[QUOTE=thickasabrick]Usually when people act modest, that means they are good. What do you play? (I'm sure I've asked you this before). And what kinda songs do you guys write (if you can go more into subgenres)?

edit- I mean what do you play as an instrument.[/QUOTE]
Sometimes people are just that way because they aren't good. Regardless I wish you could just hear us and decide for yourself.

I play the drums.

Well I'll try to give you an Idea of our writing. The first song we wrote I would call hard blues based rock. It has pretty memorable guitar riffs, and two guitar solos (one medium one short (although the short one has been developped alot and has become more of a medium length solo). No chorus, the lyrics tell a sort of incredibly short story/fable. about 4-5 minutes long.

Another one of our songs songs though is softer, sort of acoustic guitar feel,
simple drum and bass parts. There's a short drum and bass interlude thing after the first verse and a very short, easy, but emotional type guitar solo. The guitar solo reminds me more of slow southern rock type I suppose. It's a really short song maybe 2 and a half minutes. The lyrics are well I can't really describe them we like to make fun of them (one of the guitarists wrote them and we always make fun of them, partly just because we always make fun of anything anyone does[especially him]).

One we are working on is jazz/rock fusion. Uptempo, has a bunch of different guitar parts, from a jazzy bit, to doubling on the bass, to a pretty cool punching riff and more. We also do a bit where the band does shots and each member takes turns doing short solos. Then the song takes on more of a straight rock feel and goes into what is sort of the climax. Which will feature a bass and guitar solo (at the same time) which we're working on. and then it will go back to the jazz/rock feel. All in all it's going to be our most intricate song yet, it's has a lot of neat things in it. I'm currently working on the vocal part and it'll probably be 6-7 minutes long when it's done.

But then another one of our songs that we've just started working is definitely psychadellic. think pink floyd or radiohead esque.

I thought it'd be a better idea to just describe some of our songs then to give you a genre or anything. I really want you guys to hear some of our original stuff, because i'd really like to know what you guys think of it. Sorry if some of the descriptions were bad, I can clarify anything you'd like.

[QUOTE=Livewired]Get a contract then play Call the Office, because I like that place.

EDIT-He's a drummer[/QUOTE]
We might be playing at the embassy, and we'll be playing at max silvers again in june if not sooner.

[QUOTE]heh...sounded like you directed that toward me jpj.[/QUOTE]
I was. I was comparing what happened with me and the Allmans to you and The Eagles/Synyrd.

Roger Mcguinn is playing right now "Turn Turn Turn"

Should I listen to Birth of the Dead, Live Dead, Workingman's Dead, s/t, or History of The Grateful Dead Vol. 1?

Workingman's Dead

agreed.

I would recommend WMD but I don't know anything else

How is s/t?

EDIT: I'm watching some grateful dead movie now that makes me wish more than ever that I was born some other time :upset:

But hey, at least I didn't have to live through the 80's

I don't know, I haven't listened to it yet.

NP: Uncle John's Band :cool:

Eric Burden is playing "House of the Rising Sun" :)

[QUOTE=Schyma]Eric Burden is playing "House of the Rising Sun" :)[/QUOTE]
Is it that 60's Experience thing on PBS?

Si (yes)

I saw part of that. I just remember Steppenwolfe.

I think i saw some of that or something like it. I remember randomly seeing joplin and then someone else who I can't remember play as I was flipping through channels.

:lol: Sombody tried to convince me House of the Rising Sun was a led Zeppelin song. I would have argued against it but I was too busy laughing.

[QUOTE=pigonthewing82]:lol: Sombody tried to convince me House of the Rising Sun was a led Zeppelin song. I would have argued against it but I was too busy laughing.[/QUOTE]
:lol:...



...but seriously... it is.

Yea, wut r u tolking abowt, house of teh rising sun is bi lead zepplin.

So, Casey Jones is a cool song.....

Can anyone name me some proto-punk bands? Like The Stooges or The Sex Pistols.

House of the Rising Sun is an old blues tune, the Animals just did the most popular version of it.

[QUOTE=Woodstock]Can anyone name me some proto-punk bands? Like The Stooges or The Sex Pistols.[/QUOTE]
Aren't The MC5 and The Velvet Underground proto-punk?

[QUOTE=jpjrulestheworld]So, Casey Jones is a cool song.....[/QUOTE]

That was my favorite Dead song last week. Now its Uncle Johns Band.

I think my favorite Dead song is St. Stephen or China Cat Sunflower or That's It For the Other One. I think it's between those three.

[QUOTE=jpjrulestheworld]Aren't The MC5 and The Velvet Underground proto-punk?[/QUOTE]

I think they are, although MC5 is more like god then anything else.

[QUOTE=jpjrulestheworld]So, Casey Jones is a cool song.....[/QUOTE]
drvining that train, high on cocaine.

[QUOTE=RockAndRoll]drvining that train, high on cocaine.[/QUOTE]

Casey Jones you better watch your speed.





Sorry if this isn't a sing along :upset:

[QUOTE=pigonthewing82]Casey Jones you better watch your speed.





Sorry if this isn't a sing along :upset:[/QUOTE]
Oh it's always a sing along.

Janis Joplin is on now.....nevermind

what'd she sing? cry baby?

[QUOTE=Schyma]Janis Joplin is on now.....nevermind[/QUOTE]

Janis Joplin is great, shes like the forgotten icon. I don't know why so few people know her now.