year at The Long Road - a country and Americana festival in the UK:

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One of our favourites was Gangstagrass. Here’s the main vocal duo, Dolio the Sleuth and R-son the voice of reason:

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No doubt someone can identify the watch he is wearing!

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WatchBee

Great post. I’ll check out some of those reggae bands.

You lot are a lot cooler than me. I’m an unapologetic country fan. Here’s a photo of Canadian artist, Tebey, last year at The Long Road - a country and Americana festival in the UK:

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One of our favourites was Gangstagrass. Here’s the main vocal duo, Dolio the Sleuth and R-son the voice of reason:

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No doubt someone can identify the watch he is wearing!

I don’t think I’m any cooler. I’d say country is pretty dam cool. I think you’re doing very well.

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An intimate night by candle light with LeAnn Rimes.

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(Junghans Meister Driver Handaufzig)

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FlatteryCamp

An intimate night by candle light with LeAnn Rimes.

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(Junghans Meister Driver Handaufzig)

Can’t fight the Meisterlight

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FlatteryCamp

An intimate night by candle light with LeAnn Rimes.

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(Junghans Meister Driver Handaufzig)

It looks like you had a fun Friday night. I like the watch too. 🔥👍🎯

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One of the most stirring recent performances I've had the pleasure of participating in. It is the first and only time LeAnn Rimes performed this passion project in public despite her working on this dream of hers for literally decades.

It was a raw and emotional mix of spiritually charged singing, classical opera and meditative chanting with extensive audience participation in a very intimate venue (the historic Emmanuel Presbyterian Church on Wilshire). Backed by a piano, string quartet and various percussions much of it was also simply acapella.

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Weird in the most wonderful way, many including LeAnn herself were openly weeping during some of the more cathartic passages focused on grief. This was music as an expression of healing rather than an attempt at a revenue producing project as it doesn't fit neatly within any category.

The Candlelight Concert series helps fund projects that otherwise wouldn't have been realized in an attempt to widen the pool of those that have access to live music.

We hit Whittier Boulevard after for some great street food and the Mrs wore vintage Rolex.

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I❤LA!

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whystopatone

I don’t think I’m any cooler. I’d say country is pretty dam cool. I think you’re doing very well.

I checked out Stick Figure, and they’ve now become a family favourite on our summer vacation!

Good music to remind me to take it slow and steady in the car!

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WatchBee

I checked out Stick Figure, and they’ve now become a family favourite on our summer vacation!

Good music to remind me to take it slow and steady in the car!

Glad I could be of some assistance! Check out Pepper. They’re a little more rock. They are my favorite. Also if you like Stick Figure you’ll definitely like Rebelution. Have a great vacation with the falimy. Cheer!

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My father had a collection of tapes, cassettes and CDs, he's been organising underground discotheques around the town, and my mom is line producer and she was a program director on a radio when I was a kid. She also worked in a local production company, organising jazz festivals, open-airs and other gigs. While other kids were asking parents for money, I've been helping audio engineers move stuff after the gig to earn some, which also means I gotta see the show for free. I got my first watch couple days after I went to my first jazz gig at the age of 9, so I can effectively blame my parents for hooking me up on a very expensive hobbies. Gladly I was passionate enough to not become and audiophile and instead I choose to do actual music production, because obsession to making music is much, much cheaper than obsession to listening to it.

Now, my music taste is straight up screwed, because while most people stop at mainstream or 'niche-mainstream', I went further to the beautiful land of noise, industrial, experimental and other shapes of avant-garde. For some weird reason I got into UK music before I heard the gentrified commercialised US version of it (even tho the latter is way more popular) and it kinda formed my interest for sonic exploration. So when I'm not busy actively listening some experimental chaos, I love to dig into idm, dub, 00s dubstep, trip-hop, shoegaze, new wave, grime and post-punk (The Fall started it and you can't prove me otherwise). How do I got into classic UK stuff, while living my whole life in Eastern Europe? I have literally zero clue lmao.

To make the whole picture even more weird, my watches are kinda far from abandoned warehouse aesthetic. I love wearing smaller dressier "posh" watches. I guess it's okay to not tailor your style to your music preferences in your 30s, lmao. After all, I still have my fair share of Carhartt and Dickies in a closet. I was too involved in street culture - BMX and metal music, to not have any influences left.

And here's a photos of my studio and my watches as an eye-candy.

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mainreasontostay

My father had a collection of tapes, cassettes and CDs, he's been organising underground discotheques around the town, and my mom is line producer and she was a program director on a radio when I was a kid. She also worked in a local production company, organising jazz festivals, open-airs and other gigs. While other kids were asking parents for money, I've been helping audio engineers move stuff after the gig to earn some, which also means I gotta see the show for free. I got my first watch couple days after I went to my first jazz gig at the age of 9, so I can effectively blame my parents for hooking me up on a very expensive hobbies. Gladly I was passionate enough to not become and audiophile and instead I choose to do actual music production, because obsession to making music is much, much cheaper than obsession to listening to it.

Now, my music taste is straight up screwed, because while most people stop at mainstream or 'niche-mainstream', I went further to the beautiful land of noise, industrial, experimental and other shapes of avant-garde. For some weird reason I got into UK music before I heard the gentrified commercialised US version of it (even tho the latter is way more popular) and it kinda formed my interest for sonic exploration. So when I'm not busy actively listening some experimental chaos, I love to dig into idm, dub, 00s dubstep, trip-hop, shoegaze, new wave, grime and post-punk (The Fall started it and you can't prove me otherwise). How do I got into classic UK stuff, while living my whole life in Eastern Europe? I have literally zero clue lmao.

To make the whole picture even more weird, my watches are kinda far from abandoned warehouse aesthetic. I love wearing smaller dressier "posh" watches. I guess it's okay to not tailor your style to your music preferences in your 30s, lmao. After all, I still have my fair share of Carhartt and Dickies in a closet. I was too involved in street culture - BMX and metal music, to not have any influences left.

And here's a photos of my studio and my watches as an eye-candy.

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Very cool. Music and watches. It doesn’t get much better. There’s a watch and a song for everything 🔥