A few people talk about being in bands around here. I was wondering how many people are or have been in a band? I play lead guitar in a Punk Rock band myself (http://www.subliminal-message.co.uk/), and wanted to see how many other people are into stuff like that.
bass guitar in a alternative-rock-band (at very beginner's stage)
Yeah, our band are in the begginer's stage too. It's hard to find gigs when you're just starting out though.
I have been playing for 6 years, but it's impossible to find band members at my age.
I was in 2 bands, the first one was going great except they all moved to Alaska within 2 weeks (no joke).
My second band expirience started in about September last year, and ended in November. We just couldn't play a song together. We learned one song in 2 weeks, played it at the school talent show, and we thought everything sounded great. However, the following factors contributed to our demise.
1) The other guitarist started focusing on what our Demo CD would look like, instead of practicing.
2) Our bassist sucked, and he wasn't loud enough.
3) Our drummer turned into a dickhead.
4) They only like modern rock, and anything else to them is crap. So screw doing any other styles of music.
I like modern rock, but I like jazz, funk and classic rock a whole lot more, so I really wanted to encorperate the genres.
Then we got into a fight, and the drummer became a dickhead and I forgot if the bassist is in existance any more.
The other guitarist is still my friend, but we havent seen each other in a while.
Hopefully when I get into High School, I'll find some kids who have appreciacion for all genres of music.
Hopefully...
Today im not.
I were in 2 bands b4, one heavy metal about 4 years ago and the second one rock blues style (got off in march this year).
I've never been in one, but I NEED to start a band sooner or later. If I don't I'll eventually go crazy.
If I ever form it, my band's gonna have a violin and cello doubling the lead guitar and bass respectively, with stacks of complex intertwining lines. The music'll be some sort of ultra-melodic, groove-based acid rock/electronica hybrid with occasional touches of jazz and classical, with tons of shifting dynamics, quiet/loud bits, builds and climaxes etc.
Man... we'll be the worst band of all time! I still really want to do it, though...
Yup yup. I actually have TWO gigs coming in the next week. Thing is, they're for two DIFFERENT bands. I have a Jazz combo called "The Freeloaders" (Listen to Miles' Kind of Blue again to see where we took our name), and another Funk/R&B group called "Thruster Bomb". Whoo.
I play rhythm guitar in a ska band.
Our first practice with our new singer is tomorrow, w00t w00t.
Also, there are plans for an emocore band (yes angsty, a bit silly and too trendy, I know, but I like it).
I'd really love to play in a blues band, but I don't really know anyone who wants to.
I was in a few bands before, but most of them parted after a month or less.
Lead guitar in a country/alternative rock - beginner/intermidate(sp?) stage. We've had a few gigs. None of them have been big, mainly just school dances
I've been in a few bands.. we thought we were punk rockers, but it was the biggest pile of garbage I've ever heard in hindsight.
In my last band I tried to play 70'ish rock with modern undertones and it sounded allright. We had some gigs, but when I went to college we stopped playing. It was just me and a drummer.
Right now my amp won't even work, I think my filament winding went out because the pre-amp tubes won't heat up. :-\
Heh, funny this thread should come up. I have some close friends that have been in a band for a while, doing mostly school gigs, though some were pretty big. Their bassist dropped out, and they want me to step in, doing guitar and occasionally bass. If anything, its an alternative band, with occasional hints of the blues, jazz or punk.
Keyboards and bass guitar in the Pyrotones! (http://www.pyrotones.com)
We play every style of music except for Polka. Not even a bit. :)
I like polka, and I was willing to pay you 1,000,000 dollars if you played one polkasong for me, but... me forget it, I'll just buy some tacos instead.
Yes, I am.
3rd band as a matter of fact.
Im a manager for an alternative rock band at my highschool. Heh...
Man, Geoffkhan, I really like your songs.
Holy Land Groove is fantastic.
It will always have a special place in my playlist :).
And Sylpher, you know I love your band.
I was gonna call my friends and get 'em all together, I was gonna go and start a band.
But everything I wanted to do had alreayd been done, why would I want to go and do it again?
Thanks Highway.. Homepage with a lot of crapola coming to a theatre near you soon. So keep an eye out.
I play lead guitar and sing in a few different bands, none of which are serious. One is a "The Darkness" cover band, one is an original band called "Ghost Hunter X" that writes meanspirited songs about people we know and love/hate, and in september when i go back to college i'm starting up a thrash metal band with a few guys i met last year( a band called "primeval" ), as their drummer is leaving and they don't want to continue under the same name with the same originals (i'll only be singing in that band, no guitar. Well, maybe like 2 solos per song, hahahahaha, thrash...).
I'm not in a band but i help with doing the cover art for my friends band, I will ask him for a song to post later, right now were out of touch. I will also post the art with the song, it's slowing up the production on doll :(
I play lead guitar in a progressive rock combo. I also play keyboards, as well, within the group at certain times.
I also play lead guitar and sing in a Blues/Rock cover group. That pays for some bills, sometimes. Heh.
But I've played guitar for close to 18 years, and piano for close to 9 years now.
I play drums in a progressive metal group. We play a lot of original songs, but we also cover Dream Theater, Andromeda, Freak Kitchen. Our gigs are mainly at music schools and stuff like that. We do get asked to play some metal fesitvals gigs around australia though.
Before that I was doing live-psytrance with PC's and synths. I've been studying drums since i was 8, and piano since i was 16 (23 now). So its all fun and games :)
I'm in a retrogressive onemancore industrometal band. We have six albums, but I lost the recordings so now I have to redo them and release them as remasters, even though they haven't been released yet at all, but that's ok, since remasters are instantly better than the originals anyways.
I am trying to make a band but I need to find members that are serious, I have only been playing for 8 months, I suck, but I can hammer out a rythm that sound close to what we want..and then my brother says it sucks and plays over it.
My brother: Wants the band to be bass-heavy (like Budgie) but he can't play bass worth a damn, he only picks it up during game load times.
My Cousin: Bought a $500 drum set but doesn't play them & is scared to play them around us, he just smokes pot and swims, he wants to make it huge and be famous but wants to just be good, not work towards it. (If we don't make it big by tommorow, I'm giving him the boot, and then, I'm kicking him out of the band.)
So, I think "Little Johnny BlackFoot" is going to get a new line-up before the first song is even created.
Maybe when I get to college..
You need to be more optimistic.
Give your band at least a week to make it big before you start firing members.
That's how mine ended up being onemancore.
In reality it has been about 14 months :P. (yes, we had a band before we learned how to play..but then we got instruments and totally sold out.)
Yeah, I'm a member(vocalist) of far too many bands and projects to mention, but the ones that we have been able to produce the most with is:
Ingnis - Hybrid Metal. Mainly a mixture between Thrash, Power and Death Metal, but since we all have som many different influences, you can hear occasional bursts of Black, Doom and even Nu and Skate Punk!
Our homepage is http://www.ingnis.tk , although it's unfortunately in Swedish. Free Mp3's from our demo can be found atÃ, http://www.soundclick.com/bands/5/ingnismusic.htm , though... :)
Svetlana - Experimental/Drone/Doom/Noise/Ambient-metal, or something. Most of the time a two-man project, concentrating on making gut-wrenchingly heavy and psychotic music. Absolutely not song-based music, if "music" is the right word for it... It's more about moods and droning atmospheres.
Influenced both by obscure psych-groups such as White Noise and other drone groups such as Sunn O))), Earth and Pelican.
Homepage: http://www.svetlana-drone.tkÃ, Mp3's: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/svetlanamusic.htm
Sarlacc - Black Sabbath-ish and blues-rocky Stoner. :) We haven't really gotten started yet, but things are on the way. Heavy Seventies Hard Rock.
Powderwitch - Our very own über-grim-necro-evil Black Metal/Grindcore Project... ;) Heh... Mostly done for laughs, but we have some pretty bad demos behind us... Homepage might be on the way...
Cool to see many other "band-folks" here as well! :)
I'm in rodekill's band. I play the one man, and he playes everything else.
I'm in a punk-rock band along with Oliver. I'm playing guitar. Our "band" is called Wuzzy Nation. Actually it would be a band if we had a singer. We can't sing. Do you know how hard it is to find a singer, when most of the people you know are trance, drum'n'base listerners. Not too easy. ;)
-Eigen
Yada yada yada..
My band. (http://www.saltslide.co.uk/)
..yada yada yada.
I've pimped it before, but, what the hell? I didn't start the thread.
I'm in a few bands.
One is Reginald P. (named after the main character of "Doom House", Reginald P. Linux). That's a sort of pop/jazz/funk/electronica/easy-listening two-man band with the drummer from my other band on guitar and vocals and me on vocals and everything else.
Another is one that doesn't really have much of a name. It's a pop/death metal/electronic kinda thingy featuring myself on vocals, keyboards and songwriting; the guitarist from ^ Reginald P. on drums; and this other guy with a terrible sense of rhythm trying to play the guitar parts I write.
Also, my drummer/guitarist friend, the guitarist from the pop metal band, and one of their mutual friends are in another band that I stay away from. Mainly because they seem content to do (almost) nothing but Nirvana covers, and the few originals that they DO do sound exactly like Nirvana and other bands of that ilk.
I have no desire to make it "big", nor to appease anybody but myself. And I definately cannot see the point in playing a style of music that bands did so well 30 odd years ago (*cough*Jet*cough*The Darkness*cough*et cetera*cough*). Music should be moving forward, not retreating into comfortable record sales based on a "new" style of music that quite blatantly rips-off bands who were doing that "new style" 30 years ago and were doing it much, much better.
That is all.
Quote from: Jockstrap on Wed 04/08/2004 12:20:01
It's a pop/death metal/electronic kinda thingy
Hey, Jockstrap, that sounds like an interesting combination! :) Have you got any song samples anywhere so that one can get a listen?
Ah, unfortunately, no I don't. At least, not at the moment.
I never understand why people say that music SHOULD be taken forwards. Why SHOULD music go in ANY particular direction?
(http://www.ne.jp/asahi/star/bluemoon/photo/gallery/jaihouse/images/04.jpg)
That's us in action.
Man you are gay...
Man, you'd be surprised who's gay...
Jockstrap:
Ah, too bad. I would really want to hear how a combination of pop, death metal and electronica sounds. :)
I played bass for a punk rock band. We played 2 gigs. The singer/guitarist couldn't sing. The other guitarist was excellent. The drummer didn't like punk rock at all. Then I realised I didn't feel satisfaction in playing four notes a song really fast. I suppose you could say we are still a band even though we havent played together for over a year.
These days I just like to get together with my other musician friends and jam.
My canadian uncle is an excellent guitarist and me and him jammed last night. It was awesome. First time i've played bass for a while (since I've been obsessed with my squire telecaster and playing it every chance I get) But he was impressed with my knack to be able to 1. catch on quickly, and 2. play blues/50's rock bass.
It was a lot of fun.
I would also like to record my songs i've written, with me playing the guitar, bass and vocals and the computer playing the drums...
I play guitar in a metalband... I'm 'bout 200 km from our drummer and 'bout 500 km or something from our bassist, so the progress is slow... We need a lot of practice each alone and everyone together before we're off to a gig... we could maybe play one song, which atleast me and mr. drummer can play well together, of our bassist, I do not know how well he can play the song.
If there's any finns out there, a second guitarist or a vocalist may be welcome, but beware, we are all really wierd, probably insane...
I'm in two bands. One is with two adults in my church...its a popish rock kinda band. We sound good, and have gotten a few decent gigs..I guess I dont like the music very much though. not really musically stimulating.
I just started a band with some of my other muscian friends called The Burg Street Swingers. Its a Jazz/Funk/Classic rock band arranged for a Jazz combo. I think I'll have a website up soon to show you guys.
I've been looking for a band. I've only been playing a year but when you play 5 hours a day like I doo you pick up stuff quickly. I'm just having trouble finding people as devoted as I am.
Next week I'm doing a solo kids show. Its a no pay thing, but the crowd is gonna be big.
Who did you bribe to land you that?
Actually, I was bribed into it. I guess they needed some place holders durring show breaks and they want me to entertain the kids. I took it only for the experience.
I'm in the band of a teather group, I play clarinet :D, along with two guys who play guitar and bass, and some 15-year-old girl who plays drums sweet.
The guitarrist and bassist have another rock and roll group called Eyacular Tocando (something like Cum by playing, in spanish), I sometimes play with them as a guest musician :). I do the cover art for them also.
I'm in a punk-rock band. I and Eigen (that's his real name and the board name too). I play the guitar, 3 years for now, I think I play quite good.
Out band has a website too, we don't update it often though, just when we put some new songs, if even then, we're just too lazy.
http://www.hot.ee/wuzzynation
Also, we're in need of a drummer and lead singer...
Rincewind, and anyone else mildly interested:
I played in an acoustic coffehouse/hardcore metal type of band. One track's up on purevolume here. (http://www.purevolume.com/myhouseisonfire) That might have to sate your odd conjoining of musical style desires. I played acoustic guitar, acoustic bass, and screamed. Though live I just played bass and screamed, since I have fewer than four arms. The band's dead and gone now, since a few members graduated from our uni.
Bill:
Hehe, acoustic hardcore? That sounds funky... :)
A local Grindcore band called Gravelgrinder did an all-acoustic version of one of their songs, "Sons of Gravel", so I have a faint idea of what to expect... But I'm sure your music is a bit different, so I'll download the song, no doubt about it!Ã, Ã,Â
Bill, that song was damn awesome.
I'm sad to hear the band's dead.
I was hoping for more :(
Quote from: Rincewind on Wed 04/08/2004 08:59:56
Svetlana - Experimental/Drone/Doom/Noise/Ambient-metal, or something. Most of the time a two-man project, concentrating on making gut-wrenchingly heavy and psychotic music. Absolutely not song-based music, if "music" is the right word for it... It's more about moods and droning atmospheres.
Influenced both by obscure psych-groups such as White Noise and other drone groups such as Sunn O))), Earth and Pelican.
Homepage: http://www.svetlana-drone.tkÃ, Mp3's: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/svetlanamusic.htm
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v96/shbazjinkens/CamPic14.jpg)
Are you also a fan of Svetlana vacuum tubes or does the word mean something I'm not aware of?
Er, Shbaz, Svetlana is a pretty common Russian name...
Quote from: Highwaygal on Fri 06/08/2004 00:38:12
Er, Shbaz, Svetlana is a pretty common Russian name...
Oh.. well that is also a very good Russian tube company (you can see the cryllic lettering on the box, which is very awesome).
I was in a band a few months ago kinda. We only jammed once and it went horribly. I was a beginner at bass so I wasn't exactly too great, and our drummer was awesome. The main problem was though, is that they're both huge Blink 182 fans, and I really couldn't care less about them. So all they wanted to do was Blink 182 covers (like every other high school band these days) and I wasn't able to play any of their songs (not because I couldn't, just because they're too easy and I never bothered to learn them). Oh, and none of us could sing. So yeah, that fell apart and now I'm saving up money for a new bass guitar and hopefully once I get it, I can start up another band.
Quote from: Captain Mostly on Wed 04/08/2004 14:59:00
I never understand why people say that music SHOULD be taken forwards. Why SHOULD music go in ANY particular direction?
You're absolutely right actually. Music shouldn't really be anything in particular, except for what people want it to be.
Quote from: shbazjinkens on Fri 06/08/2004 00:30:47
Are you also a fan of Svetlana vacuum tubes or does the word mean something I'm not aware of?
Yeah, they are the best vacuum tubes,
ever. No doubt about it. The influence it has had on our music is undeniable.
...
Or it's just as Highwaygal said, a common russian name. :) We actually sat down and thought that heck, if you can name a band "Abdullah (http://www.stonerrock.com/abdullah/)", you can name a band "Svetlana". We even thought of calling ourselves "Ayatollah", and doing another project called "Eulalia", (Which might not mean anything unless you are swede... ) but we skipped those ideas... :)
I have played guitar and piano in a band that has seen way too many incarnations over the past four years. College hasn't helped much in that regard.
I wouldn't be in a band. I'd go completely solo, and do songs Elton John style. Crocidile Rock, baby!
Been in a few bands. First was in Grade 6, we started a band called skeptical. It was poppy songs about girls. Before anybody flames me, yes i was a bit of a reteard. Unfortunatly for theband i was the only person who could play anything and i was crap. I played guitar. Later that year me an the singre formed a second band called needle point monkeys. A day later we changed it to Tombstone Inscriptions and wrote some heavier songs. But when we were needle point monkeys i wrote our only song called Hump a dead moose. To this day a few of my friends still sing the chorus. In year 7 or 8, those years sort of blur a bit. Me and another dude that played guitar thought about starting a band called Lemon Flavoured Capguns. We stopped before we started and sometimes people mention that name still. For a year 8 music project i made a band called Red Leather Ice Creams. Now i like to sing a little (averagely) and write songs. I'm a lot better at writing now.
Quote from: Rincewind on Fri 06/08/2004 20:48:37
Quote from: shbazjinkens on Fri 06/08/2004 00:30:47
Are you also a fan of Svetlana vacuum tubes or does the word mean something I'm not aware of?
Yeah, they are the best vacuum tubes, ever. No doubt about it. The influence it has had on our music is undeniable.
:P
I've heard of other tube fanatics that name their bands including their favorite electronic product names and famous electric inventors like Tesla.. my last band was called, "Eight Ohms," so I didn't think it too unusual.
Plus, if you play guitar through a tube amp, the influence it has on your music
is undeniable, IMO. :D
Right now I'm in a band without a drummer called Pretzels n' Cheese. I (maybe) sing, and play guitar. We only have two songs and they're more like riffs strung together in a random fashion inbetween solos. Our bassist has played for two years, but he was playing in the school orchestra with a string bass. He didn't practice once. It's come back to bite him in the ass. Our other guitarist has only been playing since September, but he's damn good. I've only been playing guitar for about 1 1/2 years. We've got a double lead thing going, like Slayer.
Quote from: shbazjinkens on Sat 07/08/2004 06:01:38
Plus, if you play guitar through a tube amp, the influence it has on your music is undeniable, IMO.Ã, :D
Heh, I didn't think of that, actually, but we do play through a tube amp... :D
An old Fender Super Reverb Amp from 1965 has been used while recording two of our demos.Ã,Â
So, in other words, sorry for the mockery above. ;)
Quote from: Rincewind on Sun 08/08/2004 21:58:28
Quote from: shbazjinkens on Sat 07/08/2004 06:01:38
Plus, if you play guitar through a tube amp, the influence it has on your music is undeniable, IMO. :D
Heh, I didn't think of that, actually, but we do play through a tube amp... :D
An old Fender Super Reverb Amp from 1965 has been used while recording two of our demos.
So, in other words, sorry for the mockery above. ;)
:o You have a blackface Super Reverb??
http://search.ebay.com/blackface-super-reverb_W0QQsokeywordredirectZ1QQfromZR8
There are only a couple up right now but a BF SR is a hot item among blues players (Stevie Ray Vaughn loved them).
If you're in a band (all you guys/girls who are)then what kind of a intstrument you have. What firm I mean? I play the guitar and I have a Fender Squier guitar (wich i love) and a crappy Ibanez amp. Hoping to get a new amp soon!
I'm just curious.
Guitar, man!
When my pay comes through this month, I shall be purchasing (another) very awesome electric guitar and amp which I have been silently courting every time I pass the Music Store. Like some kind of weirdo.
On the other hand, I wish I hadn't learned the guitar. I wished I'd learned the drums or something. Because, even though I love the guitar, pretty much everybody plays it too.
I hear the cool people nowadays play the Banjo...
Banjo? OMG ;D
I had a banjo...I broke it ;)
I wanted to learn the drums too at first...but after I saw the price of a good drum set...I decided not to bother :P
So I started learning the guitar. I think I'm going to start playing bass guitar soon. Bass just seems cooler to me.
Quote from: Oliver on Mon 09/08/2004 23:29:06
Banjo? OMG ;D
I had a banjo...I broke it ;)
I wanted to learn the drums too at first...but after I saw the price of a good drum set...I decided not to bother :P
So I started learning the guitar. I think I'm going to start playing bass guitar soon. Bass just seems cooler to me.
Have you seen the price of a good guitar/amp combo? Drums aren't much worse.. except miking them.
Quote from: Flamboyant PC Salesman on Mon 09/08/2004 23:08:50
On the other hand, I wish I hadn't learned the guitar. I wished I'd learned the drums or something. Because, even though I love the guitar, pretty much everybody plays it too.
I hear the cool people nowadays play the Banjo...
In Oklahoma, the Banjo is a hot instrument.
Also, there's no reason you can't learn multiple instruments. I could be a rock band if I had more arms.
electric bass,
my amp: clarion car-audio hifi-amp :D
my bass: a hohner professional pj
my level: never really played yet
Well, I bought a bas guitar about two weeks ago (I'm 25 and if you tell me I'm too old to start playing an instrument now, I'm gonna kill you). It's Fender Squier P-Bass. Nice white colour, they say it's a good one for beginners. Since I've been playing with it for only two weeks, naturally I suck. I can play some easy things, like Nirvana's Come As You Are. I'm currently practising Money (by Pink Floyd) and Riders On The Storm by Doors. I don't know why everyone wants to play guitar. Bass seems endlessly more interesting to me. Hitting an open E string really hard is one of three biggest pleasures in life (the other two are eating and sleeping, naturally).
I hope I'll find someone to make a band, but it's not gonna be easy. Everyone here likes only classic rock, and I'd like the band to be more progressive, with looooooong jams and even some ambient parts. Kinda like Can, that great German art rock band.
Hey I am in a band ;D
check it oouuuut
http://www.thebadgers.nl
I got an ESP LTD M-50 guitar and a Roland Microcube, which I proudly hide in the basement, hoping I some day get enough money for a Squier M-77, an ESP LTD AX-350 and a somewhat bigger and better amp... ::)
I have a Squier Affinity Strat, and a surprisingly good sounding Fender 15w amp.
Saving for a Gibson SG.
I should have it by 2035.
Quote from: Harvester on Tue 10/08/2004 02:20:39
Well, I bought a bas guitar about two weeks ago (I'm 25 and if you tell me I'm too old to start playing an instrument now, I'm gonna kill you). It's Fender Squier P-Bass. Nice white colour, they say it's a good one for beginners. Since I've been playing with it for only two weeks, naturally I suck. I can play some easy things, like Nirvana's Come As You Are. I'm currently practising Money (by Pink Floyd) and Riders On The Storm by Doors. I don't know why everyone wants to play guitar. Bass seems endlessly more interesting to me. Hitting an open E string really hard is one of three biggest pleasures in life (the other two are eating and sleeping, naturally).
I hope I'll find someone to make a band, but it's not gonna be easy. Everyone here likes only classic rock, and I'd like the band to be more progressive, with looooooong jams and even some ambient parts. Kinda like Can, that great German art rock band.
I have the Squier Precision bass, too. The black one with the white pickguard. It's a really great bass for the price.
Here's what you can do to turn it into an even better bass:
1. Replace the pickups with Bassline ones. (they make specific replacements pickups)
2. Line the inside with more aluminum foil (and put electrical tape over that to prevent it from shorting)
3. Play that funky music, white boy.
I found my dream amp on Ebay :o
200 W....awsome...and a little expensive. Like some, I should have it by 2035 ::)
but if there will be a 2035, Haley's comet is gonna hit our beautiful planet in 2019 ;D (not funny, but I'm laughing, I'm a mean bi*ch :P) Proabbly I'm wrong, just trying to scare you all :P
Quote from: Geoffkhan on Tue 10/08/2004 18:22:38
Quote from: Harvester on Tue 10/08/2004 02:20:39
Well, I bought a bas guitar about two weeks ago (I'm 25 and if you tell me I'm too old to start playing an instrument now, I'm gonna kill you). It's Fender Squier P-Bass. Nice white colour, they say it's a good one for beginners. Since I've been playing with it for only two weeks, naturally I suck. I can play some easy things, like Nirvana's Come As You Are. I'm currently practising Money (by Pink Floyd) and Riders On The Storm by Doors. I don't know why everyone wants to play guitar. Bass seems endlessly more interesting to me. Hitting an open E string really hard is one of three biggest pleasures in life (the other two are eating and sleeping, naturally).
I hope I'll find someone to make a band, but it's not gonna be easy. Everyone here likes only classic rock, and I'd like the band to be more progressive, with looooooong jams and even some ambient parts. Kinda like Can, that great German art rock band.
I have the Squier Precision bass, too. The black one with the white pickguard. It's a really great bass for the price.
Here's what you can do to turn it into an even better bass:
1. Replace the pickups with Bassline ones. (they make specific replacements pickups)
2. Line the inside with more aluminum foil (and put electrical tape over that to prevent it from shorting)
3. Play that funky music, white boy.
Hey, thanks for the tips! When I was in the music store, I saw "your" bass right next to mine. It was a bit more expensive, so I bought this one.
Btw, a question for all you guitarists and bassists: Do you prefer to play with your fingers or you use a pick?
Here's some of my advice if you're planning to go under the pickguard.
So far as lining the cavity with aluminum foil.. I wouldn't recommend it. It's cheap, but there are better ways. The aluminum can short your connections if you aren't careful with it, and it won't help much if you don't make sure it is continous electrically. There is always metal foil tape and special conductive paints that will work as well (AC repairmen keep metal film tape for taping up air ducts, if you know of one who will spare a small bit). If you replace all of the internal wire with shielded wire, you have no use for a shielded cavity anyway. I hope you're good with a soldering iron! The basic gist of it is very simple, just remember to heat the joint and apply the solder rather than heating the solder and applying it to the joint.
Eh, what else.. I'm gonna get a little heavy here, this stuff can be minor but in the end will make your guitar or bass electrically great. Ceramic caps are bad. If you don't believe me, check out this page (http://members.aol.com/sbench102/caps.html). The difference may be minor, but it can help cut out boominess. If there are carbon comp resistors, you can replace them with metal film ones and they'll be practically noiseless. Your cable is also an important part that you probably don't think about. Those twisted wires help to create one long capacitor, so the longer the wire, the more the capacitance, and the more of your treble going down the drain. Try plugging in a 20 footer and then a small 6" cable. The clarity difference here is actually huge. The moral here is to not buy cheap cords, because they really do suck and there is a difference.
Those Mexican guitars are great, they're basically the same thing as the more expensive American-made guitars except for the electronic portion. They use cheap pickups and shield poorly, which is an easy fix that they use to justify the $600 extra you spend for an American guitar.
I have an Apollo guitar, a crap company actually. But sounds great. Very good to play palm mute, as it's quite needed in punk-rock. Amp is much better; 25W Ibanez Tone Blaster!
Anyway, our "band" recorded a song today. The link is below. It was recorded at my place using a speaker. If any of you wonders, then a speaker records way better than mic. The song has no real title, but for the time being it's called New Stuff. So listen to it and convert to punk-rock. ;)
Wuzzy Nation - New Stuff (http://www.zone.ee/eostuff/newstuff.mp3)
-Eigen
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Btw, a question for all you guitarists and bassists: Do you prefer to play with your fingers or you use a pick?
I ALWAYS use a pick, I like to play with a pick more. In punk rock, there really isn't any other way, seems to me.
Eigen, that intro sounds like Weezer's "Photograph".
As far as the pick goes, I lose mine too often. Usually I drop them, so I've learned to play with my fingernail just as well as I would a pick.
Omg, Eigen, not again Eigen, you did a song that is just like another song. Doh, 2 time. He made a song before too, that was just like some Offspring tune. Oh well, guess we have to think for something else.
Btw I lose my picks too, I'm still looking for my favourite pick, a black one. ::)
Quote from: Eigen on Wed 11/08/2004 17:08:37
So listen to it and convert to punk-rock. ;)
Wuzzy Nation - New Stuff (http://www.zone.ee/eostuff/newstuff.mp3)
Well, I'M SOLD!!
If you have problems keeping the pick in your hand, you're probably not holding it right.. or maybe you need those with the grips.
...or you just need to chill out and not over play.
Just as an anal point. Those who claim they can play just as well with a pick as without either have an extremely limited playing style or don't know the difference between picking methods and finger methods.
Quote from: Sylpher on Thu 12/08/2004 03:46:22
Just as an anal point. Those who claim they can play just as well with a pick as without either have an extremely limited playing style or don't know the difference between picking methods and finger methods.
Yep.. when you learn to pick with your whole hand so many possiblilities open up. For example, try to play both rhythm and lead with a pick. Good luck. I can do it, but it's very limited.
The downside to picking with all of your fingers (not in the standard strum style, but
really utilizing all of your fingers) is that it is very hard and I can't do it.
Quote from: shbazjinkens on Mon 09/08/2004 00:57:10
:o You have a blackface Super Reverb??
http://search.ebay.com/blackface-super-reverb_W0QQsokeywordredirectZ1QQfromZR8
There are only a couple up right now but a BF SR is a hot item among blues players (Stevie Ray Vaughn loved them).
The picture there was not that good, but yeah, it looks like the one we use.
It's not really ours, it belongs to a friend, who used to be a part of our old band, and who left his amps in the basement where we rehearsed, and still hasn't picked them up... :)
I knew that it was a very tractable (sp?) object, but not
that tractable... :)
I play with a pick. And I don't even drop it very often, only when I overplay... mostly. I bought a big pile of picks after I lost my favourite one, but I haven't used any of those, as I learned to play with another one I bought with the "favourite". A big triangular one... I found my used-to-be favourite a while ago again too...
I don't drop picks not very too. I just lose them too often. Usually, when I buy a pick, I have to cut some letters or something in it for grip. If I don't, then they just keep falling out of my hand (I REALLY hate when that happens ;))
Oh yeah, we're talking about bands, everybody says that they're are in one but they don't tell the name :P
What's the name of the band you're in?
My band is not a band yet... I would tell the name, but if I'd do that, I'd give you the website url, but as there is absolutely nothing in the website, I can't do that... :P Or, if you insist, my, my drummer friend and his bassist cousin try to be a metalband called "Blacksmith". Me and drummer even have shirts with our logo on them ;D
I play through an old 40W Roland Cube-40 (real popular as a keyboard amp I hear) and a clanky old Phase Shifter that I got from my dad.
I use 2 guitars (and another Squire Bullet that is collecting dust with no strings)
I have a late 70's early 80's Peavey T-60 that handles like a dream, It has a skinny neck (so even though I can't use a metal kaypo, it is easy to play) and is very solid.
I also play a Yamaha acoustic that I have no idea what model it is...but it says "FG-140 Nippon Gakki" on a little red tag inside the cavity.
I'm the crap back-up guitarist/lead vocalist for a bluegrass band and the child of a banjo player and a bass player.
We suck, but we get lots of gigs and are popular because of the kids.
I play my daddy's '73 Martin D-35. It's shit.
No, no, no, no, I'm not a negative person, no!
I was asked to join a band, but that band was very crappy having only one instrument. So right now im bandless.
I have a Epiphone G400 DLX (it's ok) with a um....practice amp :-[...yeah i need a new amp. I also play trombone.
Talking about picking, does anyone here know how to do an artificial harmonic?
Ooh, I hate to be a shameless promotor, but it appears that our guitarist has decied to upload all of our songs with Ingnis here (http://music.download.com/ingnis/3600-8652_32-100361430.html?tag=list#songs), so, if anyone is interested in listening, it's all there... Heh.Ã, :)
Yes i am.
www.freewebs.com/geisha
(this has an old mp3)
and
www.geocities.com/tractornoise
(this has no mp3s and virtually nothing of note)
Heh, sorry to dig this thread up, but...
Bionic Bill, I just heard your song Catch Me (at least I think that was the title), and it was great, simply great.
Have you recorded any other songs?
I was in a band, sort of. Me and a bunch of mates were gonna make a band, but they got bored with it after a couple of weeks. It's a bummer, 'cos where I live they're quite hot on encouraging young artists/musicians etc., so we woulda had a lot of support.
Can't really do much by myself, I just do vocals. I used to write lyrics too, but not for a while. We did actually record a song, but I can't find the darn C.D. Ah well.
I got an Ibanez guitar (don't ask me about the model I bought it 12 years ago)
I play in an epic metal of the 80s band called Valor
http://www.valor.gr
Um...well (http://www.deviantart.com/view/6634660/)
To be honest, I'm in the slightest bit musical. I have no natural talent or any real interest in learning how to do anything like this to a proffesional standard.
But my good friend, Alex Walker HAS got musical talent...more, importantly...He has a guitar! So he plays a riff and we collaborate on coming up with silly lyrics.
Now THAT I can do.
And so...the Fried Chicken Song was born.
Album coming soon people. ;)
I'm not in a band but I play all sorts of instruments like guitar, organ, piano, keyboard and bass. Does that count? :D I hate music class though, I dropped it after about 7 years of torture, but I still like playing music. Just not learning it.
I'm in a band tooÃ, :D
Its a hungarian melodic hardcore band called Fastforward.
I play guitar and sometimes do the vocals...
Check http://ffwd.fw.hu