SEEKING
Vocalist, Bass Guitar, Drums, Other Percussion, Violin, Trumpet, Saxophone, Keyboard, Piano, Background Singer, Flute, Other, Trombone, Bagpipes, Upright bass, Cello, Accordion, Electronic Music.ABOUT
Main point: I'm looking for people to create new music. I have no idea what this will turn into until it happens. My focus isn't on making quick money playing cover tunes.
Details: My main instrument is guitar and I play a variety of them. Your main instrument is something that is NOT guitar. Anything. Keyboards, Bass, Percussion, Winds, Strings, Ethnic...any instrument that is not guitar. Looking for different instruments played by people who think differently than guitarists.
- Screen name:
- RT2012
- Member since:
- Mar 19 2012
- Active over 1 month ago
- Level of commitment:
- Committed
- Years playing music:
- 30
- Gigs played:
- Over 100
- Tend to practice:
- More than 3 times per week
Influences
My favorite approach is that of the progressive rock bands of the early and mid 1970's. I like combining a variety of sounds, styles and ideas.
I've listened to a lot of music over a lot of years. I have studied and played along with recordings of all of the following bands and solo artists. These are the ones that stuck with me:
Progressive Rock (Prog)- Frank Zappa. Pink Floyd, ELP, Yes, Jethro Tull, Focus, Others
Classic Rock- Beatles, Stones, Who, Doors, Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, Jimi Hendrix, Others
Rock 'n' roll- Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Gene Vincent, Others
Country- Hank Williams Sr., Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson
Folk- Bob Dylan, Fairport Convention, and some of the better Americana I've heard in recent years
Various others randomly- Ravi Shankar, L. Shankar, Traditional Irish music, Santana, Reverend Horton Heat, Stray Cats, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Victor Wooten, Stevie Wonder, Looping, Instrumental music from various countries and centuries, Les Paul, Django Reinhardt/Stephane Grappeli/Hot club of France, Joe Pass, John McLaughlin, Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, Robert Johnson, Tom Waits, Kate Bush, Bruce Lee, Mariachi bands, Sinatra, Jack White, Louis Prima, Early Van Halen, Deep Purple, Buddha, Schopenhauer, Neitzsche, Camus, Salvador Dali, Steven Chandler, Ajahn Brahm, Escher, Bill Burr, Doug Stanhope, Patton Oswalt, David Cross, Eddie Pepitone, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Mel Brooks. People I've met. People I've read. People I've heard. Places I've been. Where I am now.
EQUIPMENT
Plenty
