How Many Musicians are On Board ?

Are you a professional musician, semi-pro, wanna-be pro, or an at-home-messing-'round-in-my-spare-time player ?
I'm a semi-pro musician - I might be fully pro if people bought the CD instead of downloading the torrent!

Have you recorded your own compositions ?  Got samples online ?
Yes, at http://www.shadowcircusmusic.com/audio

What instrument(s) do you play ?
Guitar, keyboards

What instrument(s) do you wish you could play ?
Vocals, hurdy-gurdy (seriously, those things sound freakin' cool as hell)

Do you play Prog or another type ?
Prog all the way!

^ Defiling is goood.........

Wanna-be Pro. I write songs musically and lyrically. I play Rhythm Guitar mainly, and a little Bass as well. I don't do much lead work because it's never interested me. I love hearing solos, but playing them never seemed to call to me much. I'm much more a fan of odd time signatures and cool psychedelic tones that guitars can make, and as such I'm primarily influenced by guitarists with really amazing rhythm/experimentation. Dave Gilmour, Steve Wilson, Robert Fripp, Adam Jones, Marten Hagstrom, etc.

Edited by p0mt3 - December 21 2008 at 01:11

Hmm. I guess you'd call me a semi-pro musician. I played in covers-first, originals-maybe-later bar bands for almost 20 years, gigging in and around Chicago and in the Phoenix area when I was in college. Played mostly bass in those bands (my first love), did some rhythm guitar and vocals. Left off doing music for about ten years in favor of writing, got back into music through an accidental discovery of Acid software and am currently working on tracks for cds. Teaching myself lead guitar and collecting toys in the process. Current noises can be found at or through:http://www.myspace.com/planetmoderan

Oh, I play rythmic guitar on a band nameless for the time being because the name that I had chosen (The Dharma Bums, in homage to the book by Jack Kerouac, is already a name assumed by a group of prog / folk rather cool).

Here you can found the first song - record on my room =S Above.

All constructive criticism are welcome, we are starting so it's a good thing to advance to have opinions.

I play on this guitar : Hagstrom Viking.

Lets go back to the early 80s. I was first in a band when I was at school. We were called Distance and were heavily influenced by Floyd, Hawkwind and Rush but hampered by not having decent instruments (the drummer's kit was a Huntley & Palmers biscuit tin for a snare and a plastic bucket for a kick/tom) although I soon persuaded my mum to by me an electric guitar - a Westone Thunder 1A. The drummer and bass player went on to play for an anarcho punk band and toured the world. The other guitarist wanted to become a teacher of Religious Education (as an atheist he thought he was as well qualified as anyone else) but became a newspaper editor instead. He still plays guitar and often annoys me that he's so good at fingerstyle playing but is happy just to play at home.

My next band was a ramshackle psychedelic/garage/punk/noise act called Games for May. We played a gig in a friends house (stopped by the Police) and another at a local pub with a few friends. That went well so we practiced every Sunday and drank lots of tea and that was that really.

Next was The Schoolhouse. We were influenced by grunge and indie music. The best comment we got was "They'd be OK if they could tune their guitars" - I used a lot of sus 2 chords for some reason.

After that I played guitar in Rockets Revenge, drum machine powered indie popsters. The bass player was my girlfriend, so when we split up it was a bit tense in the band. Soon after that the band split too.

I started playing bass and joined a band called Bib. We invented Britpop but nobody knows it. The singer left to go to college so that fell apart.

The bass player from The Schoolhouse was now playing guitar in a band called Sawyer. When their bassist left, I joined. Sawyer mutated from a grungey noise-rock monster into something more controlled. A little later, the guitarist from Bib joined too. We recorded an album called On the Seven (released on Human Condition Records of Edinburgh) and played a few gigs. We rocked! Occasionally in 5/4! Then the driving force (he was the only one with either a car or a driving licence) left to work in London and now plays guitar for the heaviest band in the world, Part Chimp. Sawyer came to a shuddering halt.

Around this time I became more interested in home recording and recorded an album of progressive electronic/Krautrock music which I gave to friends one Christmas. I keep meaning to see about making it available to the world at large but...

Then my brother called me up. He'd put together a horrorpunk band who were due to play their first gig in a few days time but their guitarist had left. A couple of days of intensive practice and the gig went well. After a few changes of personnel and name we became a three piece called 13 Tombs. When the bass player decided he couldn't give the commitment needed, my brother and I decided to continue as a duo. We've played quite a few gigs now, including the Whitby Gothic Weekend, and have the obligatory MySpace site.

As well as all of the above, I've done a fair few "one offs", often at short notice. Hardcore punk, thrash, country, pop, Johnny Cash... Sometimes I've even been paid!

I dabble from time to time on a cheap electric guitar and an old Yamaha keyboard, mostly for trying to get strange sounds out of them. But my true forte is composing music on a computer. I have released five albums, first on mp3.com, and now on my own label (cafepress.com makes the CDs). I treat it more as a hobby than a job, and so I don't actively advertise my stuff. It's mostly prog rock, maybe a little electronic pop in places.

It's called Superluminal Pachyderm and you can hear some of it here:
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=293277&content=music

So, I'm more of a composer than a musician.

ive played the piano since the age of 7 and dabbled in the drums for about 4 years durrng middle school but got too busy with sports. i still play the piano and picked up the guitar this past summer. I wish i could play more! a string instrument would be fun, and enlightening, as wood a woodwind. id really like to learn the saxaphone, that sounds terribly exciting. 

I've been playing piano for 8 years, Saxophone for 6, drums for 1. I'm playnig drums in a prog metal band now, and another one thats trying to get on its feet, just needs a bassist and a keyboardist would be awesome. I'm thinking of picking up a stringed instrument for fun, and the sake of knowledge.

semi-professional. Friede and I earn our money with our restaurant, where we get on stage from time to time to play music to entertain the guests. I play keyboards and sing a few harmony vocals (soprano). I could handle a bass guitar too