The band is me and anyone (or guitar) I jam with at the time.
not done yet.
I've played live on small scales. It's fun I guess. That's not why I make music though. It's a personal addiction to actually making music. If I see a guitar somewhere, I NEED to touch it. lol For anyone who doesn't understand, try to imagine the opposite of a phobia.
All of them. You can pick up ideas from everything you hear.
...if you take the time to listen.
Most of it.
...sometimes.
You know how it is. Some things have too many buttons. Simpler is better for capturing ideas quickly. During tracking and mixing, less is often more. On stage more crap is just stuff you need to carry and more cables and more things that can break down or cause extra noise.
I don't do music in a computer, I use a keyboard sequencer/synth and a standalone HDR for recording backing trax. (that's when I use the most buttons)
My guitar rig has been scaled down to a line six spiderjam. It's a small (inexpensive) practice amp with a single "10 and a tweet. The cool thing about these is that I can load my sequences into the onboard recorder (sound not midi) and send (stereo or mono, line level) out to a board. It sounds huge (depending on the PA) and it has about 30 minutes of recording time.
Line six rocks. A good guitarist can gig all night by his/herself with a disc or two full of backing trax and a portable cd player because there's an aux line level in and a mic in too. There are also many prerecorded drum/song backing trax in the amp. I can't give enough praise to line six for this one.
Always remember that you are unique, just like everybody else.
