Talk about your band and/or music

This thread oviously goes out for all the musicians or people that make music and/or are in a band.

Please Im very interested in hearing about the kind of music you do, your bands name, if you have a song in mp3 to download from somewhere, or simply to know a little about the kind of music you play and your influences.

Ok, I go first. I have a band and right now we are planning to record an album (not professionaly!!!). We are three boys, me being the only one over 18...the others 17. We are lacking a drummer, but probably a cousin of mine who plays the drumms will help us with the recording. We do prog (obviously) that relay on guitar and bass only, though we are planing to incorporate a keyboard some day. We have some long songs ( two of 9 min, one of 8 and one that we are working on but will probably last more than 10 min.)...and also one very short one ( 59 seconds...), we also have a couple of instrumental songs, and are currently composing/writting an EPIC!!! We have not even come to the middle of the story we want to tell and the song is already 12 minutes long...so it seems to be loooooooong!!! jejeje

Our influences are mainly Led Zeppelin, Rush, some Dream Theater , Genesis (Gabriel) and maybe some King Crimson and Yes (but not that virtuoso) jejeje

What about you?

I just got a demo of recording software, I'll get the full version soon I hope... anyway I've done a cover version of the extremely obscure theme song for "King Koopa's Kool Kartoons" (don't ask why), a hip-hop remix of "moonlight on vermont", some annoying repetitive techno loops, and I'm working on a "Batman" medley inspired by online fads, John Zorn, and various inside jokes right now. My recording equipment includes a lego camera. My personnel are myself and two friends who play clarinet and saxophone sometimes. My instrumental credits are guitarist, bassist, and keyboardist, as well as cheap 'Beatbox' drumloop programmer. Since I don't have the full version, all songs must be in 4/4 if I want any drums at all.  But $20 should get me where I want.

violincyndee i really like the way you play the violin.

I have been playing the violin for 2 years and I play in a high school metal band. We've only been playing for 2 months together. We have a female lead vocalist, 2 guitars, 2 violins and a drummer and we still need a bass player. The major influences in the band are dream theater, metallica and other metal bands. Personally, my influences are psichodellic rock specially pink floyd and jazz. We play covers of Pull me under, Nightwish's Nemo, mago de oz, angra and many metallica songs. we are currently working on our own songs and we hope to get to recording soon. Although we are from mexico, the vocalist rather sing and compose in english.

Very trippy music, ViolinCyndee - I like it!

You've played with some amazing musicians - and that is one cool violin.

I have a corner of MySpace at http://www.myspace.com/Certif1ed.

I've been playing piano since I was 4 - but there's no piano in these tracks. I'm a qualified singing teacher, but I only do backing vocals on one track. I taught myself a few chords on the guitar when I was 12, and have never looked back... or forwards. I didn't learn any more chords, as these songs show 

I currently record with a work colleague who owns 14 keyboards and a mini PC-based studio. It's hard to say what our influences are - he listens to a lot of Gary Numan, Peter Gabriel, Rob Zombie and Nine Inch Nails, while I listen to just about anything - although my main influences are probably NWOBHM and late 1990s trance music.

It's hard to say what our music sounds like - the concept is to produce a blend of rock, electronica and stuff we like, but primarily to write songs until we find a style we like - then experiment around it.

A few people have said we sound like Kevin Moore / OSI / Chroma Key - but, having never heard their music, I can't verify this.

I'm responsible for all guitars and roughly 70% of composition and keyboards, while Andy does a great job of the vocals and 90% of the mixing and production.

We both write lyrics that are basically about things going wrong - ordinary stuff that happens in the real world but most people choose to ignore in the hope it'll go away. We're realists

Take a look at area39project.com

I am a new artist from England, this is my 1st album and i am now thinking of what to do for my 2nd.

Hope you like it.

You can hear mp3's at www.area39project.com    or you can visit me at www.myspace.com/area39

Thanks

Area 39 wrote: Take a look at area39project.com I am a new artist from England, this is my 1st album and i am now thinking of what to do for my 2nd. Hope you like it. You can hear mp3's at www.area39project.com    or you can visit me at www.myspace.com/area39 Thanks

Adding you to MySpace friends!  Btw, mine is:  www.myspace.com/cyndeeleerule for anyone else who'd like to link!

Cyndee

ViolinCyndee wrote: Area 39 wrote: Take a look at area39project.com I am a new artist from England, this is my 1st album and i am now thinking of what to do for my 2nd. Hope you like it. You can hear mp3's at www.area39project.com    or you can visit me at www.myspace.com/area39 Thanks Adding you to MySpace friends!  Btw, mine is:  www.myspace.com/cyndeeleerule for anyone else who'd like to link! Cyndee

Thanks for the add.

Maybe we could do a web site address link to each other ?

ViolinCyndee wrote:

Thanks for the add.

Maybe we could do a web site address link to each other ?

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You mean on MySpace?  Or I could link you on my Soundclick site (which is my preferred site, since I can put alot more tunes on it!!)

Cyndee

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Yes your own site, not myspace.

I have a site www.area39project.com

I dont update my site myself a friend does it and he only has time every now and again.