7gibbysinarow
CONTACT

SEEKING

Band to Join, Vocalist, Rhythm Guitar, Lead Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Bass Guitar, Drums, Keyboard, Piano, Background Singer.

ABOUT

email is: michael.e.gibbs

Just moved to Duluth, working as a driver at domino's. Time off is pretty easy to get.

I'm looking to be mostly rhythm or slow lead guitar, and singer.

I've taken two years of piano lessons, which never went anywhere, I've been playing guitar for 4 years, and I've been learning to sing. I listen to a huge variety of music, and really plan to show that in the kind of music I play.

As far as my actual style:
- Guitar: Think Deftones. I'm pretty aggressive, but I don't have the talent to write hyper melodies or intense solos.
- Singing: I have a deeper voice, but a pretty intense falsetto at the same time. I worry a lot about the emotion when I'm singing, usually more than the note I hit, but I can do most lines with some practice.
- Bass: I can only play pick bass, and I do it like a guitar. I'm not interested in a boring bass line. I quite like bass chords.

I sort of naturally take leadership of any group I end up in, but I'm not greedy about power. All that really means is that I will pretty much always voice my opinion about the direction I want to go with the music, and present songs I've written to the band. I'm not afraid of my ideas.

Really, I wanted being in a band to be more of a social experience, where I could have fun with people who like music the same way I do, something I haven't had since high school ended and I had to leave the school band.

I've been writing music for about 3 years, but without a drummer it never really goes well. I can sort of do all the other stuff, but I really like the experience of playing in a band and being able to do live stuff, even if I never get the opportunity to play any real gigs.

Screen name:
7gibbysinarow
Member since:
Nov 29 2015
Active over 1 month ago
Level of commitment:
Committed
Years playing music:
6
Gigs played:
Under 10
Tend to practice:
More than 3 times per week
Available to gig:
2-3 nights a week
Most available:
Mornings

Influences

Nirvana, Queens of the Stone Age, alt-J, AFI, Mars Volta, Pink Floyd, Band of Horses, Chelsea Wolfe, System of a Down, Active Child, Muse, Deftones, Chevelle, Hozier, My Chemical Romance, Low, Tycho, Vampire Weekend, Radiohead, Coldplay, TV On the Radio, Billy Talent, Bloc Party, Repeater, Hail The Sun, Two Door Cinema Club, Josh Ritter, Tool, Puscifer, Quiet Company, The Strokes, Thrice

Instrument experience:

Vocalist:
Moderate
Rhythm Guitar:
Moderate
Acoustic Guitar:
Moderate
Electronic Music:
Moderate
Bass Guitar:
Intermediate

EQUIPMENT

1 Fender Strat HSS style with whammy
1 Double-Humbucker 6-string guitar
1 Single Humbucker 6-string guitar with huge strings kept in low tunings
1 Acoustic/Electric 6-string guitar
1 Fuzz Pedal
1 Overdrive Pedal
1 Tremolo Pedal
1 Delay Pedal
1 Reverb Pedal
1 Chorus Pedal
1 Compression pedal
1 Noise gate
1 Small tube preamp
1 Capo
1 100W Fender Champion
More picks than I currently need

1 3/4 body four-string bass
1 20W Amp

4 boom-style mic Stands
Shure SM58 x2
Shure SM57
Audiobox M7 condenser