Topic: Fellow CB musicians

[RCS1956]

Another Bass player here. I started on guitar, but wasn't too good on chords, so I went to single note bass and nylon string acoustic.
I use music as a stress medicine, just picking up a guitar and picking out a song relaxes me and helps me forget my troubles.
....................so does riding my bike!!!!

[cafehonda]

Drums. And not "oh yeah, I play drums", more like " I AM A DRUMMER". Alt rock, project studio, 16 channels digital, pro gear, three nights a week, same crew for ten years. Don't mean to sound #$%*y, but the world has far too many drummer jokes and not nearly enough competent string players.

[prsman23@hotmail.c]

I actually agree on that one. It seems every other person you talk to plays guitar, but 1 of every 20 are actually competent.

[oldbiker]

I played cornet for 40 years. Started in Air Force Band on Tenor horn and finished as Soprano Cornet player with Coventry Festival Band. Just managed to play "Rhapsody for Soprano Cornet" in my last concert but finally stopped playing when I lost my front teeth. That's why I stick to my CB400f. I have few pleasures left.

[SteveD CB500F]

Not myself, but I have musical kids.

My son (19) is about to start his second year at Trinity College in London where he's doing a four year batchelors degree in Tuba! He's played at the Royal Albert Hall with the BBC SO in the Proms and also in county-level brass and jazz/swing bands. He's aiming for an orchestral career. He started on Tenor Horn as well.


My daughter (16) plays the Euphonium to a similar standard and is aiming for a Music & psychology degree to work in therapy with kids.

[oldbiker]

Steve, along with biking, playing an instrument is one of the greatest accomplishments a person can have. I wish your children the best of luck.

[GeoffT]

Hey! Old biker, you werent in the central band were you?
Played along with them when I was in the Argylls in the early 80's. I also had a cousin in the Germany band then he moved to the Central band. He was RAF band for nearly 30 years i reckon.

[mlinder]

Bel;ieve me when I tell you that I appreciate good drummers completey.
We recently lost our drummer to Carpel Tunnels. We've been trying out 'drummers' and just can't believe how hard it is to find a good one.

The drummer joke is just that, a joke. Any jackass can play guitar reasonably well (like, me, for instance..) and pull that #$%* off, but if you don't have your chops as a drummer, then the band is #$%*ed.

We have a big show in New York the beginning of next month,and we are bringing our carpel tunnel damaged drummer, because even at partial ability, he's still 10 times the 'drummers' we've been auditioning.

[Flying Tiger]

I work with a guitar, myself .. I like using fingerpicks on an electric, .. It certainly gets puzzled looks from some people, but anyway .. I have guitar-synth that really works nice, .. with the fingerpicks, a keyboard effect isn't much of a stretch. It's fun.

I've always considered a band that sticks together long enough to refine a nice sound as something of a minor miracle. Somebody like REM, who've been together a long time now. Other good bands, .. umm .. Interpol, Garbage, Radiohead, .. now defunct, Luna .. to name a few.

Keep both wheels down, ..

[flyin_]

Wow, lots of musicians in here! 
I played trombone in HS and college bands and jazz band and now play guitar, mandolin, harmonica.  I wish I had the chops to play in a real band but I have far to many hobbies to get really good at anything.  I'll stick to being competent at many things 
I would have to agree with others that biking and picking guitar are great stress relievers. 

[Chris Schneiter]

Old Pharts?! Why is it that so many people stop listening to contemporary music and nestle into the old and familiar? I too am an Old Phart (51..not old, but old enough), and I still like stuff from the 60's, but I also listen to stuff from the 20's, 30's, 40's and 50's...I prefer to think of the 70's as a lost decade, and the 80's as kind of pathetic...but each decade has at least some great stuff!
I tend toward artier music as favorites (like Phillip Glass), but my real favorites are definitely edgy all the way through...Zappa (I miss him so), Adrian Belew (I think one of the best Guitarists on the planet), Crimson (The last concert I ever went to with my X wife...The Thrack Tour)... In High School in the Early 70's I listened to Cream, Santana, John McLaughlin..before that Janis, Jimi, Dead, The Band...Uncle Meat...Zappa...and lots of Jazz. Later, went on to more standard Rock....Stones...Dylan...Neil Young (I love WELD!)..then Grunge, and bands like Chille Peppers....Last year, I went to see the Foo Fighters...an incredible show, and I was probably the oldest person there!
Old Phart? I don't think that just because you're getting older music stops happening. I can't imagine not listening to whatever comes along (Except Disco!).

[dusterdude]

sousaphone

[SteveD CB500F]

Got any incriminating pictures Dusty?

My tuba-playing son (see earlier post) has tried one of these.

He said the dynamic range was crap   

[GeoffT]

Yeah dusty show us the pics.

Steve,

Your son is right - the dynamic range is crap. But they look and sound just great in a small jazz band. Especially if they are really old brass ones with a few charechteristic dings. (even though dings in a brass instrument can affect the tuning. Although that does not always seem to matter in a jazz band. 

[SteveD CB500F]

I guess the guys that play them do it for the same reasons that we ride old bikes.

[GeoffT]

I guess the guys that play them do it for the same reasons that we ride old bikes.

Thinking about it, some of the comparrisons are similar. The older the sousaphone or brass instrument, the weaker the power as modern instruments tend to be bigger bore, bigger sound and bigger money. Yeah your better off with the old fashioned sound and plenty of leaks eh! And more cash in your pocket to spend on it.

[dusterdude]

sorry no pics available

[Rocking-M]

Mlinder, like your music, the first clip reminded me of, was it McGlocklin (?) wow that was long ago.
Anyway, I'd like a cd.

[mlinder]

Thanks Rocking-M.

You can order it from our website if ya want. Might want to wait for our new full length though, coming out at the end of October (hopefully!)

[Rocking-M]

Let me know. Looking forward to it.

[ElCheapo]

Guitar is the instrument of choice, I have played since I was 12. Played many years ago in a band named "Society's Child" and no this has NOTHING to do with Janis Ian. We were a local band in Vegas and would take the occasional cancelled defunked opener for much larger acts. Otherwise we played for next to nothing in a small club. Keep in mind in Vegas the density of bands is so high there is about 5 bands to every one fan. 

Let's say opening for Melissa Etheridge with a light Mettallica cover went over like a bomb. . We were the worst possible selection for an opener but we were available at the time (selection from 30 minutes out from the show). After the opener we went to some old acoustic stuff like "signs", and some folk stuff and well we basically did the Tesla five man jam set. That seemed to get a far better response. Not liked but tolerable until she took the stage. I think they were clapping because we were leaving.  

No we did not chit chat with Melissa Etheridge. As a matter of fact it was more like a here play and leave thing.  

[Ratfink]

I call her "MS Springsteen"    

I play guitar and mandolin, My dad taught me at a young age. Grew up on CSNY and such...I also build and repair stringed instruments.

Will do fretjobs for parts.

www.highdesertguitarworks.com

[acidjzaz]

can the MPC count as an instrument .. well that and keyboard.. and I am a one man band

[winston]

I come from a musical family, so I've played bass and/or been the singer in a handful of garage/subsistence (all the beer you can drink) bands since university; in more recent years I've picked up the six string, mostly to teach my kids, neices and nephews enough to get them interested in the rock n roll faith. (Their grandmother taught them all to play piano starting at age 3 and at some point they all want to play the devil's music, which their granny refuses to teach.)

My mainstays are a Fender JP-90 bass, a Trace Elliot bass combo , a very sweet Fender Japan Custom Shop Keith Richards "Micawber" Telecaster replica tuned to open G and a Fender Frontman 25R with an Eminence Ragin Cajun speaker upgrade...excellent sound in a small package for home use, by the way, if you like the Fender sound but don't want to break the bank on a vintage Twin Reverb. My main effect is a Russian Big Muff Pi, though I have a bunch of other effects and processors.

I also have five or six vintage tube heads ranging from 10 to 100 Watts that I use with a variety of cabs with 8 or 12 inch Jensens or Celestions depending on what's being played and where...and always a few project guitars that I fiddle with when the cold weather hits.

My son, who's the most accomplished of my School of Rock proteges, has a very cool Fender Telecaster we built from a '72 reissue Fender Japan blonde neck, a new Mighty Mite maple sunburst body, American pups and controls and a very cool custom brass bridge in a chromed flame shape. He also has a red Gibson SG a la Angus Young and a decent Takamine a/e, an Epiphone stereo chorus reverb amp and a vintage Marshall single 12 JCM 800, a processor, a vintage Tube Screamer and a Morley wah .  My daughter noodles around on a baby blue Fender american strat through a Peavey Blazer with some built in effects and has a modest acoustic.

One of my nephews has shown some promise as well, so I've kitted him out with a 50 watt solid state Marshall, a V-Amp effects processor, a birdseye maple Ibanez Sabre SA160 and a Stratacoustic a/e.

Counting the gear my other neices and nephews have, if I put all the stuff in one room I'm pretty sure it would make for the beginnings of a cool little vintage guitar shoppe.