Hey guys! I was wondering what everyone’s favorite thing to listen to or watch is while tying flies. I like to listen to bluegrass especially instrumental bluegrass while tying. I haven’t been tying very long at all but I have found that it is my favorite. What about you guys?
-Brandon
Brandon,
You KNOW what I listen too!! I will be tagging along on this thread just to read what others listen to/watch while tying. Could or should be interesting. By the way, you need to hope and pray the weather allows us to fish this weekend! Stay in touch.
Warren
Good ol’rockn’roll…LOUD
stones, allmans, johnny winter, zappa
Audio books, mostly on fishing, or a good mystery…
Public Radio, especially Prairie Home Companion, Car Talk, and any of several folk music shows or news programs. Love it all.
Sports, either on tv or the radio. If nothings on, then classic rock
I listen to a wide range of music when I am tying. Lately, I’ve been listening to a lot of music that might be called New Grass, which is kind of a cross between bluegrass and jazz. Bela Fleck, Sam Bush, and Mark O’Conner are some of my favorite musicians. Nickel Creek and the Duhks also fit into that category. I also listen to jazz, classic rock music, bluegrass and blues music.
Mostly…the voices… inside my… head…
Then there’s always room for one more voice- Bob Marley!
Other suitable (to me) sounds are: my wife turning the pages of her book while I tie next to her, classical music is OK ,too if it doesn’t get wound up too tight, reggae, Big Band, traditional and mainstream jazz, Jose Arciniegas and the Vientos de los Andes-traditional acoustic Andean highlands music is also pretty decent to my ears.
I fish, therefore I swam.
Since my tying area is in a corner of the living room, I generally end up listening to whatever my wife wants to watch on TV. We like pretty much the same shows so this works out well.
If I’m tying while my wife is at work, I’ll generally put on sports, especially college football or 60’s, 70’s or 80’s rock and roll. And sometimes I’ll just listen to the wind and rain. 8T 
You had better learn to be a happy camper. You only get one try at this campground and it’s a real short camping season.
I like a big variety of music. I LOVE music. I like old country but not new. I like broadway musicals, show tunes, some classical, old pop, chamber music, American Indian music (Carlos Nakai) Nicholas Gunn, Yo Yo Ma (Portrait of Yo Yo Ma)…flutes, harps, violins, piano music. On and on. But when fly tying I like instrumentals. Oh, I left out new age, Yanni, Loreena McKinnet, Josh Groban, Sara Brightman, Henry Mancini, Movie sound tracks, gawd I have a bunch more. My absolute favorites…“Sagebrush Symphony” by Michael Martin Murphy, “Cowboy Songs” by Michael Martin Murphy, and Herb Jeffries…the Bronze Buckaroo. Other absolute favorites…Yanni…“I Love You Perfect” – “In the Mirrow” and “In My Time”
Dudley…you and I would definitely not be tying in the same room <grin>
Sorry, you ask for a cup of water and I gave you a fire hose! I do like music.
uh…my answer is instrumentals when tying.
Gem
[This message has been edited by Plain Old Jim (edited 16 November 2005).]
Please tell me I’m not the only opera buff.
I have a TV in my tying area that is usually tuned to what I normally watch: old sitcoms, old movies, old cartoons, old game shows, certain sports, Food Network and the History Channel.
I like old blues (Robert Johnson; Mississippi John Hurt, etc.) or jazz. Sometimes I can listen to older rock, or older country, but never contemporary country.
Mostly I like jazz and blues.
Talk radio is always welcome, as long as the topics aren’t political in nature. Too much talk about politics these days.
Sometimes the sound of silence is welcome.
Other times, my son plays his “Row, row, row your boat…” and this is what I listen to.
Fred
Well I’m an eighties product, so I mostly listen to Hard Rock/Heavy Metal, but usually nothing while tying, I seem to like it quiet.
Currently, the podcasts (MP3 files) frome here: [url=http://www.flyfishradio.com/:9cd97]http://www.flyfishradio.com/[/url:9cd97] They are pretty interesting, but they sure are making me ‘homesick’ to go back to Utah and fish my college home waters, or even the colorado ones I grew up on. Making me miss the trout fishing.
I also wish they had some warmwater stuff. I think I am going to send them a suggestion. . .
Don
PlainOldJim,
“you and I would definitly not be tying in the same room”
You’re right about that Jim, you put on some of that Yanni and I’d be headed for the door, eek. 
Everything from Bonnie Raite and Buddy Guy to some Cuban and Island music. The other night it was Copeland’s Appalachia Spring. Almost felt high. I also like tying with a glass of wine. Fun spitting out the little hair ends!!! JGW
The History Channel but very soon Christmas Carrols.
Eric “nighthawk”
American veteran and proud of it!
I like a VERY wide variety of music, but tend to pick the more mellow stuff when tying. Its usually in the range of folksy-country to hippie. Folksy country would include Guy Clark, Slaid Cleaves, Todd Snider, Patti Griffin and the like. Hippie would range from the Dead to Marley to Jack Johnson to Keller Williams. Nice to have the tying desk next to the iTunes loaded mac and all thats on it. Never tried classical, something that elegant might be ideal should I ever feel the need to tie Catskills or Wulffs.
I either like it quiet or with a good storm raging outside. Guess we’re more into nature’s music, usually, anyway.
…lee s.