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Topic: band of yous
Posted By: kebjourman
Subject: band of yous
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 16:13
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if there was a band with a you clone on drums, a clone singing, clone on guitar... etc,
what would the band sound like?
mine would probalby sound like a mix between Pavement and 'Fish Rising' and 'L' by steven hillage. except the guitar playing would sound more like syd barretts and john faheys (as ive been told).
daevid allens gong would have alot of influence too.
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Posted By: maani
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 16:19
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Well, as a songwriter, if you are asking what my influences are - and thus what a band with me playing all instruments and singing would sound like - my strongest influences are (in no particular order) Genesis, 10CC, Klaatu and Elton John, with a dash of a few others.
Peace.
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Posted By: R o V e R
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 16:19
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mine would be
RUSH + YES + E L P = my band
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Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 16:21
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Well, I sing, play keyboards and dabble on the drums, so I'd probably sound like one of the italian bands inspired by ELP. but I'd really wanna sound like nothing ever done before, of course.. |
Posted By: Gaston
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 16:22
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Mine would be John Weathers on drums, Geddy Lee/Mike Gordon on bass,
Rick Wright on keys and guitar is just all over the place from Billy
Corgan to Eric Clapton to David Gilmour to Fripp... I would say a cross between Floyd and Rush with Gentle Giant drumming. Gaston -------------  
It's the same guy. Great minds think alike. |
Posted By: eddietrooper
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 16:27
| I don't know which style we would play but knowing my skills as a musician there would be good Pink Floyd-style guitar playing, basic bass and keyboards, bad drumming and really awful singing. |
Posted By: Visitor13
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 16:27
| I would be the free jazz icons Peter Brotzmann Sextet, but with some more lyrical sections during which I'd like to sound somewhat like Eric Dolphy, and possibly with Alexander von Schlippenbach on piano in lieu of Fred Van Hove. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 16:38
| A band of mes would have a good solid rhythm section, but a guitar player who could only played G, A, C and D, a keyboard player who only knew major chords and a singer who couldn't really sing. |
Posted By: Chicapah
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 16:44
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I don't know what a band of "me's" would sound like but they'd be five very sexy and handsome SOB's! ------------- "Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 16:51
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I haven't heard you guys playing (or your clones), so I can't say whether or not you (or your clones) really
sound like the musicians mentioned, but with me it comes down to what
I'd like to sound like, what I think I sound like when listening to
myself play, and what I really sound like. As a band of mes I'd like to have the virtuosity of, oh, say ELP, in my deranged head I think my mes sound is closer to the Sex Pistols, but mes would really sound like a preschooler music class -- minimes hehe (and yes, that is a step or two down from The Sex Pistols). I am a bad multi-instrumentalist, though I do play a pretty mean kazoo... Any prog kazoo ensembles out there? ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 16:55
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At the moment my preferences are all over the place (metal, symphonic, neo jazz etc etc) so any band were I play all instruments will probably be just as eratic.
------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: arcer
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 16:55
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Having done a lot of my own stuff, (playing guitars, bass, keys and
programming drums) I'm surprised by how my own music sounds, like a
cross between Pink Floyd and Radiohead with a dash of (Bladerunner era)
Vangelis thrown in. Weirdly I can also detect bits of CSNY and a lot of
acoustic Led Zepp and some modern electronica in there too... I say sounds like, but it doesn't really as I conspicuously lack any real talent whatsoever....  |
Posted By: lunaticviolist
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 17:11
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I'd probably end up sounding something like Porcupine Tree with less
metal because I listen mostly to psychedelic and progressive rock.
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 17:12
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interesting question.... play 3 instruments...my inspirations/clones hahaha Bass - Chris Squire (a influence/inspiration since I first picked up a bass) Drums - Keith Moon (A Quick One was my instruction manuel to drumming hahahha) Piano - Dave Brubeck (fabulous player and a master of poly-rhythms) feel lucky to have met 2 of the three oh.... and the band.... god frickin awful... but still a lot of fun... ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: GPFR
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 17:35
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Atmospheric. There would be a huge emphasis on the vocals, and in terms of skill I wouldn't be the greatest player in the world, if you know what I mean. Our playing wouldn't SUCK, but you know what I mean. I would try too be very free with my music. I would most always be bound too a darker feel, but I wouldn't be stuck being depressing. I'd try too make a nice happy song with a good little twist too make it my own and uniqe. I think for a while I'd try maybe too hard too mix an electronic and acoustic sound. There would be no really simple songs. The songs that would be written pretty simply would become complex from attempts of using different effects. The studio would be hard, I'd be spending too long too write fifty different versions of one song too see which both conveys the mood, and works with the flow of the album. At least, thats just what I think Id' do. ------------- www.myspace.com/hail_peter 
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Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 18:08
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mmm...I would have a dark band with many acoustic breaks and two keys, one very classic (ala Wakeman or Emerson) and the other very electronic (ala Brian Eno)...with some Tool like singing and lyrics... mmm, I should clone myself... ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 18:57
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First of all, I would clone myself alot so I can have like 3 or 4 bands. The first one will be ver Godspeed you black emperor-esque. Very moody,very emotional, very tragic with some voice overs like them and very epic too. The second one could be an Avant garde one with influences ranging from Taal to noise from the streets and so on with some very goofy vocals screaming nonesense and yuxtaposing strange words ect. The third one will sound like a psychedelic one with some very good canterbury humour and maybe at times. the vocalist at certain songs narrates stories or just talks the lyrics instead of singing it. Oh! and a sax player for sure. Very Gong-ish The last one could be an acoustic folk-ish band with flute, bass, classical piano, slow drumming, guitars, nature sounds in the background, birds chirping, harp and other beautiful sounding instruments with some whispery vocals like Toby Driver. Man. I want to make those bands now  ------------- 
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Posted By: prog4evr
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 19:02
| I would have to say: Terry Bozzio on drums; Tony Levin on bass; and, Steve Stevens on guitar(s)... ... Oh, yeah (forgot): that is already 'Black Light Syndrome.' |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 21:39
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My album would probably have sound like a mix of these albums:
Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle
Bill Bruford - One of a Kind
Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage
Hatfield and the North - Rotter's Club
King Crimson - Lark's Tongues in Aspic ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: The Lost Chord
Date Posted: May 19 2006 at 22:03
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im a solo act and my stuff is very reminiscent of Harmoniums 5 seasons...and i hadnt heard them untiul a few weeks ago, been playing music for years. -------------  "Only the sun knew why"
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Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: May 21 2006 at 00:00
Wierd  -------------
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The Lost Chord wrote:Posted By: imoeng
Date Posted: May 21 2006 at 01:36
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: May 21 2006 at 03:31
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I'd make an "Art Rock" band called "Fan de Cruyff Impersonator", mainly doing badly sung football chants, mainly about Johan Cruyff. One of the many avenues would also be a Jordi Cruyff spin-off, being very anti-Jordi and very dark and gothic, but not having any "Art Rock" tendencies whatsoever. The main band (above), would produce pastiche Rush sing-a-longs, with appalling backing tracks and cheesy neo-prog keyboards and a stylophone (circuited back-to-front and occasionally not working). Guitar solos would be Libertines/Babyshambles-esque, with added distortion. All-in-all, it'd be an amazing band, with an eclectique mix of non-prog blandness. But seriously... It'd be a cross between: VdGG Peter Hammill Gnidrolog Taal KC Caravan/Soft Machine/Hatfield and the North/Robert Wyatt/Gong Neil Young Bob Dylan Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac The Allman Brothers Band/Gov't Mule/Derek Trucks Band/Béla Fleck and the Flecktones So basically, an unlistenable cacophonos mess! -------------   
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Posted By: Prog-jester
Date Posted: May 21 2006 at 10:28
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I'm a musician myself.I made a one-man band record few months ago -NEO PROG,poorly produced and recorded,but it's great!!!(ask EUGENE,he experienced it!!!  ) .Hoping to put it in Web to let you share my excitement  .I'd love to play:
1.A mix between TOOL,MARS VOLTA,ANEKDOTEN and OPETH - I have 5 songs ready and I'm impatiently waiting for another ocassion to record them!!! 2.A GENESIS clone band - 3 songs are ready;the "band" named LAMIA! 
3.Neo-prog in its classical meaning(IQ/early MARILLION-like) 4.Neo/Sympho prog (or New Symphonic) 5.Dark "Scandinavian-like" complex sympho-prog - got an album READY!!! 5 epics ,49 minutes!!! All I need is to record this stuff!!!ProGducers,where art thou??????????
HELP ME SOMEONE!!! I want the world to hear me!!!
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Posted By: Badabec
Date Posted: August 26 2006 at 16:13
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As a songwriter my influences are Gentle Giant, King Crimson, Wobbler and a bit Yes and a bit Genesis... However my band would sound like... A mixture of the bands I mentioned above!  |
Posted By: Proghat
Date Posted: August 26 2006 at 16:43
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Well, first of all I'd have to get better to realize my musical ideas,
but it'd sound like a mix of these bands probably: -Porcupine Tree (The catchiness, the vocals, the relaxedness, the riffiness lol) -Rush (The classic feel and light use of synth sounds and chord-heavy guitar) -Opeth (The soft vocals, acoustic bits) -Dream Theater (The epic quality to some of the tracks) -Pain of Salvation (The vocals and wierd structures) -Ayreon (The variety) -Camel (The laid-back nature and beautiful harmonies) -ELP (The classic sound and craziness) -Nobuo Uematsu (The great orchestral themes, etc.) -Pink Floyd (Spaciness, relaxedness, catchiness, sweeping guitar) -Caravan (catchiness) -Transatlantic (classic prog sound, long songs) -Genesis (The poetic nature and great harmonies) Others: Spock's Beard, Angra, Yes, King Crimson, OSI, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Gentles Giant It would be some sort of Art Rock/Symphonic Prog/Space Rock/Psychadelic amalgamation with some Prog Metal influences. So, something like this.... Vocals = Camel/Pink Floyd/Porcupine Tree/Opeth (the lighter side) style Guitar/Bass = All of the things I listed Drums = Dream Theater/Rush/Porcupine Tree/Camel/ELP/Pink Floyd/Transatlantic/Spock's Beard I dunno. |
Posted By: MattiR
Date Posted: August 26 2006 at 17:20
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I think of Krautrock --> psychodelic, electronic atmosphere. A lot of music experiments. Sound of my band? I don't care. I have no money, I have no time. Small studio. Or gloomy bunker somewhere in Germany. I don't care. Ingredients: 20% - Can 20% - Ash Ra Tempel 20% - Amon Duul II 10% - Popol Vuh 10% - Faust 10% - Agitation Free 10% - others... |
Posted By: heyitsthatguy
Date Posted: August 26 2006 at 17:25
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Mine would be a mix of Dream Theater style riffery, arranged in a Mr. Bungle manner of weirdness (and songwritingwise) and shift back and forth between psychedelica, prog metal, and avant garde
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Posted By: chessman
Date Posted: August 26 2006 at 17:37
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If I was competent enough to play all the instruments myself, I suppose I would play Bass like Chris Squire, Guitar like Steven Wilson, Drums like Phil Collins, Keyboards like Tony Banks, and I would sing like Geddy Lee (though Gabriel is my favourite, but I don't want to put too many Genesis members in it, which is why I didn't include Hackett!!) |
Posted By: cuncuna
Date Posted: August 26 2006 at 20:17
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That band would be just me with several devices, not musical instruments. Me and a computer. The sound... as weird and diverse as possible, as long as I feel good about it. Probably between very crude procesed folk music and abstraction. ------------- ¡Beware of the Bee! |
Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: August 26 2006 at 20:25
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My main influences musically are: Steve Hackett, Rush, Frank Zappa, King Crimson, Marillion, metal like Dream Theater, Opeth, and Metallica, Genesis, and Pink Floyd. Essentially it would be an album of many different styles crammed together into a tight feel and it would be uber cool. ------------- 
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Posted By: Australian
Date Posted: August 26 2006 at 21:17
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Yes + Kansas + Camel + Jethro Tull + The Beatles + Pink Floyd + Supertramp + ELP = My Band
So i'd need Guitarists (me), vocalists (not me), Flute, Bass, Viloin, Drums, Keyboards ------------- 
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: August 26 2006 at 21:22
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Porcupine Tree (soundscapes, solo guitar)
Frank Zappa (solo guitar)
Taal (riff guitar)
Pendragon (solo guitar, riff guitar, soundscapes)
The Mars Volta (soundscapes, solo guitar)
Klaus Schulze (soundscapes)
.....All combined into one. Me likey the soundscapes.  ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: YYZed
Date Posted: August 26 2006 at 21:45
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It would sound like garbage. A drunken wombat could beat me in a drumb battle, my keyboard skills are limited to the synth lines from YYZ, and my bass skills are average at best. As far as guitar, well, I'd be better of with a keytar (see keyboard skills).  ------------- 
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: August 26 2006 at 21:49
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SOAD drumming with single string guitar riffs, horrible attempts at soloing and singing that will break glass (because will be smashing their heads into things because its too painful) Thats my musical skill
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Posted By: willy
Date Posted: August 26 2006 at 21:53
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If I had to choose bands.... I'd say genesis and pink floyd. Crossing David Gilmours sound with Steve Hacketts would be so awesome my that head would explode. I would rather cross musicians to get the sound I wanted though, for example I would cross Bill Brufod and Ginger baker to get my ideal drummer, Geddy Lee and Mike Rutherford to get my ideal bassist, Tony Banks and Rick Wakeman for keyboards, etc, etc... ------------- 
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