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el böthy
Prog Reviewer Joined: April 27 2005 Location: Argentina Status: Offline Points: 6336 |
Posted: November 17 2008 at 16:24 | |
I´m starting a band right now, but we still need a singer... and I want a violin player or a keyboard player too. Right now we are a drummer, two bassplayers (although one will eventually go he says), a percussionist, a sax player and me, the guitarist. We have just got together two weeks ago and have mostly jammed in a very frantic/funky/Mars Volta way, but I do have a lot of compositions ready to be worked with the rest. I´m pretty excited about this band...
I also used to be in a math/eclectic trio with one of the bassplayers (the one who wants to quit) called Secuencia Fibonacci. |
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"You want me to play what, Robert?"
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PinkPangolin
Forum Senior Member Joined: May 26 2006 Location: Somerset (UK) Status: Offline Points: 213 |
Posted: November 16 2008 at 08:27 | |
Thanks for all your replies guys, though I'm a bit surprised that there are so few - are there really not many musicians out there?
Am intending to check out some of your links, but I'm stuggling for time at the moment Interesting thought about playing music from a different genre and not trying to play Prog - then you can relax more when you listen to it - you're not trying to think how to play it! Keep sending in the replies - interesting stuff! |
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TDW
Forum Newbie Joined: November 15 2008 Location: Amersfoort Status: Offline Points: 34 |
Posted: November 15 2008 at 09:00 | |
Yes I am actually News travels fast so it seems
I have to admit that one of the reasons for checking the forum out was that I was able to add all the discography info and such if I was a forum member and therefore taking away some of the work that others had to do instead. why? |
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Petrovsk Mizinski
Prog Reviewer Joined: December 24 2007 Location: Ukraine Status: Offline Points: 25210 |
Posted: November 15 2008 at 06:47 | |
^Yo, are you the guy in the band recently added to the database?
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TDW
Forum Newbie Joined: November 15 2008 Location: Amersfoort Status: Offline Points: 34 |
Posted: November 15 2008 at 06:31 | |
well, does a project count as well?
Because if that goes as well, I am the main song, concept and lyric writer for the TDW project and I do the vocals, keyboards, some guitars and programming for that. I have released my last album in July of this year actually, so if any one is interested, you know where to find me now. Next to that I am the main vocalist and guitar player in a doom/post rock band called Panta Rhei and I do some occasional work together with an old friend of mine in a death / grind metal project called Schteenpuisth. (To those who are wondering/worrying about my mental health with a bandname like that, that last project is pure fun and is not intended to be based on seriousness at all! ) |
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Epignosis
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: December 30 2007 Location: Raeford, NC Status: Offline Points: 32524 |
Posted: October 23 2008 at 14:52 | |
Thanks. It's been a long time coming! Yes, I am the sole musician on the album. As much as I like to think I imitate Yes or Genesis or Kansas (my big three), I can't escape the fact that I do have something of my own sound. There is a lot of acoustic guitar, but I employ layers of mellotron and organ also. The electric guitar solos all have context (I hope!) and are not shredding for the sake of shredding. There are five songs- four are around ten minutes (give or take a few) and the final song is the "epic." Got to have one of those, right? Anyway, I would love to have you as a customer- I need those! |
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The Quiet One
Prog Reviewer Joined: January 16 2008 Location: Argentina Status: Offline Points: 15745 |
Posted: October 20 2008 at 16:30 | |
Well, they call me sometimes The Fish, my major influence is John Entwistle, just a great player with such a tone.
I have played in a band called Yes, don't know if you know it. The one with the double album, Tales From Topographic Oceans where I do a very stunning piece on Nous Sommes Du Soleil... |
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Passionist
Forum Senior Member Joined: March 14 2005 Location: Finland Status: Offline Points: 1119 |
Posted: October 20 2008 at 13:34 | |
I have to say I've had a lot going on, but nothing serious never since it's hard to get a whoel band together. Now we had something I wanted to call prog, but the bandmates went into metal, so I quit. Now I play jazz with some groups, jam about. If I were to form a band, it wouldn't be prog. I just like listening to it, not really playing it. Perhaps something canterbury scene like if it should happen, but still.
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GoldenSpiral
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: May 27 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3839 |
Posted: October 20 2008 at 10:22 | |
My band isn't really prog, more like proto-post-rock, shoegaze, and a little 90s math rock.
One of the guitarists recently left so we're continuing as a 3-piece with a more raw sound. I don't know if our sound would be too pleasing to the average prog fan, but I have fun playing it, so i guess that's what counts.
samples of course can be found at www.myspace.com/altaic
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febus
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator / In Memoriam Joined: January 23 2007 Location: Orlando-Usa Status: Offline Points: 4312 |
Posted: October 18 2008 at 10:57 | |
Whoah!! Congrats, Robert..did you record it all alone?? What style?? let me know when it's out..your neighbor from Orlando wants to be one of your customers ( with many more i hope for you)
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BaldJean
Prog Reviewer Joined: May 28 2005 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 10387 |
Posted: October 18 2008 at 10:47 | |
it is no big secret that BaldFriede and I are a duo called "Bald Angels". I play keyboards and sing some harmony vocals, Friede sings lead vocals and plays drums and percussion. we often have guest musicians, most notably my sister Bea (USAGirl) on flute
Edited by BaldJean - October 18 2008 at 11:10 |
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A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
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laplace
Prog Reviewer Joined: October 06 2005 Location: popupControl(); Status: Offline Points: 7606 |
Posted: October 18 2008 at 09:27 | |
i've been writing, privately performing and recording short, strange avant-prog songs on my own for a while, but I'm not happy enough with any of them to share just yet. it'll be a one person project unless I find a better singer, and the band name is Liminique.
the only music I've made which is available online is a set of chiptunes I put up on last.fm, the link is in my signature. not necessarily *ideal* for prog rock fans |
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Epignosis
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: December 30 2007 Location: Raeford, NC Status: Offline Points: 32524 |
Posted: October 18 2008 at 09:17 | |
I was in a progressive rock band in my teens, but it was hard to get the six of us to practice consistently, and after high school, we all dispersed throughout the county.
Now, however, I write and record my own symphonic rock music in my home studio. My first album should be available in December (if there are no further delays). It is entitled Still the Waters. I played in a country band during college, but don't let that scare you from checking out my album when the samples are available. |
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aprusso
Forum Senior Member Joined: June 16 2005 Status: Offline Points: 312 |
Posted: October 18 2008 at 08:23 | |
I have played guitar and I was the main composer in a prog band ("Ice") in Venice, Italy, in the period 1985-1990. We started with covers (Firth of Fifth, Grendel, Shine on, Afterglow, Does it really happen to you - we also wanted to play Watcher of the skies but it was impossble to keep the rhythm) and a few own compositions, eventually we had a good repertoire of own material, with a flute and a violin payer. The style was in between Genesis and Caravan. We had a singer dressed like a monk. the crowds were not enthusiat, though. Moreover the seven of us could not reharse all in the same moment but in a very few occasions. Since then, I haven't touched my guitar anymore.
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Marwin
Forum Senior Member Joined: December 13 2005 Status: Offline Points: 166 |
Posted: October 18 2008 at 07:03 | |
I play in 2 prog bands: Toxic Mind and Porcelain. With Toxic Mind we just released our first album which will soon be available for online purchase through an online store as soon as we fill in some paper work, or then you could just email us and we can send you a record.
http://www.myspace.com/toxicmindfin http://www.myspace.com/porcelainprog Edited by Marwin - October 20 2008 at 17:57 |
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http://myspace.com/toxicmindfin
http://myspace.com/porcelainprog |
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PinkPangolin
Forum Senior Member Joined: May 26 2006 Location: Somerset (UK) Status: Offline Points: 213 |
Posted: October 18 2008 at 05:59 | |
Maybe such info is secret - oh well, I've yet to have an post removed for inappropriate content.... If I do I'll be promoted to 4 stars?
Do any of you play in your own Prog - or even any other genre - band? Are any of you famous Proggers out there in this forum? (I know you probably want to hide your identity, but I don't want you too... Yee-hah rocknroll - tell us what you do all you mad geeks that no-one understands!! |
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