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    Posted: April 07 2006 at 05:38
...what kind of music would you like to play?


I'm a musician and I play Doom-metal in local band.I'm not keen on that music as much as on Prog,but I still like it(but less than few years ago)


I'd like to play:
1.Gabrielesque Genesis-inspired stuff

2.Fish's Marillion-inspired stuff

Maybe,even "clone-bands stuff"-like(I'm a huge fan of both bands )


3.Just neo-prog.Not clone-type,but dark (Clepsydra) and complex (IQ,Collage)

4.Dark and complex retro-sympho-prog (a mixture of Sinkadus,Discipline and PFM)

5.A mixture of Tool,Opeth,Porcupine Tree and Anekdoten... ...dunno how to call it

So,what would YOU like to play(and compose)?
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I'd be a long-haired sex-god in the Plant/Coverdale mode
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I want to create weird stuff.

I would have a band, I'd have a project and the lineups would constantly change (a bit like Ayreon in that respect).

I'd play VdGG influenced stuff, but with a touch of metal.

I'd also try and get some Taal type stuff in there too, with there weird humour and lyrics.

And I have to have some Canterbury influenced prog too.

I'd also try and be as unique as possible, blending some slide guitar stuff like Derek Trucks plays, with a tinge of Latin American, African, Eastern and other world based music.

I know I cannot do everything, it would sound horrible, so I'd have to do all this over several projects.  I'd maybe have some death metal growls here and there, but maybe not.

It's going to sound weird for sure!
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Music that makes people dance.  Maybe get some jazz in there too.
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Okay, I'm gonna say right now- I am currently broke. I need a new guitar and a new keyboard and I lost some of my music (and also art) that I wrote when I cleaned out my room.

But.... I do have some music written but I don't know what it's classified as. I recorded it on my computer in mp3 to see what it sounds like and all it is is just acoustic guitar repeating the same melody for about one minute.

I'm currently writing something that I don't know what it is on keyboard. I've only started last night and all I've done is write down the first few notes. I suppose it's essentially just jazzy, kind of bluesy, kind of proggy.

Latelty I think I've somehow been beaten down by the machine of society because I haven't been drawing, sketching, painting, or writing any music, short stories, or even poetry. I'm beginning to scare myelf because I think I've lost my desire to do my favourite things.



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What I wish I could find is people willing to join me in doing a band that plays origninal improvisaion-filled music something between Tangerine Dream and later King Crimson with the occasional classical piece and spoken word piece thrown in. I see it as a band with three or four multi-instrumentalists with a drum machine. I'd get a chance to play keys, guitar, mandolin, bass and flute, sometimes switching in midsong. Yes, I do realize this would require lugging a lot of equipment around.  

Unfortunately for me, I'm in a town where r&b is king.

If I go out and hear another local band play "Mustang Sally", "Old Time Rock and Roll" or a CCR song... Arrrgh!

But I can't blame them for being in a band and making a few bucks on the weekend to beer chugging neanderthals screaming "Play some ROCK, man!"... maybe because sometimes I'm one of those neanderthals.



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It's not as bad as over here then, all the bands seem to play is Greenday and Libertines covers, I'm sick of it!

I did hear a cover of Mr. Blue Sky a while back though, I was pleasantly surprised (not at the quality of the cover though!).
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As far as composition goes, i'm on my way to where i want to be. I've got a long way to go yet, but i'm getting there. I basically want to birth a project that has a bit of everything. Metal, Rock, Jazz, Classical, Folk. But i also want it to be complex and interesting, while maintaining at least some sort of purposeful direction. I definitely want an avant-garde flavour to it, just something that is fresh and unique and very interesting. Easier said than done
Kind of Maudlin of the Well meets John Zorn, meets Koenjihyakkei, meets Loreena McKennitt, meets Cryptopsy, meets John Cage, meets Stravinsky, with a touch of african drumming and miles davis thrown in.
It CAN be done! Well, if i can't do it, nobody can

At the moment i play in a melodic death metal band, but i also write other stuff. Chamber-esque classical music for example, and recently i've taken a lot from John Zorn and grindcore, constructing music that is both brutal and interesting.
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A mix of Radiohead/Celtic/Pendragon/Saens with some songs pure melodic metal. Yet, I have higher prog ambitions than any other musicians my age.

My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want!
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Points: 21342 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 08 2006 at 16:35
Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

A mix of Radiohead/Celtic/Pendragon/Saens with some songs pure melodic metal. Yet, I have higher prog ambitions than any other musicians my age.

Celtic? That's quite ambitious of you.

Me? I'd like a mix of Marillion/King Crimson/Rush/Steve Hackett with a bit of Zappa and some metal thrown in...
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Combo of Magma and Sleeptyime Gorilla Museum, with Beefheart's or Zappa's humor.

With a full choir & any friggin' instrument I can throw in there.

And no fear of originality. That's the key, I hear.
Go and listen to my music.

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=31725
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When I get good enough and know enough people I would like to have:

A Black Metal band

a Doom Metal band

a Prog Metal/Fusion band ( in the vein of Planet X or Atheist)

a Neo - Prog band

 

 
If anyone knows where I can get a copy of some Flute and Voice (Indo-Prog/Raga Rock) albums please PM me! Many thanks!
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I'd love to play Motorhead kind of stuff, I just love the power behind the bass playing on stuff like Overkill, Motorhead and Stone Dead Forever.
Love to the play general metal too, excuse for me to use my distortion pedal.
Pink Floyd esque stuff would be nice to play too.
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Avant-garde and/or jazzy, with lots of sax.
Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
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Jazz-Rock/Fusion!

RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
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Lots of covers, Mr. Bungle-style, mostly of Captain Beefheart songs and Beefheart-esque songs plus whatever else we feel like. Sort of a more serious, weirder and less sarcastic Mr. Bungle that sounds like Captain Beefheart.
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As the Los Angeles Californian Guitarist of Switzerland's progressive rock band FLAME DREAM(6 LPs Vertigo Phonogram);I am proud to work,gig/Tour and record with many Reggae & HipHop artists from around the world for years.Dale Hauskins http://www.myspace.com/dalehauskins

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Originally posted by Prog-jester Prog-jester wrote:

...what kind of music would you like to play?

...5.A mixture of Tool,Opeth,Porcupine Tree and Anekdoten... ...dunno how to call it


Now I know how to call it - RIVERSIDE.God,they stole my idea!!! /

Just got 'em yesterday.They've replaced "Anekdoten element" with "Collage element",but that won't stop me!!!
I want to play music of this kind!!!
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I'd like to play tuned percussion; vibes, xylophone, marimba, etc.

I dream of having a small band consisting of a cello/double bass/saw player, a drummer/percussionist, a keyboardist and myself fronting. We'd be a kind of complicated comedy jazz spoken word avant-prog beast of a band. We'd sell a total of four albums.
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Originally posted by Cygnus X-2 Cygnus X-2 wrote:

Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

A mix of Radiohead/Celtic/Pendragon/Saens with some songs pure melodic metal. Yet, I have higher prog ambitions than any other musicians my age.

Celtic? That's quite ambitious of you.

Me? I'd like a mix of Marillion/King Crimson/Rush/Steve Hackett with a bit of Zappa and some metal thrown in...

Wearing our influences on our sleeves, are we?

My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want!
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