My Band :-(

Hey guys,

I just want to get some opinions of my band from my prog peers. These are just recordings that my friends and I did together. Although we were formally of undeveloped bands, we had never played together before this point. I'm hoping we'll get to show our more symphonic-y progressive in later songs.

I'm on lead guitar and Zappa-esque vocals on "Harold Takes a walk"....enjoy and please comment

Criticisms and Comments?

http://www.myspace.com/allthekingsmen99


Edited by Soulman - April 28 2006 at 14:00

thanks 

Thanks so much for the comment dude. I guess I'm not that bad of a guitar player after all ...

Maybe one day we'll be play together as headliners at some Prog Festival...that'd be so awsome.

uhh...umm..i listened to Paint It Black. Dude, who's singing and was he drugged that day? He sounds half dead! As for Harold Takes A Walk, i dig it. I like your guys playing, i'm just not sure about your singer.

you all have a long way to go but full credit to you for trying!

cowbell1 wrote: Is the drummer using splash cymbals all the time?

Well we were recording all of this live inside our drummer's basement through a PA and into a computer. Unfortunately, we didn't even consider putting alot of mics on the drum set, so the sound sort of suffered; especially since the unidirectional mic we were using on the drums wasn't really focused towards the crash cymbals he was using.

Zoso wrote: Paint it Black was...messy, but I've heard worse. The guitar solo was great, though I'm not sure if it fit the song too well. The vocals were...somewhat uninspiring.

Your comment is well noted, as I'm sure everyone here and everyone I know who has listened to that song, didn't like the vocals. Luckily for you guys, that was entirely a time one time thing and he will not be and never will be our vocalist.

We've already finished worked on two songs on which the keyboardist and I do vocal harmonizing and such on...so hopefully it will be an improvemnt.

As for the messiness of the presentation. Yes it would be for people who listen to prog rock. The song comes off a little punkish in how driving it is, but at that point we had only been jamming for awhile and didn't really attempt to do any complete songs. So at the last minute for an audition demo we made those songs, which luckily got us in (well its a youth band event).

mystic fred wrote: you all have a long way to go but full credit to you for trying!

Thanks for your comment! It looks like everyone else problem has stolen yours. But yes, I do hope these songs will be the beginning to an evolution of this band towards some greater...something more progressive.

I clicked on the link and it said the members page was removed ...

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man this band is so awesome!! i love it!! better than GG King Crimson and Yes combined!!

Listen to Paint it black.