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just wondering...

i've been playing guitar for years now
i recently gave up on playing in bands
but im still recording my own music at home
all instrumental stuff mostly inspired by Steve Vai and Joe Satriani

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both feet on the ground won't get you anywhere..

I've played the guitar for about 12 years now. Since I started college I haven't had much time to play, so I've been slacking fr a few years now, but I still pick it up every now and then. After all, my grandfather left me '66 J45 Gibson acoustic and I just can't let it sit in the case for too long without opening it to smell that mahogany rosewood mix.
Dragon Fire plays the guitar too. I'm pretty sure he's more deticated than I am though. He'll probably be stopping in once he gets wind of this topic.

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Climhazzard is the timeless evil robot who runs some of the cool stuff at CoN (mostly logging chat, since there are no quizzes at the moment), all the while watching and waiting for his moment to take over the world. -Tiddles

I've been playing trumpet for 6 years, and drums for 5, though the latter is definately my main thing. Like to learn to play others, but I'm not good with fingers
I'm not in any bands right now, but my friend and I did a few recording at the end of the summer just for fun, improvised a few songs on the spot with his church's equipment. I think this should work:
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=130403256266
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=130404531266
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=130405171266

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I fear my heart and fear my soul
Life goes on, it surely will,
Without me and I wonder:
Will I ever see light again?

Life goes on...

Sherick, I didn't know you played the drums. You live in Texas don't you? If so, what part? I bet I know some a few musicians who could use a good drummer.

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Climhazzard is the timeless evil robot who runs some of the cool stuff at CoN (mostly logging chat, since there are no quizzes at the moment), all the while watching and waiting for his moment to take over the world. -Tiddles

Northeast of Houston, near Humble.

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I fear my heart and fear my soul
Life goes on, it surely will,
Without me and I wonder:
Will I ever see light again?

Life goes on...

LOL, I read the Northeast part and was like "oh cool!" and then you said Houston. Haha, I live in Texarkana so it's quite a drive for you or the others to get something started.

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Climhazzard is the timeless evil robot who runs some of the cool stuff at CoN (mostly logging chat, since there are no quizzes at the moment), all the while watching and waiting for his moment to take over the world. -Tiddles

i dont do anything with bands or any of that but i do play the ocarina. i used to play piano, and a lil steel drums.

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Quote (Sephiroth @ 18th November 2009 19:20)

Dragon Fire plays the guitar too. I'm pretty sure he's more deticated than I am though. He'll probably be stopping in once he gets wind of this topic.

You, sir, need to stop predicting which threads I am going to be posting in with the odd accuracy that you do. It's getting out of hand, I'm starting to suspect telepathy.

Music! Ah, my life-blood. I've been playing the guitar since I was roughly 9 years old, which equates to roughly 14 years. It is and always has been my weapon-of-choice, and without meaning to brag, I think I've gotten quite good at it over the years. I own several, including a Gibson SG Special and an Eric Clapton signature series Fender Telecaster; a restoration of the 1979 model. I've also a small love for the bass, which I've been playing for along the lines of seven or eight years, though never very seriously.

I've been experimenting with synthesizers, pianos and any sort of keyboard I could get my hands on for some time now, as well. My initial musical training was on a piano and I never got back on the saddle until just recently. I own a baritone ukulele which, for all intents and purposes, is mainly for me to goof around on, but still a very interesting instrument and lots of fun to play.

Though I'm no means very skilled, I can also hold a solid beat on a drum-kit, from having been around them for as long as I have. (I've been in several bands, some even relatively successful in the eastern Canadian hardcore scene, at least well enough to have been on tour!)

There are other instruments I've fiddled with (hurr!) but not seriously enough to merit any mention. Suffice it to say that I'll play any instrument I can get my hands on. At the moment, I mainly play for my own enjoyment (and on several occasions, the enjoyment of the CoNchat regulars.) though I'm always looking for new musical projects to keep me busy.

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Okay, but there was a goat!

My primary instruments are piano and saxophone. I love to play the Bari Sax, but since I do not have one and they cost at least a couple thousand dollars (for a good one), I'll just have to stick with Alto for now...

I kinda-sorta play drums, as in I know the proper technique, but I can't adequately execute it. I always play drums on Rock Band, though those don't really count...

I have also dabbled a little bit with trumpet and trombone. I picked up a guitar once just long enough to pluck out the opening notes of Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters".

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Quote (Sephiroth @ 18th November 2009 23:20)

After all, my grandfather left me '66 J45 Gibson acoustic and I just can't let it sit in the case for too long without opening it to smell that mahogany rosewood mix.

WOW a J45 Gibson acoustic!
thats a really nice instrument, a true vintage classic!
your grandfather must have liked you a lot!



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both feet on the ground won't get you anywhere..

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Quote (Sephiroth @ 18th November 2009 23:20)

After all, my grandfather left me '66 J45 Gibson acoustic and I just can't let it sit in the case for too long without opening it to smell that mahogany rosewood mix.

WOW a J45 Gibson acoustic!
thats a really nice instrument, a true vintage classic!
your grandfather must have liked you a lot!

The image quality on my iPhone isn't great unless I take the photos out doors, but I wanted to show you an un-enhanced image so you could see the good condition the guitar is still in after 43 years.
When my grandfather passed away he left the guitar to my mom. Three years later, at age 11 I picked up on playing guitar and she gave me the Gibson for my high school graduation present. My grandfather paid $900 for it with the original case in 1966. As you can see, I still have the original case. I'm not really sure what the guitar is worth. I know it's above $3,000 in it's condition and with the original case, but I'll NEVER sell it anyway so I guess it doesn't matter.

Sorry for that DF, haha! We've been on the same forum for so many years it's hard for me to forget who has similar interests with me. I remembered that we discussed Coheed and Cambria in a topic years ago and you had expressed a huge love for them, so that was the basis of the first prediction.
When I opened this thread it reminded me of back when Dimebag Darrell was killed and you said you had met him in person before he died, told him he was a huge inspiration to you, and he replied with "Keep shredding."
I may not remember what people say well, but I do remember what I read well, so when the right thing is said, I'm just subject to pop off something from a four year old topic that someone here said. Isn't it creepy?









This post has been edited by Sephiroth on 19th November 2009 20:41

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Climhazzard is the timeless evil robot who runs some of the cool stuff at CoN (mostly logging chat, since there are no quizzes at the moment), all the while watching and waiting for his moment to take over the world. -Tiddles

Sir, I don't know instruments all that well, but I would sleep with your guitar.

Just saying.

I used to play music, and I regret not doing it anymore. I played Trombone for some ridiculous reason for like 4 years. I never liked it and didn't stick with it. I wish I would have gone for the violin Recently, I've started checking out a drum circle that sort of fell into my weekly routine, and aside from being, for me anyway, no more than keeping a beat, it's pretty fun.

That being said, I took a music appreciation course, and of all the classes I took in college so far, it was the one that was most successful in it's mission statement- that is, teaching me to appreciate music- and so, while I'm a philistine in this area, I stand in awe of people who can play.

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It's an illusion, and you're in-between.
Don't you be tarot-fied,
It's just alot of nothing, so what can it mean?
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Plenty of musical types here! Though, I would've figured as much.

At any rate, I've been playing the piano loosely for about 6 or so years now, but have been purely doing it for fun. I actually started playing piano simply so I could learn to play Aeris' Theme, which I can now! Lately my friend and I have started our own game music cover band and have been working on stuff with that. We've only finished one song, from Earthbound, but are working on a piece from Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen.

More seriously I've been training vocally for about 7 years and am a trained tenor, or at least getting there. Need to clean up my top and getting the baritone-ness out of my voice. But yeah, I've been performing in musicals and opera for the past 5 or 6 years now, and it's been a blast. Currently I'm doing Webber's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and plan to audition for Urinetown, so that'll keep me busy in the coming months.

And that's about it. I've toyed with a guitar, but don't own one so I've been unable to stick with it and practice, and I REALLY want to purchase a cello, since I adore the instrument and want to learn to play it quite desperately before I die.

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Games on the Go
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy: Four Warriors of Light
Baldur's Gate

Too much to play, so little time!

Greg

Quote (Perigryn @ 19th November 2009 22:00)

At any rate, I've been playing the piano loosely for about 6 or so years now, but have been purely doing it for fun. I actually started playing piano simply so I could learn to play Aeris' Theme, which I can now! Lately my friend and I have started our own game music cover band and have been working on stuff with that. We've only finished one song, from Earthbound, but are working on a piece from Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen.

That's really awesome! My girlfriend has been playing the piano all her life, and I've tried to learn it, since I started college, from her, but I just don't have time to do it. My original motivation was to be able to play all the video game piano collections I hear, but for now I make her do it for me. She thinks it's silly, but of course, she humors me because she know how passionate I am about finally fantasy music on the guitar and piano.
Seriously though, she is really amazing. She's from South Korea, where her mother makes her living teaching in a piano school that she owns (her mom has a degree in piano). She grew up on a piano chair basically, and now she has scholarships at our college where she is the head music teacher's star student. We go to symphonies and piano concerts at the theatre downtown and at the music hall in the college a lot, and she loves every minute of it. Of course, I enjoy it because it gives me the excuse to put on a suit and tie, but there is no concert that I have been to that can compare to the Dear Friends; Music from Final Fantasy show I had the pleasure of attending just before the tour finished. I'd give a thousand dollars to relive that day.
Anyway, I'm glad to see someone else is inspired to play music for the same reasons. It really is a shame that more people can't appreciate the genius that is video game music, instead of shunning it and saying nerd this and that.

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Climhazzard is the timeless evil robot who runs some of the cool stuff at CoN (mostly logging chat, since there are no quizzes at the moment), all the while watching and waiting for his moment to take over the world. -Tiddles

Quote (Dragon_Fire @ 19th November 2009 03:45)

I own several, including a Gibson SG Special

You're gonna make me cry Jav. I have an irrational and irresponsible dislike for the SG.

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I find your lack of faith disturbing...

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Quote (Sephiroth @ 18th November 2009 23:20)

After all, my grandfather left me '66 J45 Gibson acoustic and I just can't let it sit in the case for too long without opening it to smell that mahogany rosewood mix.

WOW a J45 Gibson acoustic!
thats a really nice instrument, a true vintage classic!
your grandfather must have liked you a lot!

The image quality on my iPhone isn't great unless I take the photos out doors, but I wanted to show you an un-enhanced image so you could see the good condition the guitar is still in after 43 years.
When my grandfather passed away he left the guitar to my mom. Three years later, at age 11 I picked up on playing guitar and she gave me the Gibson for my high school graduation present. My grandfather paid $900 for it with the original case in 1966. As you can see, I still have the original case. I'm not really sure what the guitar is worth. I know it's above $3,000 in it's condition and with the original case, but I'll NEVER sell it anyway so I guess it doesn't matter.

thnx for posting Sephiroth!

sure looks like she´s in excellent condition
(nice 2-tone sunburst...)
i can only imagine how she sounds
i always liked the warm, full sound of Gibson acoustics
but this guitar has been played from 1966 wich means (for instuments of this class) it should even sound better now than it did back than
as intensive playing really makes the used woods come 'alive'

yes, it should be worth between $3,000 and $4,000 in this condition but i think it's worth way more to you.. i wouldn't sell it eighter, just keep it in the family and maybe pass it on to your own kids someday
till that day enjoying every minute to be the proud owner of a really wonderfull instrument...



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both feet on the ground won't get you anywhere..

Quote (Dragon_Fire @ 19th November 2009 08:45)

Music! Ah, my life-blood. I've been playing the guitar since I was roughly 9 years old, which equates to roughly 14 years.  It is and always has been my weapon-of-choice, and without meaning to brag, I think I've gotten quite good at it over the years. I own several, including a Gibson SG Special and an Eric Clapton signature series Fender Telecaster; a restoration of the 1979 model. I've also a small love for the bass, which I've been playing for along the lines of  seven or eight years, though never very seriously.

At the moment, I mainly play for my own enjoyment (and on several occasions, the enjoyment of the CoNchat regulars.) though I'm always looking for new musical projects to keep me busy.

you seem very passionate about music
makes me wonder what music you're into
what do you like to play and listen?

nice.. a Clapton Tele...
i played one of his sig. strats once
(i owned a Tele but i prefer Strats)
but couldn't affort it

for my own recordings i also bought a cheap bass
im not really skilled but i also love to play it..

so... busy with any musical projects now?
& do you record your music?

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PLEASE stop double-posting. I've had to warn you for this twice now. -R51

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both feet on the ground won't get you anywhere..

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i always liked the warm, full sound of Gibson acoustics
but this guitar has been played from 1966 wich means (for instuments of this class) it should even sound better now than it did back than
as intensive playing really makes the used woods come 'alive'

That's exactly right. I don't think there is anyway to express how great the sound is. Since I graduated high school and got this guitar (2004), every acoustic I have played has sounded like crap, haha. I'm just too used to my Gibson.
It really does make the wood 'come alive' like you say to be so old, but every time I open the case the rose wood/mahogany smell engulfs and swallows my senses. It really amazes me how after so many years it still has that fresh wood smell.
Wanna see me go insane? Try to smoke around it! LOL.

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Climhazzard is the timeless evil robot who runs some of the cool stuff at CoN (mostly logging chat, since there are no quizzes at the moment), all the while watching and waiting for his moment to take over the world. -Tiddles

For the last 9 years I have played acoustic, I have a Taylor 310 ce my second guitar after a really generic fender acoustic. I recently bought a Gibson SG, which I love. To be honest I will always like the acoustic sound more than the electric, but I love Weezer and they use the humbuckers and Gibson almost always has those built in. I like the action on the SG, but I hate how it falls out of tune so much. So overall 10 years experience, but I tend to sing more than play. I've been in a couple of bands, nothing too serious. I do however hope to get something serious going when I move. I'm in the market for a flying V (yes I realize its entirely a vanity guitar). I have been writing for about the last 4 years, what do you guys use to record? I have been using an maudio fast track, and Garage band. It makes macs make sense for me (an avid pc gamer).

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I played piano for about 8 or 9 years, quitting during high school. I picked up mallet keyboards and other percussion durring middle school, and played extensively in school bands, marching band, and winter drumline throughout high school and my first two years of college.

I still fool around with the practice xylophone that I bought after years of renting from a local music store, and I can still play most of my favorite piano pieces ("To Zanarkand" is a popular one, my mom keeps asking me to play it when she gets nostalgic), but for now I've put the sticks and sheet music away.

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I've played piano for, ah, many years. I played bass guitar for a couple and tinkered with the trombone in school band for a year or two. Piano is by far my favorite instrument, and I still play it pretty regularly even though my days with lessons are over.

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("To Zanarkand" is a popular one, my mom keeps asking me to play it when she gets nostalgic)

Oh yes, I play that on piano all the time!

Mostly I'm involved with vocal music. My school has a fantastic concert choir, of which I am a member, and a show choir.

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DP, how awesome that your school has a good concert choir. In community college we had a bunch of music groups but no choir. Are you in high school or college? What school do you attend?

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Climhazzard is the timeless evil robot who runs some of the cool stuff at CoN (mostly logging chat, since there are no quizzes at the moment), all the while watching and waiting for his moment to take over the world. -Tiddles

I was raised on music. I knew the beats to Beatles tunes before I knew my alphabet thanks to my Father. As for what I listen to, well, I have very eclectic tastes. I was raised in a house that predominately adored classic rock, Motown-era soul music and classic crooners like Dean Martin and Sinatra.

I was born in the late 80's, so I inherited that era's love for over-produced pop music, new wave and essentially anything with a catchy hook. I grew into a metal phase, a screamo and hardcore phase, electronica and house music, indie, experimental stuff and post-rock, and from there, well, anything. Hell, I even love broadway style musicals. Honestly, the only exceptions to what I listen to are the vast majority of 90's grunge and most country music. What I play reflects on what I listen to and generally the mood that I'm in. Sometimes, a little Spanish style flamenco, sometimes endless arpeggios and power-chords on a drop-tuned electric and everything in-between. Video game music included! I've been influenced by everyone from Led Zeppelin to Animal Collective. Pantera, Run DMC to MGMT, Taking Back Sunday to Between The Buried and Me. Really, anything at all, so long as it's made with some passion.

I prefer Telecasters to Strats because I feel like they have a much warmer sustain and while the Stratocaster might have a brighter tone, I absolutely love the bluesy sort of sound I get out of mine.

I do record a lot of material and have for a long time. Work I've done with the bands I've been in, solo work I've done for the fun of it, anything really. As to the question of software; I use a mix and match of plenty of programs and VSTi plug-ins. Adobe Audition, Acoustica Mixcraft, FL Studio, Amplitude and several of it's independent plug-ins and for a brief period, Cool Edit Pro.

I mainly record through a DI connected to my laptop and use various patches and virtual equalizers for the previously mentioned programs to play with my sound. Even my acoustic guitar, an Ibanez V-series, has an onboard pre-amp.

It's as much fun for me to play with recording software and gear as it is to actually play the instruments.



p.s. Nate, would it make you feel better if I used it to record a cover of Soulja Boy's Kiss Me Thru The Phone?



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Okay, but there was a goat!

Wow DF, your music taste is identical to mine! And you accused me of telepathy.
I'm really into pop 'n lock and boogaloo dancing too. If you are as well then I might get creeped out.

This post has been edited by Sephiroth on 21st November 2009 15:29

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Climhazzard is the timeless evil robot who runs some of the cool stuff at CoN (mostly logging chat, since there are no quizzes at the moment), all the while watching and waiting for his moment to take over the world. -Tiddles

There's a lot of talented people here on CoN. I'm definitely not one of them.

I've played guitar off and on for five or so years, but I cracked the neck in my latest house moving and now I have to borrow my friend's to play. There's on open-mic night at a pub I sometimes go to, and I've always imagined myself playing Robert Burns, Elvis or The Animals there sometime. I really enjoy playing and singing Bring It On Home To Me, A Man's A Man For A' That and others on my own, but I don't think I'll ever do it there. It's not that I'm not confident enough to sing on the stage, it's just that I don't practice enough and therefore I'm not good enough, simply.

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Scepticism, that dry rot of the intellect, had not left one entire idea in his mind.

Me on the Starcraft.

*grins*
I'm surprised this thread wasn't made sooner!

Seeing as how I want to be a conductor (that is, if my first choice career [director for stage] doesn't work out), it's pretty safe to assume that I love music.
I also consider myself an amateur musical instrument collector of sorts.

Due to an overly busy schedule, I stopped taking piano lessons two years ago. I play fairly often, but sitting down with a piece of sheet music and learning how to play it has not appealed to me very much as of late; I greatly prefer to either write my own music or make alternate arrangements of existing pieces (I'm currently in the process of perfecting an arrangement of the AVGN theme song for woodwind quartet and accordion).

As for the instruments I play, they're somewhat separated into tiers:
High Tier (the ones I've been playing for longest, and am therefore best at) is piano and clarinet.
Middle Tier (haven't played for as long, but still decent at) is accordion, tenor sax, and bass clarinet. I also sing, but I haven't taken lessons for very long, and since I'm a baritone, it's a tad difficult to find popular pieces in my range.
Low Tier (the ones I happen to have laying around the house, and dabble in, although I'm no virtuoso at any of them) is guitar (and, by extension, bass guitar [I've played it when making music with friends, although I don't own one]), Puerto Rican cuatro, harmonica, recorder, and Irish feadóg. I've also made a set of pan flutes out of PVC pipe; they're not quite perfect, and I'm going to try again one of these days, as well as experiment with different size pipes.


There's also a list of instruments I hope to acquire sometime in the future:
Although they're not at the top of my list of instruments to buy, an alto and/or bari sax would be pretty neat to get at some point.
My bass clarinet is pretty damn old, and although I've brought it in for repairs several times, the high register is still wonky. I could really go for a new one, although like most woodwind instruments, they can get really expensive (oddly enough, I got my tenor sax for a surprisingly cheap price [and it's actually fairly good quality - go figure], but I digress).
I've been meaning to get an ocarina. I got one of those blue, porcelain, Ocarina Of Time-esque ones advertised in Nintendo Power years and years ago, although I was young and stupid, and it broke fairly easily. The local Mom & Pop music shop sells various ocarinas, and I'll likely pick one up on my next trip there. Here we have several different kinds of double ocarinas - basically two ocarinas merged into one. They're awesome as all hell, but cheap they ain't.
This same Mom & Pop shop has a bass recorder in the window - I'd love to at the very least try it out.
I would also like an acoustic-electric bass guitar.

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YOU CARRY
EAT A BAG
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IN A BEAR
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I really LOVE to play metal. This kind of music is in my blood, I cannot run away from such a wonderful feeling!

Anyways, I am a heavy metal drummer with 3 years of self-taught experience. My favorite drummer of all time (and the reason why I started playing) is none other than John Bonham of Led Zeppelin.

Mostly influenced by many bands like:
-Cloven Hoof
-Satan
-Angel Witch
-Iron Maiden
-Saxon
-Demon
-Def Leppard (On Through the Night/High 'N' Dry only)
-Judas Priest
-Motorhead
-Black Sabbath
-Megadeth
-Metallica (Kill 'em all/Ride the Lightning only)
-Anthrax
-Pantera (Power Metal/Cowboys From Hell only)
-Disturbed (The 80s underground thrash metal band called Disturbed, not the crappy nu-metal one we all know of)
-Slipknot (80s crossover/thrash band, not the nu-metal asshats from Iowa)
-Death
-Possessed
-Venom
-Dimmu Borgir
-Diamond Head
etc...

Also, I have some years of messing around with guitar/bass/piano, so I could play them half as good as a guitarist/bassist/pianist's experience for atleast a year or two. I also love playing around with whammy bars to produce my interpretations of Dimebag squeals.

\m/

I
LOVE
TO
PLAY
PIANO
!!!!

I also sing in a choir, and I'm also going to try out for our school play. Which happens to be a musical. I, in my family, happen to the most musically talented. Vanessa Carlton's talent has finally rubbed off on me~

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Quote (The-Queen-of-Pink-Bunnies @ 30th December 2009 23:50)

I also sing in a choir, and I'm also going to try out for our school play. Which happens to be a musical.

Which musical? I'm currently working in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, which is good times, and the cast is thankfully very Donny Osmond-less.

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Games on the Go
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy: Four Warriors of Light
Baldur's Gate

Too much to play, so little time!

Greg

I'm a general musician.
I have a acoustic guitar, an electric, and a bass. I wish I had a keyboard so I could get proficient at piano, but that's not in my budget right now.
I'm going to consider myself a bass player, although I love all instruments. I'm currently taking voice training so I can get proficient at singing.

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