SEEKING
Band to Join, Vocalist, Acoustic Guitar, Bass Guitar, Drums, Other Percussion, Violin, Keyboard, Background Singer, Harmonica, Mandolin, Dobro.ABOUT
I just moved to the Elmhurst area after living on the West coast for a while. I just opened this bandmix account after stumbling on it upon the net. If you want to contact me, then just email directly at jwsouthland. I have a free bandmix account, so it blocks out the rest of my email. It's a account. I don't know too many people here yet except family members, but I do know how to party and play music. I'm looking for a drummer and a bassist right now, just to see what musical direction our energy and chemistry takes us. I am extremely creative and have no musical boundaries, so I like to play more than the genres listed here, but it only allows you to choose 3. My style in playing is just as eclectic as the style I listen to. I take a little bit of something from all types of music, as long as it's real. Most of my lead guitar work is blues, or bluesy rock. I also play minor harmonic hard rock leads, which go well with a lot of types of music as well. I guess if I had to put playing styles in order of enjoyment, it would go something like this:
1.experimental rock
2.blues/blues rock
3.classic rock
4.modern hard rock/metal(not thrash)
5.reggae
6.acoustic
As I said before, I'm not limited to these, and I like playing jam-type music and seeing where the musicians I'm playing with take me. I'm not flaky or egotistical, and I don't try to steal the show. I like complimenting the music with a guitar, not letting the guitar take the place of my dick. My level of commitment would depend on how well we play and get along.
- Screen name:
- J.W.theguitarist
- Member since:
- Oct 16 2007
- Active over 1 month ago
- Level of commitment:
- Committed
- Years playing music:
- 8
- Gigs played:
- Under 10
- Tend to practice:
- More than 3 times per week
- Available to gig:
- 2-3 nights a week
- Most available:
- Nights
Influences
Bear with me--I'm going to include all the musical influences I have as well as music I like:
Slash, Jimmy Page, all the other cliche'd guitar heroes (Hendrix, Clapton), Willie Nelson, Guns 'N' Roses, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Sublime, Slightly Stoopid, some other reggae, The Mars Volta, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Black Sabbath, AFI, Gordon Lightfoot, Ray Charles, Muddy Waters, Leadbelly, some 90's grunge, The Doors, Zeppelin, Robert Plant's solo stuff, Almost anything from Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, The Offspring, Beck, 3-11, Grateful Dead, Bob Seger, The Rolling Stones, CCR, Flogging Molly, RHCP, Simon & Garfunkel, The Black Keys, Canned Heat, White Stripes, Janis Joplin, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, lots of other random soul music, Johnny Cash, lots of random old country acts,
The reason I listed all of these is so you know my primary listening background and what music I've heard of.
EQUIPMENT
Marshall 100 watt 30th anniversary tube amplifier head
Marshall 1960BV half-stack speaker cabinet (However, I'm selling this half-stack and head, and have an Orange AD30TC combo amp on its way).
1967 Guild Mark IV classical guitar
2004 Gibson Les Paul Standard
2002 Gibson Les Paul Junior Special
2001 Martin DM acoustic
1935 Cromwell acoustic
2006 Morris acoustic (bought in Japan)
1960's reissue reverse headstock Strat(on Layaway)
various electric guitar effects
