Believe it or not, John Tesh does pretty good "background music".
My tastes also run in an eclectic crowd - as I started above. My favorite music is fairly energetic - something with a strong back-beat, complex guitar (think Stevie Ray Vaughn or Jimi Hendrix), but I also like Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins (Genesis), Enya (in smaller doses, she's a favorite of Mrs. Dawg).
I like blues, too - electric blues, if you will, like Led Zepplin or Stevie Ray Vaughn did, is my favorite, but I've been known to enjoy some more traditional blues and jazz, too.
I'm getting more interested in Country over time, too. I'm not really into the "hillbilly" twangy stuff, but I like a lot of what Toby Keith and his contemporaries do.
But you can give me, any day of the week: Zep, Alice Cooper, Joan Jett, Warrant, Cinderella, Steppenwolf, etc - and the occassional Iron Butterfly, Ronnie James Dio, Metallica........................................
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