Ah! the coolest teenage cliche, it is that of being in a band!
I remember i was in 4 bands! to which i was kicked it out for various reasons.

First Band!

80's goth rock/slayer inspired band "only theatre of pain"..tho! we did practice, and we wrote like one song, and mostly did covers..the band broke up when they asked me to play bass, i coudnt play at all...i was kicked out

secondly, a black metal band called "rain", it disbanded when i realized it was a stupid idea and got kicked out.

with my sister we formed the satire of death band called "japanese business men" we wrote about 3 songs, one was called "cookie monster storm"..this band only lasted a day.

at one point, being influenced by kraftwerk and late 70's bowie, wanted to form a electro-isolationist band called "crimson mirror" to which i never actually bought actual like synths..so i was kicked out of my imaginary band..

Lastly, the serious band i do actually want to form is something of a juxtaposition of classical music/japanese traditional music and rock n roll..i just need musicians to tone up on my bass playing.


but what about you?

I make music solo as well as in a duo with a buddy of mine. We do the downtempo electronic ambient thing. laptops and keyboards the occasional vox and harmonica


http://www.ambi-sonic.com...ePage.html

I used to be an orchestra nerd.

But now I'm in a band!

heartbeatocean said:

would care to talk about it?

heartbeatocean said:

i loooved being an orchestra/school band nerd as a kid.

evenstar said:

ME TOO! I think it was the only thing that kept me from going postal

I played clarinet and then was the high school marching band drum major!

Yes. Guitar, keys.

applekisses said:

i played flute for seven years.

myspace.com/stereodistas

benyamin said:

Go post in my kisses thread...

hokie1 said:

fuck that

I used to be in my school's band. I played the clarinet

I joined a band of 3 guitar players who just wrote songs at home. I came with my keyboard and drum machine and we started writing more songs and just of rehearse them at the basement.
We had quite a few songs, some we recorded. It was pretty fun.

Oh, and our name was Fish Fish Garden.
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im the lead guitarist in my band

ArielB said:

that's an intriguing name ... I can almost imagine the cover of the first self-titled album

My first band was a blues-jam type band called "Smokestack Lightning." Just fucking around in garages and shit.

A 2 dudes left that band so were down to a 3-piece and called ourselves "Scrapyard."

After that I joined this band called "Spoonful" which was a strict blues band. It was one dude, who was forty, his brother who was in his late 30's, and my drummer friend was a year or two older than me. I was in there for about a year, but the age gap got to be a real problem to me, so I quit.....

Been looking for a band since then.....

Volitan said:

do you like classical music?

i was in a band for about a year when i was in college. we were a six-piece and we did a jumble of stuff, based on what songs we wrote or who wanted to sing lead or be in charge of each song. we did some rockabilly, some alterna-jangle, some industrial, some glam rock...it was fun and schizophrenic and we did pretty well with it. i quit after about a year and tried to start another band and we lasted about six months and only did one show, but it was one GOOD show so at least it wasn't a waste of time, i guess.

baroque said:

Some, but it ain't my absolute favorite. I listen to Wagner and Mozart every once and a while

Volitan said:

do you know about polyphonics..and do you think that rock and classical music can mix.

baroque said:

No I do not know what polyphonics are. I was schooled on blues and rock and roll. I think classical CAN be mixed with rock. But only when done right. Deep Purple for example is a band that uses a couple classical devices. The solo section of "Highway Star" has a Bach progression behind it....it can be done, but only in small doses and stuff

I was in a band with two of my friends in the 4th grade. We called ourselves the Rad Girls. Yeah, it was the late 80's. I had a Casio keyboard. All of us fought over who should be the lead singer. We would put our change in a jar to save up for instruments but we would usually end up spending the money on candy. The band was Debbie Gibson & the Bangles inspired. I was the song writer. The Rad Girls eventually disbanded because of the other member's noncommitment. Those bitches!

In high school, my friends & I started a mock band called Psychedelic Barbies on Crack. I played the tambourine and was also the interpretive dancer of the group. That band was a weed & LSD inspired band.

baroque said:

I am strictly classically trained, so it was all orchestras or chamber groups for me. Then I joined the Punk Rock Orchestra a few years ago www.punkrockorchestra.com We played classic punk rock songs and some classical pieces punkified. The PRO disbanded but a few of us have resurrected a sex-y-tet using the same material. Now we're violin, cello, oboe, bassoon, drums, and two vocals.

I was in a band called LoveSlinky.

I think they (we) have a myspace page, but I haven't looked it up in a while. www.myspace.com/loveslinky ?


yep the link works edit.
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I was in school bands and choirs throughout my childhood. Gospel groups throughout college.

One such group was playing at a banquet in DC. In walks former Mayor Marion Barry, while I'm playing a jazz guitar version of "I Want Jesus to Walk with Me." Talk about surreal gigs...

I was briefly in a band of some friends from my college. They get critical reviews and have been "on the verge" for a while.

A gospel group I was in for a couple of years cut a CD. I'll never forget hearing a song of ours on the radio. It was one with one of my guitar solos...

Good times.

I was lead singer in Mr. White and The Physics Olympics. No longer existing.

i played the flute in my highschool's band

I played in the high school orchestra for about two weeks.
I got kicked out when I was caught playing with another band member's triangle
while at the same time, she got caught playing with my ding-a-ling.

Illustrator said:

i am now, yes.

lead singer, harmonies, and mandolin in a country-rock quartet.