Music Matters.

As Vince Bruzzese, owner of Totem Acoustic and one of my favorite people in the AV business likes to say, “Everyone is an audiophile.” And as a less-famous friend that I used to work with once said, “there are only two genres of music: good and bad.”

Music has certainly been central to my life, on numerous levels. These days, my road trips for work along Alberta’s highways are fueled by a mix of FM radio and iTunes streamed from my iPhone into my car’s stereo.

Between you and me, on winding forest roads on bright sunny days when Golden Earring’s “Radar Love” comes on the stereo, the speed limit might not be exceeded, but may be sorely tested.

And for some bracing driving music that’s not a Golden Oldie, there’s Toronto band Metric:

And of course, back in my retail days, music was as ever-present in my workdays as oxygen.

There was music for product demos. Like all stereo salesmen, I maintained a large CD wallet full of discs with specific tracks calculated for selling specific products to specific customers.

Believe it or not, one of my favorite acoustic demos for selling speakers and amplifiers was a well mastered recording of this Bon Jovi track:

Beyond demo tracks (about which I could go on all day), there was also the background music that I would play in the HiFi department, either on CD or on DVD as part of the video and surround packages.

I’ve got this thing where I obsess over a song, and will play the crap out of it until either I, or more commonly all the people around me, are totally sick of it.

My former co-workers who are reading this will immediately think of these two tracks:

There are more, of course, many more. Perhaps I’ll do another installment in the future.