Actual musicians

Piano and keyboards for many years.

Actually, learning guitar at the moment, as well.

Do a bit of writing, too. Probably not good.

I began playing guitar and drums at the age of 6. And keyboard and bass at the age of 15

Well, I've been playing the cello for about 7 1/2 years now, been teaching myself piano for about five or six years.  I've always wanted to be in a band and I'm getting a chance to jam with one on Saturday, but I don't know if they're serious or not nor do they like Prog. 

They're looking for a vocalist and also a piano/keyboardist and one of my friends recommended me to them since I can do both and compose music.  Hopefully, it isn't a fluke.

I play guitar, bass, lap steel, banjo, mandolin, dulcimer, flute, keyboards, Moog, ARP, and PAIA synthesizers, and drums.

I played in various bands throughout my late teens and early twenties. In those bands we did mostly originals and some covers. Nothing too prog inspired, more "bar band" stuff.

Since 1995 or so I have recorded 7 albums and 7 E.P.'s of original music in my home studios. My music is pretty versatile ranging from acoustic to heavy metal to bluegrass to electronic to prog. Since I have gotten a Mellotron (software version) my music is starting to become a little "Proggier". All of the albums/E.P.'s I make are private press type of things. I write and record them and then press a few of them to give to family and friends. I have no contracts with labels or anything. I do it because I love and need to be creative and compose music.

A lot of my albums and E.P's are "experimental" in nature. One of my E.P.'s called "Moog Music" featured pieces in which I played pre-recorded taped through my Moog Micromoog synthesizer. As the tapes played through the Moog I would then "process" the tapes using the Moog's filter and modulation capabilities re-recording the "processed" tapes digitally on my computer at the same time. I have another E.P. called "Duets For Synthesizer" in which the pieces consist of Moog Micromoog and ARP Odyssey synthesizer "duets".

The last album I recorded is called "A Thread Of Light In The Cloak Of Darkness". It is an album of "loop" music created on guitar and electric piano. All of the pieces start with one loop and then I add other loops on top of the first until the pieces become walls of sound. This idea was very much inspired by Brian Eno. You can check out this album at my music download page at http://www.soundlift.com/band/music.php?id=102893

Since 1996 I have also played with a band called "House Music" in which 100% of what we play is improvised. We tend to be very "Proggy". I play guitar, keyboards, and drums in "House Music". Now that I have the software Mellotron I am dying to get a laptop computer so I can play the Mellotron "live" with them as well. I have recorded 18 albums with "House Music".

I am also half of a bluegrass/old style country blues duo called "Spooky Garcia" in which I play guitar, banjo, mandolin, dulcimer, and lap steel guitar. We are working on our first CD.

 

My dear father,(Born in 1900-1976),bought me my first Guitar at age 8.I've been playing nearly 38 years now.Blessed to be on over 20 CDs last year as a VERSATILE Los Angeles Guitarist.Childhood friends got me into at a early age Europian Jazz/Rock and progressive rock.(Also,listening to John Clarks's prog rock radio show on KNAC Long Beach Ca..)Which was the reason after graduating High school,I moved to London England to play.After meeting Mr.Peter Gabriel,(while playing in a local band in the town of Bath.);Mr.Gabriel indeed helped me out for real...Hooking me up with some wicked musicians & Robin Lumley(Brand X).Which is one of the reasons I got asked to join a Swiss progressive rock band.-------------------------------                                                                      Dale Hauskins (Los Angeles Guitarist of Switzerland's progressive rock band FLAME DREAM http://www.progressiveworld.net/flamedream2.html  http://www.rire-sous-cape.ch/counting-out-time/flame-dream/f lame-dream-index.htm  http://www.progressiveworld.net/flamedream.html  http://www.seaoftranquility.org/reviews.php?op=showcontent&a mp;a mp;a mp;a mp;id=898  http://www.myspace.com/dalehauskins  http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_CD. asp?cd_id=4053

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Snow Dog wrote: Played drums once, my band even had a proggish, Rushlike "epic"..wot I wrote........ok co wrote. It was about an evil wizard, a victimised populace and a trapped army in a valley.

Sounds sweet.

I just started playing Guitar about 6 months ago, but its coming along really slow. But I keep on practicing every day I can, and lately, I've noticed a differance in my level of talent. Its just too bad I will never get famous because im so ugly.

I have never been able to figure out why attractive people who decide they can sing can sell albums. Just look at Brittany Spears, Hilary Duff, Lindsay Lohan, or pretty much any female singer around today. They all look like playboy models who decided to pick up a mike and wail and moan into it.

One time I actually thought I was watching a soft core porno because of the lack of clothes and the panting and moaning into the microphone. When the topless guys came onto the scene and started pelvic thrusting at the singer, I realized it was actually a music video.