So who here has a band?

Why not a thread where you can shamelessly ask for facebook likes, etc? Share cool gig stories and pictures of gear. I assume we'll all be good and not ask for money/directly sell anything in here.

I'll go first. BAND - 88MPH (http://facebook.com/88mph.Baltimore)

I'm the bass player. This was my most recent gear refirb:

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After

Your turn!

I was in a Buffett-esque band called Uneven Keel for a couple years recently. Played Bass and Harmonica, but not truly great at either. Did a few gigs, made a little money, had some fun.

My axe is '78 one-owner Pbass, black wih maple neck, and a multieffects pedal mostly as a pre-amp into the 8channel PA head we were using.

I have a rubber band, many band clamps, band-aids, and even a wedding band, but no rock band.

Dang Heathens http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dang-Heathens/143007883086

I don't have any cool pics of my stuff, but I play a mysterious copy of this:

Through this:

I haven't been in a band since 1998.

I teach music part-time now and jam with a drummer once in a blue moon and write songs here and there with a former bandmate from college. I play guitar, but the rockstar aspirations are long gone.

74 Gibson SG, 93 Les Paul Special (62 reissue), Marshall JCM800 50 watt head, Peavey 2x12 cab, Fender Mustang II 40 watt combo (nice and light to lug around), A bunch of pedals

My brother and I will play open mics every once in a while. Both of us on guitar or mandolin. Dad, my brother, and I go to a jam regularly. No band though. Almost all acoustic, although we have a few tele's hanging around.

My guitar is an Epiphone Frontier. I like it.

Ooh, I like this thread.

I play guitar (and sing a bit) in a vintage country outfit called Trigger 5.

Find us at...
our website, facebook or reverbnation

We're on the iTunes, or you can download our '09 album, Heartbreak & Regret on Amazon at this link. (Amazon's dowloads are DRM free for your pirating convenience, by the way.)

Search for us on YouTube, too - we have a fair amount of videos up there. Here's one from a couple years ago, with bonus Buick footage at the front (that's our steel player's dad's '53).

The vast majority of the time, I play this guitar:

A '64 Harmony Rocket. A wide range of vintage tones (middle pickup is out of phase for a surprisingly good Strat-like tone), great thick neck...I love this thing. Got it in its original case, with the cord strap and pick (!) it was sold with as new.

I suppose it depends on what you define as a "band".

I get together with some guys about every Saturday at one of the guy's place nicknamed "The Rock Shed" - his name is Rocky, and he built a fully finished/insulated 30' x 70' pole barn with a stage across one end, and a bar at the other.

I'm just singing now, though most of my...um..."career" has been as a bass player. I just don't have time to practice bass anymore, but spending several hours in the car each day gives me plenty of time to sing.

We're doing somewhat obscure classic rock stuff - Thin Lizzy, Alice Cooper, some non-single cuts from Allman Brothers, Molley Hatchet, and a few downright obscure tracks from Zeppelin, Styx, Pat Travers, etc., and then some more bluesy stuff too.

Played in a bar band in college (bass for a while, guitar for a while, backing vocals all the time, occasionally terrible fill-in drummer if needed). All the beer we could drink, $200 split 5 ways, and dinner from the restaurant (which was actually pretty damn good). We thought we were rich.

Miss it all the time, wish I could figure a way to make the time now. I'm probably going to have to settle for teaching my kids to play and pushing each of them onto guitar/bass/drums.

I think that "obscure" and classic rock are oxymorons when used in the same sentence.

I just accidentally bought another guitar about 35 minutes ago.

mtn wrote: I just accidentally bought another guitar about 35 minutes ago.

I love it when that happens.

More gear info - I convinced my wife (she's super supportive, so it's not hard) I needed a new home practice amp, and picked up an Ampeg B-15NF.

My two current bases (pictured above) are a Mexican P that I've had since I was 16, modded to all hell, and a Fender "Cowpoke" bass (was black, now Duplicolor etching primer green with a satin top coat).

My new show rig, in the first post, is an Ampeg BT-15 into a Tubeworks MV-962, and into a Peavey 2x15.

The 2x15 was taken apart, lined, port tuned, and got a new grill. Trying it live for the first time tomorrow.

Anyone who provided a Facebook link got a like - feel free to return the favor.

I do live sound for a bluegrass band. It's good fun, even when I have to squeeze in somewhere in the middle of a crowd of drunk people. Most bars are like "Sound guy? We have room for the band, you're on your own." It's hard to explain to them that they should probably make room, because if it sounds like E36 M3, it's my fault, and people will leave and then they'll make no money...whatever. I have some gear as far as a PA system, I have two boards, a giant Peavey one (crap) and a smaller Soundcraft one (awesome), plus some outboard gear, and the guitar player owns an amp, monitors, and speakers.

The band is called Colebrook Road if anyone's interested, they're on Facetube.

I also play music! I started off as a drummer, but along the way I picked up bass and 6-string guitar. I'm 29, and have been playing drums since 10, bass since 13, and guitar since about 16. I was in bands all the way up to 2006, my most serious effort being a post hardcore outfit that lasted from 2000-06, but I'm a metal head at heart.

I have TONS of gear. here's what I can remember: DRUMS:

-7 piece Yamaha Stage Custom kit (the old reliable)

-5 piece Sonor Force 1001 (practice kit)

-Magstar Custom Drums 10 ply 6.5x14 maple snare

-Pearl Sessions birch 6.5x14 snare

-various Zildjian and Sabian cymbals, including a custom paired (by me) HH 13'' hi hats, and they sound incredible

GUITAR:

-Peavey Studio 112 combo amp

-Jackson PS4 Performer that has given me nothing but trouble (stupid Floyd Rose!!!)

-Epiphone Les Paul Std.

-Ovation Celebrity acoustic/electric

BASS:

-The biggest Peavey bass combo they make, it's like 110lbs and 300 watts of awesome (forget the name)

-Ibanez TR70 4-string with P/J pickups

-older Ibanez SoundGear 4-string with P/J's and active electronics

and my baby...

-Warwick Streamer Standard 4-string with dual MEC humbuckers and (strangely) passive electronics

...And a ton of assorted effects and other accessories

I've been playing bass more than anything lately. My focus has been on classic metal, like Iron Maiden, Sabbath (Dio-era), some 80's hair metal like Dokken and Whitesnake, and Judas Priest. I'd love to play in a band again. I miss being on stage a lot.

Used to be in a rock/metal band many, many years ago, stopped after 1991 (graduated college then). Played drums (High school marching band and then rock band) and also learned some bass for the fun of it. I wouldn't mind getting back into it in the near future, just no money now.

Well hello 81cpcamaro...

http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/reader-rides/108/

Oh, and here's my old band from high school.

http://www.myspace.com/rockydennisattack

I know no one uses myspace, but I haven't bothered making a facebook page for a band that hasn't done anything in 15 years.

I was the drummer for Mau Man and the Nams.

We were too cool for Facebook.

Formerly guitarist/co-frontman for Mondale.
Our one recording was titled "Square Roots Radicals (songs about girls, the lack of girls, and programming in javascript)"

Ten years later, playing again a bit with the same bassist/singer and another drummer. This time we're The Nervous, but we're also a lot busier than ten years ago... Practices are irregular at best, but we're getting there.

In our previous incarnation, our greatest successes were opening for Modern English (sure, there was a death in the family of the band scheduled for that spot...), and being accused of causing the breakup of Birdstuff and Proto Unit V-3 (sadly not true)...

Can't carry a tune in a bucket or keep time on the cymbals, you definitely do NOT want to hear me sing. Let's just say rats and roaches leave after I move in. My musical claim to fame was working lights for some buds who had a band called 'Black Pearl'. Yeah, I know you've never heard of them...

Gimp wrote: Well hello 81cpcamaro... http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/reader-rides/108/

Hey Paul, recognized the band name from FB. If you were closer I'd come see ya play.

My wife and I have a band called "One More Time". We play everything from 30's-40's swing to 50's-60's rock to modern rock and country. I sing, play sax, flute and guitar. My wife sings and plays rhythm guitar and we have a drummer, lead and bass guitar. We play locally and are playing on the square in Gettysburg, Pa. on New Years Eve for the 4th year.

I don't have a "band", nor do I have any real desire to be in one; I do hard techno, trance, acid, and housey stuff all by myself. It's fun! My fingers are too pokey and stupid to do anything live other than tweaking the filter knobs on the synths, so I sequence via midi and mix on my computer, more like building music than playing it. Wouldn't have it any other way.

Here's my gear setup at the moment: (Top: Roland TR606 drum machine, tasty fresh tomatoes. Middle row: Yamaha REX50 digital effects processor, horrible flea-market "mixer", self-built x0xb0x TB303 clone, Access Virus. Bottom row: Roland SH101, MicroKorg, Korg Kaossilator Pro synth/loop recorder. Off the table: Roland D10. Also pictured: crappy computer speakers, fire-hazard daisy chained power bars & wiring.)

I can also use it all to make my apartment look like a spaceship when I kill the lights - win win!

Not pictured are my beautiful Korg M1R and cheesy-but-amusing Yamaha DX27 which I left in Canada for the time being. Also, I have to confess the SH101 and TR606 aren't mine, they belong to a good friend who lent them to me while he is in Chile for a few weeks... When he takes it back I'm going to have to look for my own 101; it blows my mind in all kinds of ways.

Said friend and I get together and jam every couple of weeks, we usually end up with a bunch of hour-long progressive acid & trip-hop tracks of, erm, varying quality. But majorly fun to make.

No band these days, but I played music for about 15 years and even studied it in university. I've played in all sorts of groups, but I almost always had a Dixieland band going. Easy to play and a great way to blow off steam.

My best horn is a Selmer SA80 series II soprano sax that I bought in Paris, a bit different from the guitar parade here. I do have my grandfather's old plectrum banjo, I should learn how to play it.