What do ya call someone who hangs around with musicians ? A Drummer !!!!!

Just kidding

Love the bit about the standing ovation !

I"m crap at choosing songs for the set-list. Everyone loves the ones i DID"NT choose! I guess i like obscure stuff.

*snickers* cute.

Just kidding, honest. We"re lost without our drummer, mind you, with his timing, we"re lost WITH him as well !!!!!

I almost fell out of my chair!!

Drummer. Thats him there, the one in the middle, with the drum kit.

I"m convinced HE is EVIL !
We start out playing Ubangi Stomp (rockabilly), & finish up playing a reggae version , on the off-beat !

Just aving a laff. The EVIL ONE is a top guy.

But HE"s still a DRUMMER!!!!!!!

heres a few phtos of a gig i did recently.

some more

i play the flute and piano
ooooo i love my piano, it's this weird chestnut brown 18th cnetuary Apollo. oooo love love love!!!!

More.

Looks like a real decent stage.
What venue ?
Did you ROCK ?

Did i rock, did i rock, Of course i rocked, lol.lol.
yeah it was a good gig, very well recieved, made quite a few of the papers, radio etc.
Thanks for asking.

I am jealous... used to be able to rock on stage when I was young... now I just can play in the "grandfather's" program....

Why do drummers leave their sticks on the dashboard?

So they can park in handicapped spaces!!

Drummers don't just grow on tree's.....................they swing in them too

How do you know a drummer is at your door?

The knock speeds up

ROFL, also kidding big time, my very best friend still from school is an awesome drummer. I love the opportunity to jam with him. I worked with a chick drummer for many years, that was fun too. She is crazy.
Already posted my info in the other thread, didn't realise two were on the go, in short, Big Les Paul /Marshall combo fan. Love the blues.

Musician jokes are usually pretty funny...I'm pretty well versed in viola jokes myself...but all the drummer jokes thusfar just suck.

At any rate, I'm not in a band persay but I'm a classical violinist/violist for 8+ years now and have been in various orchestras, string ensembles, quartets, and etc. Not as cool as bands but all the same I have a lot of fun with it. I'm starting to get interested in messing around with electric violin as well, you can do some pretty neat stuff and they look pretty cool.

Actually now that I'm talking about it I want it even more.

I've also fooled around with mandolin a bit but I suck at it.

Anyway, not that it means anything to anyone here probably, but I play on a German 1997 Hofner violin (which wasn't terribly expensive for a violin but to me sounds better than some others worth several times what I paid) with Austrian and American carbon fiber bows, and a kind of crappy Korean viola, with some dirt cheap viola bow or the American carbon fiber violin bow which is over 60 grams and so it's heavy enough for viola. I don't even remember the brand of my mandolin but it was $150 and you can tell that by how bad it sounds.

I don't play any instruments but I've became really interested in guitars lately. I wish I had the money to buy one so I could start playing.

Get a cheap second-hand one "Black_Spade". Ya dont need a flashy expensive guitar to learn on, just something that plays ok & feels good to ya.
I play an electric guitar, but i bought an acoustic from Cash-Converters for £50 & its ace.

Got any better ones. Some of those viola jokes would do.

Hey dude, i nicked some of those jokes out of a book by the one & only Dave Grohl !

This just entered my head:
It"s a shame we live continents apart, cuz we"d have one hell of a band !

^Yea, we should jam sometimes.

Nah, Les Paul half acoustic forever!

Some bargains to be had there, a mate of mine picked up a dual chanell Marcshall head brand spankers yesterday for 400 neat Did well.

I have this wierd Gibson body Fender neck F hole thin (about 40mm) semi acoustic with a tinny sound. Great for Chillie Peppers stuff. A good find, only $50.00 and I have never seen another. Nice looking guitar with a varnish timber finish. Picked it up several years ago.
Anybody think they have seen something like this? I have no idea what it is.

Can ya put a picture on ?

Do you play at home or gigs ? I can"t play any wind instrument, so, respect to you.
Would like to see a pic of your piano. I can"t play one, but i love to see beautiful wood.

I've been playing guitar since age 10, been writing songs and singing in bands since age 14, Most popular was "Hard Attack" in the Detriot Michigan area back in the 90's. I still sing, I'm trying to put together a band here in Kentucky, just lacking a lead guitar player.

Man , I am so jealous that you live in Kentucky!
Cant believe ya cant find a lead player there .
We"re struggling to find a good upright slap-bass player, i"ll bet there are thousands of them in Kentucky ?

Anyway, good luck with ya new band. ROCK N ROLL !

Having some trouble with attachements lately, need to get a new ISP. That's a great idea. Will try and get something online ASAP, hrrmzzz, might be able to popover a m8's later....

We need more info on the gear you all use.
What amps ? Which guitars ? Why ?
More pics of you or your band.
If you use an SM48, does it make a BIG difference to your vocal ?
Could you use any mic & still sound ok ?
What PA system do you use ? Why ? Which PA system has let you down ?
Come on people, more info , more stories etc..................................................................

Heres one of mine.
We had a hell of a time at what should of been a simple outdoor gig. Our drummer set up his kit in
a kinda shed/little summerhouse. I set up outside the shed thing, & the bass player did too, on the
other side.
As it turned out , we couldnt hear each other!
I could hear little bits of the drums but NO bass. Steve on bass could hear bits of drums,but NO guitar & vocal.
Tony (drummer) , couldnt hear bass, guitar, or vocal ! He just winged it, & it worked!
It felt horiffic at the time.But the people there liked it ! Just Lucky i guess.
In fact, you can see for yourself. www.myspace.com/deckrocket88 .You can see us look at
each other , & wonder WHATS GOIN ON !

Here ya go...

http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum...p;#entry1873300

Nice one "tnr".
Didnt something like that happen to Black Sabbath once?
They were playing a massive gig with no (or not loud enough ) monitors.
They all ended up playing out of time cuz of the time delay.

I'm a self-teaching Electric Guitar Novice. I have a horrible 4-watt practice amp that can only do distortion (but it fits in my pocket! ) and my practicing has been kinda limited lately because I broke that pesky little string THREE TIMES.
Here's a funny story behind that:
I broke it the first time while tuning it. I tried putting in the replacement that came with my guitar, following an internet guide, but broke it before I even got it around the machine head. I bought another replacement, tried putting it on while following a different internet guide. This one broke when it was *almost* completely on the machine head. Wtf could I be doing wrong? I think I may need to take it to a shop or something just to get a string replaced. I'm so pathetic.

I'm aspiring towards a semi-gothic punk/metal style of playing, although I do NOT draw any inspiration whatsoever from bands like MCR and Panic! At the Disco. ._.'

I heard about that once, but I forgot

Hi "Boon".
Get a cheap electronic tuner. Job Done.

Edit: I"ll try to put some pics on, about how to re-string a guitar.
Bare with me, because my business is busy at the moment, but i"ll do it ASAP.

I previously just tuned by ear, but an electronic tuner would certainly make things much easier and faster. I'll be getting one eventually.

Yeah, i"ve done this myself.
If ya start on the low E-string, & get it a bit to high, by the time youre on the High-E string, well,
it snaps ! What a f***xn b****!
It aint just you. We"ve all been through it.
Its a big learning curve, then, so far along the path, you"ll think, "I can do this".
Keep on trying, you WILL do it !
I"m thick as pig sh**, but i can play.

AGH! All these horror stories! Haha. Me? I've been playing guitar for a few years now...been in a prog. rock band since '05 doing lead vocals and 2nd guitar. If you're in Phoenix sometime in the next month, we're The Maria Paradox- check us out!

No chance i"ll be in Phoenix in the next decade ! Ain"t travellin", just payin the mortgage.
You used your band name as your forum name, just like me . I feel a kindred spirit.lol.
Cool name mate.

Does anyone live near Stoke-on-Trent, England, (close enough for regular practice), & play
Rockabilly Double Bass ?
I know its a long shot, but it looks like we"re losing another bass player.

would you consider moving to Greece? I play whatever bass on whatever stringed bass instrument (including contra-bass) by sheet. But don't have much time... gotta earn my keep.

Sorry, "questionmark", but a move to Greece is not an option at the moment.
It"s just a little too far for regular practice!
You also mention,"contra bass", & "sheet". If you can do that , then you"d probably be bored by what we play.

I"m intelligent enough to know that ,"contra-bass", is upright bass.Are you from a ,"classical" background ?

Thanks for your reply.

Here ya go, hope this helps ?
http://guitarsecrets.com/Tuning.htm

Thanks, but I already know how to tune a guitar.
I just seemed to have a nasty habit of breaking a certain string while tuning it. I finally replaced my missing string (though I did it a little wrong, it at least sounds right...) and tuned it with the help of an old Keyboard I have in the corner of my room. lol

Sorry "Boon", didnt mean to insult your intelligence.
Glad things are going well for ya.

Nah, just old fashioned boarding school. Playing an instrument and being capable of eating with tools was part of the "good tone"

But the bass playing is self taught just as my guitar playing, my instruments were the piano and the church organ.

Don"t understand the, "eating with tools", bit ?

I"ve got images in my mind of you splatting a quiche with a hammer, then eating it off a screwdriver.

Hey dudes, i"ve gone & bought a double-bass. Bad news is, its got a snapped neck & the tailpiece is missing !
I know i can get a tailpiece for approx £13 & i"m sure i can fix the neck (did joinery at night school).
I"ts in the post at the moment, but, if anyones interested, i"ll put some pics on of its condition on arrival
& pics of the repairs as i do them.
I paid £100 "buy-it-now" on ebay, so this could be interesting !

easting tools, you know: a assortment of spoons, different types of knifes and forks....

Careful when joining the neck, you could get some funny acoustic effects if you don't get it right.

Good for you for fixxing it up!