Are YOU in a band?

[Blackthorne]

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.

[xenogia]

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

[rodekill]

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.

[earlwood]

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..

[rodekill]

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.

[earlwood]

In reality it has been about 14 months . (yes, we had a band before we learned how to play..but then we got instruments and totally sold out.)

[Rincewind]

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!

[Captain Mostly]

I'm in rodekill's band. I play the one man, and he playes everything else.

[Eigen]

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

[Renal Shutdown]

Yada yada yada..
My band.
..yada yada yada.

I've pimped it before, but, what the hell? I didn't start the thread.

[Jockstrap]

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.

[Rincewind]

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?

[Jockstrap]

Ah, unfortunately, no I don't. At least, not at the moment.

[Captain Mostly]

I never understand why people say that music SHOULD be taken forwards. Why SHOULD music go in ANY particular direction?

[Czar]

That's us in action.

[Phemar]

Man you are gay...

[rodekill]

Man, you'd be surprised who's gay...

[Rincewind]

Jockstrap:
Ah, too bad. I would really want to hear how a combination of pop, death metal and electronica sounds.

[Layabout]

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...

[Ishmael]

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...