How Many Musicians are On Board ?

I've played the guitar for some 5 odd years or so now. I own two American Stratocasters, and my lovely Gibson Les Paul Standard, a guitar which I'm very, very fond of.

My main instrument however, is drums, which I've been professionally taught since I was 8 years old.

I'm active in two local bands (One of which is getting quite a bit of gigs) called Bonfire For Crow, and Greystone Lighthouse.

I'm the drummer in Greystone Lighthouse. We're quite a large band, with me, three guitarists, a bassist, two saxophonists, a keyboardist and a skilled singer. Of course we play prog! It's wonderful to listen to the dual saxophone interplay that pops up in the odd jams. Unfortunately, I've got no recordings because we've yet to talk about that sort of stuff. We play a lot of gigs. Right now we're not very busy however...

I play the guitar in Bonfire For Crow, which is more an average jamband. We've played a couple of gigs, most notably one where we did a cover of All Along The Watchtower which lasted for 25+ minutes or so. By the end of it, we'd all gone barking mad


Edited by Axel Dyberg - October 21 2007 at 13:17

I play the guitar of course my main influences are Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Yes and Jimi Hendrix. I like progressive rock, yes I think it is the best rock music out there. It has created some of the most  influential albums ever like Sgt Pepper and The Wall.  I like progressive rock with good melodies which is something I want to accomplish. Only a few bands have mastered that concept. Just started playing out. Not using this forum to promote myself though. Im just interested in talking about the ones who started progressive rock like the Beatles, Pink Floyd and Zappa.

i've played French horn for 6 years and play in highschool honor bands/orchestras.   i started guitar last year (which is when i started getting into prog) and i've played the didgeridoo for two years.     i also mess around on trumpet and piano...

I've played the drums for 12 years and I am in a few bands

Ive been playing drums for over 25 years, now in band calle M.O.A.B. Im alsovery found of the production and mastering part of the music area.
Love to work with this, but cannot yet, paying to record, and playing livefor free.

www.myspace.com/moabsth

semi-professional. Friede and I earn our money with our restaurant, where we get on stage from time to time to play music to entertain the guests. I play keyboards and sing a few harmony vocals (soprano). I could handle a bass guitar too

I've been playing piano for 8 years, Saxophone for 6, drums for 1. I'm playnig drums in a prog metal band now, and another one thats trying to get on its feet, just needs a bassist and a keyboardist would be awesome. I'm thinking of picking up a stringed instrument for fun, and the sake of knowledge.

ive played the piano since the age of 7 and dabbled in the drums for about 4 years durrng middle school but got too busy with sports. i still play the piano and picked up the guitar this past summer. I wish i could play more! a string instrument would be fun, and enlightening, as wood a woodwind. id really like to learn the saxaphone, that sounds terribly exciting. 

I dabble from time to time on a cheap electric guitar and an old Yamaha keyboard, mostly for trying to get strange sounds out of them. But my true forte is composing music on a computer. I have released five albums, first on mp3.com, and now on my own label (cafepress.com makes the CDs). I treat it more as a hobby than a job, and so I don't actively advertise my stuff. It's mostly prog rock, maybe a little electronic pop in places.

It's called Superluminal Pachyderm and you can hear some of it here:
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=293277&content=music

So, I'm more of a composer than a musician.

Lets go back to the early 80s. I was first in a band when I was at school. We were called Distance and were heavily influenced by Floyd, Hawkwind and Rush but hampered by not having decent instruments (the drummer's kit was a Huntley & Palmers biscuit tin for a snare and a plastic bucket for a kick/tom) although I soon persuaded my mum to by me an electric guitar - a Westone Thunder 1A. The drummer and bass player went on to play for an anarcho punk band and toured the world. The other guitarist wanted to become a teacher of Religious Education (as an atheist he thought he was as well qualified as anyone else) but became a newspaper editor instead. He still plays guitar and often annoys me that he's so good at fingerstyle playing but is happy just to play at home.

My next band was a ramshackle psychedelic/garage/punk/noise act called Games for May. We played a gig in a friends house (stopped by the Police) and another at a local pub with a few friends. That went well so we practiced every Sunday and drank lots of tea and that was that really.

Next was The Schoolhouse. We were influenced by grunge and indie music. The best comment we got was "They'd be OK if they could tune their guitars" - I used a lot of sus 2 chords for some reason.

After that I played guitar in Rockets Revenge, drum machine powered indie popsters. The bass player was my girlfriend, so when we split up it was a bit tense in the band. Soon after that the band split too.

I started playing bass and joined a band called Bib. We invented Britpop but nobody knows it. The singer left to go to college so that fell apart.

The bass player from The Schoolhouse was now playing guitar in a band called Sawyer. When their bassist left, I joined. Sawyer mutated from a grungey noise-rock monster into something more controlled. A little later, the guitarist from Bib joined too. We recorded an album called On the Seven (released on Human Condition Records of Edinburgh) and played a few gigs. We rocked! Occasionally in 5/4! Then the driving force (he was the only one with either a car or a driving licence) left to work in London and now plays guitar for the heaviest band in the world, Part Chimp. Sawyer came to a shuddering halt.

Around this time I became more interested in home recording and recorded an album of progressive electronic/Krautrock music which I gave to friends one Christmas. I keep meaning to see about making it available to the world at large but...

Then my brother called me up. He'd put together a horrorpunk band who were due to play their first gig in a few days time but their guitarist had left. A couple of days of intensive practice and the gig went well. After a few changes of personnel and name we became a three piece called 13 Tombs. When the bass player decided he couldn't give the commitment needed, my brother and I decided to continue as a duo. We've played quite a few gigs now, including the Whitby Gothic Weekend, and have the obligatory MySpace site.

As well as all of the above, I've done a fair few "one offs", often at short notice. Hardcore punk, thrash, country, pop, Johnny Cash... Sometimes I've even been paid!