if my band did an older alk3 song and we either included keys, violin, synth, or sax (we have a member who plays all 4, and he's learning more i think pretty soon), what do you guys think would be a good song to cover and what should zac use on it? he can do keys and synth together if necessary

Exploding Boy is a Cure song which has some synthesizer in it, its from Alkaline Trio.

im talking about a song the trio actually wrote...although their version of exploding boy is pretty amazing...i cant decide which ones better either...

but yeah we will more than likely cover a cure song too....maybe one of their darker songs to do something different than what every other cure cover i've ever heard. ive only heard covers of songs like lovesong and boys dont cry...zac wants to do Killing an Arab though, not really dark, but it is a cool song

Hrm, you of course have the songs from Crimson. Uhh, Crawl has a bit of keys in it at the end.

[QUOTE=HitHardDrums55]zac wants to do Killing an Arab though, not really dark, but it is a cool song[/QUOTE]


Its a pretty dark song.

I have a cover of the Hanging Garden by AFI too.

Much love for the Cure.

the afi version of hanging garden is pretty swell...havent listened to it in a while...and yes, the cure deserves MUCH love from everybody in the hizouse

but for the trio cover, i was thinking either from god dammit or self titled...maybe MICF...i dunno



does this ever happen to you guys: all my subscriptions have been deleted and now i have to search for everything again, is there a way other than searching for everything a posting in it to restore all my subscriptions? this is the 2nd time it's happened

[QUOTE=HitHardDrums55]my friend zac is better live on keys than the guy who does the keys for alk3, he actually plays every part of Time To Waste, the other guy just plays the basic notes and none of the hard stuff if any of you have seen them play it live on conan obrian[/QUOTE]

The fact that he doesn't do it live doesn't mean he can't. It might just have been part of the routine, or whatever.

The guy who plays keyboard for Alk3 told me he though your friend was sh!t

dood i was just messin around...i gotta give the guy props for writing that, it's cool as hell

but zac is practically a musical genious he can play guitar, bass, keys, sax, violin, cello, could easily learn upright bass cause its so similar to cello, several different percussion instruments, and he's about to learn drums...and he's a pretty good singer too when he tries...and he can play time to waste note for note on keys...we walked in an electronics store that had a keyboard and he started playing it and it was awesome sounding...he did admit that it was a hard song though

Did he learn Time to Waste by ear? I wanna learn how to play it.

They have the piano intro tabbed out pretty well on powertabs.net

I'm starting to like A3 a lot now.

yeah he learns everything by ear, he can't read music anymore he hasnt had lessons since he was 7 and hes 16 now

Anyone want the bonus tracks from the "Mercy Me" vinyl singles?

[URL="hxxp://s63.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=12WTAP5OYWXUV3JOOFR0VJOBFN"]Crawl (Acoustic)[/URL]
[URL="hxxp://s65.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1OU7QRLLUJ94I0AWSODHUUTKNX"]This Could Be Love (Acoustic)[/URL]

/Downloads crawl

/Can't download

the link won't work for me :upset:

/is sad

[QUOTE=Kif]Anyone want the bonus tracks from the "Mercy Me" vinyl singles?

[URL="hxxp://s63.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=12WTAP5OYWXUV3JOOFR0VJOBFN"]Crawl (Acoustic)[/URL]
[URL="hxxp://s65.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1OU7QRLLUJ94I0AWSODHUUTKNX"]This Could Be Love (Acoustic)[/URL][/QUOTE]
I'm guessing they are both from the acoustic show in London?
I know that the deluxe version of Crimson uses the Sadie from that show.

[QUOTE=Flex Of The Yellow]/Can't download

the link won't work for me

/is sad [/QUOTE]

When you click the link, look at the address, its hxxp://www.yousendit.... change the x's to t's and it'll work.

Cheers Kif!

Anyone send me buried...?

What album is Warbrain on?

warbrain is on rock against bush vol. 1

OK cheers.

Is that any good? Apart form Warbrain?

i agree with Oz...somebody get and post Buried...and someone said they had the full version of Bye Bye Love (alk3 version), who was it? i dont feel like finding it, my computer is way too slow

with yousendit...why do you have to put hxxp instead of http? anytime there is an http link it works for me...

EDIT:
[QUOTE=Polymarous]OK cheers.

Is that any good? Apart form Warbrain?[/QUOTE]
yeah, it's better than a lot of compilation CDs in my opinion...its got a re-recorded version of an Offspring song (Baghdad...used to be Terhan), the NOFX song isnt on any other CDs its really cool, i'm almost positive Jello Biafra sings one of the songs on there...it sounds a lot like him at least when my friend plays his copy in the car on the way to school...i havent looked at who all is on it in a while or listened to my copy...but if you like the bands on there then you will like most of it...plus, its about half as much as a regular CD i dont know how much that is in europe, but in the US its $7 when a full length CD is from $13-$19

Ok cheers alot. Ill check it out.

Shall I name my kid Derek?

[QUOTE=poprocks&coke]Shall I name my kid Derek?[/QUOTE]

Yes. Yes You Should.

I may adopt the surname Andriano...

poprocks&coke...make sure he starts drums when he's like 2 so he can be as good as derek grant when hes about 15 ;) and an electric drumset so he doesnt go deaf!

did u guys know derek started recording when he was 16? kinda pisses me off, im 16 and havent even got a decent band together out of trying for the 4 years ive been drumming..

Hey I didn't get a good band togather until just recently and i've been playing guitar for 8 yrs and have been playing drums for like 10.

well my only band that ever played in front of people had 2 bass players, no official singer (much less lyrics)...a friend of the guy who recruited me improvises lyrics for his band so he sang for us that was cool...and our guitarist was just getting into being straight edge after cleaning up on all the stuff he had been doing before...we had one pracitce with a show already scheduled (the old drummer bailed, and i had never heard these guys and i only knew one of them), me and the guitarist both got grounded pretty quickly after first practice and i got off restriction the day before our gig...we got kicked off stage after 3 songs and im still trying to decide if it was cause we sucked too bad and nobody liked us, or if they told the truth (it WAS at a church) and we just refused to play quieter

thats why this band is gonna take time to learn stuff before we schedule any shows or anything im kind of in charge of this band so i'll know when we're ready

[QUOTE=poprocks&coke]Shall I name my kid Derek?[/QUOTE]

No, you should name him something different, just so as you don't go along with prevailing opinion. Call it Saddam... no kid is called that.


God damn, I love taking different views from everyone else.


And what if it's a girl?



:p

[QUOTE=HitHardDrums55]well my only band that ever played in front of people had 2 bass players, no official singer (much less lyrics)...a friend of the guy who recruited me improvises lyrics for his band so he sang for us that was cool...and our guitarist was just getting into being straight edge after cleaning up on all the stuff he had been doing before...we had one pracitce with a show already scheduled (the old drummer bailed, and i had never heard these guys and i only knew one of them), me and the guitarist both got grounded pretty quickly after first practice and i got off restriction the day before our gig...we got kicked off stage after 3 songs and im still trying to decide if it was cause we sucked too bad and nobody liked us, or if they told the truth (it WAS at a church) and we just refused to play quieter

thats why this band is gonna take time to learn stuff before we schedule any shows or anything im kind of in charge of this band so i'll know when we're ready[/QUOTE]

Dude, that sounds like a pretty shi[SIZE="2"]tt[/SIZE]y first gig. Makes my band's first one sound relatively competent.

[QUOTE=billiejoe84]No, you should name him something different, just so as you don't go along with prevailing opinion. Call it Saddam... no kid is called that.


God damn, I love taking different views from everyone else.


And what if it's a girl?



:p[/QUOTE]

Dereka obviously.:rolleyes:

*sigh*

[QUOTE=billiejoe84]Dude, that sounds like a pretty shi[SIZE="2"]tt[/SIZE]y first gig. Makes my band's first one sound relatively competent.[/QUOTE]
sh!tty. but really fun anyway. and im glad i had the experience man! cause now im not scared to go on stage at all with a GOOD band, because now i know there is nothing worse than what i had.

and these guys were into hardcore/straight edge and no covers at all, needless to say i stuck to my promise of playing the upcoming gig with them, but i quit the band immediately afterward...this new one will have a trio cover or 2 and will hopefully be better than all the other bands who did trio covers that ive heard

Oooh. What covers?


I demand recordings.



Mainly as I love hearing covers of 'big band' songs. Also nobody on here ever gave a crap about hearing my band's songs from our first gig, so I try to make up for it by listening to other people's stuff.

we havent decided yet...but our singer is the only guy who isnt big into the trio...me and the keyboardist/violinist/syth guy/whatever else he will be doing for us/probably recording guy are HUGE into alk3...he'd probably be a member of mx if he had a computer that wasnt crap...when we get our stuff together we'll get it recorded though

anybody have the re-release of crimson yet?

I downloaded it. It's pretty good. Some songs are booooring though. Others, I think that they should've used instead of the ones they used now.

Dan's voice is so damn SEXY in Mercy Me.

god damn, mx deleted all of my subscriptions AGAIN...what the hell? why does it do that?

So, I learned Sadie, and I'm starting to learn the intro to Time to Waste on piano. Fun. I must have listened to Sadie 50 times this week.

Anyone know any Alk3 songs with Glenn Porter on drums?

I know he was in the original line-up, but i'm not sure how long he was there before being replaced with Derek.

[QUOTE=billiejoe84]And what if it's a girl?



:p[/QUOTE]

Sadie, obviously.

Lol.



Actually, I'm probably going to call my son Frankenstein, then he can be called Frank for short. :D