Any Fellow Musicians Out There?

Joined SMF a few weeks back (yes I already introduced myself haha). I don't have much to add in the realm of scrap right now as I am fairly new and easing into it, but I'm curious if there are any musicians on here. I apologize if this is a repeat/similar thread but I didn't see one.

My main instrument is guitar, but I recently picked up piano, can play drums, bass, mandolin, and waiting till the inspiration hits me to re-string a violin I am currently borrowing. I recently left a band, Brother Adams so if anyone likes to check out new music it's on Youtube. Not soliciting, trying to plug some fresh music is one's ear.

Grew up on Eagles, Steve Miller, Jethro Tull, B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Clapton, the big names. Past few years my record player has been spinning more and more country. Real country or what my opinion of real country is. Kris Kristopherson, Don Gibson, Alabama, Cash, Hank Williams, Conway, y'all know the rest. I'm honestly a music junkie I induldge in every genre.

Side Note: What the hell happened to music as of the early 2000's. I'm 27 and I haven't been able to stand my friends' music since I was 10.

Anyways, done ranting just wanted to throw a fun little thread out there. Hopefully soon I'll be sharing my finds and my how my scrappin' days pan out.

Originally Posted by Sodella

Side Note: What the hell happened to music as of the early 2000's. I'm 27 and I haven't been able to stand my friends' music since I was 10.

It's been marinated in sewer sludge for 10 days, then dried and heavily processed for packaging and distribution via multi million dollar marketing campaigns to idiot sheep that can't understand or appreciate real music.

Well said!
Whatcha listenin' to these days EDC76?

Drummer from Indiana,right here. All music. Favorites are classic rock, rock metal, jazz, funk....and then fuse them all together! Music is at the point where it's not cool to be in a band, and play in bars, anymore. The drinking and driving almost took music from bars in general. Now, karaoke and unsti music has taken over. People are all the lead singer, and I can't watch. We aren't supposed to u derstand or relate to the younger generations music, as it has been every other generation for as far back as I can think. It is theirs, for their reasons. Music is at their fingertips, at the press of a button, whatever they desire. No need to wait for the record store to open anymore. Instant gratification. No effort. Its not a huge dream as it was at one time. It is the funnest thing in the world to me, to combime many instruments and create a powerful, or beautiful sound. I FEAR THE YOUTH MAY NEVER KNOW THAT FEELING. But i am passing it on to my boy. Keep on playing until you can't anymore.

Instant gratification is correct. It is also instinctual, which is why patience is a virtue. When they used to make hits, the goal was to create a master piece or a solid complete album. The last "master piece" I have heard was 'Welcome Home' by Coheed and Cambria (2006?). Now albums have 2-3 singles and the rest are filler songs with little effort. I hear the radio every now and again and I always say to myself 'I could have wrote that', and song writting is my worst area of being a musician. My point is with the motivation to go see an artist at an all-time low, illegal downloading, and technology enabling everyone to be a "musicain" the focus has shifted from creating albums to pumping out as many hits as possible. Doesn't help that my generation - the millenials are getting stupider and the threshhold of percieved fine art has dramatically dropped, thus allowing a floodof music that would have never been acceptable 20 years ago. They just want music, they don't even care. They don't even know where the roots for the music the listen to now comes from. Don't get me wrong, creativity has no boundaries. There wouldn't be a Zepplin, with out Robert Johnson. No Metallica without Sabath. No Nirvana without Bad Brains. But this **** now-a-days is not creative.

Well that was a strongly opinionated post. Ha. Glad you are showing your son there is more to music than Katy Perry or Shawn Mendes! I'll be rockin' until I die, it's in my DNA.

We have a music thread if your curious in what some of us listen to.

An yes...the majority of music today sucks. Lest for me. I'm not a fan of Auto-tune(Looking at you Bieber and all the others).

I don't play instruments. My hands have been abused way to much to have the dexterity one needs for a guitar, piano, drums, etc.

Then again...music like most things is subjective.

27 an you know about Robert Johnson? Must be a student of music history. An yes..Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, an a ton of bands from that era an beyond were inspired by the like of Robert Johnson, BB King, Chuck Berry, etc etc etc etc.

An for the record...I listen to all music genres for the most part as is evident in the music thread. My playlist goes from BB King and Robert Johnson to Beethoven and Tupac and a lot of crazy **** in between. LOL.

Good luck in the scrapping an music world!


Sirscrapalot - Good music doesn't just touch the soul, it gets freaky with it. - Me, unknown, whoever you wanna give credit to.

I failed band class in 6th grade. No student here. Haha. Got grounded the Summer of '69 (2004) and all I could was chores, so I picked up my mom's old guitar she han't played since 99 and never looked back. I did catch the music thread of what everyone is listening to. Guess that was a bit of a repetitive question.

Originally Posted by chilibean

Music is at the point where it's not cool to be in a band, and play in bars, anymore. The drinking and driving almost took music from bars in general.

So what is a band supposed to do these days to be seen?
Getting seen online has to be difficult, to say the least. My brother has always played guitar. I never got into it myself. He has encouraged me, after this last Christmas gift he got from me, to make leather drum throne covers. Again, getting your stuff seen (marketing) is a real problem.

Originally Posted by Sodella

Well said!
Whatcha listenin' to these days EDC76?

Mostly 70's & 80's rock/metal.

Aerosmith
AC/DC
Black Sabbath
Judas Priest
70's Kiss
Slade
Led Zeppelin
Iron Maiden
Megadeth


And I'm a huge Pantera fan.

Not a lot of the stuff made in the last 25 years interests me, with the exceptions of:

Foo Fighters
Chickenfoot
Volbeat
White Zombie/Rob Zombie
Godsmack

Marketing your music is a *****! My band was lucky to have a lot of breweries pop up in the past 2-3 years. There is a a mini brewery/bar circuit, if you will, in west Michigan. Other than that, Facebook, Youtube, and bandcamp your ass off. There are some Youtube channels, with a sizeable following, that mainly focus on indie music. Audiotree and KEXP are ones that could put you on the map.

Submarinepainter: That tune was super groovey. Never heard of Leon but he has definitely done some big things with big names after I did a bit of research. I'll check out more of his catalogue. Thanks for the share.

EDC76: Couldn't agree more with your tune selection.

Learned to play the piano and two key board organ as a kid. My folks bought my first electric Hammond organ when I was eight. I am now 61 and still have it. We knew a preacher who had a little country church. He would let me sit and play the church pipe organ all I wanted. I always wondered why he would leave and shut the doors when I played it. But he never made fun of me. I like to sit and plink the electric bass guitar now and then to try to keep up with today's rock & roll. It's hard to do and my music reading ability has gone away. My oldest son plays all percussion stuff in the Coast guard aux. band and is in the Mesa city band. One of my grand daughters is very talented in violin and piano. My other grand daughter like her dad is in to percussion. They have two full drum sets in their family room. It gets loud there for sure.

I grew up on rock & roll but also enjoy some of the newer metal bands like Metallica and Godsmack and Korn. I have a nephew who sings in a punk band. No singing just screaming. Drives me crazy but it's his style and people pay to see it. Mosh pit and all.

Very active in music here. Have been the keyboardist in a 6 piece Variety Band for the last 20 years. We play 45 weekends out of a year and practice once a week. My wife plays bass with the band and we do county and state fairs, local and regional celebrations, bars, clubs and casinos. As we all know, live music has taken a backseat and sorry to say, there are clubs and ballrooms that were once drawing huge attendance that are no longer standing or have been turned into hardware stores.

Country (old and new) and, classic R&R draw most of our attention but we also do gospel, polka, waltzes etc. We are fortunate to have a band leader who has been in the industry all of her life and knows how to get booked. Her husband is our soundman. We take 5 vehicles and a trailer to every gig so can't do it for peanuts.

I was born in 1948, think I'm 28 but look my age (actions do not apply here). Long Live Country Music !!

Look us up on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...+band+nebraska

Started off on the bass, and picked up the drums as well. We had a 4 man deathmetal band back in the early 2000's. It was formed from my group of friends that hung out. We would Jam and set up the fog machine, black lights, red lights, stobes going, a blue police lite, fans going for the hair and record it like we were playing a consert. It was all for fun. We even did one with a baritone. Didnt expect to make money, go on tour or even play live for anyone. But a few of the younger local metalheads would show up if someone said we were ganna jam. man those were great times.

Music is at the point where it's not cool to be in a band, and play in bars, anymore. The drinking and driving almost took music from bars in general. - Chilibean




This must only apply where your located. I have plenty of bands visit my sandbar every year and play the local bars. Our DWI's don't go up when the bands come to town. An the local bars and the bands themselves must make money, cause they keep doing it. We have Karaoke here on the sandbar. It doesn't hurt the band turn out at all. We get it all down here on my sandbar. From Bluegrass, to punk and rap. And all the weird stuff in the middle. (Country rap is just...weird.).

When I was in Tucson, Az...same thing. Had both..Bands and karaoke. DC? Same. L.A.? Same. Indiana? Guess not.




Sirscrapalot - I was a lonely teenage broncin' buck; With a pink carnation and a pickup truck; But I knew I was out of luck;The day the music died - Don Mclean American Pie (The Day the Music Died)

Can't forget Captain Beefheart!

Nice to know we have some musicians on here. I always enjoy hearing people's taste or how they got started playing.