So what music do you play?

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Author Message Johnm (Johnm) Posted on Thursday, January 30, 2003 - 1:59 pm:    With all the "what's in your collection, who is you favorite player, which is your favorite model, which amp do you use" kind of polls one should almost forget what it's all about in the first place. Music that is. So let me ask all of you: What kind of music are you playing on all these Ibanez guitars??? I personally try to play a bit of jazz these days. Coming from the blues / rock / pop tradition I can tell you that it is not easy to play even half a decent jazz tune. I have been taking lessons again for some time now and that helps. My teacher is Patrick Sedoc, from Amsterdam who sometimes visits this board and goes under the name of Artfield. Who's next??? John M Mr_Roadstar (Mr_Roadstar) Posted on Thursday, January 30, 2003 - 3:04 pm:    John, Great post! All this discussion on the guitars is great, but what do we DO with them, eh? I've got a couple different things going on: The band I play with does bluegrass/country/gospel stuff. Matt plays bass, Frank plays 6 & 12 string acoustic and banjo, I play electric. My wife doesn't play an instrument, but adds a female touch to our vocals. We spread the lead vocals around, although Frank handles the majority. We do a lot of 2, 3, & 4 parts harmonies. Matt & Frank have written several original pieces, and we have a fair catalog of traditional tunes also. We like to shake things up a bit and put a twist on some of the songs. One of our favorites is "Amazing Grace" sung to the tune of "House of the Rising Sun". Always a crowd pleaser! My brother and I have an on-going recording project. He plays guitar (also an Ibanez fan) and bass as well as doing most of the drum machine programming. Our original stuff falls into the "Classic Rock" catagory. We are also working on a few covers with our own arrangements. We share vocal duties. I really need to get hooked up with an instructor to broaden my skills. Raising two kids (teenagers) and working full time doesn't leave much extra time! Cheers Steve Johnm (Johnm) Posted on Thursday, January 30, 2003 - 4:28 pm:    As an addition to the topic it might be a good idea to upload some mp3's of your music if available and post the url here so everybody can have a listen. John M Ccs (Ccs) Posted on Thursday, January 30, 2003 - 11:48 pm:    Great topic,I freelance a bit so I try to be ready for any style plus my writing modes vary from countryish to Slayer type thrash.After 23 years of playing I've found I just like playing whatever feels good.Anyway... Classic/Hard Rock: '76 Destroyer stock Pre serial Rocket Roll V stock Pre serial 2354 SG copy Dimarzio Super D/PAF '94 Iceman Dimarzio tone Zone/PAF Pro '83 Destroyer II flametop stock Pre serial 2350 Les Paul dimarzio super D's ? Jackson JJ4 Clean: '78 Challenger '78 ST1200 double neck '78 Challenger kept in open G tuning '69? metal logo 2020 '85 RS530 '66 Fender Mustang Heavy Damage: Pre serial Rocket Roll V Bill Lawrance L500/stock '85 custom BC Rich Warlock Dimarzio X2N/megadrive/megadrive '83 Gibson V EMG 81/Dimarzio Super D '90 Gibson V EMG 81/85 Misc. others don't quite have a place yet but get used for dubs just to change the pace.Next is a nice jazz box,for that never ending learning challange.Jazz is the ultimate eye opener to your playing skills. Chris Tim_Walker (Tim_Walker) Posted on Friday, January 31, 2003 - 7:38 am:    I've always played rock / blues / metal / goth in various bands. Now playing what I can only describe as techno-metal. Take a look at our website...both Ibanez nuts by the way... WORM Tim_Walker (Tim_Walker) Posted on Friday, January 31, 2003 - 7:40 am:    try link again... WORM Craigjc (Craigjc) Posted on Friday, January 31, 2003 - 7:56 am:    I guess I fit into the blues/classic rock category. I'm a die-hard fan of Hendrix and hendrix-influenced guitar players. I know, kind of cliche, but every time I listen to the stuff it just takes me places. To me, that's really what's important...and when I play the stuff, it takes me places, too. I also dabble in country, bluegrass, classical, baroque...whatever sounds good to me, yadig? Munch (Munch) Posted on Friday, January 31, 2003 - 6:24 pm:    I guess I am a player of what can best be described as American Roots music. I taught myself to play by listening to early Stones and Chuck Berry records. From there I branched out into blues after hearing SRV for the first time. After playing straight blues for a couple of years my ear was leading me to music with more melody and harmonic complexity so next stop was rockabilly. Its hard to play rockabilly well because it really is a synthesis of blues, boogie woogie, swing, country, and jazz. In an effort to become proficient in 'billy I have had to learn the styles that make it what it is. The areas of greatest difficulty are definitely the jazz and country parts. I love rockabilly because it is such a mix of styles. It is so much fun in one solo to go from Chuck's double stops to travis picked chord melody to boogie bass lines. It really catches peoples' ears. Cheers, Mark Raceboy (Raceboy) Posted on Saturday, February 01, 2003 - 6:13 am:    Great thread. I play at a few jams every week, so I get to play a wide variety of music. I started teaching myself guitar in 1964 on surfer music and current pop stuff at the time. Louie, Louie and all the old standards. House of the Rising Sun was the first song that I learned the chords to. I went through quite a few of the years since with only rarely picking up a guitar until last year when I took up playing again. I sure wish I had never let it slide. You can't get those years back. Bcalla (Bcalla) Posted on Saturday, February 01, 2003 - 8:58 am:    My story is similar to Raceboy, even the years and songs are about the same. I played guitar & bass in rock & soul bands until the early 70s. I stopped playing until about 3 years ago. Last year I convinced a friend who used to play keyboards in a couple of my bands to pick up a synth, we went in together on a hard disk recorder. We rarely get to play together, but he takes the recorder for a couple of months & does his thing, then I take it & play my parts in his recordings & start a few new ones. Mostly 'classic' rock, but we've done a few standards, Christmas songs, etc. Funkle (Funkle) Posted on Saturday, February 01, 2003 - 4:07 pm:    My tastes vary wildly over time, but I usually go back and forth between jazz and fusion. I spent most of last year woodshedding my jazz chops. I tend to like the more progressive players like Scofield and Metheny. Lately I've been pretty heavily into fusion again. I think the '80s really did a lot of damage to the genre, but it's good to see it coming back into it's own again. It's good to see people putting a lot of passion into their music again, like McLaughlin did in the '70s. I've been impressed with Shawn Lane lately - anybody checked this guy out? http://www.noproblemhere.com/ I NEED MORE GUITARS! -- -Sven Paddy_F (Paddy_F) Posted on Monday, February 03, 2003 - 6:59 am:    Glad to see Im not the only aging unknown has been still bopping on. For the past few years Ive been working on developing a style that is a mixture of hard bebop, fusion and jazz/blues, and do nearly all my stealing from Pat martino, Larry carlton, and Robben Ford, but enjoy listening to any good melodic modal player. Going to check out Mr Lane on grokster now :-) Paddy Johnm (Johnm) Posted on Tuesday, February 04, 2003 - 3:04 am:    There's not much of him to be found on Kazaa ;-) Russellw (Russellw) Posted on Tuesday, February 04, 2003 - 11:50 am:    Great thread. I started with acoustics back in the mid 70's and pretty much took to the West Coast style of Bread / Seals & Croft in the early days. Really only started to play electric as a necessity in a solid and consistent line up until the late nights wore me down in the latter part of the 80's - even then I'd bring out a pre-amped acoustic every chance I got. During that time music styles ranged across the spectrum of what was cureent mixed with the classics from the 50's and 60's and even a bit of country rock. Post (semi) retirement I have drifted back to the acoustic style and genres probably 'cos I'm a terrible player of electrics for anything other than strong rocking numbers! Age brings a knowledge of ones limitations. None the less it now allows me to enjoy both for the different skills and styles that are open. Have promised myself that I WILL learn to like country music before I die. Cheers Russ Paddy_F (Paddy_F) Posted on Tuesday, February 04, 2003 - 1:40 pm:    John: downloaded 6 tracks of Shawn Lane off grokster ---I can feel some riff stealing coming on, ---. hes got a great feel. thanx, Paddy Paddy_F (Paddy_F) Posted on Tuesday, February 04, 2003 - 1:43 pm:    sorry , above message for Sven Harry (Harry) Posted on Wednesday, February 05, 2003 - 5:39 am:    Hi all! Nice idea to share the various styles of music we play. Let me put in my penny as well: I'm a bassplayer/singer in a melodic rockband, a trio. Our setlist consists 50% covers (Van Halen, Joe Satriani, Ozzy, David Lee Roth) and 50% own songs, that of course are in the same style. I want to be active as a guitarist again, allthough I'm not a very good technical player (so I can forget the things our guitarist does) I pretty much manage to do the old blues/rock/boogie things. I love Quo, Alvin Lee, Georgia Sattelites/Dan Baird etc. At this moment I'm trying to get a bunch of guys together to form a Status Quo (my all-time heroes since the 70's) cover band. Just for the fun of it and to party on small festivals etc. Greetings, Harry Mrmahar77 (Mrmahar77) Posted on Friday, February 07, 2003 - 5:07 pm:    'Scuse me for jumping in here, I'm new to the forum but I was intruiged by the thread. I'm listening to John Scofield's "Bump" CD right now. Just thought I'd share some recent live music experiences. I happened to catch Steve Morse with the Dixie Dregs in S.F last month, if you have never heard his music it's a revelation to say the least. While I can't aspire to that kind of playing it's cool to try!! Also someone to listen to and "try" to play is Tuck Andress from Tuck and Patti. Wonderful live. He plays a Gibson L5 but has been known to try Ibanez. Amazing technique, very original. Also saw Mike Stern last year with Victor Wooten on bass and Dennis Chambers on drums...top level playing again. I get inspired when I see these guys and try not to get TOO intimidated. In other words, I try not to let my first reaction be "I could never do that". I'm a closet player but I love to try and play Robben Ford's stuff...he's a great rhythm player as well as lead. I'm a 60's bands dropout too , didn't pick up the guitar again till 7-8 years ago but there's always hope! I'm going the Blues route presently cause it's a little less technically challenging than Morse, Satriani, Metheny, etc. but I love all those guys. Thanks! -Mark Mr_Roadstar (Mr_Roadstar) Posted on Friday, February 07, 2003 - 6:48 pm:    Excuse you for jumping in? Hell no! That's what yer 'sposed to do Cheers Steve Paddy_F (Paddy_F) Posted on Saturday, February 08, 2003 - 7:56 am:    Anybody heard of an Isreali guitarist called Mordy Ferber? Heard him on a compilation CD at a gig thursday night, -- theres nothing of him on grokster,L Regis (Regis) Posted on Monday, February 10, 2003 - 6:21 am:    Paddy I have a CD of Mordy Ferber, called "All the way to Sendai", with Miroslav Vitous on the bass. The music played is Jazz-fusion, sometimes very heavy. http://sudo.3.pro.tok2.com/Quest/cards/M/MordyFerber/AllTheWayToSendai.html Ferber is an interesting guitarist and a great composer. http://mordyferber.com/bio.shtml Regis Paddy_F (Paddy_F) Posted on Monday, February 10, 2003 - 12:35 pm:    Tnx Regis, looks like Ill have to spend a few shillings on a CD, he is reputed to play an ibanez st540,--- on the track I heard he sounded like a melodic version of Schofield, regards Paddy.J Funkle Username: Funkle Registered: 12-2001 Posted on Monday, June 06, 2005 - 5:08 pm:    Just a few nice finds, heavy on the guitar as usual: Scott Henderson - "Live" Mostly a fusion player, and former Ibanez endorsee, he's gotten more raw and bluesy lately. Just his tone alone is worth giving this a listen. He plays Suhr guitars now. Cosmic Farm, Rob Wasserman, Craig Erickson, T. Lavitz, Jeff Sipe. Funky Jam music. When I heard Craig Erickson, I said ••••! I want to play like that! Redd Volkaert - "For the ladies" Sort of a country & western Tele shredder. The twangiest album I have ever heard I met him down in Austin, really nice guy. Ohm - self titled. Chris Poland used to be a guitarist in Megadeath. Ohm is thoughtful progressive rock with some killer guitar. Poland has an amazing bending style that sounds like he's playing slide. -Sven

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