any musicians on this site?
 

i'd like to know who plays musis here. what instruments, what style(s), are you in a band, any composers......????

i'll start, i play keyboards in 60s and early 70s cover band. we are actually a working band, playing shows every weekend. its the first time in my life i've been able to make good money at music.

i've been playing piano for all of my life (since i was 7), and i've picked up guitar and drums as well. i also write songs.

anyone else?

I play a number of instruments enthusiastically, but not necessarily well. Many of them I haven't played since either high school or college.

Clarinet
Piano
Organ
Guitar (acoustic, classical and folk)
Melodic percussion (xylophone, marimba, vibraphone)
Tenor Sax
Bass Clarinet
Trumpet
Frame Drum
Japanese bamboo meditation flute
Native American Courting Flute

i like them all, but last two seem very cool. world sounds. into world beats?

Not particularly.

There are a number of people that should speak up soon.

Mrs RS is a classical pianist, teacher and accompanist.

I didn't take any lessons as a kid, but some beginner lessons later. It was with a group of Renaissance muscians that were performers, teachers and instrument makers. I took woodwind lessons. I have a tenor Cornamuse, a wind-cap instrument with a double reed inside.

http://www.musikhandwerk.de/pix/cornamusen.jpg

i want one. the big one.

I'll show you mine....

That reminds me, I forgot two ... Soprano recorder and tenor recorder.

naughty rock......i LOVE it......

I played viola for about eight years, but haven't really touched it since high school.

How's this for weird? When I was six, I asked my mother for piano lessons--and she said no.

i love strings. i played violin and cello when i was younger.

i can relate to the weird. i really loved my piano lessons, and practicing, and even doing my scales. what a dweeb i was.

i dabble

I am extremely proficient with the skin flute. ;)

I played Bb clarinet and bass clarinet for two years. I could probably feel my way through a trumpet and a tenor sax based on my clarinet playing. I can play a little guitar, but I could never form chords well.

Neato, Rock! When I was in college I played krumhorn in the early music group. (Also recorder and viola da gamba.) I also barely played enough keyboard to pass the proficiency requirement in music school, and some handbells.

But my "real" instrument is clarinet. At the moment I play in a local university orchestra that includes folks from the surrounding area as well.

Wow SD, that's some cool stuff.

Oh, I forgot to mention, I sing in the car. Does that count?

How could you remember it all? Instruments of mass destruction. You could multi-track yourself and play as The Wolf Band.

guitar.

i wish i was a professional musician.

I gots yer low end covered.

The clarinet is in bad need of repadding, and I have to work on my embrochure something fierce. I never owned the Sax, Trumpet, or Vibraphone, borrowed them all from the school. Everything else is in a closet, drawer, hanging on a wall, or just laying around on a spare bed here.

I have a bodrhan, but I don't pretend to know how to play it. RichLevy, however, can attest that I am able to give lessons on it despite this.

Some of my drums, a tambourine, and a guest appearance by my moose staff, and official broom.

http://scribe.fork.org/cellar/tigerdrum.JPG
http://scribe.fork.org/cellar/drums.JPG

Guitar, bass, hand percussion and synths. I can't play keyboards for shit, but I know synths.

Ha ha! In case you have not noticed, sm is who we all thought we wanted to be back in the day.

I play mandolin for my own amusement and the torture of others.

So, shall we do a Cellar album?

What, like a "everyone contribute a track" sort of thing?

sure. Or we find some tunes that eveyone likes, and each record our instrument, FTP the files to a central person who mixes, and then we sell it for literally billions of dollars cash money.

I play French horn (and flugel horn) and concertina. I like the idea of the album, but am not computer-technically proficient and am on dial-up ...

How come your offended when I say that about you? :jig:

When did I get offended at that? I'm proud of that ability! :)

UT may be the 4-string bass god around here, but I'm the one-string god.

Uh,...well,...er,.....skin flutes don't have strings.......except for the waiter that uses the spoon to put it back so he doesn't have to wash his hands. :eyebrow:

do we have the technology?

i'm sure you do, and prolly tony and maybe spode. i know i dont have any way of making my guitar digital. my dad threatened to give me his 4 track digital mixer that he doesn't use, but forgot to bring it up last time he came for a visit. i dont even know if that would work.

OK, this is outside my expertice. Wouldn't you layer the instruments? Otherwise, everyone's just playing to a metronome and it sounds canned.

Wouldn't it be more like this: UT lays down the bass track, passes the recording to ... do we have a drummer? .... then onto 50cent-shift for the keyboards... then to various leads guitars, french horn, whatever, then the vocals last. ???

If we do Cranberries, 10000 Maniacs or No Doubt, I can do the lead vocals in that range. Blondie is just too high for me.

I have an old version of Sonar on my computer and I can get my hands on Cubase. We could pretty much do it with anything if we do it in straight .wav files. Someone would have to be in charge of accumulating and mixing the tracks into a finished product.

Oh...and there couldn't be any music reading involved if I was going to have any part in it. :)

you can be, brother. just keep at it.

YESSSS !!

let's call ourselves the cellar doors. any better ideas?

The Cellar Rats

One key person here considers the doors a lounge act..

I play folk guitar and piano/keyboards poorly (but well enough to suit my meager purposes). I'm getting fairly good at playing jazz bass - my main hobby these days.

My current band briefly went by the name "Cellar Door", because of the quote from "Donnie Darko"...

I'm just a drummer, not sure if that counts

shells:

Pearl signature Steve Ferrone snare - a "Black Beauty" (black nickel over brass shell) but w/ gold-plated rims and chrome tube lugs w/ gold-plated mounts
Pacific kit: birch, 10" 12" 14" & 22" kick, satin-oil finish
old Tama power-toms kit: 12" 13" 16" & 22" kick
22" vintage Ludwig clear acrylic Vistalite kick
vintage Rogers steel snare 14"
Tama 13" maple snare
10" steel Gretsch auxiliary snare
6" 8" 10" mini-timbales
old no-name 16" tom

cymbals:

22" Paiste prototype (double-hammered and double-lathed w/ slight "flange")
22" Paiste Colorsound ride (red finish)
22" Zildjian Oriental China
18" Zildjian "china type" (Impulse series, the B8 bronze precursor to the Z series)
18" Zildjian "rock crash"
18" Zildjian medium thin crash
16" Zildjian medium thin crash
18" old, no-name, thin crash/ride
2 12" Wuhan chinas
2 12" Wuhan splashes
10" Zildjian K splash
6" Zildjian A-Custom splash
UFIP Icebell 6.5"
*every piece of busted bronze I ever owned
*hoping to get an 18" Sabian Rocktagon soon

hats:

(all Zildjian 13")
K bottom
Mastersound bottom (non-lathed, crimped edge)
A-Custom bottom
A-Custom top
old thin 13" Zildjian (splash?) used as top

hardware:

all Pearl stands (w/ universal tilter) for gigging kit
all DW 5000 series pedals for gigging kit
Pacific cheapie hardware for secondary kit
alot of spare, cheapie Pacific pedals
*every busted piece of hardware I ever owned
*a shitload of multi-clamps and other trickeries

miscellaneous:

12" Djembe & various other hand percussion pieces, cowbells, jamblocks, etc. (can be mounted to footpedal) plus my wife's keyboard, bass and bass amp

I can't think of anything else right now, I'm in the middle of moving into new house

now we have a detached garage, 750 square feet, I am going to put central air in, and sound-insulate

EDIT: Gibraltar throne, now demoted to secondary because I got a Roc N' Soc hydraulic throne!
EDIT: most of this stuff I got used, at pawn shops, etc. and acquired over many many years

Flint--- Just a drummer. Ha. Above, I tried to briefly list a forum band, but didn't have a drummer. Glad to hear that you have a det gargage to work with.

do drummers count? usually, only to "8"

oh wait, are we listing gear?

Hang on, lemme get another pen, this one's out of ink.

Guitar (Ibanez RG550, I think? ...It's the S/S/HB one.)

Bass (Shitty Silvertone started bass, Traben Array 4-string)

trying to learn keyboards too, got me one of those crappy ones with the light-up keys

Gear????

Mrs RS has a 1910 Steinway C Grand Piano. In Classical, this is as good as it gets. Thank goodness she's not a string player.

that was my reference earlier.

but i like cellar rats even better.

i am drooooooliing. that's a sweet ride.

I sing, ...and pretty darn well I must say.

Thats almost like being a musician..

Used to play the Oboe...and mess around with a lil Ibanez Day tripper soemtimes.

I play geetar. Got a couple, and about 4 amps. I do metal mostly, but like to try other stuff too.

What kinda metal noodle? Do you enjoy Queensryche and Dream Theater? I dont know if theyre considered metal...love those bands though...

Iron Maiden? [old] Metallica?

@all: On you respective instruments, who are your biggest influences?

...for me (drums) I'd say, off the top of my head, the obvious John Bonham, Stewart Copeland, and Neil Peart, plus Mitch Mitchell and Bill Bruford, and every drummer who ever played for Zappa or Steely Dan (including, but not limited to Terry Bozzio, Steve Gadd, Vinnie Collaiuta, etc. etc.) . . . then there are the fusion guys like Billy Cobham . . . and of course the ultimate jazz drumming genius of Elvin Jones . . . in "lists" I always feel like I am badly overlooking somebody . . .

all of the above. Dream Theater is amazing and I never miss a show if I can help it. Queensryche I like, but haven't listened to them since Empire. Maiden rules, of course -- I'm counting the days till the new album comes out. Metallica is kind of meh these days, but the old skool stuff was great.

Since my band got a vocalist, we've gotten heavier -- we do a Testament cover every now and then, one from a band called Grip, Inc. (side project of Dave Lombardo that's less demonic than Slayer), some Megadeth (I should've put them up top of my list -- they're the most bestest metal ever). We fool around with Wrathchild from the early Maiden days. We were toying around with a Ratt song, too, but I think we've crossed a line somewhere that precludes music by Ratt from making the setlist. Something about being physically assaulted by your audience.

I shouldn't have gotten started trying to list these. I just thought of about 5 more that we play in practice that never see the light of day. Oh well.

:band:



edit: as to influences, they're all up there too. I copy Eric Peterson when playing rhythm cuz he has the most disgusting right-hand technique ever when it comes to heavy playing. For lead stuff, I have tons of heroes, none of whom I can remotely approach in skill. So I just kind of do my thing.

@mrnoodle: On Megadeth's last album the drummer was Vinnie Collaiuta! He started as a Zappa drummer, almost got pigeon-holed as a chopsy show-off (of course, playing Zappa's insane charts) but broke out of that mold and became a hugely versatile drummer who went on to eventually do alot of groove-based work with Sting (and he also cut some Steely Dan tracks, so he was doubly on ^^^my list^^^) . . . anyways he rocked so hard with Megadeth it blew me away. Some very subtle but incredibly difficult figures on the double-bass. Who knew Collaiuta was a double-bass guy? That's the kind of dude he is, one of the best all-around drummers out there.

With the forum album, are you guys doiing originals and/or covers?

nah, it's going to be all vaugley celtic goth emo, all in G minor, all programmed with a DX7.

My influences range from Zappa to Rhoads to Vai to Johnny Ramone... But my biggest influence, I think, is Mick Ronson from the Spiders from Mars.

i got to see zappa with steve vai on leads. un-frikkin-real.

Passion and Warfare is one of my "desert island albums" . . .

One of the coolest credits ever was Vai playing "Stunt Guitar" for Zappa!

sweeeeeet... Iron Maiden was my first real concert (The wallflowers dont count...billy joel was great, but until you see a "real" band you havent been to a "real" concert)... Once I saw them in concert (I wasnt as into their music at first) I was totally hooked... Then after that I saw Dream Theater and Queesnryche and PErfect Circle... Best evenings EVER.. I wish I wasnt so broke or Id go to more shows...

I think I enjoy Dream Theater And Queensryche the most because the songs are in my vocal range. I love singing... but the stuff out today outside of broadway is all runs and know feeling and substance...I love singing along with these albums... My car cd sleeve looks very strange... it has Oliver (auditioned for the show last weeked) LEs Mis, Queensryche, Dream Theater, Maiden, Billy Joel, The Sound Track to Les Choristes, The Used... etc... a very wide range of genres... Im weird...

I couldnt really pck any group or person that influenced me.. I just love it all and sing in any style that I can manage.

I play bass in these two bands
www.myspace.com/handofonan
www.myspace.com/pineboxserenade

:notworthy

Pinebox Serenade is GREAT STUFF, man. Hand of Onan is cool, too, but I am really digging the dark bluegrassy stuff.

DAMMIT, I wanna go see Zappa Plays Zappa.

Real Illusions:Reflections totally pwnz Passion and Warfare though.

Good Stuff, Sir!