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.
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 !
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
... Still to this day I am sorry I sold my cherry red Stratocaster with chrome scratch plate & Vox AC30 back in 84 ...
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".
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.
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
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!
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..
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
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..
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.
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?
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.
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.
Les D
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.
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
