If you’d be/are a musician...

as a band we enjoy jamming out on rock 'en roll - http://www.myspace.com/heavyjack




Edited by Crazy_Chester - May 07 2006 at 16:12

I'm a drummer...

My style will be...

Progressive Rock Elements mixture of Rush, Pink Floyd, Genesis,and a touch of King Crimson
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Progressive Video Game Music like The Black Mages
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Complexity like Dream Theater, IQ, Side project Bozzio, Levin and Stevens
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Instrumental Jazz/Funk like Victor Wooten's solo and Steve Smith's Vital Information
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Stronger Melody than U2
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More Concept Songs bigger than movie's OST and Pink Floyd's Concept album!


Its ambitious isn't it?

At the moment I havnt a clue as to what style I would want to play as i'm a fan of a lot of prog styles. Some days I would play metal, others symphonic and the rest would probably be Art or neo.

I would like to play in a band with two pianos or keyboards (me and another guy) with me singing. Add a bass, a drum and a wind-instrumentalist and this band would be perfect for me.

Don't know why but the only really important things for me are 2 pianos, a bass and drums.
Guitars would be could but not essential in my dream band.

If I'd form a band wich I'll probably be forced to do I'd require:

a guitar player (that would be me) - natural/semi-acoustic
a sax player - alto sax favored
a keyboard player - piano/synths if needed
a bass player - bass guitar/contrabass
a drummer - any kind of drums we can think of
a singer (if none of the above can handle it) - high male/female

The players will be required to have classical or jazz musical education.
I'm hoping the music to be very classical oriented and natural "symphonic" prog.
I'm quite influenced by Hackett era Genesis but that doesn't mean the others have to be.



Edited by Deliriumist - April 23 2006 at 11:44

I play guitar and I have a GR20 guitar synth (Great fun).

I tend to make stuff by myself on my computer because there are so few prog playing musicians I know  in Oz.

Have played in a big band and blues duo in my time as well...

As a bassist, Yes and Rush is a lot of fun.

Beisdes, Celtic is my favorite genre of music other than prog:

1. Prog
2. Celtic
3. Rock
3. Classical

And if you'd recall, Cyg, my post in the Concept Album: Write Your Own thread (I think that's the one), I have already a nice concept going. I'm just waiting for my theory and songwriting skills to be up to par. I can play well, just not incedibly fast, though I am getting better.

And when I mention Radiohead, that is speaking solely of Hail to the Theif, specifically "Go to Sleep," "Where I End, You Begin," and "There, There."

So overall, my type of music would be close to that of "And Evening with John Petrucci and Jordan Rudess" with a Celtic vibe and pieces of Arabic throughout, with mainly a Pendragon/Pink Floyd/Petrucci solo guitar style. The Saens influence would likely extend to the Arabic/World influences.

I'd like to play tuned percussion; vibes, xylophone, marimba, etc.

I dream of having a small band consisting of a cello/double bass/saw player, a drummer/percussionist, a keyboardist and myself fronting. We'd be a kind of complicated comedy jazz spoken word avant-prog beast of a band. We'd sell a total of four albums.