So who here is a musician?

[Randi]

Looks like a serious collection to me!!

Randi

[KYLYKaHYT]

Annette: Nice collection! Thanks for posting.   

Tekla: I loves me some good guitar porn. Bring it on!   

[Shana A]

fiddle, mandolin, guitar, banjo, uke... some piano and percussion.

Z

[cendre]

I've played guitar, drums, etc. for around half a decade, but in the past year or two it's gotten boring and I've been spending more time at the computer (attempting) making music.

[azSam]

I play the piano, I have been playing since 11 years old, so I guess I've been playing for 14 years (Betcha can't guess my age now!). I play Jazz, Blues, Classical, Modern Classical, blah blah blah down the list. Jazz is my favorite, I love jazz. Not many people my age like jazz, and that is disappointing.

I also play the guitar, irish penny whistle (or tin whistle), and bamboo flutes (in all different scales, I make them myself).

[BunnyBee]

SCREAMING CROTCHFRUIT!

Lol, I'd buy the t-shirt for sure :p.

Oh and I used to be a musician, sort of.  Like 15 years ago...  I played lots of things, mainly woodwinds, mostly saxophone.  I still have my alto sax somewhere, collecting dust.

[JodieBlonde]

I don't really play 6-strings much any more now that I've decided to stick with my bass playing.

Here's a few of my noise makers


..and this is my latest buy ->

   

I got that Acoustic B-450 to go with it.

I also picked up this Fender Squire (blue/white, center) and a Fender 'Ultimate Chorus' amp for it at the same
time. They were $50.00 for them both in a yard sale and I couldn't turn that down!



I guess with age and motorcycle accidents and normal aging processes, finger accuracy isn't as important with a
bass. What I have done is keep the non-bass guitars for people who show up and want to jam and forgot their
own - so they can use mine.

[Rock_chick]

Computer musician for the last 10 years. Just started teaching myself the electric guitar, in the hope that I can start some kind of live industrial band. It's been going well enough that I just bought myself a new gibson epiphone to replace the guitar I'm borrowing atm.

[Imadique]

if we set out to fail, we can't help but to be huge.

Mel Brooks called, he wants his idea back 
(seriously jealous of you getting to play Jerry Garcia's guitar).

I play guitar and sing in a satirical fashion. Not fantastic at either but I carry my own songs well enough to entertain people and have played some pretty decent venues. I supported Kaki King last night but I realised it was only a dream when she started undressing.

Working on an album and I've got two songs ready that I'm testing the water with as a single, approaching community radio stations towards the end of the month and one of them will be on a lesbian compilation album (hope it's not full of Melissa Etheridge derivatives) in June.

If anyone is curious or if Tekla wants to rip me to shreds here's some shameless promotion: http://www.myspace.com/hotshackett. The single is the top two songs on the player, the rest is older stuff or rough demos.

[tekla]

I love me some Kaki King.  That stuff blows me away.  As does Gabriela Quintero, I could listen to that girl shred all night long, she's not just a player, she's a monster.  And the joy she has in playing just radiates out of her so strongly when she is playing it's just pure joy.

And most 'lesbian' records tend to be much more Holly Near/Olivia Records than Miss Etheridge.  Which is sort of sad.  Not that Holly is bad, but more then two of those kind of songs in a row starts to get old fast.  ME on the other hand just flat out rocks.  Worked several ME shows over the years and she's one hell of a player, and more (the harder part in many ways) is a fantastic performer - one who cares about her audience as much as they care about her.  And, the proof to some of that is that she does not get that near 100% lesbian audience that Holly Near or the Indigo Girls seem stuck with.

(seriously jealous of you getting to play Jerry Garcia's guitar)
Well.... if it makes you feel any better I played Bobbie's once too.  LOL.  But a couple of weeks ago I was working the rehearsals for a Phil/Bobbie/Further deal in Marin and when we were done setting up the studio (with full concert monitor system, of course) I asked Phil's guy Robbie (who've I known for decades now) if I could take some pix of Phil's custom basses for my guitar porn collection and he agreed (in that gruff, ok but not really manner he has down so well) and when I was done I thanked him and joked, hey Robbie, would you mind if I played it?  His response was "I'll break both of your arms if you so much as touch one of them."  And he was NOT kidding.

[Parker Lane]

I play guitar, piano and drums.

For about 5 years now on all of the above.
:]

[Imadique]

I love me some Kaki King.  That stuff blows me away.  As does Gabriela Quintero, I could listen to that girl shred all night long, she's not just a player, she's a monster.  And the joy she has in playing just radiates out of her so strongly when she is playing it's just pure joy.

And most 'lesbian' records tend to be much more Holly Near/Olivia Records than Miss Etheridge.  Which is sort of sad.  Not that Holly is bad, but more then two of those kind of songs in a row starts to get old fast.  ME on the other hand just flat out rocks.  Worked several ME shows over the years and she's one hell of a player, and more (the harder part in many ways) is a fantastic performer - one who cares about her audience as much as they care about her.  And, the proof to some of that is that she does not get that near 100% lesbian audience that Holly Near or the Indigo Girls seem stuck with.

(seriously jealous of you getting to play Jerry Garcia's guitar)
Well.... if it makes you feel any better I played Bobbie's once too.  LOL.  But a couple of weeks ago I was working the rehearsals for a Phil/Bobbie/Further deal in Marin and when we were done setting up the studio (with full concert monitor system, of course) I asked Phil's guy Robbie (who've I known for decades now) if I could take some pix of Phil's custom basses for my guitar porn collection and he agreed (in that gruff, ok but not really manner he has down so well) and when I was done I thanked him and joked, hey Robbie, would you mind if I played it?  His response was "I'll break both of your arms if you so much as touch one of them."  And he was NOT kidding.

Well...I touched James Muller's fuzz pedal with my index finger once...

Great clip, I wish I could strum like that.

I didn't mean to reflect negatively on Melissa Etheridge (or anyone particularly), she's just the main example I think of to relate that grainy belting style of vocal and strong rhythm playing that I see so often amongst the girls in my local scene (Sydney). I have nothing against the style but it is so often imitated around here that it's getting a bit tired. Not familiar with Holly Near.

Did you ever work on the Deads wall of sound PA?

[Metamorph]

I can play guitar, dabble on a friends bass and am trying to teach myself piano on my keyboard. Id love to have a drum kit but the neighbours would kill me if I did. I already torture them with my amp enough hehe.

[Erica L.]

I play the violin, viola, and dabble in spoons.

[Metamorph]

I want to learn to play one of these!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y71Z8yIMqu0&feature=related#

[Samantha_Peterson]

I play trombone, trumpet, and baritone.

[Wolf Man]

Sad to say that my music playing is over. Though I spent 8 years of my life playing Flute(4 years), Clarinet(1 year), and Alto Sax(5 years). 

I ended my notes on the Alto Sax. I tore that thing up. I was the definition.   

I miss my glory days. 

[tekla]

Nah, the WoS was long before my time with them, that was not a real touring system (as they soon found out) but more of an experiment.  With the development of monitor systems (WoS was sans-monitors so they could get real time sound - p.s. they didn't, that slew rate problem, Ohm could have told them, but hey, they don't listen) but it was a Big Bear Experiment, which like a lot of BBEs, was half awesome, have disaster.  But it gave them (and others) the need to develop real systems, so from there came UltraSound, and from there the people at Meyers, who make the boxes that they use now.  Which, BTW, are awesome.

[Kristyn]

Me--guitar and vocals.  I spent seven years before I transitioned playing on a semi-professional(if you could call it that)basis.  I recently picked it up just as a time killer last year and am quite surprised as to how far it is now progressing