I've kinda gotten away from playing doomy stuff and more into a surf/rockabilly head lately. Seems I can't get enough of a clean guitar sound lately, especially with some reverb, tremolo or slapback echo. Anybody else love the doom but play something else?
I haven't played in a really heavy band for years. Currently playing in a honky tonk band and a power trio. Got lots of Trouble type riffs stored away for the future, though.
I like playing the heavy, but i'm with you on the clean tone. Delay, Reverb and Phase are my best buddies. If only I had a tremolo, chorus and flanger.
I play electronics in a noise band (duo) "Bloater" and also in a bigger experimental free-music type group sometimes "Clutter"
Holy shit, they fucked up Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/bloaternyc/
and the other:
http://clutter.clfrecords.com/
Otis Mangler (Odie from LOMF) and stormzsytem (Indy from Queen Elephantine) used to play in that group sometimes (rotating cast of characters) before me.
I'm on the tracks "Paramecium" and "New Era Happening", maybe a couple others on that website
Sunn Sonaro and the Tele in DADF#AD, every day.
I play some death and thrash metal on the side. Also attempt to play some cleaner jazzier stuff occasionally.
Been playing more "traditional" blues, R&B and mixed in with country and Folk/Americana stuff in recent times.
A lot more personal material. One of these days I'll let people here it. It is nothing at all like my last band.
I've been jamming with a r&b and blues band for the past few weeks.
I love the heavy and that's where my heart lies but you gotta' do what you gotta' do.
I still play in a couple of heavy bands but I've been working with a "show" band for the last couple of years too.
Mainly classic 60's/70's stuff that runs the gamut from Top 40 Pop to Funk, Soul, R&B, and even Cajun and Blues.
Pretty challenging and fun as well.
This is the first band I've ever played in that's got horns.
Anyway, it's expanded my vocabulary as a drummer.
I'm 47 and the youngest in the band.
Most of these dudes were playing before I was born so it's like going to school but in a good way.
Plus I make $200 every time I play with them.
Gravy...
That's pretty cool. I'm 35, and the youngest member in the group I'm playing with. I was wary to start with, but a couple of the guys in the band are into really good music, and I'm thinking that we can kind of offset some of the droll and cheesy stuff. This is a chance for me to work those chops that I'd worked so hard to learn years ago and haven't been able to use with the heavier bands.
Good topic.
My main band for several years is more of a straight up rock and roll, punk rock type of band. More indebted to the Stones and AC/DC than Sabbath and Deep Purple. I guess some people would still consider it "heavy", but to me it is more rock and roll than metal. And we've even been throwing some country leaning stuff into the mix lately too. I haven't played in what I would call a "stonerrock" band in probably 6 years.
I like the quiet clean for sure. I like the thickness too though. Somewhere in between is where I usually live.
I'm not sure what to call us but we're not Doom or Stoner Rock by any means
Play bass for The Mother Truckers (face-melting rock/country) and the Eric Tessmer Band (heavy TX cosmic blues). Guitar for my own projects Ironclad (heavy rock) and Ocean of Stars (heavy progressive instrumental rock) and for Shandon Sahm band (originals are stooges/ziggy influenced rock, but we also do amped up sets of Doug Sahm tunes).
Haven't played more stonerish music in awhile, kind of missing it...
i play a lot of blues and folk. a little bit of jazz, but it's hard to go all free jazz by yourself. it just sounds like you suck. i've been favoring the dobro over the tele lately.
Quote from: strangelight on December 07, 2010, 11:39:57 PM
i've been favoring the dobro over the tele lately.
I love a dobro.
One of these days I'm gonna' have to break down and buy one.
A friend of mine came by practice the other night with one he had just bought.
Shit, I could have sat there all night and played on that thing!
Unfortunately we had to get back to practice. :(
i just have a shitty no-name one i got in a 30% off sale because it's blue. bright fucking blue. sounds decent enough with a slide, but without it sounds like wet cardboard. still fun as hell, though.
I play guitar in a metal band and bass in a hip hop band.
I'd love to play in a stoner band, just dont know any other fuckers who are into it and can play instruments
(...but we also do amped up sets of Doug Sahm tunes).
- DannyG
Man, Doug Sahm was the coolest, wasn't he ?
I can't get over songs like Nuevo Laredo, Dynamite Woman, Mendocino, She's About A Mover, Nitty Gritty, Texas Me, Stoned Faces Don't Lie, Crossroads(is that the name of it?), and Texas Tornado. Love the way he combines Tex-Mex, Country & Rock (& more).
Quote from: strangelight on December 07, 2010, 11:39:57 PM
i play a lot of blues and folk. a little bit of jazz, but it's hard to go all free jazz by yourself. it just sounds like you suck. i've been favoring the dobro over the tele lately.
may i recommend you checking out mary halvorson for some free guitar. i saw her at the stone last march..unbelievable.
oh yeah..i play bass in an all improv experimental scumjazz band..NPV
I also play punk rock, blues, and some country stuff on acoustic.
Yeah man free improv is hard - the discipline and vision needed to have songs come out different when w/i each context anything/everything is permissible.
I have fingerpicked guitar songs that are solo songs @ the moment bc I have no time at all to get together w/ other folks. Also play some traditional music w/ my wife.
El Zombre- that's a clever screen name. And funny.
Thank you, sir. I try.
I play pedal steel so, yeah... not much 'stoner' music.
I would love to start a blues/countryish band like the mother truckers. No time. Barely enough time for the band I'm in. I do play a lot of blues when I practice.
I've always wanted to start a surf/psych band maybe along the lines of the Mermen meet the Heads and Jefferson Airplane. I just can't find anyone else interested and I don't have much free time these days since I'm trying to get a heavier, spacey/doom project together where I sing. I'd also love to do a medley of Slayer songs surf style...it translates remarkably well.
My dream for a long time now has been to play guitar in a rockabilly band. A little towards the psychobilly thing. Problem is I suck on the guitar, and my one night off a week goes to my stoner band. Im sure with a solid two monthes of practice I could pull it off, but the one or two hours a week aint cutting it.
http://www.myspace.com/gameovereugene
spaz/explosive/mood music (metal)
very rough tracks posted, guitar and drums only. recorded Oct 31 this year. The band is now a complete power trio with a deadly dual vocal attack from the string section. Will be playing shows within 5-6 weeks now. We gonna have a kick ass logo too \m/.
Quote from: clockwork green on December 17, 2010, 10:08:46 PM
I've always wanted to start a surf/psych band maybe along the lines of the Mermen meet the Heads and Jefferson Airplane. I just can't find anyone else interested and I don't have much free time these days since I'm trying to get a heavier, spacey/doom project together where I sing. I'd also love to do a medley of Slayer songs surf style...it translates remarkably well.
Funny you should mention the surf/Slayer. Me and a friend of mine are working an EPs worth of tunes up exactly that way. What if Dick Dale was a Slayer fan kind of idea.
Quote from: bass sic on December 18, 2010, 12:00:58 AM
My dream for a long time now has been to play guitar in a rockabilly band. A little towards the psychobilly thing. Problem is I suck on the guitar, and my one night off a week goes to my stoner band. Im sure with a solid two monthes of practice I could pull it off, but the one or two hours a week aint cutting it.
Rockabilly/Psychobilly is my other great interest right now as far as forming a band. You could always go the Cramps route. They started out playing fairly basic stuff but got better as they went along. I really liked how Kristy Wallace (Poison Ivy) played.
Quote from: Chovie D on December 16, 2010, 06:26:49 PM
I play pedal steel so, yeah... not much 'stoner' music.
Quote from: Jake on December 22, 2010, 10:22:55 AM
Quote from: Chovie D on December 16, 2010, 06:26:49 PM
I play pedal steel so, yeah... not much 'stoner' music.
Oddly eneough, I am most often invited to play two different kinds of music. Country and Western swing.
Country I can fake. Western swing I cannot play at all.
Hey Chovie, are you familiar with The Misunderstood at all? 60's psych band with an amazing pedal steel player(obviously his approach is not traditional in this band), if you're not already familiar with them you should check them out.
I know "Children of the Sun" from Nuggets but hadnt a clue that was pedal steel. Even now knowing it is pedal steel it sonds more like a whammy bar to me...thats far out, I cant find any footage of the guy playing one or the Misunderstood live. thanks for the tip L.Ron.
I did some asking around. Glen Ross Campbell is still out there somewhere playing steel. I'm not so sure its pedal steel, that might be a lap or console steel with no pedals... I dont hear any pedal movement. That is some crazy shit tho.
In the old Jam Room it seemed like maybe the majority of people there listened to stoner or doom but played something else.
I just play nasty rock - http://www.myspace.com/oneeightyproof - it's stoner influenced, but def not stoner rock.
I've tried to play straight stoner stuff before but the stuff I come up with in that style always just feels half assed to me. Whereas when I play straight-ahead rock and roll I often come up with things I feel pretty damn great about.
I listen pretty widely - bands like Kyuss, Monster Magnet, Fu Manchu and E Wiz get a run just about every day, but I also listen to shitloads of hair metal, 70s rock, gangsta rap, thrash, old acoustic blues, grindcore, pop music, classic metal, scandinavian punk, shred guitar, whatever i feel like really
I think people generally worry about genres a bit too much.. most of the time it just comes down to peddling riffs and an accompanying vocal line.
i play something that a rather drunk friend once quipped was "champaign's only post pop metal band":
www.myspace.com/craneandbadger (our facebook isn't working for some reason?)
I have kind of a different situation than most here where i am not playing anything different(or at all right now) ...but I REALLY want to!
I have hit a "musical crossroads" in a sense where I know that I DON"T want to play stoner/ doom at the moment! My last band REALLY burned me out in several ways and kind of made me hate playing in a band.
I have really jumped head first into what made me start playing guitar in first place- Punk Rock. I am currently trying to get something together that falls somewhere between the sounds of Motorhead and the Ramones with a little Stooges thrown in. The writing process has begun but it is has been very slow to find people and ultimately get acclimated with NOT playing doom or stoner rock. Also i have made the switch to bass guitar just to change things up a bit for me....keep it fresh.
Still love listening to doom/ stoner /metal though!