What kind of music do you play?

[Matt]

I play mainly blues, but I do play rock sometimes. I really, really, like playing blues though because you can make stuff up as you go and it is kinda hard to play a bad note if you are using the blues scale.;)

[wihaga83]

i like playin,
classic rock (Zep, Purple, Hendrix ),
blues (SRV, buddy guy), s
hred things (Dream Theater, Paul Gilbert, MR. Big, Helloween, Impeliteri),
and Alternative (Pearl Jam, Sonic youth, Soundgarden)

[Ex-Cowboy]

"Thrash-garage-disco-core."

[danno]

funk

[motorcycle loop]

I play a lot of stuff, but what I am most recognized for is a Wes Montgomery/Sonic Youth/Leadbelly/Nirvana-type combination, or what I like to refer to as Skunk Rock, with a bit of garage thrown in, making it Brian Eno's Garage.

[Crash]

Kind of a Grunge/Blues Rock thing with influences from all over the place. I like it and most of the people I've played any of my bands stuff for seem to like it so I'm happy.

[nobody]

soundtracks for films that have never been made and probably never will.

[Greyskull]

Hard Rock. I like the feeling of the amp pushing the speakers, and I love the sound. And the buzz from the energy...the energy is where its at !!!

Blues is cool, but I get bored playing blues...but I am not a lead player in a traditional sense either.

I used to play "air supply", 3 minute acoustic pop stuff (I've written some really good tunes in that genre). It sounds good - hell, it can sound great. Then I realized that that stuff is no fun to play - people would always just sit and listen when I was playing.

I WANT TO MAKE PEOPLE MOVE !

[Lenin]

surf-space-atmospheric-indie-noise-ska

[trim]

Very guitar driven rockish/poppish/punkish/riffy/melodic stuff... alot of different influences in all of the song writers...

not as much head banging as there is ass shakin'...


:rolleyes:

[Alkio]

Metal. We have taken influences mostly from KoRn, System of a Down and old Finnish pop songs.

[cin]

Mine sort of fits in the progressive rock genre with a lot of gain, I try to make stuff that is sexy, yet uncomfortable to listen to. A bit like me. ;P

[Ice age coming]

I play indie-alternative-heavy-soft rock (muse,radiohead,smashing pumpkins etc.)

and yeah i know i could just call it alternative-rock but it sounds so boring :d


PS: cant wait until i get my Gibson Sg Standard and Marshall amp :D!!

[Lance Uppercut]

i bust out noise in the butthole surfers, boredoms, sonic youth vein, and i dont really think i play the guitar i think i assemble noise made by the guitar

[Sk8Jack12]

everything but country and death metal. i play in a praise and worship band at my church, but also like to play punk/alternative rock.

[The User]

Glam Grunge. Glitter and Flanelette.
Neil Young meets David Bowie
Nirvana meets T.Rex
Placebo meets Sonic Youth

[jonjonbolt80]

i'm from Northern Va and i got into gogo music. it's 70's music but with not a lot of exposure. it mixes hiphop with blues and funk. for a good refference check out Chuck Brown. for the open minded

[Ex-Cowboy]

2 Unlimited on smack meet Napalm Death in a crowded dutch disco on a weekday night, with Pat Sharpe as the resident DJ.

[j_stashko]

I mostly play metal and rock, but real metal and rock, not nickelback or linkin park. I play lots of melodic style metal, such as blind guardian, and lots of regular heavy metal such as pantera, iron maiden, judas priest and megadeth. I play rock like ac/dc, boston and others. I also like to play some classical and blues now and then. But when I make up stuff I just play what comes into my head, it is mostly metal though.

[Pinshlo]

soundtracks for films that have never been made and probably never will.


hey! thats what im playing too!

[khingpynn]

blues, fusion, metal, rock, I learn the odd country tune.

[joeinthebox1980]

i combine a variety of influences... old british-invasion (kinks, the who) along with some jazzy chords, mixed in with some weird noises, electronic beats/sounds, mix with my fascination with interpol, joy division, new order, the beatles, the smiths, etc.

you have my sound. :)

but screw the genres and sub-genres, at the heart of it all... it's basically ROCK! :D

[Welladjusted]

umm...
heavy rock. elements of incubus, rage and u2, as well as some of my poor attempts at funky jazz. covers a lot of ground. i use a lot of open strings in my chords, so i can't use too much distortion

[janhein]

I mostly play metallica. You can say anything you want about them, but the older albums fukking RULE!! Megadeth is cool to, I just don't like death metal or anything like that, to loud, to hard, to fast. Melodic **** is cool to, u know blind guardian etc.

[NormanConquest]

My band specializes in paleoriffology--hard rock/metal/blues/boogie. It's a really alien sound here in Hipsterville, USA, so we tend to get a lot of grief and upturned noses from the scene snobs. (It's okay, I can play rings around those posers any day!)

It's a two guitar band, with an emphasis on teamwork--tight rhythm playing, complementary parts, harmony leads--qualities that have been sadly neglected, IMO. The other guitarist and I are really into Harris-Smith (Maiden), Gorham-Robertson (Thin Lizzy) and Perry-Whitford, some of the best. Ever since we started writing harmonized lead lines I've noticed a lot of smiles and upraised fists in the audience. It takes a lot of effort to win over the jaded anti-rock audiences here, but it seems to be working.

[khingpynn]

Best to ya bro...I have nothing but respect and admiration for any artist that does it for the right reasons. Who cares what the critics say, who made them the all knowing ones?
Your band is different and not mainstream...who wants to be mainstream anyways.
Where can I hear some of your music?

Craig

[HEADSHRUNK]

i play weird alt rock, with a combination of punk and metal. my band mixes it up alot, we dont want to have any boundaries. we even do what some call "stone rock" just to jam a little.

[GrungeGod]

whatever catches my fancy at the time

[stratocaster83]

satanic bossanova

[loudneighbor]

allman bros. meets police meets radiohead meets black crowes meets u2...

[Satch_21]

Whatever I want...lol

[khingpynn]

That is the responce I was looking for, and thats the best way to approach any art.
cudos to ya!!!

Craig

[Ricplaya]

I'm with you.
Any damn thing I feel like.
I jus don't feel like playin country music ever 1(cept in night mares :D )
Rock on!!!!

[VaiRules]

I play some messed up ****. Its a combination of COF's tremelo picking. Tool's timing, NIN's dynamics, and Meshuggah's heaviness. Its wild f***in wild. most of it is easy but the palm muted 16th **** gets tricky

[jacobhimself]

punk funk rock. my influences are canadian winters and old nintendo games.

[Welladjusted]

punk/metal/rock

[Clayton38]

Ummmm I really don't know what I play... it just comes out of my head and onto the guitar.

[reptilzar]

whatever I ****in' feel like.
jazzy melodic tempo-wrecking hardcore.

Converge meets At The Drive-In getting raped by Dillinger Escape Plan while Jeff Buckley, Coheed & Cambria, and Mike Patton have a love-fest on the other side of the stage.

You know you love it.

[cormac]

really interesting thread btw -- lots of variety and stuff i don't really know (like Thrash-garage-disco-core -- wtf is that? LOL -- sounds good)

electric i play mainly blues and blues-based rock -- clapton, srv, albert king, buddy guy -- the fat leads those guys play are what i really strive for tho i am a better rhythm player

i play a lot of acoustic too which of course includes blues, some country (pretty picky about who i listen to in country -- mainly cash, nelson, jerry jeff walker, kristofferson), and folk (dylan, woody guthrie, john prine, steve goodman, some other standards)

:D

just edited some typos

[flamekaster]

I play progresive blues funk rock, with some other things thrown in when it feels good and what ever makes a booty shake!!

[Kain]

weird stuff....like sabbath but w/funk and less blues...w/some keyboards and the like

prolly like a 16-y-o's band shouldn' sound...not power chord driven and punk-lol-like everyone else's band is

lol, hey if ur young and you hav music thats good jus to listen to , i'll buy it!

[Ice age coming]

i play mostly "hardcore silent experimental jazz house" its just me sitting quiet on a chair with my guitar on the lap playing nothing





































































j\k

[EdgeCrusher]

LOL!

I play in a thrash metal band (Slayer, Megadeth, early Machine Head, Metallica, Anthrax style), but outside of that, I'll play generally anything.

[Hasselhoff]

Somewhere inbetween punk and ska. I've heard people use the term "ska-caore" but I don't really like the sound of that. Whatever

[bloodyvalentine]

I play Hypnotic space pop.... really soft repeating music....

[welder]

I play Blues, Rock, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Thrash Metal, Speed Metal, also I like to play Hair Metal, Power Metal, Progressive Metal and classical guitar.
I'm a bluesy-shredder guy.

[Wir-Click-Wir]

Various styles of rock (classic rock, indie/alternative, hard rock), folk, some blues. I'm trying to expand and learn some basic jazz as well.

[skyneverclaimed]

I wish I know... I can't really describe my personal style of playing, but people have described my band as sounding like everything from Finch to Chevelle, I think we sound like neither, but hey, I guess it's not up to me.

[ledbetter]

mostly alternative stuff. i'm all about the pearl jam/radiohead-ish feel.

[jets]

i am jimmy page and i play music about ****ing and
my bands singer acts like a homosexual and says random stupid crap like "does any body remember laughter" in our dvd while playing stairway to heaven


btw "the song remains the same" blows ass !

[jets]

this is me replying to that dumb jimmy page character
















































































































sucker mc's should call me sire !

[joeinthebox1980]

after further consideration... i think i'd say i play: adventurous-pop.

it combines a ton of influences, weird experimental sh!t, but yet, with a melody (hence the "pop").

[sepultura87]

Alot of music. My favorite genres include folk, country, bluegrass, classic rock, hard rock, modern rock, hip-hop, gangsta rap, R&B, jazz, blues, oldies, punk, hardcore, and most of all (typical 16-year old, I know)...

Metal rules!

I really do like to play all kinds of music on guitar, but my favorite genre is metal. And I mean all of it, from nu-metal to death-metal, to classic metal.

In my band right now though, Ashen, our style is very similar to bands like In Flames and Children of Bodom. We really like the new melodi-death/Gothenberg movement, and we play melodic death-metal. (Actually, I don't know why it's called melodic death metal, condiering that none of the bands have alot of gory, morbid lyrics, or blastbeats, or crazy tempo changes.) Our songs are pretty heavy (abrasive raspy vocals), but very listenable compared to straight death-metal and heavy thrash.

[special k]

Originally posted by jets
i am jimmy page and i play music about ****ing and
my bands singer acts like a homosexual and says random stupid crap like "does any body remember laughter" in our dvd while playing stairway to heaven


btw "the song remains the same" blows ass !

I've got a couple bootlegs where he says that damn laughter song. ****in' hippies! ;)

All rock is about ****ing. that's what makes it ****ing rock n' ****ing roll.

I want to get that new DVD... Song Remains the Same is a pretty bad showing of Zeppelin's live show.

oh, yeah. i play rock/blues/jam/funk.

-k.

[TheGrinnan]

Punk, metal, rock, surf, bad Chuck Berry, bluesy, honk, and Skynyrd.

[methanol]

anything with heavy driving guitar(s) from punk to metal to hendrix to grunge to hard rock..........damn i really need to get better distortion.

[VillageIdiot]

Originally posted by special k
I've got a couple bootlegs where he says that damn laughter song. ****in' hippies! ;)

All rock is about ****ing. that's what makes it ****ing rock n' ****ing roll.

I want to get that new DVD... Song Remains the Same is a pretty bad showing of Zeppelin's live show.

oh, yeah. i play rock/blues/jam/funk.

-k.

Yeah the new DVD is suppose to be killer eh...


I play rock, I guess. Everything from soft stuff to hard stuff, on one condition- its gotta have an edge. I am from the school of though that "heavy" is a state of playing and a choice of notes, not amount of distortion. I play "heavy" music. :)

Oh yeah- and I play nu-metal in the bedroom. Hey- its fun, I swear.

[rocknroll321]

Originally posted by danno
funk

wow I've never seen anyone get into the funk. I really repect that, caus where I come from people think it's weird cause I'm into Jazz and Blues.

[Ice age coming]

Originally posted by rocknroll321
wow I've never seen anyone get into the funk. I really repect that, caus where I come from people think it's weird cause I'm into Jazz and Blues.

In the suburbs of Oslo there is alot of cool Funk rock bands with trumpets and stuff :D they are awesome..

[coldbuggin]

i play space/chamber/glam/rock and rock. please check out my band www.alltheghosts.com there are mp3's avaliable on the media page, i'd love to hear what you think of them.:)

[Dubious]

I always have trouble describing our sound. Between us we hate everything, but various influences include Jeff Buckley & Pearl Jam for me, the other guitarist is into Neil Young & the Floyd, the bass player likes U2 and the Police, and the drummer's hero is Chad Sexton from 311.

But we've got mp3s posted on our site at mybandrocks.com, if anyone's interested (or bored).

[airfall]

weird trippy space jazz rock

[grungetele]

i guess i dont know what the hell I play!! let's see... noise-alternative rock-rock'n'roll-some old punk influences-experimental rock-grunge... boh! That alone, I play in a ****ed up band which I hate and we play the ****tiest rock ever!! if had someone else to play with i'd leave them all kickin all their asses (my role is really important in that horrible band!!)