Does anyone play in a band?

dude wrote: Stormcrow:.......Humping the PA and drum kit for five years?,MY GOD MAN!!! your love life sounds worse than mine!!(just kidding!!)..now that i have single handedly lowered the tone of this entire site i'm outta here!!! stay safe freinds!!!!

Trust me on this one.  Your love life stinks very much bad when you do sound/lights/roadie on the weekends, rather than take women out on dates.

My God!!!

It's getting like a 'carry on' film in here; the tone has dropped so low, we must get it up again. Oh no, you've got me at it now! Aaaah... there I go again; quick matron, the dried frog pills.

That's better

Bum

oh what a give away!

To get back on the right thread - have I told you about by Organ?

Oh I give up.......................

 "Single-handedly," Dude? Is that what's known in psychoanalytic circles as a "Freudian slip?" (Mother Thumb and her four lovely daughters..... Ha!)

Watch it, wallabies!

"Sort of like a Telefunken U47 with marital aids stuck all over its body....."

(RIP, Frank.)

I use to play in a Band in my early 20s.

I still have all my keyboard gear but I haven't played in a band for years now.

We use to play some Genesis ,Yes ,Supertramp,& classic rock stuff .

-We wern't pros but did all right.

I'd like to have a band today but the problem is:

-Trying to fing guys around my age

-who want to do prog&Rock

-who still don't dream of being "Rock Stars"

-who still have their equipement

-and whose wives would let them out to play.

 Not as easy as it sounds to have a band in your late 30s

 I am the vocalist and second guitarist in an original prog band. The music is melodic hard rock with funk and jazz overtones. The lyrics I have written are never blatant and are always poetic, keeping in the with the tradition and sublime nature of prog.

i play drums and im a newb bassist.

im in 6 bands. 3 of which got past the idea stage. im the drummer for all 3.

Mr Rideout - Uriah's Heap?!? puleeeze ; in answer to your later question, I think Australians live in our days of future past.

Dude - naughty man - the Uriah Heep question was aimed at ME ME ME; I wanted to look cool & literary by knowing who Uriah Heep is, No FAIR (sounds of toys being thrown from prams etc etc) - I'm now going to sulk & listen to my Mahavishnu Orchestra albums

Allan Holdsworth's newer stuff is in the Jazz vein, however, he is his own genre. Check out "All Night Wrong" incredible soloing LIVE.

He's also involved in some newer prog bands, Atlantis and K-2

I CANT PLAY A GUITAR AT ALL ALRIGHT.

BUT THE BEAUTY PART IS  I CAN ACTUALLY PLAY THE MAIN CHORD OF PINK FLOYD'S INTERSTELLER OVERDRIVE ON AN ACOUSTIC GUITAR PLUS A CRAPPY ATTEMPT TO PLAY IN A GADDA DA VIDA BY IRON BUTTERFLY. PLUS MY MATE WHO ALSO DOENT PLAY THE GUITAR BUT HE DOES WANT LESSONS TO CLAIMS TO DO THE MAIN NOTE OF JIMI HENDRIX'S HIGHWAY CHILE (HONEST!!!)

 Right again, Dude. Heep was a loathsome, tall, thin, red-haired villain ("like a malevolent baboon") in Dickens' masterpiece David Copperfield. He is often likened to an eel or fish: "He writhed and undulated about.... and gave himself a jerk, like a convulsive fish," ".....he was squeezing my hand with his damp fishy fingers." Heep usually describes himself as being only "very 'umble" -- hence the name of the first Uriah Heep album, "VERY 'EAVY, VERY 'UMBLE." A quite memorable character, and a pretty good 70s "prog metal" band. Love their song "The Wizard." Very Tolkien-esque!

Yes, A Tale of Two Cities is a great novel. I also highly recommend David Copperfield (if 950-page Victorian novels don't put you off) and (the much shorter) Oliver Twist and Great Expectations. Great reading with some choice instrumental music in the background. The BBC productions of Dickens' works (and Victorian novels in general) are also top-notch.

PS: Do you live in my past, or my future, down there in Oz?