Do we have any musicians in here?

[toryglen-boy]

My other passion in life is music, rock guitar mainly, and i got to thinking, are there any other musicians in here?

cheers

:)

[sheeny]

Yeah... well... um... I'm nearly an ex-musician...:( I'm sure I've forgotten more about playing guitars than I remember.

I don't get to play very often... too many other things competing for my time:rolleyes:. I haven't learned a new song in the last 2 or 3 years I'd say. But when I do get time I like to pick up a guitar and refresh one of my old tunes.

I don't sing - I don't have the multi-tasking brain:lol: (and if I'm sober my off key correction filter doesn't work).

I have 4 guitars, a set of congas, clap sticks, two blues harps (E and G), and two occarinas.

My guitars are a classical, a steel string acoustic, an acoustic bass and an electric which has been exiled to the shed since I moved:rolleyes:. When we finally get moved into the extension I hope to bring my electric back into the house so I can play along with Shine on You Crazy Diamond again...:)

Al.

[toryglen-boy]

Nice ... Dave Gilmour is an exceptional guitarist.

I play rock, in the Bettencourt, Vai, Satriani, Van Halen kinda model, i have a collection of Washburn N4's, an Ibanez Jem 7V, and a Godin A6.

:)

[BerrieK]

Once upon a time I played the flute...but now all I can play is the stereo!!

[monoxide]

awesome, the Jem 7v is a beast of a guitar in the right hands
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=RHdkAZZdDWM (16 year old showing us how its done)

i stick to bass, got a 5 string washburn, 4 string ibanez and a cheap electric acoustic :D

shame on you sheeny, poor bass locked away in the shed :P

[sheeny]

Yeah, I know!:sadeyes: ... but it's not the bass, it's the electric... but point taken. I feel it.

Al.

[leon]

Na, guys couldn't play/sing music to say my life. :lol: :lol: but than again I don't listen to it either, never have the radio/CD player on in the car, or listen to it while working in the shed or similar. :whistle: come to think about it I don't particularly like music. :shrug: :rolleyes:

Leon :thumbsup:

[Ric]

I've always had a desire to learn how to play the Bagpipes, I could play them in the front paddock and scare unsuspecting car drivers as they go past.

Maybe one day.

Cheers

[Alchemy]

play the sax (tenor), but recently went out and bought an acoustic guitar( Maton EM325C ) and am learning to play, the neighbours teenager is a guitar nut and im paying him for a lesson a week.... great fun.

[gman]

Grew up playing the trumpet at secondary school for 4 years.

Purchased a Cort Steel String Electric/Acoustic last year and have been slowly teaching myself guitar.

[JimmyH155]

Well my musical ability is pathetic, but last year we re-inherited a 100 year old pianola that had been in the family since new. It was stuffed. I revitalised the action (using instruction books) and am now working on the pneumatics. Beautiful tone and I am teaching myself to play. I made such a racket on the pianola that teenage son complained and I now teach myself on a specially purchased keyboard with earphones. I have got nearly up to grade 1 AND AM PLAYING SUCH WONDROUS PIECES AS Alouette, Little brown jug, Home on the Range and my latest challenge, The Entertainer:D
Probably just as well I use the earphones, or all the dogs in the neighbourhood would start howling:):)
Miond you, when nobody is about, I belt out the tunes on the pianola:P

[jjjnettie]

My mother in law has a pianola. My sons like nothing better then to pump out a few tunes.
They have two favourite rolls. One is a compilation of TV comercials eg Louie the Fly the other is Red Back on the Toilet Seat.
Whenever I go to a market or second hand store I'll buy up whatever rolls I find. Sometimes they go for as little as $5 each.
Otherwise she orders new rolls from the US as the Australian company that used to make them closed a couple of years ago.
She spent $1000 on the pianola recently giving it a complete refurbishment.

[GeoffW1]

Hi,

See if you can find them Old Man Emu. What a catchy bushies song, they should love it!

I am going to try to inflict it on everyone next time at Sussex Inlet.

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=AZLx4Os8TBs

Cheers

[Dog Star]

Dunno if I'd call myself a musician but I play mouth organ a bit and have one in each key. Mainly play straight harp though. Tried playing chromatic but kept getting my mo' hairs caught in the slide so I gave that up as a bad joke.:doh:
Had a 3/4 size violin a few years back and managed to teach myself to play a couple of songs (fairly badly) Keep thinking that I'd like to buy another and persevere but finding time is always an issue. Not sure how the dogs would feel about it either. As it is, they suffer the mouth organ playing with barely concealed contempt.:rolleyes:
When I found out that the tuning on a mandolin is the same as a fiddle, I bought a banjo-mandolin, but if my fiddle playing was bad, then the mandolin playing was worse.:scared:
Can also honk out a bit of a rhythm on a didgeridu, but I never mastered the circular breathing so necessary to be a real player.
Like many others, the thing I play best is a cd.;)
A mate of mine, having endured one of my drunken harmonica sessions one night said-
"I thought you liked music?"
"I do," I replied.
"Then why do you treat it so badly?"
Critics!!:whistle:

[jungle11]

Music, fortunatly, runs in my family. My dad was classically trained, and then went into contemporary, played jazz for a long time, so he was always trying to get me intersted as a child. He loves keyboard and is getting a Roland soon which im looking forward to hearing. He also played mainly bass in a few bands (like the Freeloves:rofl:) when he was younger.

I settled on guitar - would not listen to him or bother to learn any theory. Never too late to start though i guess. But in the last 15 years i've been lucky to get better as an ear player.
Been in a couple of bands. First one was country (yuk) but about the only thing going out here. Second was in Brisbane, a cover band, playing foo-fighters, deftones....heavy stuff.:rockband:

But these days, me and dad, and a friend from town get together and play blues. Thats the best for me, because your free to express yourself wherever the fancy takes you.
Love alot of new bands, heavy stuff. hehe
Idols though include Eric Clapton, HENDRIX!!!, and, of course - Stevie Ray Vaughn, wish he was still with us:(

[jjjnettie]

Chances are that Granna has Old Man Emu tucked away in one of her cupboards.
She has so many rolls it looks like Olivanders wand store.:lol:

[stevoggo]

Hi All,

i am a muso, actually got into astronomy (this christmas) as the drummer in my band is heavily into astronomy, got me interested.
I'm a singer, guitarist and play blues harp.
i play on the cenral coast in an acoustic duo called code2, play iguana's etc
Also just started a blues/rock band currently in rehearsal will be playing around Sydney/Coast/Newcastle by the end of the year.
The Blues rock band also includes original material for recording next year.

To all those just learning the guitar and there seems to be a lot of you! It is only practice, there are also heaps of good video lessons on you tube.

cheers all, i will hopefully get up to the pony club one month, but working this time.
Steve:thumbsup:

[danielsun]

Been playing drums since I was about 14 (am 40 now) and in bands all my life playing in pubs and clubs around Melbourne, Brisbane and the Gold coast.
Gave it up a few years ago when astronomy and family life took over.
Had some great times.



Cheers Daniel.

[JimmyH155]

if your mother-in-law, JJJnettie, got her pianola fixed up for $1000, she was doing well!! I have spent over $500 in parts and that was just for the action. There are over 12000 parts in just the action (remember there are 88 keys) it is the most fantastic engineering feat to make piano movements:) And the pianola part - ie the pneumatics - are probably even more. I havent even looked at the bellows yet. It is a great project and I will get there:D:D

i hope to switch the rolls on say by Easter. We have 50 of them and my wife remembers playing some of them 45 years ago!!:lol::lol:

[JimmyH155]

Hey, JJJnettie, what is your mother-in -laws pianola make. Mine is a Steck, made in Gotha, Germany, in about 1910. Would love to hear, The pianola part is a Themodist, 88 keys, made in Germany
Magic stuff:D:D:D














hey, JJY nettie

[RobF]

Bit of a hack keyboard player here. Been more into electronic and computer music recent years. Get more fun out of fiddling I guess than any worthwhile/productive.

[gaa_ian]

Hi Toryglen
You will be amazed how many Muso's are lurking here in the Pages of IIS. In fact we had a few informal Jam sessions at the 2008 IISAC !
For my part I am a sometime singer and have even penned a song or 2.
Don't play any instrument apart from a bit of mucking around on a Bamboo Flute. (Bush Sax)
I do however host a classic rock show on our local FM radio station.
Music is life for me and I cant imagine a world without it !

[PeterM]

Totally ditto as per danielsuns post - except replace drums with guitar, 40 with 50, Melbourne & Gold Coast with Sydney. Astro, particularly supernova hunting took over as my passion. Still to this day I am sorry I sold my cherry red Stratocaster with chrome scratch plate & Vox AC30 back in 84. My influences were the likes of Status Quo & Gary Moore who I just watched on the Strat pack dvd - wow even at 100 years old in a wheelchair, with one arm and no legs (joshing of course) he can still bend those strings.
PeterM

[ngcles]

Hi All,



Wow Peter, though you regret the sale now, you might well regret it a whole lot more in years to come. Vintage Strats can be worth big, big money.

I'm not so much a muso as a person who tortures a guitar from time to time. I've got a beautiful spanish-made Alhambra classical-flamenco nylon string acoustic I received as a gift from a relative who visited Spain in 1973.

I've also got an HSS "fat" Fender Stratocaster -- black with a white scratch-plate maple neck and maple fret-board and a Fender FM amp -- which I love and don't play enough to do it justice.

Can't imagine life without music and also love observing with it too. My Ipod is a very important observing "accessory".


Best,

Les D

[Glenhuon]

Never really counted myself as a muso. Have "Fitters Fingers", more used to wielding spanners than musical instruments. Done a lot of singing in my time though, Rock, Folk, Country, whatever took my fancy at the time. Had some great times playing the pubs and clubs in Scotland, but could never get the hang of fretboard or keyboard. Old dad was a Black Watch piper, but didn't inherit his skill with the chanter unfortunately. Always envied them that could handle an instrument and make it talk. my elder daughter plays Trumpet and Guitar, so think it must have skipped a generation.

Bill

[fringe_dweller]

wow that kids pretty good! i'm well out of participating in astronomy these days, did it pretty full on, by my standards for a city slicker, for about 13 years, but i do still visit here regularly when i need reminding there are good people in this very cynical world who like to excercise their brains occasionally, and still read about stuff going on. just not enough time, and i am back into music in a big way, like i was before astronomy took over equal billing, after getting hooked after hanging around after band practices at a mates house who happened to be into making scopes at the time,
yes the correlation between interest in astronomy and music seems to be quite common, must be the dreamers/heart of a poet/sense of wonder - something?
i was blown away when i was first privileged to visit Don Morrison's, of world renowned Donmo resonator guitars fame, workshop, and noticed an interesting shape under wraps, turned out to be a 10 inch f20 folded newt, with the classic wooden box tube, he had another slightly smaller folded newt as well.
on his website he says ' I’d always been handy with tools and my last hobby - grinding telescope mirrors and lenses - gave me confidence that I could make almost anything! ' from here

http://www.donmo.com/%20Guitarsite/About%20Don.html

Don's a very talented musician/writer and is very funny also, with a number of CD's and acts over the years and in the present, in fact theres not much he cant do i suspect, and he's great down to earth bloke in the bargain!
anyway
I love my Donmo's, a rustbucket tricone mainly in open G and D and d standard, and a galvo single cone wich i keep in open A and E and standard,
i am going backwards in time musically, to when their was no 'star system' like there was from 40's 50's onwards, pre-war blues specially, and they werent self-consciously tainted with that particular mindset, and still had a large spiritual element to the music, not that i dont like anything postwar, plenty in fact. and with all these mind blowing re-masterings since the mid 90's going on thanks to modern technology, and it only keeps getting better in fact, to all era's of music, particularly blues,
so listening to a LOT of remastered blind willie johnson, RJ, charley patton, fred mcdowell, leadbelly, son house, skip james, blind willie mctell, right up thru muddy waters, howlin wolf, robert nighthawk, elmore james, rev gary davis rl burnside .. the list is very long and getting longer, i cant get over the depth of the blues it goes as far as the eye can see, a lot like astronomy

i think those ridiculous over inflated prices for old strats ect. are rightfully crumbling, with the hedge funds that created them, - you can buy a new custom shop strat for 3/4k au every bit as good, playing and sound wise, as some crumbling classic, with corroded wiring/innards ect., my '06 custom shop classic is evry bit a '62 '63 strat and more, classic just means completely hand made/crafted, like they used to be in the first place!

[Hagar]

My musical days have long gone. Played a piano Accordian and piano many years ago. Now I leave it to my youngest daughter, a music teacher with a degree in Classical Voice and another in Teaching. I think she got her voice from her mother, definitely not me, I cracked the shower screen and I wasn't even trying..

[dugnsuz]

Bass player, ex-Alba too!!!
Just bought some new gear - Lakland 44-01 bass and an Eden Nemesis 210 combo. Yet to get my grubby hands on the bass though!
Can't wait to annoy the neighbours!!!
Doug

[Dog Star]

G'day Doug,
Thought you might like this one -
Deffination of a Gentleman - A man who can play an accordian, but doesn't!
I guess that must qualify you as a Gentleman.
Only joking.:):thumbsup:
Years ago, when I was involved in the Buffalo Order, we had a bloke who played piano accordian, and he was amazing!
Could play jazz, blues, old-time and even a couple of rock numbers. Sadly, he's long gone now, but your post made me think of him.
Must admit that I really like zydeco music - a strange blend of folk/cajun/blues/jazz with a strange French flavour, in which the piano accordian is the principle instrument. Very lively, foot-stomping stuff in which the accordian is played at blinding speed and stunning dexterity.
Stuff being a Gentleman! Why don't you take it up again?:thumbsup:

[Glenhuon]

Young guy from the Western Isles in Scotland decided to go live in the big city of Glasgow. 2 months later he came back to the island. "Didn't you like Glasgow" ? Och no, its a terrible place, every night banging on the walls and banging on the ceiling. "My goodness Donald, what did you do" ? Och, I just ignored it, and continued my bagpipe practice.:)

Bill

[mat,v]

I can play the drums,,injured my back ,so dont play as much as id like to,,don't think the neighbours mind but :)

[fragchamp]

My Yamaha G-50A is an old student model. It's actually a nice guitar though.

Guitars, keyboards, songwriting, recording, production, DIY hifi I'm into all of it.

[divaro1]

hey there ...vocalist here..trained on stage as a kid, piano 9 yrs, modern,classical voice training, rock band etc etc...had kids gave it up neva did anything...divorced nowwent out and bought a tanglewood guitar..i,m learning that now....and i SUCK...lmbo....cheers to all