Musicians?

[Xile]

Hey guys,
back in France, back to my other love than bikes: music!
Now feel like meeting some people (musicians is better lol) around Leigh/Warkworth(/Wellsford) for some gigs time to time...i'm just a bathroom singer but its just to have fun!
Pm if you interested ;)
Cheers!!

[R6_kid]

if I ever get around to learning the guitar i'd be keen! When are you back anyway?

[NighthawkNZ]

i'm just a bathroom singer but its just to have fun!


im a toliet singer... total shyte :lol: actually I don't sing but do write music... well others callit that I call it noise but thats another story.

[HDTboy]

i'm just a bathroom singer but its just to have fun!

I'll make ya sing, in the bathroom :blip:

[jrandom]

I play piano, so if there's one hanging about needing to be plonked upon, gimme a yell.

I don't own one at the moment. Nowhere to put it.

:(

[HDTboy]

I don't own one at the moment. Nowhere to put it.

:(

I can think of somewhere

[Xile]

Hurry up then: back in two weeks!!! lol

[Xile]

... actually I don't sing but do write music...
That's interesting!!


I'll make ya sing, in the bathroom :blip:
Able to play music/drums with the cover of toilet, toothbrushes and other bathroom stuff?? :devil2: you silly boy lol!


I play piano, so if there's one hanging about needing to be plonked upon, gimme a yell.
I don't own one at the moment. Nowhere to put it.:(
Ooohh...mmm..no piano at mine nor keyboard..:( Got room for a keyboard more easily tho!! :p

Hopefully some people with the skills + the material (option could be combined two people to make one musician lol)?

[James Deuce]

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=41017&highlight=musos

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showthread.php?t=4527&highlight=musos

[Kittyhawk]

Im always keen for a jam!!

[Mikkel]

Alas, Orkland is bit out of the way.

I have had a bad habit of trying to impair my hearing since I was 10 years old playing guitar. I think it's finally starting to work as well - having a hard time at hearing what people are saying if there's heaps of noise around... :(

[Usarka]

They're pretty good
musicians
(The singer's not too
good, but the musicians
are pretty good)
They're pretty good
musicians
.....
They're pretty good
musicians
But it don't make no
difference
If they're good musicians
Because anybody who
would buy this record
Doesn't give a fuck if
there's good musicians
On it
Because this is a
stupid song

[Mikkel]

Oh - a couple of pretty cool guitar vids from youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt1fB62cGbo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBjaa0K3LUo&feature=related

[The Lone Rider]

17 years playing guitar, first 8 was classical and flamenco guitar.
5 years as sound engineer, live and studio. Musical, voice, sound for tv, radio ads

But you are in France now..? Try www.artisitcollaboration.com

[Xile]

I have had a bad habit of trying to impair my hearing since I was 10 years old playing guitar. I think it's finally starting to work as well - having a hard time at hearing what people are saying if there's heaps of noise around... :(
If you can still hear what you are playing, sometimes it's very useful to don't hear what crap people are saying ey!! ;)

Oh - a couple of pretty cool guitar vids from youtube:
waa love the one from Andy McKee!!! thanks

17 years playing guitar, first 8 was classical and flamenco guitar.
5 years as sound engineer, live and studio. Musical, voice, sound for tv, radio ads
But you are in France now..? Try www.artisitcollaboration.com
woohhooo! so you a professional :p can do bit of dancing flamenco but can't sing it :( it's just to have fun and play music but if you wanna record our gigs because it's so good...:p will be great to have a professional around ;) I'm in France now but coming back in two weeks!

[Ragingrob]

Hey I muck around on guitar and drums, also keen to meet some more people to have a jam with! So are you in France or NZ lol I don't know which way to read it.

[The Lone Rider]

woohhooo! so you a professional :p can do bit of dancing flamenco but can't sing it :( it's just to have fun and play music but if you wanna record our gigs because it's so good...:p will be great to have a professional around ;) I'm in France now but coming back in two weeks!

Well, I dunno about how professional I am. Guess it depends on if you are professional because you are being paid, or because you are being paid and good! I did get out of the paid engineering as I had started doing it as a hobby, then a career. And that just ruined the fun side of it all.

I work for beer, and money, and since you are the same age as me and pretty fit (thats my new slang word, too much Ali G) a nice smile would do to :P

I'm a sucker for a pretty face and a nice smile :o

[Timaa]

i play drums for 13.9 years. lol. always keen to play wat ever so long as its not classical or country. lol. also give lessons beginner up to advanced stuff.

[James Deuce]

i play drums for 13.9 years. lol. always keen to play wat ever so long as its not classical or country. lol. also give lessons beginner up to advanced stuff.

You shouldn't be teaching with prejudices like that.

What happens when someone comes to you wanting to learn the 26 standard rudiments and the snare drum part for Ravel's Bolero?

"Country". That's a mighty big chunk of music you've eliminated there. The best thing about appreciating Country Music from a professional musician's perspective is the importance of playing for the song, interpreting really basic charts written by people who HATE drums with a passion, playing to a click, and being able to work through sessions one after the other, playing everything from ballads, through train beats, to good punchy rock, and leaving producers, writers, performers, and fellow musicians smiling.

Do I listen to "Country" for fun? No. Do I listen to it to learn from some of the hardest working professional musicians on the planet, who just also happen to play every day and get paid for it? Yes. Seen Johnny Cash's version of NiN's "Hurt"? Perfect Epitaph for The Man in Black.

This year is my 30th anniversary of playing drums. I started in a Bugle band. I've played on Telly, on jingles, recorded and played with bands, and for a while there made a good living from lounge, dinner theatre, and recording demos for people who went on to make real money. I've used to make a habit of turning down a gig because I didn't like the music. I work in IT now because I ran out of work. Now I'll play anything, but no one wants to know.

Be damn careful of the choices you make.

[Xile]

Hey I muck around on guitar and drums, also keen to meet some more people to have a jam with! So are you in France or NZ lol I don't know which way to read it.

In France back home with family for Xmas, back in NZ in two weeks

[Xile]

Well, I dunno about how professional I am. Guess it depends on if you are professional because you are being paid, or because you are being paid and good! I did get out of the paid engineering as I had started doing it as a hobby, then a career. And that just ruined the fun side of it all.

I work for beer, and money, and since you are the same age as me and pretty fit (thats my new slang word, too much Ali G) a nice smile would do to :P

I'm a sucker for a pretty face and a nice smile :o

Professional for me is being good and paid for it!
Got beer and can do nice smile for music :D dunno about the rest tho lol!

[Xile]

Cool seems that a good bunch of people are interested!!
We'll have to organise all this now ;)
Have to go now but as soon as i get back!

[The Lone Rider]

You shouldn't be teaching with prejudices like that.


Haha, I had to teach the Wiggles or something like that to a student, and as he got older we moved to High School Musical, and then now he's into something like My Chemical Romance or something along those lines.

[The Stranger]

I'll make ya sing, in the bathroom :blip:

You wish, yawning more like it.

[James Deuce]

Haha, I had to teach the Wiggles or something like that to a student, and as he got older we moved to High School Musical, and then now he's into something like My Chemical Romance or something along those lines.
Been there! It works too!

[The Lone Rider]

I'll be traveling to Auckland for the sake of traveling to Auckland, so might be a good time for people to come say hello. Can bring guitar(s). Amp, probably not without paying extra freight.

[Xile]

So anyone keen for some music around next weekend (8-9 Feb)? ;)

[vifferman]

I play piano, so if there's one hanging about needing to be plonked upon, gimme a yell.
We did have one (my Grandma's old pianner).
Now all I have left is one black key and one white.
And a whole bunch of soundbites recorded while we beat it to death with crowbars, sledgehammer, a spade and some feet and hands. :eek:
Oh - and dropped the soundboard onto the concrete.

[Big Dave]

Ahhh the Bolero.
Get it right is on the do before I die list.

Ahhh the Bolero.
Get it right is on the do before I die list.

Ahhh the Bolero.
Get it right is on the do before I die list.

Ahhh the Bolero.
Get it right is on the do before I die list.

Ahhh the Bolero.
Get it right is on the do before I die list.

Ahhh the Bolero.
Get it right is on the do before I die list.

Ahhh the Bolero.
Get it right is on the do before I die list.

[Xile]

We did have one (my Grandma's old pianner).
Now all I have left is one black key and one white.
And a whole bunch of soundbites recorded while we beat it to death with crowbars, sledgehammer, a spade and some feet and hands. :eek:
Oh - and dropped the soundboard onto the concrete.

Do you plan to do some kinda arty art with it? :eek5:
lool

[Curious_AJ]

oooh, moosak... I'm in auckland and play guitar and mandolin... though the areas you mentioned are a bit out of the way for me..

as for the piano smashing... why?????

[Xile]

Hey guys!
What about next Friday? :Punk:

[jim.cox]

We did have one (my Grandma's old pianner).
Now all I have left is one black key and one white.
And a whole bunch of soundbites recorded while we beat it to death with crowbars, sledgehammer, a spade and some feet and hands. :eek:
Oh - and dropped the soundboard onto the concrete.


Ever see the clip where Blerta push a piano off the roof of the old Avalon TV studio?

Made quite a mess of the car it landed on

It would make a great noise to sample :)

[the mouse]

Jim is totally right, if you want to survive in the rock circus you have to be 1/ available anytime ...day, night and in between
2/ versatile on your instrument ...dynamic and know what and when you should and shouldn't play.
3/ play anything from ballroom, traditional, country, jazz, rock, rap, reggae, etc ...you don't have to like it, the money at the end of a night speaks for itself, think of it as training.
4/ play anywhere ... weddings, schools, concerts, confined spaces, outside, dark corners, anywhere, done a few bike rallies too.
5/ play with anyone, and keep level headed.

Just some experience i picked up as pipe band drummer for 12 years and covers band gigging drummer 28 years.

What makes me smile is when i heard people rubbishing bands at rallies, they just have no idea the hard work that goes into playing in a working band. Was the band really crap or is it that your ears are simply attuned to the drone of your engine. If you can do better, prove it.

Good Luck with the jam Xile, that's how it all starts.

[The Lone Rider]

Jim is totally right, if you want to survive in the rock circus you have to be 1/ available anytime ...day, night and in between
2/ versatile on your instrument ...dynamic and know what and when you should and shouldn't play.
3/ play anything from ballroom, traditional, country, jazz, rock, rap, reggae, etc ...you don't have to like it, the money at the end of a night speaks for itself, think of it as training.
4/ play anywhere ... weddings, schools, concerts, confined spaces, outside, dark corners, anywhere, done a few bike rallies too.
5/ play with anyone, and keep level headed.

Just some experience i picked up as pipe band drummer for 12 years and covers band gigging drummer 28 years.

What makes me smile is when i heard people rubbishing bands at rallies, they just have no idea the hard work that goes into playing in a working band. Was the band really crap or is it that your ears are simply attuned to the drone of your engine. If you can do better, prove it.

Good Luck with the jam Xile, that's how it all starts.

you can't make money and a living performing in NZ - only small exceptions. Stop trying. It's easier overseas.

The people who make a living are usually the ones behind the scenes of the bands - if you want bands directly management usually makes a bundle. If you want technical, the sound engineers and staging guys make fair income.

[Finn]

If anybody can show how these are supposed to work, I'll give it a go.

[The Lone Rider]

I'm with Finn

If someone can show me how to use this stuff, I'll give it a go.

(Who can spot the theremin? :D)