SketchUcation & Music?
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I have practiced the guitar for 44 years, no formal lessons. "My" band is Greg and the Geezers. Greg refuses to have anything to do with us. We play together so infrequently that I sometimes have trouble remembering the names of the other people. We have played for wedding receptions, lumber yards, farmers markets and awards ceremonies. We played the grand ballroom of the New Orleans Monteleone Hotel. Despite all these odds, I still continue to practice, mostly composing original arrangements, but occasionally returning to stuff other people know.
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@matt666 said:
Boofredlay! With which jazz big band did you toured?
I toured Europe with the Georgia State Big Band although I did not attend the school. Our High School Jazz band went to a competition there in 1987 and blew everyone away. GS needed some extra players to fill our their tour and 5 of us jumped at the chance. Marcus Printup was on that tour as well, he is a regular in the Jazz at Lincoln Center group, Wynton Marsalis' big band.
The rock band I was in was called The Young Churchills. I was part of the horn section for about 4 years.
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@solo said:
I mastered this instrument while at school, they deemed me tone deaf but in the spirit of participation they allowed me on stage armed with a triangle.
So I assume someone else tuned it for you?
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Great fortune for the rest of us that someone guided you towards trigonometry!
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I don't play anything but the organ but I have two real close friends that both write and sing their own music! They tried to get me to play my organ in their band but its one of those things you keep behind closed doors!
[flash=500,400:z7tlw4hn]http://www.youtube.com/v/1bLVkiY4U6M?version=3&hl=en_US[/flash:z7tlw4hn]
Heres one of their songs that they wrote when the one on the right wife left him.
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@massimo said:
@unknownuser said:
My musical room:
Looking great Matt, your neighbours must be happy.
The neighbour across is deaf by the age, and the next door neighbor is a saxophonist. Great. I live in the Brittany countryside, there are many musicians here!
Here are bands I play with:- Korkoj, math noise jazz rock (ahem). 50min song.
- Mermonte, pop. Ten musicians. And a little buzz around here. We will play for the first time (directly a little french tour) in april.
- Mantys, a little bit louder. Metal Hardcore.
- Fago sepia, math rock band. I replace band drummer when he can't tour. We will tour in Canad in august.
A little video on a balcony in Rennes (do you know balcony TV?) with fago sepia. I'm the one with calabash.
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@unknownuser said:
The neighbour across is deaf by the age, and the next door neighbor is a saxophonist.
Lucky you...
I just love Brittany. 
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This one is for you Matthieu.
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hmmm shiny pots and pans
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Dear Eric,
This one is (virtually
) for you!
I have found this nice little "trompette de poche" in one of those shops which are taking advantage of the proximity to "Salle Pleyel" in Paris. I had taken the picture thinking it will be one day for you. It is the good occasion to deliver it to you I guess.
friendly,
simon -
I used to have one of those. It plays horribly out of tune; sharp on one note and flat on the adjacent one. It was a fun toy but not much more.
This will be my next purchase, after the house is paid off first...
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Woao! Classy!
and please forget la "trompette de poche"
I played drums in my youth. Now I filmed them
simon
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La route du rock ! Claasse ! ^^
@ Boofredlay: A shiny kit! How to spend your time cleaning fingerprints...
Here is my main kit, called "Germaine":
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That sawblade must be hell on sticks. But probably great tone.
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I "played" the trumpet when I was 12 or so. Mostly annoyed the neighbors with it. After about a year and a half the school's band instructor told my parents I should take up something quiet like painting.
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Mine digital World.
[flash=640,460:2ne775e0]http://www.youtube.com/v/hjnMwMD4LCk[/flash:2ne775e0]
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I have been playing all my life. Currently I have a 70's Martin D-28, a 1936 Dobro (wood, and a real gem), A Guild archtop, and a couple of acoustics I built. The neck actually got amputated from one during our recent move.
Still dabble in songwriting, but recently only instrumentals.
This Picture is of the longest running band I was in, Joshua Hill. Taken sometime in June of 69 according to the poorly scanned photo, during our country rock phase. (damn I'm old)
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That was the month before I was born
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