who here is a musician?

When i work with others, we experiment and try to cook up some good ideas. When i'm alone, I generally hear something in my head and try to bring it 'to the surface'. Sometimes I take a very mathematical approach by repeating intervals like fourths and fifths. Try repeating a 'whole-plus-half' interval. It makes for the evilest scale there is. Try it!

Interesting story perhaps.  In 1978 my Mom gave a Kansas ticket to one of my brother's friends.  It was my first concert.  He repaid her by giving her one of his beat up old acoustics.  No one else in the house really played guitar, though my brother was an aspiring drummer.  I started to pick it up and try to play along with stuff I was listening to. 

I used to play. High school Concert & jazz band EE flat tuba and bass trombone. Played drums outside of school in a few bands on and off including a Black Sabbath cover band ( Ozzy stuff ). Went to jam sessions and sat in wherever with whomever. Actually got paid to fill in for a week of gigs with a Sryra Gyra type fusion band one summer and drank it all away but it was a blast. I`m a lousy guitar player and do a lot of twiddling. Never had the patience to sit down and do anything intelligent, same with the piano. Had the chance to jam with Jeff Healey once (On drums), before he was known. I`ll pick up any musical instrument and fool around and experiment. The most interesting was a pipe organ in a church in Holland on our band trip to the Tulip Time International Music Festival In Katwig aan Zee in`78. It had rows and rows of keys and we were each allowed to try it out. Freaky.

Funny that I`ve never really met any musicians who played prog except for one guy who was a Carl Palmer fanatic. He was pretty good but all the guy wanted to do is become another Carl Palmer. Most serious musicians are more interested in more pure forms of jazz or classical I`ve found.