Who here is in a band?

And what kind of music do you play?Your own shit,covers,tribute,all 3?

 

When I was in high school, I was in a band called Jailbait Pinups... we started out doing our own stuff, but then realized that it was more fun to do 80's hair metal covers.... then we stared doing different themes with every show.... like tribal remixes of the classics... we did one show where we dressed up like storybook characters and sang nursery rhymes....


I broke it up, though, because I was the only one doing any actual work, and all the other girls were just kind of groupies with guitars that were doing it so they could stand at the end of the stage in their little skirts and show all the other band guys their cute panties. Fuck that!

It was good while it lasted, though.

 

I've been in all sorts of bands. At school, as well as the school bands and orchestras I once formed a rock'n'roll band to accompany an elvis tribute gig, which was fun. I've also played in bands for musicals such as 42nd Street, West Side Story, Sweet Charity and Man of La Mancha.

At University some of my coursemates and I set up a Jazz Band which was fun as I was able to try out new compositions on them as well as play all the favourite standards.

I've played in adult orchestras full of pros at home in Cambridge including a number of me old music teachers, which is a highly beneficial, if somewhat firghtening experience.

I also had one bizarre experience, having gone down to the south coast with a friend to play piano to accompany her on sax for a charity ball gig, she then got a phone call asking her to go and play sax for a gig that her friend's band was doing. Our gig finished about 9:30, we then legged it back up to Haslemere, Surrey, to do that. She was too tired to play, so I borrowed her alto and played it. I was too tired as well, and had a cold coming on and was feeling really crap, however the Rs had just won promotion from Division 2 so I was in a good mood. By the time that gig had finished and we'd made it back to Guildford it was 2:30 am. Not ordinarily a problem, however i'd arranged a recording session the next day to get my Bigband Composition down onto tape, so I was knackered, ill, and up early the next morning to do even more playing! And bizarrely, due to a few people copping out of turning up to playing in the recording I ended up on PIANO again. And really, I'm not a pianist. Really. It's the one instrumnent that I can play that I just don't practise at all. But I'm a jazz man so I can comp and busk it and get away with it most of the time.

 

I'm in a band. Were called Jilted Stranger. We have ten originals..influences would be Thin Lizzy, Led Zeppelin, Muse, Radiohead....I play guitar.

We do covers from Zeppelin, Lizzy, Rory Gallagher, Lenny Kravitz, Ocean Colour Scene and a few more I can't name off at the mo.

All in all I reckon were a talented bunch of lads and recently we've been getting alot of recognition and packed gigs so it's all good...watch out for us!

 

I'm am currently in three bands. In one I play bass guitar in a backup band for a female country vocalist named Nina Sharp. She recorded a CD in Nashville last year and we do alot off of that plus some covers.

I play lead guitar for a Southern Rock tribute type band called The Road Dawgs. You know where there's just a lot of people on stage. Just trying to make it look as ridiculously big as possible along with some ridiculously long guitar solos. We play mainly covers but we've recorded as well and have a few songs from that cd we play.

Then the one I really enjoy is just me, a good friend of mine, and a drummer. We just go by The Sam(me) and Cam(my friend) Show. We've been working on some originals but have yet to finish any. We play a lot of jam stuff. Grateful Dead, Hendrix, Tom Petty, Phish, Allman Bros., and the list goes on and on if we like it and think it's a good song we'll try it. Cam and I switch back and forth between electric guitar, acoustic guitar, and bass. We both sing. Oh and I also do a lot of backup vocals in the other two groups.

 

I'm currently a one man band.

 

I'm a one man band... kinda. I compose all the music on my pewter, and do all kinds of drum and bass stuff really, though lots of people like the few hip hop things I've done. Lately I've been doing jazzy dnb, then letting my friend record sax on top of it. I also use alot of my female friends to come in and sing their hearts out... something bout that female voice... luvly.

The other thing I'm working on is a little different... I've been writing some stuff on guitar, working on vocals with one extremely talented girl I know and doing something like Nine Inch Nails, but totally different vibe; just a blend of organic and electronic composition.

 

Me and two friends jam alot, I play bass and them on guitar. We really play everything... litterally anything and everything, it's great. We'll jam starting out with a disco song, and it'll turn to polka to circus music to stax instrumentals type stuff to funk to jazz. I really love jamming with them. Lately, we've had my friend mike play some stuff on ableton live, and we'll all jam. Me and him are gonna get together soon and make some wild stuff, just me and him. If anything good comes up, I'll post it. We're really looking for other musicians, like sax players, trumpeters, trombonist, percussionists and a clarinet player. It's really hard to find someone who's interested, because we just like to play. There are'nt alot of hip people who play the kind of instruments we're looking for.


Ful--You should post some of your stuff, that sounds really cool.

 

I am in a band called Truck. I play drums, they are in my sig. We are electric psychedelia. Hopefully Ill have an mp3 to post soon and a website you can go too.

 

I'm currently in a starting Spanish Rock covers band. We are still young, so we did not truly have much time to write our own stuff, we must first perfect ourselves in the covers we play.

I play electric and at times keyboard for it...

 

I've been in a lot of bands in my life, the most fun actually being an old school punk band.

I'm now in a progressive rock / Symphonic Rock band called Chains Embrace. It's a lot like Symphony X, Dream Theater, Rush, stuff like that.

I'm also in a classic rock band called The Riders on the Storm which is pretty much just a cover band of a lot of classic rock from Hendrix to Cream to obviously the Doors. I have since been informed that a band in Tampa Bay and a band in Oregon both have the same name, but none have put copyright on the name, or anything. If they get really famous and they want it, they can have it. I strongly doubt this particular endeavor of mine will be going strong at that point anyway. It's just one of those get high and jam type bands. Chain's Embrace is a bit more serious to me.

 

I can't find any singers to hook up with. All the girls think they have to sing in this pretty, Kelly Clarkson voice, all the guys scream like death-metal. My best friend (who is not bad on guitar) and I are planning to start a band, we're gonna take over the world.

 

I play guitar and sing harmony in a cover band playing mostly current driving stuff with a few classic rock things thrown in for good measure.

But I may have to give it up as I understand that lover/young_peace will be taking over the world soon. ~7

 

Duck, that is an amazing set. I would kill to have a drummer like you around here(assuming you play as good as I think you do).

Lover, I agree. It's like good singers just don't exist. I've given up--all instrumental.

 

im kind of in a band with my friends cept the fuckin drummer and bassist are dating so they never do anything. the singer is somewhat of a beatnik so it ends up him doing peotry over my acoustic guitar

 

i am starting a band...we nees a bass player but anyway

i play drums
we are called The Electric Hickeys

 

I'm not in a band yet, but I'm hoping to be in two when I go back to college in september. My friend Chris wants to start a folk/rock band, writting all their own stuff and he wants me to play with them.

Also, me and my friend Tom want to start a rock band that we're planning on calling Lucifer Sam (hopefully Pink Floyd will not decide to sue us).

 

Will do once I get the new studio finished... trying to get my hands on a 16 track mixer and finish soundproofing the vocal room; then it's remastering time!

 

ive never commited myself to a band, but ive done many projects and preformances.. im mainly a guitarist but i can be lead vocals if asked

 

Play guitar in a band called Lift, we're doing ok - got an EP out at the moment and it seems to be selling ok!! Check out our site for sounds http://www.liftarehere.co.uk

Also play for a lot of musicals, usually bass - i've lost track of the ones i've done, but i do know the last one was Kiss Me Kate, and i've got Honk next month and Moby Dick The Musical the month after that.. add that in with gigs with the band and it music overload - i love it!