henry483905 + Musician in Rye, NY

SEEKING

ABOUT

I'm here to find good musicians to play with. I graduated last May from Wesleyan University with an honors degree in music. Currently I'm living in Rye, New York (about 45 minutes from NYC). I play lead guitar for Trapped In Static, and Ray Mazza and the Gutter Bandits . I also started up a band with a good bassist and drummer playing a lot of originals I write, which is pretty experimental, and rockin'. We really just need to find a great keyboardist, which has proven pretty hard to do and there does not seem to be many good keyboardists with similar sensibilities on this site. So yeah, trying to get that project solid. While I'm playing in 3 bands currently, I'm down to jam with people and join another band if I like the music. I love a band of crvise and reative, talented musicians who can improeally listen to perform and add their sensibilities to songs I've written. I play rock (postrock, experimental, metal (sludge/stoner/thrash), psychedelic, classic, indi, prog, punk etc.), jazz, bluegrass, funk, folk and some Javanese Gamelan, Hindustani, Bossa Nova, and Zimbabwean and Guinean guitar. I love to jam and play experimental music and to fuse styles. I'm looking for talented musicians who can play out there sh*t and can listen, who know when to play minimalist and when to rock out. lookin' for tastiness over virtuosity but still definitely talent. My songs here aren't great quality. They are from a show I played last April with my band from school Anaphylactic Shock. I write a lot of originals, but I also love playing cover songs.

Screen name:

henry483905

Member since:

Jul 13 2012

Active over 1 month ago

Level of commitment:

Very Committed

Years playing music:

12

Gigs played:

50 to 100

Tend to practice:

More than 3 times per week

Available to gig:

4-5 nights a week

Most available:

Nights

Influences

Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, Modest Mouse, Sigur Ros, Mastodon, Bob Dylan, Phish, Ryan Bingham and the Dead Horses, Radiohead, Metallica, Jimi Hendrix, Railroad Earth, John Coltrane, Arcade Fire, Explosions in the Sky, Flogging Molly, Johnny Cash, John Fahey, Built to Spill, Ravi Shankar, Steve Kimock, Brad Barr, Marco Benevento, Between the Buried and Me, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Talking Heads, Green Day, Nirvana, Dropkick Murphy's, Bruce Springsteen, Isis, Chick Corea, Allman Bros, Velvet Underground, Herbie Hancock, Santana, Lamb of God, Bouncing Souls, The Offspring, Blink 182, Thursday, The Sword, Pantera, Sumarsam and Harjito, Tony Lombardozzi

my fav guitarists are: Jerry Garica, David Gilmour, Steve Kimock, Brent Hinds, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Weir, John Fahey, Isaac Brock, Brad Barr, Trey Anastasio, Wes Montgomery, James Hetfield, Dimebag Darrell, Nels Cline, Johnny Greenwood, Warren Haynes, Corby Shaub, and John Frusciante

Instrument experience:

Acoustic Guitar:

Expert

Lead Guitar:

Expert

Rhythm Guitar:

Expert

Accordion:

Moderate

Background Singer:

Moderate

Vocalist:

Moderate

EQUIPMENT

gibson es-339
effects: Earthquake devices grand orbiter phaser, vox wah, blackstar ht-dual distortion, boss blues driver, ernie ball volume, boss dd7 delay, tap footswitch, hardwire superambient verb, boss rc-20 looper,

MUSIC