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Induced Vomiting: some friends in highschool agreed to be in a band. excited about this I wrote five/six albums worth of lyrics. I can't play instrument or sing. so I chose a punk band, as their furious playing would hide my wretched vox. well we never got around to playing. but I got to write such wonderful songs as: Steel Wool In My Eye. Whoremaster. Powerlust In Penacook. Heimlech Manuevers On The Cat. grand stuff.

Acid Cool Blues: as I matured I started writing lyrics for a proposed band.
I imagined a cross between Husker Du and Pink Floyd. several false starts
and no band. many guitarists claimed interest. songs include: Untethered, She Smiles, Red Brick, the Empty Field, J Drift 43...

Rhymes WIth Clown: my son's band. hired me as a lyricist and then promptly broke up. I played one song with the bassist. he was on guitar, I was on drums and vox. did Gutwurm Stomp. no audience. I have some music from them, some songs. but nothing else.

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First band "Metal Mozrt" I played drums, we ahd two guys playing gutar..we were 13..we wrote songs like Deathrider...O.D....and Downwards (our best song). the only band I was in that practiced every day...and we still sucked!

Later The Pigs...hard rock cover band...I played the drums, had one of same guatarists fromthe first band (who happened to be my best friend)
The singer tried really hard to sound like Eddie Veder, and James Hetfeild, but he just couldn't do it on key...even though he started the band, we kicked him out.
We now regrouped (age 16 now) witha keyboardist, bass player and a new singer renamed The Orpheus Club (after an old jazz club in Halifax in the 40's) and started playing gigs...what a great time!! Unfortunatly there was a vicous triangle starting. The guatarist writting the music wanted to be more metal...I (who was doing some of the music writting and all of the lyrics) wanted to be more Hard Rock...the singer wanted to be more Pop.-eventually the gutarist (my Best Friend) quit. I took over all of the song writting and hired a new guarist..the band wanted me to play the gutar and hire a new drummer..but being a pimply faced chronically depressed teeanager, I much perfered hiding behind my drumkit.
It got too hard writting all the songs, and trying to teach them to everyone else, and trying to book gigs, and keep peace in the band...so after a year with the new guatrist, I dissbanded the group.
Then I joined a punk band as the bass player...Powerhead..that lasted about six months, it was fun but the gigs were more about getting stoned and drunk, then playing anything.

I been still writting and re-writting new songs (it's been ten years since the last group) and one of these days, I'm going to my best freinds place (who now has his own studio) and am going to record an album!!!
I'm going to play all the intruments, and simply title it ...(you guesed it).."drew".
I'm working on a cool song that mentions the Wraiths of Andelain right now!

Currently, I'm in a band with my best friend Seth. It's about a year and a half old, I guess. Originally it was four people: me, Seth, Josh Rains, and Joseph Phillips, and they're still members, I guess, but only Seth and I are active. Between us, we've made about 5 albums, and I've got 5 solo albums.

We started out as a kind of joke; our name was "Big Wes and the Alan Kirbettes", which was a play on both the name of a student at our highschool (Wesley Barnes) and a janitor there (Alan Kirby). But Seth was kind of paranoid about a libel suit, so, to make a long story short, the band was renamed the Greased Out Cats. We're still going strong, but it's always been a hobby more than anything.

I'm honestly not sure what I'd describe our music as. There's lots of ambient, lots of keyboard work, techno loops, synth, nonsensical noisemaking, extremely loud noisemaking, music sped up, music slowed down, music played backwards, music layered over other music, you name it. Oh yeah; there's guitar too. If anyone's interested (and you have DSL or better), contact me on MSN at lordfoul_8@hotmail.com, and I'll send some of our stuff.

Then again, I'm not sure if we're technically a band. You see, 95% of our compositions are completely solo--that is, I'll record something at my house, and then I'll send it to Seth over the Internet, and he'll send me whatever he recorded at his place. Sometimes the only reason I have a solo album is because Seth didn't do anything! Structurally speaking, there might be five or four instruments going on one track, but they're all me--just recorded at a different time and synched in to form a whole.

Greased Out Cats albums: Fun With Suicide, Sliced Wrist Blues, Homemade Hitchhiking, Stereo Static, untitled

Solo albums by Foul: Fishing for Depression, Furcadia Blues, engineering the softer kitten, Conflagration, Join the Lizardmen

Way back in '76 I played in Lynx which was half cover (mostly Greatful Dead based), half original we had a few impressive gigs at and around Princeton University and Trenton. I was one of 3 vocalists and played harmonica and percussion we had two lead guitarists, a rhythm guitarist, bass, two drummers and a keyboard player (and sometimes a guest sax). We even had groupies, but with 8 guys it was hard to quit our day jobs--great fun however-massive drum/percussion solos. My main songs were, Whipping Post (Allman Bros), Train Kept a Rolling (Aerosmith), Room to Move (John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers) and Whammer Jammer (The J. Giels Band)--I would be an absolute puddle of water (Meat Loaf couldn't hold a candle to my sweat! ) at the end of the show and Jack Daniels was the only thing that kept my lips from ripping to pieces.

But only when they're green

I've been out of the music scene for a while now but as the market for competent-but-uninspired bass playing never gets any weaker I'm continually threatening a comeback.

My first band wasn't really a band per se, more of an 'experimental musical collective'. Basically this means that we didn't actually play any gigs, but we mucked around and recorded some music. We were called the Angry Cushion (after a nearby cushion with a curiously vexed appearance) and consisted of two friends, Pete and Matt, plus myself who were barely able to play our instruments at the time, and our mutual friend Dean who was a true guitar wizard. Pete and Matt would come up with lyrics, to which would then be put to the strangest sounds we could coax from the synth or drum machine plus our own rudimentary playing. Dean would then add whatever guitar was necessary to make the whole thing work. I look back on the Angry Cushion period with a fondness, partly because it doesn't sound all that bad but mostly because it's all that I recorded with Dean before he moved to Paris, started working as a session musician and sound engineer and dating a catwalk model. Git.

Later Pete, Matt and I formed a more conventional Indie 3-piece and played a mix of (bad) covers and original songs (including some rearranged Angry Cushion stuff) to bemused pubgoers across the East Midlands and North Wales. We were called Razorleaf after a Pokemon attack, and we truly had no shame.

Next I was brought in to a friend's metal band after he broke his arm jumping off a nightclub balcony on his skateboard. We did a fair bit of gigging around Nottingham and although I could fit the band's sound and style fairly easily I'm not really a metaller so I had difficulty writing new bass lines for them and I really didn't look the part. When Stuart was able to resume playing I gratefully handed back his trusty Precision.

Next I was approached by a 'female fronted' band who wanted me to replace their bassist, who had just disappeared off to Jordan on an archaelogical dig. I saw them play an acoustic set and was sufficiently impressed to sign up, without realising quite how serious this lot were, with the band containing a professional drummer and pianist plus a guitarist who was a pretty gifted amateur and a great songwriter. I was anything but up to scratch and soon got a warning from the band's producer/sound engineer, suggesting that I improve my technique and writing fast. I managed to make the grade and what followed was two years of hard practice, writing and gigging followed by the recording of a demo. The demo did pretty well locally (again Nottingham) and got some airplay on Uni FM (not as pathetic as it sounds) and led to a few gigs in London and some support slots, most notably with Haven at the Leadmill in Sheffield. On the back of this it was decided that we should record an album off our own back, then seek a support tour. Unfortunately during the recording we first had the singer quit, like me she wasn't as talented as the other members and was feeling the pressure, before an intra-band relationship (pure musical poison) finished us off with half of the tracks recorded without vocals.

That was three years ago and I haven't really recovered the motivation to play in that time. I played a few gigs with cover bands for a while afterwards, but I soon lost interest. I'm short on time now, but I have been thinking about finding a new band but I'll need to repair my gigging amp before I do anything, and I'm not really sure what's wrong with it.

What was the name of that last band? I doubt I'll know it, but it's possible...

Love the sig, by the way

CovenantJr wrote:What was the name of that last band? I doubt I'll know it, but it's possible...

Love the sig, by the way

We were called Serene, and the song was (the somewhat cheesily titled) Serenade. The sig's a Mark Twain quote, he was a funny guy.

some (i hope) great news!

a women we go to church with is a musician. she has recorded. i will packing some of my lyrics up for her to see if she wants to record them at home. she plays keys/violin and i think acoustic guitar. sweet! i'm praying for this. anyone who does, please also pray. i have waited for darn near twenty years for anyone to record my songs.

I've been in one band or another for the last 21 years. I started out playing in aTOMiC's band, but he doesn't really do anything anymore, so I focus more on other stuff like playing at my church and in my band of 9 years now, Simple Faith. We're considering doing a third cd soon, but then again, we've been considering it since finishing the 2nd one in 2000.

I hope this is proper, if not, sorry. but for my novel I am collecting a soundtrack. I am looking for anything really. klezmer, rock, blues, big band...etc.
if anyone would like to have a song on the st please pm me. thanks!

Stampeding Faces - 1982 to 1995. Totally an experimental garage band. there were only two of us: myself on drums, and occassional keyboards; my better half on guitars, keyboards and vocals. We both wrote the songs, recorded them on two linked 4 track recorders, and had a blast. About 2 hours of recoded 'songs' and about 10 hours of hilarious, and sometimes nasty (in a good, mean kind of way) improvisations. It was great. Miss those days.

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ah ha! danlo! thanks! so this is where the musicians are hiding!

i never made it out of my hometown musically however... several different groups of garage bands...bluegrass, pop, rock, solo, wrote with my mate for a while...

now i'm just trying to get my callouses back!

Lucimay wrote:ah ha! danlo! thanks! so this is where the musicians are hiding!

i never made it out of my hometown musically however... several different groups of garage bands...bluegrass, pop, rock, solo, wrote with my mate for a while...

now i'm just trying to get my callouses back!

Watch Jam 2006?


i have no idea how i did that!

with that bow it won't be long... (edit: )

wha...?