BAND - who wants to start one?

[ONE]

Who is interested in forming a band in the TORONTO area?

I play guitar - looking for drums, vocals and bass.

Music: rock/hard rock/alt

Age: gotta be at least 20.

[DKAnarchy53]

i play bass......... in TEXAS hahahahaha

[ONE]

Wise guy, eh? :)

Hey, maybe we can start a virtual band!

[DKAnarchy53]

hmmmmmm not a bad idea all we need is a virtual drummer and some virtual talent hahahaha

[ONE]

haha Virtual talent? I've got plenty of that!

Hey, do you think we can get some virtual groupies too? ;)

[CopperGoat]

Hey I live close to Toronto, and I play bass, but I have to be atleast 20????? I just turned 16. How old are you?

[ONE]

Older than you! a LOT older :) (by OVER 10 years)

Where do you live?

By the way, happy belated birthday! :)

[CopperGoat]

I live in Burlington, about an hour away from Toronto.

Thanx for the birthday call! :D

[Felicia]

I'm in nova scotia..... I'm 19..... the only drum I play is my djembe (african hand drum...)....... guess I can't be of service, lol :D :P

[chamo]

I'll come round your house with some trance tracks, whistles and sirens, lasers and flashy gimmicks.

[strike any where]

i play guitar and sing, but i live about hour an half or 2 hours away from Toronto.

[ONE]

HOLY, this whole site changed!!! I've ONLY been away for a few days (Quebec city)...

Anyway, CopperGoat: I live in Mississauga near Oakville, so I'm pretty damn close to where you are. 15-20minutes...

Strike: Where do you live?

Happyguy: I'll shoot you if you do :D

Felicia: I will contact you if I'm ever in need of a NovaScotian Djembe player :P


Man, it's tough to find people to jam with who are on the same wavelength as you...

[Felicia]

Originally posted by [email protected] 5 2003, 02:52 AM
Felicia: I will contact you if I'm ever in need of a NovaScotian Djembe player :P

okie dokie, if you say so :)

[Invader Zim]

I play the drums but I live on the other side of the world... literally.

I also right song lyrics... pretty badly though...

[ONE]

Originally posted by [email protected] 6 2003, 03:17 AM
I play the drums but I live on the other side of the world... literally.

I also right song lyrics... pretty badly though...
You write lyrics badly :unsure: ? hmmm, maybe you should just stick to drums then :P

How long have you been playing drums for? I rented a set once and it was a lot of fun!

[Invader Zim]

Originally posted by ONE+Aug 6 2003, 07:20 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (ONE @ Aug 6 2003, 07:20 PM)
[email protected] 6 2003, 03:17 AM
I play the drums but I live on the other side of the world... literally.

I also right song lyrics... pretty badly though...
You write lyrics badly :unsure: ? hmmm, maybe you should just stick to drums then :P

How long have you been playing drums for? I rented a set once and it was a lot of fun&#33; [/b]
about three years... then I quit, but I still play them when I need to relax a bit... much better than the dummy vision.

[ONE]

Dummy vision?&#33;?&#33; :huh:

[chamo]

He means twatty vision, or television

[CopperGoat]

Yeah, get with new slang, "ONE&#33;" You Old man, talking about you being too old for a bassist like me...


Pff, you just lost about the only leftist bassist around here, well and a good bassist :D

[ONE]

Originally posted by [email protected] 8 2003, 02:43 AM
Yeah, get with new slang, "ONE&#33;" You Old man, talking about you being too old for a bassist like me...


Pff, you just lost about the only leftist bassist around here, well and a good bassist :D
LOL :lol:

That was good CopperGoat&#33;&#33;

I guess I AM an old man for not knowing what the @#% Dummy vision was&#33; I&#39;ve never heard this term before&#33;&#33;

Happyguy, thanks for enlightening me.

So CopperGoat, you don&#39;t mind hanging out with an "old" ignorant man such as myself making music? :lol:
How long have you been playing for? What knida stuff are you into?

[CopperGoat]

Nope, I don&#39;t mind hanging out with an old ignorant man that didn&#39;t know what "dummy vision" was. The term does sound self explanitory though. But anyways, I have been playing for around 4-5 years. And I am into metal (system of a down, Iron Maiden), I&#39;m into funk (red hot chili peppers, George Clinton), rock (rage against the machine, jimi hendrix, led zeppelin) and bunch of other stuff....

[NoPlaceForHeroes]

I sing and live relitively close to Toronto. But I am only 15 soon to be 16.

[ONE]

Originally posted by [email protected] 9 2003, 01:28 AM
Nope, I don&#39;t mind hanging out with an old ignorant man that didn&#39;t know what "dummy vision" was. The term does sound self explanitory though....
DOH; to quote Homer Simpson, "WHY YOU LITTLE" :angry: ..... well in retrospect, "dummy vision" makes sense.

Since when are RHCP funk?


NoPlaceForHeroes, where do you live? what kinds of stuff do you like to sing?

Can you guys get around the GTA? All we need now is a drummer... man, but you guys are too young for me; I&#39;m almost twice your age&#33; I feel old now - I&#39;m depressed :( Thanks...

[CopperGoat]

Since when are RHCP funk?

WHAT???&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33; :huh:



RHCP not funk??? HAHAH you have got to be kidding me man.

Flea? that&#39;s total funk right there. They play funk stuff, they play funk tunes funk guitar funk bass(especially funk bass, funk singing) you can&#39;t get any funkier man.

They played with George Clinton, Stevie Wonder, and other funk legends. Come on man, how can you say RHCP is not funk. Have you listened to their old stuff?

I agree their new stuff is not that funky anymore except for some, but their old stuff is nothing but funk..

[ONE]

Well, they have Funk influences, but they&#39;re not considered funk... here&#39;s a classification I got from Yahoo:

"...>Music > Artists > By Genre > Rock and Pop > Red Hot Chili Peppers "

...and check this out:

"Red Hot Chili Peppers nominated as Best Rock Act for the Comet Awards & Nest International Band At Kerrang&#33; Awards &#33;"

Also when you go to HMV and other stores, their stuff is under the Rock/Pop.

Look at Led Zeppelin; they have HUGE Blues influences and have in fact stole riffs from Blues artists, but they&#39;re considered rock&#33; so there might be elements of funk in RHCP, but they&#39;re considered rock.

[CopperGoat]

You searched on Yahoo to see if RHCP would be listed on Funk? ONE, let me tell you something, Yahoo music is so generalized it&#39;s not even funny. They probably don&#39;t even have a category of funk rock&#33; That&#39;s probably why they just put it in rock.

Well yah, they don&#39;t have "best funk act". It&#39;s 2003 ONE, funk is almost dead. Noone knows what it is anymore, that&#39;s why they just put them in Rock. Infact "Rock" is such a generalized music category, that alot of bands are listed there.

And at HMV Stores they don&#39;t have funk shelves or anything, it&#39;s just POP or Rock.

Heck, they put Jimi Hendrix under Rock and old rock &#39;n&#39; Roll and Classic rock legends in just "rock". I have even seen some shelves have Bob Dylan under rock&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;

Oh and my buddy is a drummer and he&#39;s 16 in Toronto. In case you wanted to know. And this guy is pro.

[NoPlaceForHeroes]

In response to your question, ONE:

I live in the Whitby-Ajax area, about a 30-45 minute drive from Toronto. I sing hard rock to metal. I sound the best in singing a Brain Johnson(post-1980 AC/DC) style or James Hetfield from Metallica style. I can also write really good lyrics.

[ONE]

I agree, music in Stores and on yahoo IS generalized.... I&#39;m also aware its 2003 :lol:

like I said, I think RHCP have funk influences, but I consider them rock. This is similar to Led Zeppelin&#39;s blues influences... Either way, it doesn&#39;t matter what the genre is, If it sounds good - it sounds good&#33; I like a bunch of their stuff. hmm, I just thought of something, maybe we can do poll to see what other members think (just out of curiosity, whether they&#39;re funk or rock won&#39;t change my life :P )


Anyway, where does your friend live? do you guys drive?

Are there any rehearsal rooms in Burlington?

[ONE]

Originally posted by [email protected] 13 2003, 03:49 AM
In response to your question, ONE:

I live in the Whitby-Ajax area, about a 30-45 minute drive from Toronto. I sing hard rock to metal. I sound the best in singing a Brain Johnson(post-1980 AC/DC) style or James Hetfield from Metallica style. I can also write really good lyrics.
Metallica&#33; cool&#33;&#33; you&#39;re a good man NPFH (NoPlaceForHeros) :lol:

I think you live too far though... I&#39;m guessing you don&#39;t drive yet (15)&#33;

[NoPlaceForHeroes]

I live here currently, but I am move back and forward between my mom and dad quite frequently. My dad lives in the Downsview Area of Toronto.

[CopperGoat]

Lol, no we don&#39;t drive. and my friend lives near the Danforth. And I don&#39;t know about rehearsal rooms in Burlington.

[Hegemonicretribution]

Working guitarist right right here. Thats right in the Isle of Man, so a fair treck to reach you I am afraid, but I do have the experience, the equiptment, and can probably shift to bass if you are desperate, I also co-write music and lyrics in many genres. Improvising is good as well. So if you ever run short on experienced leftist musicians you know where I am, just take out a small loan before calling me :D :P .

Seriously though If anyone is capable of making an online collaboration possible, we could try that, I got a few things up my sleeve, and it would be great if we could write something for Che-lives.

[ONE]

Seriously though If anyone is capable of making an online collaboration possible, we could try that, I got a few things up my sleeve, and it would be great if we could write something for Che-lives.



cool, we kinda joked about he virtual band earlier :D ...

Collaboration would be interesting, but is it possible?

[Hegemonicretribution]

Well I used to post on the guitar.com boards, and using space free at certain sites you can host mp3&#39;s, If we were serious we would hav to see who we got, what gear they got and what we can do...

[Invader Zim]

Originally posted by [email protected] 20 2003, 06:36 PM
Working guitarist right right here. Thats right in the Isle of Man, so a fair treck to reach you I am afraid, but I do have the experience, the equiptment, and can probably shift to bass if you are desperate, I also co-write music and lyrics in many genres. Improvising is good as well. So if you ever run short on experienced leftist musicians you know where I am, just take out a small loan before calling me :D :P .

Seriously though If anyone is capable of making an online collaboration possible, we could try that, I got a few things up my sleeve, and it would be great if we could write something for Che-lives.
My god you serious??? IOM? Where abouts I used to live there for years.

Do you live in Douglas or Lazy or somewhere like that?

Do I know you???

[Hegemonicretribution]

HOLY SHIT&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33; You are taking the piss? Right?

I think you mean Laxey, but I live near there, on route to Ramsey about halfway between each.

You have to be taking the piss, I started a few Manx threads but never saw you there...where are you from?

For everyone else this Island has a population of less than 80,000. This is quite scary. As the majority of the population are elderly.

[Invader Zim]

Originally posted by [email protected] 21 2003, 04:12 PM
HOLY SHIT&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33; You are taking the piss? Right?

I think you mean Laxey, but I live near there, on route to Ramsey about halfway between each.

You have to be taking the piss, I started a few Manx threads but never saw you there...where are you from?

For everyone else this Island has a population of less than 80,000. This is quite scary. As the majority of the population are elderly.
I used to live in Derbyhaven, near castletown. I went to school in Ballasala at one point. Then in castletown. I used to go to douglas after school etc. My best friend lived in Santon etc. Do you go to Ramsey Grammar, or somewhere like that?

[Hegemonicretribution]

I did go to Ramsey Grammar, back in the days of high school :D

[Invader Zim]

Originally posted by [email protected] 21 2003, 04:45 PM
I did go to Ramsey Grammar, back in the days of high school :D
You must have only just left though... Not bothering with A-Level?

[Purple]

I play the electrical guitar, and I know how to play the half of a song :D ....

[ONE]

What a small world.. (and Island) :D

Hey, averagedude, what half song do you know? :lol: how long have you been playing for?

[Hegemonicretribution]

Originally posted by AK47+Aug 21 2003, 05:49 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (AK47 @ Aug 21 2003, 05:49 PM)
[email protected] 21 2003, 04:45 PM
I did go to Ramsey Grammar, back in the days of high school :D
You must have only just left though... Not bothering with A-Level? [/b]
Oh I amdoing A-Levels but it makes me sound more important, I mean high school is so old hat :D


Yes a very small world. The Island must of had one of the highest concentrations of Che-livers anywhere. I think my friend has an unused account that is about one per 25,000 people. And the fflag is red.

[Invader Zim]

Originally posted by hegemonicretrobution+Aug 22 2003, 01:52 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (hegemonicretrobution @ Aug 22 2003, 01:52 PM)
Originally posted by [email protected] 21 2003, 05:49 PM

[email protected] 21 2003, 04:45 PM
I did go to Ramsey Grammar, back in the days of high school :D
You must have only just left though... Not bothering with A-Level?
Oh I amdoing A-Levels but it makes me sound more important, I mean high school is so old hat :D


Yes a very small world. The Island must of had one of the highest concentrations of Che-livers anywhere. I think my friend has an unused account that is about one per 25,000 people. And the fflag is red. [/b]
I think that Leighton Buzzard has the highest concentration.. about 4 people from that town post/have posted on che-lives... but we all go to the same school. So its not really fair.

I didnt like the north of the Island, rains to much, Laxy has one of the highest annual precipitation rates in the world. But its still OK, a lot of the better sites are in the North like Tinwald (sp) and the Laxy wheel.