i started playing drum cause of my brother
it seemed like such a great way to spend energy and make some of awesome sounds and rythims
i remember trying to play offspring's smash back in those days

oh and i sucked and i couldnt keep playing because of moving so now its many years behind me, and whenever i get behind a kit i feel i lost what little ability i might have once had

@ josiah: not only your source of inspiration is wicked, the instrument is, too! you're a weirdo, my friend

Proud of it.

Cedric Bixler from the mars volta makes me wanna be a singer in a rock and roll band.

Thanks for the mat, Biert!!

Dude, sweet stories. It's cool to find some people who are so interested in heavy music. I lived in northern Vancouver Island up until about three years ago and now I'm in Victoria. Still kind of a hippie town, so not a big metal scene. It's nice to be here.

Thanks for the mat, Biert!!

Dude, sweet stories. It's cool to find some people who are so interested in heavy music. I lived in northern Vancouver Island up until about three years ago and now I'm in Victoria. Still kind of a hippie town, so not a big metal scene. It's nice to be here.

Hah, you should see Nanaimo, where I live. Makes Victoria look like a veritable metal metropolis.

we has gremory!

BTW, Anybody else going to 3-Inches of Blood on Canada Day? Only $15!

BTW, Anybody else going to 3-Inches of Blood on Canada Day? Only $15!

What? More information!

Jimmy Page
Slash

Josiah -

3-inches is playing in Victoria in the 1st at Sugar. Tickets are $15, and you can get them downtown, a few blocks from the venue.

http://www.ticketweb.ca/user/?region=xx ... ar&x=0&y=0

That page has info on how to buy tickets online, if you're one of those kinds of dudes.

People should come!

what made me want to play...

i heard beethoven's moonlight sonata and that made me want to play piano

i was listening to jääportit's talvenkaltainen, and i must add that i was reading lovecraft as well when i got a craving desire for making music, if music can be called

For bass:
Geddy Lee...the first time I heard Rush, I was about 8 or so and I haven't stopped yet....They are my favorite band, ever.
Les Claypool because that guy blows me away.
I'm starting to learn guitar because of:
Devin and my boyfriend, Ralph. I want to get better than he is because that's exactly what he's afraid of

Haha, that last motivation seems a great one.

Thanks for the mat, Biert!!

Dude, sweet stories. It's cool to find some people who are so interested in heavy music. I lived in northern Vancouver Island up until about three years ago and now I'm in Victoria. Still kind of a hippie town, so not a big metal scene. It's nice to be here.

Hah, you should see Nanaimo, where I live. Makes Victoria look like a veritable metal metropolis.

No metal scene > Derivative Melodic-Death (aka boring-as-fuck-and-done-to-death) Metal scene.
Which is basically all Prince George has. That, and a bit of a punk/rock/indie scene. But all those shows tend to be full of druggies, so I avoid 'em.

Anyway... inspirations...
Uh... I guess, originally, guys like Janick Gers, Dave Murray and Adrian Smith (Iron Maiden), along with Brett Gurewitz and Greg Hetson (Bad Religion) got me into guitar. The first guys because they're all incredible players who can keep melody no matter what; the latter two because they show you don't need to be insanely technical to be a really good guitarist. Hell, Brett's even a bit sloppy, but it just works, because it's a stylish sloppy, rather than just a "he fucking sucks" sloppy.

More recently...
The Dev - Showed that, even if you have the ability, you don't have to make everything technical to be good. The whole of the song is more important than the parts. Also showed that lyrics in metal can be emotional and still fit the song, rather than being about myths, or war, or just being pissed off.

Alex Lifeson - Another guy who is capable of being extremely technical, yet more recently has focused a lot more on chords and the whole of the song, rather than showing off... though even when he, Geddy and Neil do show off, they tend to keep the heart of the song in mind, rather than just pure wankery.

David Gilmour - Having recently re-discovered my love for Pink Floyd, clean tones, chords and use of many effects have come back into my interest.

John Frusciante - Just an all-around incredible guitarist, with an insane knowledge of theory. If I ever learn a tenth of what he knows about theory, I will consider myself competent with it. Plus, he just has awesomely weird experimental stuff for his solo stuff, that still usually has a lot of melody, and then he's got the incredibly melodic stuff with the Chilis.

[JuZ]

The Dev - Showed that, even if you have the ability, you don't have to make everything technical to be good. The whole of the song is more important than the parts. Also showed that lyrics in metal can be emotional and still fit the song, rather than being about myths, or war, or just being pissed off.

I hear ya! I don't tend to spend a great deal of time contemplating lyrics at all, but I love the fact that Dev's lyrics are whatever he wants them to be, unbound by the need to tell tales of black-clad Nordic Pygmy warriors and their battles with Satan's demented war badgers, or whatever.

Which can be fun, don't get me wrong... I like demented war badgering as much as the next man, but... yeah, I should probably stop talking now.