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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: ShreddingMyNotes on 18 Mar 2006, 19:58
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Just wondering how many of you guys on the forums are in bands, and if so, what stuff we'd be able to hear. I'm interested in what everyone does musically on their own, beyond what their listening choices may happen to be.
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lol my band is The Crab Cakes............ i play dryms and my older brother plays guitar..... he is really good, he took some classes
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Me and a friend of mine have been kinda writing some stuff, but not really. He plays the bass and I play everything else (technically, I play better bass, but it's funner when two people are doing stuff). I might record some of it later.
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seems like we have a thread like this every once in a while...
i am my own band
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one man band:
www.myspace.com/ryanjhitchcock
fake man bands:
www.myspace.com/caligulafetusconsumption
www.myspace.com/themartinvanburencollective
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I listened to your stuff and added you!
you owe me a branch, yo.
seems like we have a thread like this every once in a while...
i am my own band
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www.purevolume.com/inabial
We explore all the musical genres and areas we possibly can.
And fuck 'em up.
Working on our fourth album atm.
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I have two bands with myspace profiles:
Death Throes (http://www.myspace.com/deaththroes)
Experimental Noize/Black Metal/Sludge/Industrial/Drum 'n Bass about death, drinking, cannibalism and horror. Fun stuff.
Bonus material for forumites (warning, extremely musically offensive. Industrial metal song that samples the crazy frog)
Death Throes - Untermenschen (http://s53.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1PS05EV7S9KQH0AZEQQ3D5YIII)
Halo of Flies (http://www.myspace.com/haloofflies)
Folktronica meets darkwave meets post-industrial soundscapes meets italian zombie movie soundtracks meets world music meets neo-folk meets darktrance meets cheap vodka for a no-holds barred death match in a back alley.
I also have two other projects. Wyred (Blacktrance) and Ill Met By Moonlight (Neo-Folk/Psyfolk/Medieval). On top of which I like to just produce some utterly random experimental stuff under the name of Quietus, very little of which relates to any conventional concept of music, mainly involving me screaming into a microphone whilst manipulating a multi-effects pedal. Other things resulting from such experiments that I may one day collate into an album, include a remix of Churchills 'fight them on the beaches' speech using only sounds gathered from the speech itself, and a crap technometal theme-tune to 'Killer Klowns From Outer Space'.
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I record stuff to 8 track, but I have a crap soundcard that only has a mic input. So you'll never hear any of it.
Oh... One man band here too. My tastes are a little too much on the wimpy side for the average Leicester musician
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We started a band called Banana Shitbox that plays metal covers of all kinds of random rock songs, but we kindof died since it's hard to play basic metal if your line-up lacks a bassist.
I'm also my own one man band called Jigsawbotage, but I don't really record anything because I haven't written any songs. I just write little melodies that I want to expand into songs but haven't yet because I only own an acoustic guitar myself. (For Banana Shitbox, I played the other guitarist's spare)
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I'm sort of in a band. We've had 2 practices over the past 6 months, we don't really have much commitment, I'm the only person in the band who's an acomplished player, the other guys still need to learn quite a bit.
Which brings me to my next question. For somone like myself who has played guitar as a hobby for 6 years or so (on and off for 12 years, woot) but dosen't study it as a subject, where would I meet other people who would be interested in playing in a band?
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Music shops.
So long as you don't mind listening to someone play Nirvana riffs over and over again ;)
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I have two bands with myspace profiles:
Death Throes (http://www.myspace.com/deaththroes)
Experimental Noize/Black Metal/Sludge/Industrial/Drum 'n Bass about death, drinking, cannibalism and horror. Fun stuff.
Bonus material for forumites (warning, extremely musically offensive. Industrial metal song that samples the crazy frog)
Death Throes - Untermenschen (http://s53.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1PS05EV7S9KQH0AZEQQ3D5YIII)
That's bizarre. My band's second record is called Death Throes.
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My band is in my sig. but here's a direct link to the awesomeness that is Metropolis. (http://www.myspace.com/metropolisjazz)
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my band:
http://www.gethimeathim.com
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Well whatever, Mr. Awesome-Album-Record-Deal.
My band is named These Estates. In the link which is in my signature, you can visit my website, which contains a number of skeletal versions of our songs under "music." Not many have drums. "Hartford" has me kind of shouting but boy does it sound shitty.
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I've found another guitarist and a bass player.
I wish there were more drummers in this city :(
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I wouldn't argue with a drummer who's also a samurai.
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You kidding? Bassists all the way! I got in my first band less than a month after I'd started playing bass, and everyone wants me to play with them. Plus, the women always love the sexy bassist. Well, the women don't love me, but that's probably because I don't love women who just love me because I'm a sexy bassist. Are you thoroughly confused?
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Bassists and drummers (I'd think, at least) would get into bands really easily. They're on a slightly limited amount, at least compared to the fucking plethora of guitarists.
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Me
www.myspace.com/iheartickis
Me and Others
www.myspace.com/fivelessonslearned
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No myspace yet, but sooon :p
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Bassists and drummers (I'd think, at least) would get into bands really easily. They're on a slightly limited amount, at least compared to the fucking plethora of guitarists.
guitarists translate to bassist easy, drummer is the crux. the major part is the kit. they're much more expensive than a guitar & amp, for just the kit. if you want to put mics on it, add like several hundred dollars more.
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I'm in a band called Mother Earth. http://www.myspace.com/m0therearth
We rawk.
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Yeah, I basically terribly need a drummer friend if I ever want to start a band, as finding a drummer who even knows what black metal is is proving...problematic.
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guitarists translate to bassist easy, drummer is the crux. the major part is the kit. they're much more expensive than a guitar & amp, for just the kit. if you want to put mics on it, add like several hundred dollars more.
As much as I hate to admit it, the Jimi Hendrix Experience prooved that fact. Of course, the case is not the same in jazz, because the instruments have such a radically different role.
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I have music. I sing and play guitar and harmonica. At the moment I'm working on my first record, but I don't know what I'm going to do with it. www.myspace.com/bayleyasher Any sort of feedback would be appreciated.
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Bassists and drummers (I'd think, at least) would get into bands really easily. They're on a slightly limited amount, at least compared to the fucking plethora of guitarists.
guitarists translate to bassist easy, drummer is the crux. the major part is the kit. they're much more expensive than a guitar & amp, for just the kit. if you want to put mics on it, add like several hundred dollars more.
For every guitarist that can play bass, there's three guitarists who think they can play bass.
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In a number of genres of music, that works quite well. Of course, I don't really play any of those genres, but I'm just sayin...
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Yeah, I'd definitely agree with that. Most guitarists don't understand that the bass is a completely different instrument, and therefore try to play it just like a guitar.
And if you're thinking of taking up the drums, go for it, they're easy.
What a potent blend of truth and bullshit.
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For every guitarist that can play bass, there's three guitarists who think they can play bass.
Akin to bassist writing songs?
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Better than the drummer writing songs.
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Woha now, first:
For every guitarist that can play bass, there's three guitarists who think they can play bass.
This is so true, it hurts.
Whenever a guitar player grabs a bass and pretend to know how to play it, Jaco Pastorius is screaming "THE HORROR!!" in his grave.
Akin to bassist writing songs?
Sadly, this is also true.
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I just had this mental image of Jaco doing The Scream pose. You know, hands to the cheeks, wide open mouth screaming.
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Akin to bassist writing songs?
I'll have you know I was the go-to guy when my band in high school needed a riff, or a progression, or anything. That's in addition to writing at least one song on my own, and it didn't suck that hard.
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But high school kids can't come up with anything original ever, they're going to go to everybody. :D
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I'll also have you know that we came up with some really cool stuff, such as my song. (http://s42.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1RHVF6TOR93NF1Z03E5AOIQNP9) It's a little sloppy, and our keyboardist was improvising his solo completely, on the worst string patch in existence, discounting all the other ones on his keyboard.
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For every guitarist that can play bass, there's three guitarists who think they can play bass.
Akin to bassist writing songs?
Hmm. I guess you couldn't really write a song on bass. You could write one mother of a bassline though.
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Hey, I'm still in high-school, kinda, I think, and I do some pretty orignal sutff!
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John Myung wrote Learning to Live. End of story.
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Myung wrote the lyrics for Learning to Live. The music was from the whole band.
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Picky picky. The point is, he is part of the songwriting process. As is Portnoy for that matter.
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Hey, I'm still in high-school, kinda, I think, and I do some pretty orignal sutff!
I am too, and I can totally out creative-atize the kids one drugs.
But that's because they're teenagers who are on drugs, which generally means they consider themselves creative but are really just the most massive, useless, piece of shit waste of space.
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ER, DUDES ARGUING ABOUT BASSISTS WRITING SHIT.
LES CLAYPOOL
KTHXBAI.
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John Myung wrote Learning to Live. End of story.
PFFFT, here I was expecting someone to say "What about Phill Lynott?" or "Roger Deacon wrote 'Another One Bites the Dust' and 'I Want To Be Free'"
But no, someone had to mention Dream Theater.
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Well, I thought that sorta went without saying.
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I'll also have you know that we came up with some really cool stuff, such as my song. (http://s42.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1RHVF6TOR93NF1Z03E5AOIQNP9) It's a little sloppy, and our keyboardist was improvising his solo completely, on the worst string patch in existence, discounting all the other ones on his keyboard.
Having now listened to that I'll say that was very cool indeed. I would have bought an album with that kind of songs.
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Why thank you. Unfortunately, the band kind of fell apart with the leaving of guitarists.
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The good thing is that guitarists are a dime a dozen! Shit, I'll play in your band. However, one rule: We must learn no less than 3 Genesis covers*.
*If someone knows what I'm referencing I love you.
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I don't. Also, unfortunately these guitarists were good. Like, extremely freaking good. Plus we had pulled the band through so much that the drummer and I (the two founding members) decided to call it quits.
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(http://www.nothingnice.com/images/rockcity/20060322b.jpg)
Man, where the hell is Skibas when you need someone to get your NN2S/SARC references? damnation.
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I have a solo Drone/Post-Rock project called Valley Parade. Don't have anything recorded yet, but I'll throw it on the interwubs ASAP.
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Im in a band called mayison.....but our myspace is under contruccion and we sing in spanish, I play bass guitar, and drumstick-guitar, I also sing and write the lyrics.
listening to us would be like a mix betwen sonic youth, mr bungle, some sort of radical punk....i guess....