Calling All Musicians!

FuzzyDude wrote: Cygnus X-2 wrote: You should check out the Musical Instruments and Equipment sections if you want any information on this... I'm not interested in the equipment, I'm interested in the human beings and their musical experiences.

Although the heading might not suggest it, there are a few topics in there that discuss who on this forum is a musician. I suggest you take a look.

I'm 19 and have performed live just 2 times, the first one when I was 16, with my metal band "Defuncion" and we made one song about one teacher we all hated , i suppose he never found out that the song was for him (the song was cool, it had various parts and 6 minutes long), at that time, i just had Dream Theater as an idea of Prog and Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Death, Led Zeppelin and others as some favorites. Oh, in Defuncion i played rythmic guitar. One year later ("Defuncion" had already been split to death by this time) I had Prog as my most important musical interest and 2 friends and I decided to make a Rush instrumedley, we did La Villa Strangiatto/YYZ, approximately 12 mins. Here I was the bassist, and since then i've stood with that as my main position in the band. We now play now and then in our drummer's house us for fun, jamming and playing some Rush, Marillion and classic rock covers.

Can this be interesting for someone? mmmm, it should be fun to read other people's experiences, go on with the thread .

FuzzyDude wrote: Hey, someone likes my thread! Take that, Cygnus X-2!! So you have a metal background? Awesome. I was in a metal band once called Burning Dress. This was in the late seventies, but I think our influences were King Crimson, Rush, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, and Ronnie James Dio. Metallica wasn't even famous yet and prog metal wasn even a real genre yet. We only wrote maybe five songs, but at our live shows, we'd 'reinterpret' metal standards of the time. Our vocalist did a Bob Dylan impression and would sing 'War Pigs' or 'Schizoid Man' in that voice. It was an awesome band, right up until two of our members got arrested for drug abuse. Good times...

Okay.. whatever. I'm just saying that there already is a thread about being a musician on the Musical Equipment and Instruments section.

I'm 17 and have been playing guitar for 4 years (ok, so I'm a newbie). I play piano/keyboards and a little bass I mainly jam with my younger brother on drums. We make some recordings; my brother on drums and I, everything else (guitar, keyboards, bass etc...). I want to study jazz guitar and music and/or guitar theory.

I'm also in a band that is currently falling apart (real keyboard player moving, uninterested bass player etc.) who played a pretty eclectic selection of music (all original material). I'm in the process of trying to put another one together.