Hello Music Generals,
first to answer the question if I am listening the music while playing PG. Basically no. Radio, or no music at all. Just the sound of howitzers (in some scenarios mules, but that is terrible).
I guess that my music taste is the most conventional (commercial) one. I like very much the approach that Hosa used, by decades, so I will (learn from the master

) use the same.
first half of '70s I was listening lullaby
second half of '70s, due to my elder brother, I was listening Deep Purple,The Doors, AC/DC
'80, I was going on the two fronts
eastern one -Yugoslav new wave & punk (you are not familiar with the names of this groups, so no need to post them)
western front - David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Dire Straits, Rolling Stones, new wave, Sex Pistols, The Cult, Billy Idol, and a lot of groups with just one good song.
first half of '90, extension of '80s. Nirvana, Red hot chilly papers, Bowie, Billy ...Roger Waters...
second half of '90, the time has stop, until the present day. In the last 25 yeas there is only 4-5 songs that i really like. The logic is telling me that this more related to my mental state than the lack of good music, but I don't accept that argument.
One more thing that influenced my development and that is related to music, but also with "la marcha" (going out with friends, having good time in bars, I don't know exact word in English).
I never ever was listening jazz at home. It is just to "heavy" for me, I have headache, it makes me nervous. But... long time ago there was a jazz club in "Youth Center". The jazz sessions were made on Tuesday evening, starting about 23h. I am talking about 86', '87 & '88, time of my last two years in the high school. In the winter, the best Yugoslav jazz musician, which were playing in the US during the summer, were playing in that club. There were only 3 drinks to order: beer, vodka and exotic juice (some non alcoholic beverage, never tried).The prices were literally cheaper than in the shop (donated by the Ministry of Culture). Few times it happened that we were going strait to the School from the club. That were the great School dayz, drawback is that today I don't like jazz in the clubs. Simply I can't accept the second league, when I know for much much better. Also today, you can't approach to the first class musician, invite them a drink, ask questions, times has changed. Jazz session is not the concert, it is so much more. For me jazz is closed chapter, but the good one. And money invested by ancient Ministry of Culture, is probably the best invested money by any Ministry.
To finish this very long post,and to make it even longer, Volker you have asked for it

, I must do it with David Bowie. When he died, suddenly, everyone is great fun of him, even the people who does't now two verse of his songs. I hate this things. For me Bowie was like a like furniture, member of family, friend from childhood. Something that was ever present, since I can remember. Something that you don't notice, because it is always there. The feeling when I had when I have heard of his death, I can compare with the feeling when the first from my generation passed away. Just the feeling of transience. I like very much his albums Ziggy Stardust, Diamond Dogs, Rare. When he made album Let's dance, I have stop listing his new albums. Pure commercial. Until his last one. I knew that he made a last album days before his death, but skeptical due his last 20 years of commercial music I was not willing to hear it, until I have heard comments of one music critic that I do respect. More or less about one month after he grasped for the stars, I have forced myself to hear his last songs, and I was hugely surprised. The old magician returned to put the new standard. Nowadays every fagot with two bulbs and creepy sound declares himself as multimedia artist. Multimedia is very profane, due to the very poor artist. I am talking about multimedia, because Bowie's last two songs, Lazarus and Blackstar, are really multi medial masterpieces, with all visual and lyric symbolic as a new task for young artist. Almost two years have passed since, and nobody took the challenge, so all we can hear from new songs is pure BS.
LET THE FORCE BE WITH YOU
S.