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Anyone here belong to a rock band in high school?  I did.  I was the drummer for a band we called (wait for it....) The Acid Searchers.  The irony was that we were all jocks (football players) who attended a very small Catholic high school in suburban Detroit.  And, oh yeah, as far as the music, we sucked!  There were actually eight (8) of us in the band:  the four biggest guys on the team were our front men, a la the Temptations or Four Tops, none of whom could sing or dance.  These musically and rythmically challenged rather large dudes (one actually wore a poncho onstage) were backed by two guitars that were better off unplugged, a base bass ("What's a fretboard?"), and yours truly on drums (I could actually get by, only because my dad played professionally).  It was kind of like Motown meets (eats?) Humble Pie.  We played a sock hop in the gym and the screaming (sympathetic?) girls who crowded the stage drowned out our poor play.  It was great!!!  Any other high school rockers here?

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I was into music when younger, I could do a little noise with the keyboard, my greatest surprice to what music is concerned came to me while in the military when one day I was talking to a friend about music and he pulled out his loptop and let me listen to several pieces of music he had put together using a program called remix which he had bought in Hong Kong three years earlier, I could not believe my ears, that guy's music sounded amazing, I got so surpriced that as soon as we pulled in the next country I went out and bought me a copy of the program myself and years later switched to another more amazing music making program called Ableton Live, I don't know how musicians feel about music making programs, but in my opinion, programs like Ableton Live are the best contribution to music in a very long time

with this thing and a little imagination I can sound like the best musician "out there", and even better than many of them sometimes!

 


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Amazing! Surprised A program that would improve even the sound of The Acid Searchers.  Hmmm, perhaps a reunion tour with the new tech....Cool  Any other former or current high school rockers here?
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The Acid Searchers? that was exactely what I thought until I tried it myself, this thing Ableton live is a multiple music instrument in one and more (just like having four or more keyboards set up around you and being able to play several instruments at once, which by the way that's exactely what I do, I soround myself with several keyboards and the computer with this thing set up an off i go sounding better than the russian orchestra and the Dave matheus Band put together Smile, i even did some symphonic hip hop live performance for my grandson birthday a couple of month ago, he now calls me "the rapping grandpa" Undecided


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I've been in a bunch of bands both in high school and after graduating.  We've gone through recording tracks on devices from 4-track tape recorders to high-ish end mixing boards and mics.  I love these new computer programs...makes quality music for any budget. 
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I play cello at Juilliard Precollege
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I sang back up with a couple of friends for a 4 boy band in our final year. But they were so @@#$@ loud you cld never hear us. We stopped after a while.

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cellomaster8 wrote:
I play cello at Juilliard Precollege

Cool. Did you see the cello player (aged 19) at the British royal wedding? What did you think of his playing?

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I thought his sound was pretty mature and that his musicality is up there. However, he didn’t really play any “real” cello repertoire so it is hard to judge his technique and him as a player as a whole
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im the frontman and founder of the high school band Unexpected Error

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we are a cover and emo band

 

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Hey I also produce real music.

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