Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
At The Back => Time Out => Topic started by: rahnooo on March 20, 2007, 11:02:44 AM
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It's often mentionned that this forum has a wealth of experience and different musical styles, which is very much a strength of the community here. There are also some members who are enjoying success with various bands (TO, 38th, Ratrod, Brow, Willo, Twinfanetc).
So I thought it was about time we had a thread to discuss and talk about our current bands or projects. Please limit discussion to current musical concerns instead of past glories ("man, back in '63 I was in a far out jazz skiffle beat combo, we played some blinding gigs"), maybe we could have a thread for those too ;) So stick up links and talk about what we're all currently upto :)
Could be interesting to see what different musical bases we've got covered here, and maybe lend support when fellow BKP acts pasd through our local venues :)
*Rahnooo*
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Right, figured I'd get the ball rolling.
I'm currently in an acoustic two piece, mainly playing mandolin, acoustic guitar, lap steel, and violin, although occasionally my Mule loaded Epi comes out to play too. We play music that is born out of the dual influences of English folk (Eliza Carthy, Johnny Dickinson) and 1960's flavoured Americana (Gram Parsons, Ryan Adams, The Decemberists, Smog).
9th April will see our debut e.p The Boy with Pomegranates in His Eye being released, and we're currently lining up some summer gigs in Devon, as I'll be in Totness for 3 months. Our slowly growing website can be found at: Cake for Lily dot com (http://www.cakeforlily.com).
So whats everyone else upto then?
*Rahnooo*
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Great idea..
I wish I had a band :)
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Heres the cover band I'm in (the recordings there are old and we dont have that singer anymore) - www.deafbythirty.co.uk Got a new singer coming tonight so hopefully if he's good we can start doing better songs (dont really like most of the ones we do!)
Mostly covers, but my soundclick page has some originals of mine - www.soundclick.com/tomrogersuk
edit - just listened to the old band recordings, they're terrible :lol: Such bad playing and quality
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As I think most people know, I'm in an AC/DC tribute band based in South Manchester. We cover the Bon Scott era with the couple of Brian Johnson tracks our singer can reach(!!) thrown in too.
I'm 'Angus' and I play an Epiphone '65 reissue SG with Maestro vibrola, fully pimped up with CTS pots, Switchcraft jack and switch, Hovland MusiCaps, TonePros bridge, Graphtec Tusq nut, Schaller straplocks and the mighty Bare Knuckle Riff Raffs. Amp wise, I'm using Laney Klipp heads from the early 70s into a Marshall 2x12 or 4x12 fitted with Celestion Vintage 30s. I also use a DOD 250V Preamp/Overdrive reissue up front to push the tubes at lower volumes.
Our website is in need of an update (sorry) and is here: http://www.ycdc.co.uk
We've also got an old MySpace site with a couple of sound clips: http://www.myspace.com/ycdc
(http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r267/junkacct/YCDC.jpg)
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Cool thread idea! I will be checking out all of your respective bands this afternoon.
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Here's mine.
www.illusionmusic.com - I'm the one with the Ibanez.
I've only been in the band a few months and we haven't practiced much and only done two gigs with, but we are doing pretty good in terms of our future gigs and plans. I'm not playing in any of those recordings either, but it's all fun!
Andy!
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The Paul Gilbert ibanez is so cool :)
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Currently I play in the rockabilly band 'Loaded Dice'. We do covers of Brian Setzer (Stray Cats), Lee Rocker, Reverend Horton Heat and some souped up old rockabilly. We have just finished recording a demo with 11 covers, it's now in the proces of mixing.
We have several upcoming gigs this spring and summer. The most important one will be on a rock n' roll festival on Terschelling (a Dutch island) in the first week of september. We'll be playing on the small stage saturday afternoon and on the main stage on Sunday morning.
Future plans: We need to make a band photo and we have plans to launch a website.
Side projects: Our bass player and me are thinking about a psychobilly side project.
Other stuff: Every second sunday of the month, the local bar has an open mic/jam session. I'm part of the support band.
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:wink:
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man, back in '63 I was in a far out jazz skiffle beat combo, we played some blinding gigs....bugger, you said I couldn't say that. I am only joking, even I am not old enough to have done that.What a great thread idea btw.
I am one of two guitarists/vocalists in a covers band. (www.alteregoband.org) The recordings on the site are old and were recorded when we had been together about 5 weeks and the mix is bloody awful and we are talking of doing new ones when we get time as we are way way better now. We gig constantly-private parties, functions, pubs and clubs.All experienced guys and my colleagues have become good friends though sparks do fly and we do have our share of band politics. Two of us are capable of writing songs but we have yet to include any in the sets.Currently undertaking an arduous residency (Friday and Saturday nights-playing for 3.5 hours per night ) and we have a reasonably full diary. We have all been known to name drop from time to time.I also help out in a great blues/rock band where I play bass and sing mainly harmonies plus one or two songs.The two guitarists in that band are both excellent players and I love hearing them play(both have just bought BKP's after trying out my Strats and Tele incidentally). The plan is to do more gigs and to write songs so maybe that will develop a bit more.
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Well, the band I was playing in over the last couple of years has slipped into hiatus, so now I'm a solo artist. ;) I'd like to play in a band again, but I haven't been working real hard at sorting something out.
One of the ex-singers from my previous band hooked up with a drummer who's kind of trying to work up a new band, and they've asked me to come over and jam sometime -- that might work out. The drummer has only been described to me as a "crazed, beardy, French stoner", so what's not to like?
I met up with some guys I've vaguely known for years who do sort of informal jamming at parties and stuff -- a few of them used to come along to my last band's local gigs. We're gonna meet up to do some "psychedelic world mash-up space/improv" thing. Again, what's not to like?! 8)
And there was a guy from NJ who though he might be coming over to the UK to play a space-rock festival this summer and wanted me to play bass -- but I'm not sure if that's fallen through. Probably, but it's always hard to tell with these things .... ;)
Until any of that stuff comes together, I've got my next BKP clips to think about! :)
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My band at the minute is an Indie/Alternative Rock band called 'For This Day'.
We've only been going a little over a year, but we recorded an album between Christmas and New Year 2005, played over 50 gigs in 2006 (not bad for a new, mainly originals band :)) Played at a few decent venues along the way; The Cavern in Liverpool (going back there tomorrow night), The Social in Nottingham 2 or 3 times, a place called The Rescue Rooms in Nottingham that's a 'sister' venue of Rock City.
At the start of 2007 we spent 4 days in the studio recording our new 4 track 'Life Is Only Breathing' EP, which has had good reviews so far :)
We're currently spending most of our time copying CDs to send out to labels, promoters, management etc, so if anyone has any tips, I'd be more than happy to listen :)
The 4 tracks from the EP are up on www.myspace.com/forthisdaymusic (aswell as a few pages of photos taken in the studio). While the EP plus other songs from our album are on our main website which is at www.forthisdaymusic.com
Please feel free to sign up on the site and leave us a comment in our guestbook :)
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Working on some very odd stuff at the minute. I'm working on six or seven pieces that are all Guitar generated, from the drums up (switch clicks, tapping pickups, mutes, pitch-shifting behind bridge and nut rakes). I'm using some software to sequence it, and get it mixed down properly.
Once it's done, I'll be getting it thrown up on MySpace. It's got a real stoner vibe to it. Using Half-speed guitar lines for bass parts is a pretty cool sound, I gotta say. Lot of weird stuff, for example, I'm getting reverb by playing the tracks at high volume into the face of an Electro-Acoustic, and D-I'ing the signal off the pickup, a lot of volume control swells, that kind of thing.
The next step is sorting it for performance in some way or another. Maybe some Simple Kid-esque Laptop frolics or I'll try and get mates to play the drum tracks and stuff for live.
At the minute the Project/Me are going by the handle of "Mach Zero", as I'm going nowhere, very quickly...
Watch this Myspace, I suppose...
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^ That's a great idea, HtB!
Well, I don't have a band, but if it counts, I have to write a jazz piece with a pretty girl for my Yr 10 music class :)
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Once it's done, I'll be getting it thrown up on MySpace. It's got a real stoner vibe to it. Using Half-speed guitar lines for bass parts is a pretty cool sound, I gotta say. Lot of weird stuff, for example, I'm getting reverb by playing the tracks at high volume into the face of an Electro-Acoustic, and D-I'ing the signal off the pickup, a lot of volume control swells, that kind of thing.
OK, I'm on board to hear that! And to watch the feature-length documentary explaining how you did it all. 8)
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i'm in a 'micromusic' band called gwEm and the gwEmettes ;)
i've written music software for the 1980s Atari ST home computer:
http://www.preromanbritain.com/maxymiser
http://www.preromanbritain.com/ymvst
i program the Ataris, play guitar and sing.
my band mate 'Counter Reset' plays electronic percussion and raps.
our music is a punky sort of rave music i suppose, and we've had a bit of success, our current release is featured on an astralworks compilation:
http://8bitoperators.com/
my website is http://www.preromanbritain.com/gwem
heres a picture of us playing live:
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Working on some very odd stuff at the minute. I'm working on six or seven pieces that are all Guitar generated, from the drums up (switch clicks, tapping pickups, mutes, pitch-shifting behind bridge and nut rakes). I'm using some software to sequence it, and get it mixed down properly.
gotta love experimentalism ;)
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Gotta love big bags of weed and bottles of Jameson, the fuel for this particular fire, I'm afraid...
Production will ramp up once I buy a decent laptop in the next couple of weeks, and get mastermind out of the way.
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Currently playing rock covers in a band called Uploaded. We've only had a full line up since January. A mate of the rhythm guitarist is a graphic designer, hence the new avatar, and we were in the studio last week. I'll be mixing on Monday and hope to get some tracks up on the myspace page shortly afterwards.
http://www.myspace.com/uploadedtheband
There's not much on it at present apart from a bad quality video and a biog that needs replacing. Check back in a week or so and it should be looking and sounding good.
Artists covered include Bowie, Black Crowes, Jet, The Clash, Primal Scream, Billy Idol.
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Your avatar looks like he has either found a tasty doughnut and is salivating or is shouting at a CD for some obscure reason.
You can't beat a little ambiguity :wink: .
On projects I'd love to get one up and running but there is virtually nobody who'll properly be prepared to follow my vision of what makes a decent song. The last time I tried to start something up I had a drummer from year 7 (now of year 8, but a really mature drummer for his age), a keyboardist with football commitments and a guitarist who later went on to join a punk band called Misled (great band though). We spent ages trying to find a bass player and the only person who displayed any interest in joining has never owned a bass, but was able to keep up well with the last band he was in (with the other guitarist) but that was years ago and he had since forsaken bass playing, which he had learned at lunchtimes on the school bass. Forgive me if I have problems with the ability and credibility of Malmesbury's free talent.
Am I the only one who listens to something other than $%&#ing Green Day :evil: ?
This has got to be my longest ever post :lol:
If anyone is interested in starting something up or hiring a guitarist who uses standard E and you are in my area please tell me.
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Oh, where to start.
We'll go in order of seriousness- I personally have a shiteload of solo projects that I write in my spare time. I've completed one album which features a whole roster of songs around the theme of Communism and various aspects of it- the good, the bad and the ugly, as it were. I've also completed an album consisting of three extremely long "epic" instrumental songs, stories in music. And I started working on another one not too long ago which is about various mythological hounds in world mythology. :D
Now, "proper" band no. 1- T.A.N.K (Myspazz: http://www.myspace.com/anorexicnoodle)
This is not really music. I'll get that out of the way first. It's a stupidly avant-garde noise outfit where many of our songs are based on chaos (and abusing the college music studio, since that's how we started up :D) and others are based on taking a theme and running with it to extreme lengths. I do guitar, some "drums" :D, vocals, keyboard, and a lot of the computer sequencing and sampling and shite. But that said, the other guys do drums, vocals, keyboard as well... we all just make mad noise, although myself and my mate Jonah are kinda the masterminds. It'll make your ears bleed, I promise. :D Not for the faint of heart.
Now, real bands: Northern Oak (http://www.myspace.com/thenorthernoak)
This is a nature-themed folk metal band created by myself and the drummer at Uni here in Sheffield- I play all the guitars. We're still pretty young (only got properly formed in about February) and missing a bass player (but who needs bass players anyway? :D) but we're making serious headway- only got one song properly recorded, the live version of 'Aurora Diabolus' on the Myspace that isn't brilliant in quality, but we've got one gig properly confirmed on the 1st of May, another one tentatively just before that, and several other offers that we need to try and sort out. Damn you Summer holidays. :D
And secondly (and lastly, for those of you wondering how long this post is going to go on), AXIA (http://www.myspace.com/axiarocks)
Japanese rock- we primarily play covers of J-Rock songs (that few people know, so they assume they're original :D) but we've got one original song done recently and there's another couple written. I joined them as lead guitarist back in December and had about two weeks to practice for a couple of gigs :D I'm the guy with the Gibson Flying V, although it ain't the best picture on the Myspace. I like this one from our last gig:
(http://nekuramanji.googlepages.com/Rifflicious.jpg)
Yummy, Bare Knuckle Painkiller :D
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You put me to shame :( .
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Hey, it ain't my fault I'm a band whore. :D In other news, there's now a live version of our first original song up on the AXIA myspace, and we're working on getting some nice video footage put together as well.
Rock. :D
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Your avatar looks like he has either found a tasty doughnut and is salivating or is shouting at a CD for some obscure reason.
You can't beat a little ambiguity :wink: .
It was meant to be a CD but I think the doughnut idea is more apt. :lol:
BTW mixing is done and the tracks are now up on myspace if anyone's interested. Any constructive feedback would be appreciated - either on the music or the page as a whole.
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My dream band would be a 5 piece fusion/jazz/metal/prog band with me on guitar and keys 8) ...
But it's so frustrating.. I'm totally with you maverick, It's so hard to get a good band together when everyone's so goddamn shite! I'm planning on studying at the Australian Institute of Music when I leave school, and I might meet some good players there, but I don't wanna wait that long...
It's not fair!:cry::cry::cry:
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Oh, and +1 on Green Day... :wink:
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My current band is a lefty punk band. No american accents, no posturing, just songs about things that matter. I've only joined recently, was a fan beforehand, off to europe later in the year, fun and games.
www.myspace.com/acidtonguefifife
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my current project is just me doing weird instrumental music.
http://www.myspace.com/marklondon
no bareknuckles yet..but soon..