My friend down in New Orleans called me up one day this month and asked, "Hey man, wanna be in a band with me?" I went apeshit, I was so happy. My best friend and I are gonna start a band after high school. He wants to call it "Nightmare Fantasies". I'm all like "Okay, cool man". I don't care what our name is all that much. But right now we are writing, or I am. And we are learning Rush songs. Him and I are both learning YYZ. I am learning Red Barchetta myself right now. I'm almost done with that song. I'm trying to make it sound as clear as possible. The only troublesome part is the chorus-laden arpeggios in the 1st verse. It's not hard to play, but to make it sound clean is not easy for me. My friend plays bass, and I play guitar and sing.
A song that I really wanna cover someday is something by Soundgarden, either Burden In My Hand, or Rhinosaur. I love the album, Down On The Upside. But, my friend doesn't really listen to Soundgarden, which sucks!
Him and I both love Rush, but he also likes 80s Hair Metal, and I like 90s Grunge and Alt/Hard Rock, and Desert Rock (like Kyuss) from that time. He's 80s, I'm 90s. But we'll figure something out. Some sort of compromise will come through. But we both enjoy prog rock.
Recently, the production crew for the show "MADE" on MTV came by my school. Everybody wanted me on that show, but I told them to fuck off. I hate fabricated loopholes in the music industry that anybody can crawl through. I want to earn notoriety the old fashioned way, and just have fun while making a living. I love playing the guitar.
Hello. I'm John. I live in Stafford Springs, CT, and I've been on UG since my 2nd year of playing guitar, which was age 14. I am now 17. I love music, I love the guitar, and I am very serious about being in a band. However, I haven
t jammed with anybody else in months. I came to CT last August, and that's when I met my dad for the first time. Before, I lived with my mom. I'm losing weight rather easily. I used to almost weigh 300 pounds, but now I weigh a little under 240.
I listen to a lot of classic rock, thrash, some blues, and some hair metal. I really love grunge though. My favorite bands are as follows:
Alice In Chains (to me, Dirt is the greatest rock album ever made)
STP
Soundgarden
Pearl Jam
Nirvana
Led Zeppelin
Metallica (before Load)
Megadeth
Anthrax
Rage Against The Machine
Black Sabbath
Ozzy Osbourne
Queens Of The Stone Age
and many more....
My favorite guitarists are Jimmy Page, Randy Rhoads, Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, John Frusciante, Jerry Cantrell, David Gilmour, and Tom Morello.
Those guys make want to immediately pick up a guitar and play.
My favorite songs of all time are:
Diary Of A Madman by Ozzy Osbourne (W/ Randy Rhoads)
Ride The Lightning by Metallica
How Many More Times by Led Zeppelin
Them Bones by Alice In Chains (the best song ever made that runs under three mins long)
Bold As Love by Jimi Hendrix
Bark At The Moon by Ozzy
and more!
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