Musicians?

[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 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... 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

[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

Professional for me is being good and paid for it!
Got beer and can do nice smile for music 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:Me]

I'll make ya sing, in the bathroom

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.
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.
Oh - and dropped the soundboard onto the concrete.

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