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Topic: Musicians wanted

Posted By: arnoldlayne
Subject: Musicians wanted
Date Posted: May 20 2008 at 13:56

Hi everybody. I'm looking for musicians in the UK, Northamptonshire specifically, for a project I'm looking to develop.

I'm a singer/lyricist/appalingly bad guitarist with absolutely no professional experience, so I'm refreshingly not cynical/naive (whichever you think!) and I would like to invite players/singers to be a part of a musical collective with the main aim of creating music that goes wherever it will take us!
Experience/ability are not the key factors here - musical kinship is more the point. (Yes, I appreciate that may develop the better a player you are, but like I say, I'm pretty much an amateur, and it would be pointless to be way out of my depth right from the start. That said, I'm not going to turn down Steve Howe, if you see what I mean!)
OK, enough jabber. If you're intrigued, please let me know and let's see what happens.
Thanks for reading!
Trev

Replies:

Posted By: Goblinisgod
Date Posted: May 30 2008 at 16:26

Where abouts in Northamptonshire are you? I'm on the border of Worcestershire\West Mids and I'd most likely be willing to make the trek. Its tough finding like minded musicians in this neck of the industrial woods.

Posted By: arnoldlayne
Date Posted: May 31 2008 at 04:26

Wellingborough. What do you play?

Thanks for the response, btw.

Posted By: Goblinisgod
Date Posted: May 31 2008 at 18:55

I play guitar mainly and have some keyboards I fool around with on occasion. What do you play? Have you found anyone else? I'm used to playing Metal but I'm looking to play something different to expand my horizons.

Posted By: arnoldlayne
Date Posted: June 01 2008 at 01:20

I mess about with guitar, but I wouldn't use the word play yet to be honest... still hit far too many bum notes for that! I'm a singer basically, although I have messed around with keyboards myself in the past too. Yours is the first reply I've had here. It's been tough to get much interest anywhere, to be honest. One guy I know who produces beats & stuff was interested, he's very much into hip hop though, so not sure if it's compatible!

Posted By: Goblinisgod
Date Posted: June 02 2008 at 16:25

Ah, Hip hop is one of the few things I categorically dislike. I don't mind using a drum machine. Do you have a specific vocal style that you sing in or like to emulate?

Posted By: arnoldlayne
Date Posted: June 04 2008 at 04:45

Not particularly, i like to experiment with it a lot. That said, there are some favourite singers of mine that it wouldn't suprise me have crept in to the way I sing. I'll give you a list and it might give you an idea:

Roger Waters

Jon Anderson

John Wetton

Greg Lake

Paul McCartney

Bernard Sumner

Prince

Robert Plant

Scott Walker

David Bowie

Beth Gibbons

Billie Holliday

Nina Simone

I could go on and on and on, but that'll do for now!

Alright then, how about you and that axe, then? Any influences you can't escape?

Posted By: Goblinisgod
Date Posted: June 14 2008 at 14:15

Interesting influences.

Influences I can't escape? I can't escape old school Slayer riffs!! My fav guitarists are Eddie Van Halen (reason I started playing guitar), Randy Rhoads and Dave Gilmour. I can't stand the w**kery of guys like Malmsteen.

Nowadays, I find myself playing more stuff influenced by post-rock and drone, I'm interested in exploring new musical avenues and improvisational type stuff.

Posted By: arnoldlayne
Date Posted: June 16 2008 at 13:26

Sounds cool. What's you take on Robert Fripp?

Gilmour is one of my favourite guitarists too. The man makes it look so damn easy it's ridiculous. To be able to play with such feeling...

I must brush up on my Slayer, I never really got into them. I really liked "War Ensemble" though. I was always more of a Metallica man in those days. I have to confess I don't think I've heard Randy Rhoads. Eddie Van Halen - that first Van Halen album still sounds great now!

I'm a useless - well, novice - guitarist really, but I love the work of the usual suspects I guess - Jimmy Page, Blackmore and that lot. Johnny Greenwood took electric guitar playing to some interesting places for a bit.

It's such a curious art though isn't it?

Really I think in an ideal world I'd be able to play like Nick Drake. He wrote some damn fine stuff.