SEEKING
Band to Join, Steel guitar, Keyboard, Bass Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar, Vocalist.ABOUT
Wow, I'm kind of hard to describe musically right now. I started out doing nothing but Led Zeppelin covers, but quickly started writing my own stuff taking bits from all of my biggest influences. I'm forming a vision for a concept album. I was considering going at it alone, but decided that'd be dumb. So far the sound is all over the place. I'm trying to get a core sound rounded out, but that will be difficult without creative direction, of which I have none :).
- Screen name:
- benjaminws
- Member since:
- Apr 21 2010
- Active over 1 month ago
- Level of commitment:
- Moderately Committed
- Years playing music:
- 15
- 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
Led Zeppelin, Coheed and Cambria, The Police, Rush, Meshuggah, Bullet For My Valentine, Deftones, 311, Stevie Ray Vaugh, Andy Mckee, Antoine Dufour, Don Ross, Baroness, Scar Symmetry, Taproot, The Raconteurs, The Prize Fighter Inferno.
EQUIPMENT
My Beaters:
What it is - What I call it
First Act Acoustic - Target Missed
Epiphone Special II - Special Ed
Yamaha FG700S - Bruno
MUSIC
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The Drive Home
The Drive Home Track number: 1 Year: 2010 Genre: Acoustic
Years ago I lived in East Tennessee along the Foothills of the Smokey Mountains. Every few weeks I would take a drive up to the Foothills Parkway or the Blue Ridge Parkway simply to relax and take in the sheer beauty. More often than not I would stay long enough that it was very late at night when I’d begin the drive home. For years I had imagined writing a song expressing how it felt to drive down the mountain with all the windows down and the sunroof open with the moon shining down on me. Well, I finally got around to it and this is part of the result. This is completely raw, just me a mic and my guitar, one take and literally zero editing/mastering. Playing on my new Yamaha acoustic with newish strings and the factory setup[1], capo’d on the 4th. Enjoy! [1] It’s not bad from the factory, only slightly high action, but the neck is almost perfect!
