Do you play an Instrument?

[BirdinHand]

think playing an instrument is like speaking another language. I think the brain works the same way for both.

I think there’s a lot of validity to that.

The earlier one starts, the easier it is to learn and pick up.

I started piano at like 6-7?


We are getting ready to put my 6 year old in piano and guitar this coming spring

 

[jpevans]

The music industry has been velly, velly, good to me. It's how I can afford the good pot. LOL!

Backstage opening for STYX

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About to go onstage, opening for The Moody Blues. (Always a bridesmaid, never a bride.)

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Too legit to quit. The good Captain is FULL of surprises, no?

Why would you?

I sing
i typically dont say I "play" keyboard or Guitar but i dabble so I didnt check them
for fun

Not to be dark with the lose of my daughter and mom I plan on getting back into next year once things settle down. Magically Ill have more free time.

Sorry about your loss. Check them if you play even if you just dabble.

 

[AGENT J]

Why would you?

Sorry about your loss. Check them if you play even if you just dabble.

Thank you
and I made the update

 

[Captain America]

Yeah I did a lot of open mikes. I had a folk/Blues thing. Also did a duo with a good friend & great guitarist, 1st The Porch Monkeys but that didn't fly (the PC Police), so we changed it to The CynX.

Porch Monkeys.... too funny.

 

[Captain America]

Why would you?

Sorry about your loss. Check them if you play even if you just dabble.

Why would I what? ????

Money comes to mind.

 

[Rexedgar]

Back in the days of my misspent youth I played piano and organ in a somewhat successful local band in Minneapolis. (1970's)
Top Right, in the fringe leather jacket, leaning against the column

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Never let an opportunity go wanting……….

 

[MamboDervish]

Do you play an Instrument?​

Many, on and off throughout the decades. Mostly stringed, and only for fun. In the last decade, I invested in a few ukuleles for fun - and they are. But I haven't spent much time playing lately - not since the pandemic.
Current inventory:
Two guitars -
Three ukes, one of them a Kala U-Bass -
One very vintage banjo, originally sold as a tenor banjo, but I have it tuned as a baritone ukulele because of its short scale.
One Roland Handsonic electric drum
One frame drum

As I move into retirement, I expect to be spending more time with them.

 

[jpevans]

I think there’s a lot of validity to that.

The earlier one starts, the easier it is to learn and pick up.

I started piano at like 6-7?


We are getting ready to put my 6 year old in piano and guitar this coming spring

I learned a few chords in my twenties, but didn't really start playing until I was 40. My son had a band practice space in my barn & would leave his guitars around, so I got a Dylan book & a Woody Guthrie Book & learned a bunch of the songs, then I started writing my own, because no one could say I was doing 'em wrong. Bought an old Gibson ES125 & an old Harmony. I wish I had kept it up in my twenties.

Well hell if thats the requirement I'm an expert! lol

Cool.
I don't know why I keep getting two post in one her?

 

[AGENT J]

Cool.
I don't know why I keep getting two post in one her?

not sure i only do DP on my PC . . sometimes double quotes show up but i just delete it

 

[jpevans]

Do you play an Instrument?​

Many, on and off throughout the decades. Mostly stringed, and only for fun. In the last decade, I invested in a few ukuleles for fun - and they are. But I haven't spent much time playing lately - not since the pandemic.
Current inventory:
Two guitars -
Three ukes, one of them a Kala U-Bass -
One very vintage banjo, originally sold as a tenor banjo, but I have it tuned as a baritone ukulele because of its short scale.
One Roland Handsonic electric drum
One frame drum

As I move into retirement, I expect to be spending more time with them.

I wish you all the Luck.
My hands have arthritis & I lost my speed, like a beginner again.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

I play flute and clarinet, and some piano, but I don't play the piano that well.

After over thirty years away from being a professional musician my piano skills withered more than a little bit.
I did not HAVE a keyboard instrument for at least 25 years.
Got one now but I am very rusty!

 

[BirdinHand]

I learned a few chords in my twenties, but didn't really start playing until I was 40.

That's impressive!

 

[jpevans]

Tried to teach myself to play guitar about ten years ago but decided my fingers are just too big. Then I saw Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee on TV. Brownies fingers are like Bavarian smokies and he can play guitar. It was humbling.
I think playing an instrument is like speaking another language. I think the brain works the same way for both.

You a blues fan?

 

[VySky]

Guitar to this day. Played Trumpet in JHS/HS

 

[jpevans]

Guitar to this day. Played Trumpet in JHS/HS

Electric or acoustic? Both?

 

[VySky]

Electric or acoustic? Both?

Both

 

[jpevans]

Why would I what? ????

Money comes to mind.

Why would you quit as long as your makin' the nut?

 

[jpevans]

That's impressive!

I never progressed beyond rhythm, which worked best when My partner Silent Slim played all the leads.

 

[jpevans]

After over thirty years away from being a professional musician my piano skills withered more than a little bit.
I did not HAVE a keyboard instrument for at least 25 years.
Got one now but I am very rusty!

What's the Leon connection?

 

[Grand Mal]

You a blues fan?

Yeah. In my rabid phase I nearly lived at the Yale Hotel in Vancouver and was at the front of the line when a bluesman came to the Commodore Ballroom. Saw Albert Collins, James Cotton, Buddy Guy etc. at the Commodore and one memorable night saw B.B. King there.

 

[j brown's body]

I played drums in the 1970s for a band called the Sweaty Tools. We once opened for Talking Heads when they were promoting their second album.

I just started guitar lessons.

 

[Jason Warfield]

Several.

All badly.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

What's the Leon connection?

Ha, the Leon connection is that I gave up my musician career to get into shooting and editing film and video.
Back then I sold off all my instruments and accessories to pay for camera and editing gear.
The Leon project got literally dropped into my lap by a close friend.
I was a Leon fan to be sure but if you'd told me in, say perhaps 1986, that I'd suddenly find myself a year later in possession of
thirteen hours of Leon Russell videotapes for a project, I would have laughed in disbelief.



THE DEEP FREEZE STORY

 

[jpevans]

Yeah. In my rabid phase I nearly lived at the Yale Hotel in Vancouver and was at the front of the line when a bluesman came to the Commodore Ballroom. Saw Albert Collins, James Cotton, Buddy Guy etc. at the Commodore and one memorable night saw B.B. King there.

I never saw Albert Collins, but all the rest. Seen Cotton, Buddy Guy, Taj Mahal, Muddy Waters, Willy Dixon, etc. at small clubs B.B.'s always been big halls.

 

[Captain America]

Why would you quit as long as your makin' the nut?

Ahhhh..... good question.

Hard to explain. You may not understand.

Fact is, I'm still taking jobs. Not because, so much, for myself and the bucks, but more so for my bandmates. I hate to break the chain.

Truth is, I have played about every righteous stage in my region and we are not to the success level that would take us to national or international level. You can only do so much in a cover band, ya know? I'm at the point in my life, after countless shows spanning several decades, to where it feels like, "been there. Done that." Man, I just filed for Medicare last week. It has to end sooner or later, no?

These days I'm content lovin' on my wife and Siberian Husky, giving my sons and grandchildren hell and fishin' in da boat. Having occupied almost every weekend for the past 25 years on some festival stage or roadhouse, I missed out on a LOT of things. Camping. Family gatherings. Disney Land. The list goes on.

Yeah, I have had a lifetime of fun. No doubt. I have seen enough titty to fill a dairy farm. And the money didn't hurt none. But, if I could do it all over again, I might have chosen a different path.

Not..............................