musicians wanted

sanfran

musicians!!

looking for guitarist+/or a songwriter, a keys/organist/pianist,a drummer, a saxophone/cornet/oboe or trumpet player(or all 4 if u can!) i dig rock, soul, punk, jazz, folk, be-bop, electronica...anything really, main influences velvet underground, brian wilson/beachboys, stooges, arthur lee,sarah vaughan, patti smith, sfa, smokey robinson solo,quasi, flaming lips, polyphonic spree,sex pistols, grant lee buffalo, alex chilton, stevie wonder+bowie, (both pre-1980) , elvis costello&attractions, inkspots- loads more, open to anything except metal and dutch hip-hop!

sanfran

*bump*

sanfran

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ferdi

what is your game plan?
what do you play?
what standard?
more info...

sanfran

i play guitar/keys/trumpet, the sound can range, been told its sounds like lou reed and brian wilson, have a bassist already, and had saxophone player and drummer but they had other band commitments, that band was sounding kinda jazzy, melodic, acoustic based, but i wudn't mind doing some velvets style electric stuff too, just not metal or heavy rock cos im bored with that ****.
what do u play yourself? where ya based?

ferdi

when i saw you were looking of sax trumpet and cornmet, i thought, "cool -SKA band!" i either want to get inolved in a ska band or a pixies style band. but i dont think your after either of these?

sanfran

i'm big into the pixies(plus they sound very like velvet underground), wudn't mind being in a band that sounds like them...as for ska i haven't heard much, have the usual reggae-paragons, bob marley, david isaacs but don't know much about it except that i like the sound, so wudn't mind jammin- do u want to do originals, have u many songs written?

on another note someone censored my post and all i must have said was a slang word for faeces, funny how administrators would ban that but when certain fascistic bands post their inciteful and hateful remarks nothing happens- nice one lads..

ferdi

nothing written, just got out of a band that was going stale, would love to do something like pixies, yes i want to do originals, covers are fun too tho...

as for ska, as i see it, its joy-music. its happy, you can dance to it but its still soulful with something to say. here is a piece from a website i found if your interested

"As the music in Jamaica continued to evolve, it slowed down in tempo once again, giving birth to "reggae music". This is where there is some confusion. Many believe that reggae came first, however it is quite the contrary, reggae came third, after ska and rocksteady. "Reggae" was a phrase first coined by Toots and the Maytals and means "to the King" in Latin. The only other significant differences between reggae and its predecessors besides its tempo were its strong emphasis on a treble-less bottom end bass line, a one drop on the drums and its new spiritual emphasis in Rastafari. This reggae in its early or traditional state is what many now call "roots". This is by far one of the most infectious styles of the genre, made famous worldwide by Bob Marley."


basically ska is faster and easier to adapt. i mainly listen to modern american ska though which has been heavily influenced by punk and rock.