| me |
| the way i talk about music, you would think i had some sort of "talent" well, that couldnt be further from the truth... actually, i guess im not in too bad of shape musically in 6th and 7th grade i played alto sax and i like to think i was decent, it just really wasnt my thing and ive always wanted to learn how to play piano piano music just...wow, yeah it really does it for me or something ;) but i guess it just wasnt all that practical for me to buy a piano and i wouldnt be able to practice much so about a year ago i bought an electric guitar i have practiced on it quite a bit actually im not so much into playing crazy lead riffs, or making it cry or whatever i guess i sort of have my own little "style" of playing my playing seems to me to be more influenced by bands like...counting crows, weezer, greenday maybe? i dont know, just like, chords and a mild amount of "easy" lead parts i do write my own music and lyrics to go with it ill put up some of my lyrics pretty soon somewhere on my page, so youll have to look for that and if i figure out a good way to put mp3s on my page, ill even put clips of my songs up here perhaps... ok, ill share a story here =) a story telling how i first got my guitar... when i was a freshman in college, my roommate marc had a "vision" that he was going to somehow find a briefcase of money he would talk about what he was going to spend the money on and everything he had always wanted to be in a band, so he said he would buy an instrument and do that he also said he would buy myself and our friend, doug, instruments and us three would be the band well, we perhaps took this a little too seriously and started thinking of names for our band and everything i think we even designed a cd cover or something well, when the summer came, i started looking at guitars (because us three determined that i would be the guitarist, marc would be the bassist, and doug would drum) i started to realize that i did not need to find a briefcase full of money to be able to afford a guitar i told my "bandmates" about this, and i decided to buy a guitar, marc decided to buy a bass, and doug decided that we were idiots and didnt really want to talk to us ever again (...or something...) we started by mostly trying to practice playing nirvana songs with each other (just bass and guitar and me singing...) and we even tried to write our own music but marc (by his own admission) has quite a long way to come musically i do most of the writing, and practicing really...so sometimes it can be a bit discouraging? but ya know, the main reason i bought the guitar wasnt REALLY to be in a band or whatever, it was just to have fun, and i certainly have fun with it, so im happy i do have a bunch of songs written and recorded (just me, solo, oh yeah...) and it would be pretty cool to get together with some people who are pretty good and see what we could work out... |