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I have played bass in bands for the last 20 years or so. I am classically trained on the piano - did grade 8 then got bored. Also did grade 8 theory and singing - but the singing was what did it for me, as my voice sounds like a goose farting in the fog unless I copy what someone else sounds like. I later got disillusioned with the music biz, took a degree in music and computing and now work as a software tester.

I taught myself guitar to "make it real", but I can only strum a few chords and play a blues scale or 2. Oh - I can play the intro to "Stairway..."

My current music project is with a work colleague. We are producing a kind of electro-rock hybrid with the emphasis on solid, simple structure and cool lyrics. That's been the hard part - writing lyrics that say something AND are cool! I think we've managed it for 3 tracks - hopefully we'll release them soon, but that's quite enough self-promoting!

i am a drummer, i used to play very serious with my aol band called Prego... but suddenly i had to chose from being a drummer or being an architect... an you know what happend next, but i gather with some friends nowadays to play or to talk about music. i actually being played to date for 12 years, great years (i'm 28). music and architecture has a lot in common, more than you think, ate the end its art.

actually i accept the fact that our youth (hahahaha) new kids don´t care about prog music, jazz and fusion, we sholud encourage them to listen to this great music

Aztech wrote: I also live in Montreal and have had a chance to see Nadon. He is good and a local phenomenom he learnt to play drums on tin cans because he couldn't afford a real drum and it actually made him a better drummer because of it.

I've got an interview with Bill Bruford, where he talks about learn on boxes until he could afford a drum pad, then a snare, a tom.............

He said today's kids get a full kit before they even learn; 1 tap 2 tap 3 tap 4.

 

Spoiled brats.

Aztech wrote: Vibrationbaby :I agree with what you said. Don't get me wrong I love RUSH and they did alot for the Canadian Prog scene and I have most albums from : 2112 to Presto but I stop at Presto ! Neil peart is one of the great "technical"drummers but I much prefer the artful style of Phil Collins.

I like the early stuff too (Cygnus X-1, La Villa etc.)  there are a lot of unsung heroes out there besides the guys like Niel Peart who get all kinds of exposure because they play with a top act. I live in Montréal Canada and we have a local drum legend called Guy Nadon he`s 72 years old and still plays The Montréal International Jazz Festival every year. I`ve been watching this guy play drums since the late seventies and he still blows me away. I`ve also met him a few times and he told me once, "drumming is not about counting, that`s what the bankers are for. Drumming is feeling from the heart." If anyone ever has the chance to see the jazz festival in Montréal and is interested in drumming you HAVE to see Guy Nadon.

Vibrationbaby wrote: Niel Peart is one of the most over-rated drummers and Rush is one of the most overated bands. I`m not saying that they`re crap ( I`ve seen them more times than I can count ) but their later stuff after say, Signals, became rather tedious. Personally I think that they should have packed it in years ago. One thing, too, about Niel Peart`s drum solos, is that he has been doing the same bloody solo for about 25 years with only slight variations. OK, I`m going to shut up right now, bring on the hate replies!

Hmmmm.....

Well I'm sorry that you don't like Rush or Peart.  For myself, I think that their last 2 or 3 studio albums have been just rawk music; not a complete waste of plastic, but nothing special considering.  It's possible that they are just getting tired.

However I also love their body of work up to that point and I believe that they are one of the handfull of really important North American prog influences over the last thirty years.  They succeeded in keeping the fire burning through the eighties like only a few other bands had the desire or talent to do, bucking the punk, disco and hair/glam trends.

That being said, I don't hate you if you feel differently.

     I'd find some other reason to do that. (j/k)

I' d love to play keyboards in a band again,especially a prog / rock band,but its hard to find :

musicians over late 20s

who have their own instruments

that live in a half hour radius from where you live

who don't want to be rock stars and just play to have fun

who play the same type of music you like (ie from prog to rock)

people who have time to play

that their wives/girlfreinds will actually let them out to play 

 The older Genesis style drum solos or the Rush drum solos

Man those were great to see and hear.These guys were creative !

Ah drum solos....

I think these were actually compulsory by law on all 1970's live albums; they usually occurred on side 3 or 4 of the vinyl albums & enabled members of the audience to attend to the call of nature before the band wound up for the grand finale.

Problem is, I actually enjoy drum solos, so never got chance to go to the loo

I did see a great quote once though - it went along the lines of "...the club was more crowded than a canteen serving hatch full of journalists trying to escape a Ken Hensley keyboard solo...."

Well, being a drummer myself, I have fell victim to many drummer jokes.

 

how is a drum solo like a thunderstorm?

 

You know it's coming, and you can't do anything to stop it!

Uuuuuuuuuuhh,,  I'll pass. It was a funny joke though. I think you told it to me.