So, um....can we have introductions from all the new guys?
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davearonow
Cl*** Clown
Well, Im Dave Aronow. Im 45,I live in Tampa/St Pete Florida, been playing or noodling with various instruments since I was 5, and very seriously since I was 15, about 1980 or so. Started doing my first paying gigs at age 16 and have pretty much stayed busy since then. I have about 15 hours on stage just this week alone. I am a musician that mostly makes a living from playing, writing, recording, publishing, producing scoring music. I also love tinkering/building/modding gear, or designing, building pretty much anything, really. I am very into small craft boat building as well. I spend ALOT of time on Harmony Central, but have recently discovered this site and am really liking it here.
some stuff I have done with music includes playing for approximately 15,000 hours on various instruments, at least half of those hours on Bass, which is my primary bread and butter instrument. Thosands of those hours have been on stages either in rock type situations, clubs, Arenas, festivals, or in concert halls with various traditional orchestras.
I play hundreds and hundreds of hours a year on stages in various groups and configurations playing bass guitar, piano, keyboard, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, and violin/fiddle.
I spent my early preteen years playing classical Piano and still to this day condider my musical Heros and Gods, not people like Henrix, Page and Van Halen, but people Like Beethoven, Brahms, Paganini, Rossini, and then there is the God of Gods, Johan Sebastian Bach.
Grew up in a house with my father, a professional NYC big band Musician with Glenn Miller type music blasting through my house whn I was a kid. Love most things jazz too, especially big band WW2 era stuff.
I have been exposed to HUGE amounts and varietys of music and out of all my friends and acquaintences, I have about the most eclectic and diverse range of musical tastes as anyone I have ever met. I can pretty much fing the good in abnout any music, and like just about any genre you can immagine. Basically, if there is a tone and a pitch produced, I have probably been musically influenced by it in some way.
I played in hard rock/ metal hairbands buring the mid-late 80s early 90s, and pretty much lived that scene playing in most of the Cities in The US during that time.
mid 90's I played in a band Produced and Founded by Brian Johnson of AC/DC in which he did all the promoting/writing, and although he did not front the band, at all our live shows, the last encore would be an entire set of AC/DC songs in which Brian would comne out and front the band. Those were some of the more wild gigs of my career.
I have done varios projects for Radio and Television and corporate advertising campaigns and have done original Theme music for Television shows including "Jack Hannah's Animal Adventurtes" which has been airing worldwide for well over a decade now.
My primarey band these days is a hard edged modern country band called ADRIAN RAY and The A-Train band and we have been playing pretty hard and Heavy for the last couple years. Look us up if we come to your town.
I am not a person that takes myself too seriously. like to crack alot of silly dry jokes the humor comtent of which is debatable, but i can assure they will almost always be immature.
Anyway, that is pretty much what I am about. Hope to get to know some of yall better coming up.
Ill update this post with links to various projects for anyone interested.
some stuff I have done with music includes playing for approximately 15,000 hours on various instruments, at least half of those hours on Bass, which is my primary bread and butter instrument. Thosands of those hours have been on stages either in rock type situations, clubs, Arenas, festivals, or in concert halls with various traditional orchestras.
I play hundreds and hundreds of hours a year on stages in various groups and configurations playing bass guitar, piano, keyboard, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, and violin/fiddle.
I spent my early preteen years playing classical Piano and still to this day condider my musical Heros and Gods, not people like Henrix, Page and Van Halen, but people Like Beethoven, Brahms, Paganini, Rossini, and then there is the God of Gods, Johan Sebastian Bach.
Grew up in a house with my father, a professional NYC big band Musician with Glenn Miller type music blasting through my house whn I was a kid. Love most things jazz too, especially big band WW2 era stuff.
I have been exposed to HUGE amounts and varietys of music and out of all my friends and acquaintences, I have about the most eclectic and diverse range of musical tastes as anyone I have ever met. I can pretty much fing the good in abnout any music, and like just about any genre you can immagine. Basically, if there is a tone and a pitch produced, I have probably been musically influenced by it in some way.
I played in hard rock/ metal hairbands buring the mid-late 80s early 90s, and pretty much lived that scene playing in most of the Cities in The US during that time.
mid 90's I played in a band Produced and Founded by Brian Johnson of AC/DC in which he did all the promoting/writing, and although he did not front the band, at all our live shows, the last encore would be an entire set of AC/DC songs in which Brian would comne out and front the band. Those were some of the more wild gigs of my career.
I have done varios projects for Radio and Television and corporate advertising campaigns and have done original Theme music for Television shows including "Jack Hannah's Animal Adventurtes" which has been airing worldwide for well over a decade now.
My primarey band these days is a hard edged modern country band called ADRIAN RAY and The A-Train band and we have been playing pretty hard and Heavy for the last couple years. Look us up if we come to your town.
I am not a person that takes myself too seriously. like to crack alot of silly dry jokes the humor comtent of which is debatable, but i can assure they will almost always be immature.
Anyway, that is pretty much what I am about. Hope to get to know some of yall better coming up.
Ill update this post with links to various projects for anyone interested.
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PunkKitty
The fates already f'ked me sideways
Hi everyone! You know me as mhn433 from HCEG. I see a lot of familiar avitars out here. That's good.
I play electric and acoustic guitar. I'm classically trained and have been playing for about 30 years. That doesn't mean I'm good. But I enjoy it.
I'm not currently in a band, but I am active at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago. I usually play rock, jazz, blues and country. I fingerpick quite a bit.
And I have a nifty new purple guitar!
I play electric and acoustic guitar. I'm classically trained and have been playing for about 30 years. That doesn't mean I'm good. But I enjoy it.
I'm not currently in a band, but I am active at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago. I usually play rock, jazz, blues and country. I fingerpick quite a bit.
And I have a nifty new purple guitar!
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Bernie Franks
Mayor McMojo
Hey Mark, can we change the newbie status from n00b to HC Expatriate?
ellengtrgrl
Guitar Old Timer
WK6U, I agree to disagree with you about that (73s didn't seem to become widespread until the late 80s), but hey, it's no big deal. If you're ever interested in a sked, let me know. 20m to 6-land is usually a pretty decent path for me (and I usually shoot the breeze on phone as it is). Also, 17 & 15m have been (with the exception of this weekend's crappy radio condx. due to a minor geomagnetic storm) better lately.
'Later,
Ellen - AF9J
Help!I'maRock!
Mediocringly Derivative
Hey Mark, can we change the newbie status from n00b to HC Expatriate?
we have a thing here that i imported from another forum i post on. it's called "member title request". so if you see something that's hysterical, appropriate, or has become a forum meme, quote it and put the words "member title request" in your post. then Mark can search on a regular basis and add them.
ellengtrgrl
Guitar Old Timer
Hi everyone! You know me as mhn433 from HCEG. I see a lot of familiar avitars out here. That's good.
I play electric and acoustic guitar. I'm classically trained and have been playing for about 30 years. That doesn't mean I'm good. But I enjoy it.
I'm not currently in a band, but I am active at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago. I usually play rock, jazz, blues and country. I fingerpick quite a bit.
And I have a nifty new purple guitar!
Punk Kitty, how are those new Luna Tele thinlines? I was interested in them (the price sure looks nice), but a Telecaster forums member told me not to get them. I wonder if he wasn't just being a traditionalist snob. I'm still curious about them.
P.S. - I remember you from HCEG
Ellen - 80 miles north of you
Guitar Heel
Demented Trick
Hey! Glad you made it over this way. I like your choice of username.
dmn23
Duller than cardboard
I'm Mike. A lot of these guys know me from HCGJ and I lurk here periodically. I live just outside of Nashville and I'm a thoroughly mediocre player. I'm 40 years old and currently playing lead in a vaguely country-ish rock band that's just doing originals at this point, plus I'll do the occasional writers night/open mic thing.
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Help!I'maRock!
Mediocringly Derivative
the Electric Guitars forum has descended upon us. prepare for the Guitars forum to explode with content.
Chihlidog
Kick Henry Jackassowski
PunkKitty
The fates already f'ked me sideways
Hi Ellen! From what I hear, they are hit or miss. The higher end ones tend to be good. I really like mine. Here is a NGD thread with more specifics.
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Help!I'maRock!
Mediocringly Derivative
And I am sure you're happier than a pig in shit
there's just so much i can talk about hot sauce.
Do you have anything you suggest? Better yet, something you link to via amazon or sell in your place? After my last fiasco, I want to keep it cheap and easy.
Jkater
new member
I'm Richard, 51 years old. Married to a german who gave me four magnificent daughters. I live and work in Germany since 1996. My day job for the past 25 years has been working with people with disabilities and discovering their incredible gifts.
I started guitar lessons and playing cowboy chords when I was nine (but played a black plastic uke at the tender age of 7). At around 15 years old, I bought my first electric guitar and played in cover bands for 2-3 years as the rhythm guitarist (the lead guitarist was older and stronger and didn't want to share the front stage). At around 17 or so I watched cool people sitting on the grass playing acoustic guitar fingerstyle surrounded by pretty girls with long hair and I found my calling. Within very few years, I became quite good at acoustic fingerstyle and I found that I had exceptionnaly good ears and memory (if I may say so). I proved less gifted in regards to getting the pretty girls (probably being short, ugly with thick glasses didn't help) but i continued to play guitar anyway. For the next 25 years, I played acoustic exclusively and my thing was learning instrumental pieces either by ear or with tabs. In the fingerstyle acoustic guitar world, playing covers, other people's stuff, is not frowned upon, on the contrary. And rendering a piece as close to the original as possible became my favorite challenge. Yet, I believe I developed a personal style or at least a touch quite my own. The flip side of being so focused on learning pieces is that I did not develop my ability to improvise solos or play electric and this is a relatively new challenge.
I learned to play other instruments as well, Mandolin, banjo, bass, drums and percussions as well as a bit of flute, trumpet, harmonica, etc. I am now learning to play the viola and I play with my girls who play the cello and violin.
I have always been passionate about hobbies and I have had many: bird watching, mountain hiking, chess (I'm a patzer), hand puppets theater, astronomy, drawing (I painted that bird in my avatar).
I have been "addicted" to Harmony Central for about six years and made good friends there, many of whom are now here! It's nice to see them again and to enjoy an "agreeable" forum with them... and you guys from MWGL. Thanks for welcoming us.
I started guitar lessons and playing cowboy chords when I was nine (but played a black plastic uke at the tender age of 7). At around 15 years old, I bought my first electric guitar and played in cover bands for 2-3 years as the rhythm guitarist (the lead guitarist was older and stronger and didn't want to share the front stage). At around 17 or so I watched cool people sitting on the grass playing acoustic guitar fingerstyle surrounded by pretty girls with long hair and I found my calling. Within very few years, I became quite good at acoustic fingerstyle and I found that I had exceptionnaly good ears and memory (if I may say so). I proved less gifted in regards to getting the pretty girls (probably being short, ugly with thick glasses didn't help) but i continued to play guitar anyway. For the next 25 years, I played acoustic exclusively and my thing was learning instrumental pieces either by ear or with tabs. In the fingerstyle acoustic guitar world, playing covers, other people's stuff, is not frowned upon, on the contrary. And rendering a piece as close to the original as possible became my favorite challenge. Yet, I believe I developed a personal style or at least a touch quite my own. The flip side of being so focused on learning pieces is that I did not develop my ability to improvise solos or play electric and this is a relatively new challenge.
I learned to play other instruments as well, Mandolin, banjo, bass, drums and percussions as well as a bit of flute, trumpet, harmonica, etc. I am now learning to play the viola and I play with my girls who play the cello and violin.
I have always been passionate about hobbies and I have had many: bird watching, mountain hiking, chess (I'm a patzer), hand puppets theater, astronomy, drawing (I painted that bird in my avatar).
I have been "addicted" to Harmony Central for about six years and made good friends there, many of whom are now here! It's nice to see them again and to enjoy an "agreeable" forum with them... and you guys from MWGL. Thanks for welcoming us.
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BoomBoomBigelow
Genius of Love
Hi. It's me. I'm all over.
Always liked Mark's lesson site. Hi Mark! Nice to be here.
I like guitars and bass guitars.
And what's wrong with vBulletin™ Version 4.0.2, for instance? Works perfectly well here.
Formerly known as Jimmy Chitown.
Always liked Mark's lesson site. Hi Mark! Nice to be here.
I like guitars and bass guitars.
And what's wrong with vBulletin™ Version 4.0.2, for instance? Works perfectly well here.
Formerly known as Jimmy Chitown.
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