This should be interesting

[BloodThirstyGuillotine]

Well, be and my best friends started a band earlier in the year. We have one common interest, that's Coheed and Cambria. But check out our myspace's influences list:

Me:
The Fall of Troy, Hot Cross, The Mars Volta, Coheed and Cambria, Gospel, City of Caterpillar, Love Like... Electrocution, Saetia, Tera Melos, Circle Takes the Square

Joe:
Blind Guardian, Nightwish, Sonata Arctica, Amon Amarth, Opeth, Demons and Wizards, Elvenking, Coheed and Cambria

Ron:
Coheed And Cambria, Protest The Hero, 30 Seconds To Mars, Rise Against, Funeral For A Friend, Nightwish, Blind Guardian


We have a fourth member now, but anyway, yeah, there is really no reason for me to post this. I just thought it was funny while looking at it.

Our music tastes are ENTIRELY different, and I'm not sure how much room can be made for compromise (Joe would never play anything remotely close to Saetia, I wouldn't play anything close to Nightwish or Sonata Arctica. Ron's the only one who will play about anything).


Anyway, any of you have any ideas on how we can colaborate all of our styles together, w/out feeling like we're playing a style of music we don't wanna play?

[myown]

each week one member writes and original and a practice everyone writes his or her own parts

that how new genres and sub genres get started

[Alive]

Our music tastes are ENTIRELY different, and I'm not sure how much room can be made for compromise (Joe would never play anything remotely close to Saetia, I wouldn't play anything close to Nightwish or Sonata Arctica. Ron's the only one who will play about anything).


How are they entirely different?

And if you wouldn't play anything apart from one, tiny type of music (and presumeably wouldn't listen to anything else) then you are an ignorant fool.

[pitchfork]

Youir music tastes are pretty similar i would say.
All sorta in the emo/hardcore/pop punk/metal ish kinda genres.

But one thing I will say, make your self original, music companies won't buy into a tapped market, they are always looking for the next big thing.

[BloodThirstyGuillotine]

How are they entirely different?

And if you wouldn't play anything apart from one, tiny type of music (and presumeably wouldn't listen to anything else) then you are an ignorant fool.

No I play other styles. I would just have more fun playing the style of music I like the most. I play stuff like Jazz, Blues, Metal, and more.

[cadencethefire]

Well, be and my best friends started a band earlier in the year. We have one common interest, that's Coheed and Cambria. But check out our myspace's influences list:

Me:
The Fall of Troy, Hot Cross, The Mars Volta, Coheed and Cambria, Gospel, City of Caterpillar, Love Like... Electrocution, Saetia, Tera Melos, Circle Takes the Square

Joe:
Blind Guardian, Nightwish, Sonata Arctica, Amon Amarth, Opeth, Demons and Wizards, Elvenking, Coheed and Cambria

Ron:
Coheed And Cambria, Protest The Hero, 30 Seconds To Mars, Rise Against, Funeral For A Friend, Nightwish, Blind Guardian


We have a fourth member now, but anyway, yeah, there is really no reason for me to post this. I just thought it was funny while looking at it.

Our music tastes are ENTIRELY different, and I'm not sure how much room can be made for compromise (Joe would never play anything remotely close to Saetia, I wouldn't play anything close to Nightwish or Sonata Arctica. Ron's the only one who will play about anything).


Anyway, any of you have any ideas on how we can colaborate all of our styles together, w/out feeling like we're playing a style of music we don't wanna play?


make good music, don't let talent get the best of you (assuming you are talented). you don't always need to riff all the time, make music with the intent of someone singing with it, not over it.

[pitchfork]

Yeah and anyways lots of bands are into different music, doesn't prevent them being good.
It's great to incorporates those genres in your music cause if you're doing the same thing all the time, who wants to know after a while?

[xizoesira]

If someone held a gun to my head and said, "Make an overgeneral statement!", I would say that varied tastes make a group better.

[pitchfork]

Piss off, just because you wanna hear the same crap every day doesn't mean everyone else wants to, loads of famous groups love loads of different music.
And any musician worth their salt is versatile so it shouldn't even be an issue.

[the_uber_penguin]

If someone held a gun to my head and said, "Make an overgeneral statement!", I would say that varied tastes make a group better.

I'd say that water is wet...

But yes, my band of 5 years has three members all into completely different things, but all open minded enough to play something different to what we'd normally listen to as well.

It works an absolute treat.

[cadencethefire]

If someone held a gun to my head and said, "Make an overgeneral statement!", I would say that varied tastes make a group better.

That's a really nice thing to say.