How Many Musicians are On Board ?

Ive been playing drums for over 25 years, now in band calle M.O.A.B. Im alsovery found of the production and mastering part of the music area.
Love to work with this, but cannot yet, paying to record, and playing livefor free.

www.myspace.com/moabsth

I've played the drums for 12 years and I am in a few bands

i've played French horn for 6 years and play in highschool honor bands/orchestras.   i started guitar last year (which is when i started getting into prog) and i've played the didgeridoo for two years.     i also mess around on trumpet and piano...

I play the guitar of course my main influences are Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Yes and Jimi Hendrix. I like progressive rock, yes I think it is the best rock music out there. It has created some of the most  influential albums ever like Sgt Pepper and The Wall.  I like progressive rock with good melodies which is something I want to accomplish. Only a few bands have mastered that concept. Just started playing out. Not using this forum to promote myself though. Im just interested in talking about the ones who started progressive rock like the Beatles, Pink Floyd and Zappa.

I've played the guitar for some 5 odd years or so now. I own two American Stratocasters, and my lovely Gibson Les Paul Standard, a guitar which I'm very, very fond of.

My main instrument however, is drums, which I've been professionally taught since I was 8 years old.

I'm active in two local bands (One of which is getting quite a bit of gigs) called Bonfire For Crow, and Greystone Lighthouse.

I'm the drummer in Greystone Lighthouse. We're quite a large band, with me, three guitarists, a bassist, two saxophonists, a keyboardist and a skilled singer. Of course we play prog! It's wonderful to listen to the dual saxophone interplay that pops up in the odd jams. Unfortunately, I've got no recordings because we've yet to talk about that sort of stuff. We play a lot of gigs. Right now we're not very busy however...

I play the guitar in Bonfire For Crow, which is more an average jamband. We've played a couple of gigs, most notably one where we did a cover of All Along The Watchtower which lasted for 25+ minutes or so. By the end of it, we'd all gone barking mad


Edited by Axel Dyberg - October 21 2007 at 13:17

I'm a not too bad for an average player kind of guitarist. Whenever people ask me what I can play, song-wise, I always paraphrase an old Johnny Cash quote - I know about a thousand songs, but I can only sing about 12. Unfortunately, no drummers close by, and none in sight. THIS is the best way to get people playing is to announce you have a drummer & a jam space. Still keep plugging away. There a bunch of friends who jam about an hour's drive away. But I kinda screwed myself with them. I started jamming with them when the drummer & bassist were just learning. So the other guitarist was happy to have someone who could actually play. The first few times I went, they spoiled me by letting me just rip, song after song after song, until the night's done. I let that go to my head, started having a few too many beers & when they started bucking down to learning actual songs, I couldn't contain my enthusiasm. They'd have to shush me up, make me turn my sound down & finally let me know through back channels that I was welcome, but to understand that they only had so much patience.
But I got a second chance now, with another group of friends. More loose, more fun with the boys type of thing. This time, I'm applying the lessons learnt. I'm 45 & would dearly love to be in a band.

To answer your questions: I'm a pro musician (teach and perform) I have recordings online. I play kybds but wish I was better at guitar. I play a wide variety of music, but the music I have online now is acid jazz. You can check us out at myspacemusic.com/zazerac

Edited by Easy Money - March 29 2008 at 06:25

I've been playing Drums for 30 years but I haven't really touched them for 5 years. I had to leave the last band I was in due to work comitments and never seemed to have got round to playing again. I still keep getting the urge to go back to it but I'd need a good musically interesting band to get me off my butt and into action again.

1.  Home recordist - do it just for the love of music these days, but I've played semi-pro at different points in my musical life.

2.  Yes - myspace.com/casellastudio , which links back to my MySpace music "Jaydubz".

www.myspace.com/joshuascammell

I've been playing drums for 6 years.