Does anyone play in a band?

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   i've played in a prog rock/metal band for several years(butterfly pie), first on vocals, later on on the synths.
currently i'm playing synthesizer in a kind of NU-meatl band...just started off, we are developing ;)

i'm curious, are there more musicians among us?

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EVO Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Groupie Joined: February 01 2004 Location: Netherlands Status: Offline Points: 44	Topic: Does anyone play in a band? Posted: February 01 2004 at 16:42
	i've played in a prog rock/metal band for several years(butterfly pie), first on vocals, later on on the synths. currently i'm playing synthesizer in a kind of NU-meatl band...just started off, we are developing ;) i'm curious, are there more musicians among us?
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maani Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Founding Moderator Joined: January 30 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2632	Posted: February 01 2004 at 16:54
	I used to front a Genesis/Yes cover band called "Frost." Way back in the late 70s, early 80s. It was the most fun I've ever had as a performer. We did lots of Genesis (from Can Utility to Squonk to Down and Out), and Yes (including all of Close to the Edge). Also some Gabriel (D.I.Y., On The Air), Crimson (Larks Tongues), U.K. (Nothing to Lose), Asia (Heat of the Moment). I currently front (don't laugh, please) an Elton John tribute band that is very hot in the NYC market. Called "Rocket Men," we do a one-hour tribute of EJ's greatest, plus some obscure ones. I sometimes do the shows in the kind of full regalia he was known for in the 70s- wild outfits, top hat, crazy glasses, glitzy rings, feather boas, high-heeled platform shoes, etc. It's great fun. (I hope this won't get me kicked off a prog site!! ) Anyway, I've been a performing musician since my single digits, and have always done something musical. Peace.

Peter Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: January 31 2004 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 9669	Posted: February 01 2004 at 22:22
	I can play a CD player.... Waahhh!
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dude Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: January 30 2004 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 1338	Posted: February 02 2004 at 07:33
	Hey Guys: i play harmonica and piano but have never played in a band!!(to scared!!!)

Jim Garten Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Retired Admin & Razor Guru Joined: February 02 2004 Location: South England Status: Offline Points: 14693	Posted: February 02 2004 at 10:54
	I'm learning to play Hammond......... (give it a few years & look out for a band called Uriah Creep)

Alexander Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: February 02 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 237	Posted: February 02 2004 at 20:17
	I don't play in a band, but I have been playing the Drums for about three years.
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Dan Bobrowski Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 02 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 5243	Posted: February 02 2004 at 23:10
	I'm play some guitar, but I've only been a singer in a rock and roll band.

Jim Garten Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Retired Admin & Razor Guru Joined: February 02 2004 Location: South England Status: Offline Points: 14693	Posted: February 03 2004 at 03:24
	But can Allan Holdsworth take the Gom Jabbar.......?? I think not; now, John McLaughlin on the other hand...

Dan Bobrowski Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 02 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 5243	Posted: February 03 2004 at 21:42
	I'd love to hear John McLaughlin and Holdsworth trade 24 bars.......... I'm not so sure JM is better than AH...could be a draw. Aren't there quite a few threads out there debating this very topic? Long live Allan Holdsworth and John Mclaughlin!!!

Peter Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: January 31 2004 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 9669	Posted: February 03 2004 at 23:03
	Maani, I for one think it's very cool that you front an E.J. tribute band. I wish I had the guts (or the talent) to try something like that -- good on you! Perhaps a song like "Rocket Man" (ever heard the beautiful Kate Bush version?) could qualify as "Progressive Pop," as could maybe the entire "Madman Across the Water" LP. (Love those anachronisms....) Wishing you continued success, Peter
	"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy.

Peter Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: January 31 2004 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 9669	Posted: February 03 2004 at 23:41
	You're both right of course, Danbo and Jim. Holdsworth and Mclaughlin are both awesome! I know Holdsworth best from his work with UK, Bruford, and Jean Luc Ponty's '77 fusion masterpiece, "Enigmatic Ocean." A true axesmith. What are Holdsworth's newer solo works like, Danbo? Jazz fusion or what? JIM, liked your "Uriah Creep" joke. Good one! Here are two questions for you (but I'll answer the first one myself): Q1: What's longhaired, brown, and sits steaming on a Hammond stool? A: Uriah's Heap! Q2: Who was (the "real") Uriah Heep?
	"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy.

dude Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: January 30 2004 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 1338	Posted: February 04 2004 at 07:51
	didnt he appear in one of Dckins novels i am thinking David Copperfield but am not sure i liked a Tale of Two Cities "tis a far far better rest i go to" etc(sidney Carlton in one of the great speeches in literature) but am no expert, am i right?

Peter Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: January 31 2004 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 9669	Posted: February 04 2004 at 08:46
	Right again, Dude. Heep was a loathsome, tall, thin, red-haired villain ("like a malevolent baboon") in Dickens' masterpiece David Copperfield. He is often likened to an eel or fish: "He writhed and undulated about.... and gave himself a jerk, like a convulsive fish," ".....he was squeezing my hand with his damp fishy fingers." Heep usually describes himself as being only "very 'umble" -- hence the name of the first Uriah Heep album, "VERY 'EAVY, VERY 'UMBLE." A quite memorable character, and a pretty good 70s "prog metal" band. Love their song "The Wizard." Very Tolkien-esque! Yes, A Tale of Two Cities is a great novel. I also highly recommend David Copperfield (if 950-page Victorian novels don't put you off) and (the much shorter) Oliver Twist and Great Expectations. Great reading with some choice instrumental music in the background. The BBC productions of Dickens' works (and Victorian novels in general) are also top-notch. PS: Do you live in my past, or my future, down there in Oz?
	"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy.

JonTaylor Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: February 04 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 11	Posted: February 04 2004 at 09:42
	I play guitar and sing to my baby daughter (my biggest fan!), but I do not play in a band. I do drive/roadie for a band though, Strangefish, a prog rock band from Manchester in the UK.

PROGMAN Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member VIP Member Joined: February 03 2004 Location: Wales Status: Offline Points: 2664	Posted: February 04 2004 at 10:08
	I CANT PLAY A GUITAR AT ALL ALRIGHT. BUT THE BEAUTY PART IS I CAN ACTUALLY PLAY THE MAIN CHORD OF PINK FLOYD'S INTERSTELLER OVERDRIVE ON AN ACOUSTIC GUITAR PLUS A CRAPPY ATTEMPT TO PLAY IN A GADDA DA VIDA BY IRON BUTTERFLY. PLUS MY MATE WHO ALSO DOENT PLAY THE GUITAR BUT HE DOES WANT LESSONS TO CLAIMS TO DO THE MAIN NOTE OF JIMI HENDRIX'S HIGHWAY CHILE (HONEST!!!)

JonTaylor Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: February 04 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 11	Posted: February 04 2004 at 10:20
	The best song by far to play on acoustic guitar has got to be Wish you were here, the chords are G, C, D & Am, learn these chords and listen to the song!

Dan Bobrowski Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 02 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 5243	Posted: February 04 2004 at 11:17
	Allan Holdsworth's newer stuff is in the Jazz vein, however, he is his own genre. Check out "All Night Wrong" incredible soloing LIVE. He's also involved in some newer prog bands, Atlantis and K-2

maani Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Founding Moderator Joined: January 30 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2632	Posted: February 04 2004 at 23:29
	Jim: kudos on your "gom jabbar" reference! Peter: If any of EJ's material is "prog," it would have to be some of the later stuff, especially some of the stuff on GYBR (esp. Funeral for a Friend) and Capt. Fantastic. Still, the early albums had lots of non-standard instruments (to say nothing of keyboards and strings), and songs like "Madman" and "Mission" do have some "progressive sensibilities." Good call. Peace.

Jim Garten Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Retired Admin & Razor Guru Joined: February 02 2004 Location: South England Status: Offline Points: 14693	Posted: February 05 2004 at 03:19
	Mr Rideout - Uriah's Heap?!? puleeeze ; in answer to your later question, I think Australians live in our days of future past. Dude - naughty man - the Uriah Heep question was aimed at ME ME ME; I wanted to look cool & literary by knowing who Uriah Heep is, No FAIR (sounds of toys being thrown from prams etc etc) - I'm now going to sulk & listen to my Mahavishnu Orchestra albums

Gonghobbit Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: February 03 2004 Status: Offline Points: 232	Posted: February 05 2004 at 11:14
	"Jean Luc Ponty's '77 fusion masterpiece, "Enigmatic Ocean." I have that one, got in on disc because it's just so damn tasy, lots of great interplay between Holdsworth and Stuermer (sp?). I have on cd now recordings me and the guys did as 'Agatha Soup' twenty years ago; I played bass guitar for quite a while, never professionally though (bit of stagefright, always played better by myself). My friend, the improvisational lead vocalist, transferred them recordings from cassette to disc, which did take quite a while. Among the largely improvisational ramblings there are covers of Mr. Roger's Neighborhood and Mary Had a Little Lamb, and poor little Mary takes quite a bit of abuse in the lyrics.
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