Musicians on Prog Archives ?

Looked under assorted and miscellanoues topics ... there's a whole load of stuff under Music and Musicians Exhcange ...

I posted a mini-album I recorded in 2001 last week ...

I play trombone in a jazz band as well as in a ska band, and guitar/keyboards in a power metal band. None of them are prog bands, but the music we write for the power metal band is really prog-influenced, and even the ska band has the occasional riff in 7/4 for good measure.

Syntharachnid wrote: I play keyboards, but I can't find people to form a prog band with.

If you live in the Providence area, I'm looking for a band too.

I wouldn't call myself a prog musician...I'm not good enough at all.  I play guitar and viola (lunaticviolist ).

We play Dire Straits covers so we are prog .. !

And when we don't play prog but just blues or psychedelia we play The Doors ..  ..!

I play guitar, clarinet, sax, harmonica, and very poor mandolin, but I don't have a band right now. I might be able to start one soon, I'll have to see.

I play guitar (how rare! lol) but there really is a shortage of prog lovers around here. I would love to be able to find others who enjoy the finer points of music (ie prog - of course) and form a group.

I play trombone and I'm starting to sing a bit. I'm trying to form a band, but I really haven't had time to get around to it yet. I'm taking a music theory course that my high school is offering to learn how to write music (although I have quickly learned that I hate Counterpoint).

I'm a keyboard player just like you, Skarabrae... I played in a band for the most of my high school/ college  years. We tried to make something similar to Can mixed with Os Mutantes, and we succeeded: we sounded just like that two bands put inside a mixer at full speed. Without the blood'n guts, i mean. To cut a long story short, let us say "we sucked".

But i have to confess i couldn't be called a "prog musician" for two reasons: first, my main influence has always been Brian Eno. I've spent the last ten years trying to play something as loud and noisy as his moog solo in "Editions of you" with my old and trusty korg ms20. I'm still trying...

The second reason is i'm really such a bad player... I've never been musically trained, and work mostly by intuition, so i'll never be able to play a Wakeman- like solo. To be honest, i've had my best times as a musician manipullating analog synths, sequencers or (my favorite) a small radio plugged to an amp and a lot of effect pedals. MW broadcasts can give you a lot of nice surprises if you know how to turn the knob properly. Ah! And that nice toy melodica a girl friend gave me years ago...

As some of you may know, I am a prog (wannabe? Oh, let me be good with myself this time :D) musician. I play keyboards in two bands, Elisena (more metal and structured band, www.elisena.net, not yet fully on line but soon we'll add our demo mp3s) and Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata (www.ogd-project.org, the trio with which we are preparating the 12-hours jam session).

From a prog rock point of view, OGD are more interesting: fully improvised jam sessions, done with a very progressive afflato. The site is quite convoluted, but simply clicking in the centre you'll gain our mp3s :D
We're not selling anything, we just do those jams for passion.

To fully answer your question: my main influences are undoubtfully Jordan Rudess and Jon Lord, with some spices trown in by Keith Jarrett and Ozric Tentacles and Italian Progressive by the compositional point of view.



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