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We don't have a vocalist yet. I've thought about it today and the music I have in my head now would sound best with vocals à la Asphyx or Integrity. I have no intention of using my cello to do extraordinary things; mourning or uneasing atmospheres are what I'm aiming at. I think a good example of this would be the atmosphere created near the end of Neurosis' Flight. The stuff I've already heard from Revelry isn't bad. I should listen to the entire album once though.
Cool, I look forward to hearing it. Make sure you find a vocalist who sounds like they really mean it! The production on Revelry is a bit thin and unbalanced, but it's been an occasional favorite of mine for about fifteen years now. Some of the songs sound a bit fake to me because of poorly integrated electronic elements, but the good songs make it all worth it, and their moods and melodies are great.
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Hey Midi, do you live in an area where you would expect it to be hard to find prospective players? Years is too long a time frame I believe, what I believe is that if you set Tuesday evenings aside, (and yes Tuesday is the ideal practice night, so free up time time there would-be-rock-stars) and find a drummer than it should fall into place. Drummers are the key, but don't expect to keep the first one, as they are flight risks. This is sage advice from someone who has not yet gotten it together.

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Hey Midi' date=' do you live in an area where you would expect it to be hard to find prospective players? Years is too long a time frame I believe, what I believe is that if you set Tuesday evenings aside, (and yes Tuesday is the ideal practice night, so free up time time there would-be-rock-stars) and find a drummer than it should fall into place. Drummers are the key, but don't expect to keep the first one, as they are flight risks. This is sage advice from someone who has not yet gotten it together.[/quote'] Well, the drummer and I have been the only consistent members so far. There are only a few bands which include pasisonate musicians in my towns, being Heidrun, The Evil Pony's and Moaning Charlie. I'm quite busy though, as I'm in an aikido club, capoeira club, soon in a chess club and following cello and guitar lessons. I do try to practice at least 1,5h of cello a day and about 2h a day to write melodies. It's sad to see most people aren't even willing to put a recenable amount of effort and time in it though... Good news: just finished the cello part and lyrics of a song I've written. There's a western concert flute (which almost no one I know plays) floating above the melody in an ethereal way, but I guess we'll have to figure it out with the means we have...
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I put up a picture in the "say cheese" thread of myself and a guy I know dumping around seventy gallons of water on several of our mutual friends. I hadn't heard of this until yesterday, but apparently there's some fundraising thing making its way around the internet to raise ALS awareness, where you have to take a video of yourself getting drenched with ice water and donate some money, which, hey, whatever... I guess it's going to a good place. Anyway my friend Dave decided that instead of just doing it himself, he'd invite whoever wanted to come join him in getting completely soaked on the roof, and make the donation on their behalf. A hundred bucks each. It's a typically big-hearted thing of him to do, and I'm honored to have been a part of it. Especially since I got to be a dumper, rather than a dumpee...

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I put up a picture in the "say cheese" thread of myself and a guy I know dumping around seventy gallons of water on several of our mutual friends. I hadn't heard of this until yesterday' date=' but apparently there's some fundraising thing making its way around the internet to raise ALS awareness, where you have to take a video of yourself getting drenched with ice water and donate some money, which, hey, whatever... I guess it's going to a good place. Anyway my friend Dave decided that instead of just doing it himself, he'd invite whoever wanted to come join him in getting completely soaked on the roof, and make the donation on their behalf. A hundred bucks each. It's a typically big-hearted thing of him to do, and I'm honored to have been a part of it. Especially since I got to be a dumper, rather than a dumpee...[/quote'] I heard the guy who came up with this idea actually drowned recently. If it's true, it would be pretty ironic...
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There's a distortion button on my amp. Cool.
Yes, many edgy young musicians today are pushing the boundaries of technology, using conventional equipment in unconventional ways, to expand not only our definition of music, but our definition of what's possible. So the amp manufacturers figured they'd better include a button for that.
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Yes' date=' many edgy young musicians today are pushing the boundaries of technology, using conventional equipment in unconventional ways, to expand not only our definition of music, but our definition of what's possible. So the amp manufacturers figured they'd better include a button for that.[/quote'] I see. I hadn't even noticed it before that comment. Well, the good news is this edgy young musician has found his tuner and retuned his guitar succesfully.
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