Music.

[Smiths]

I did not see a music thread so i decided to start one. Just put down what kind of genres you enjoy and some of your favorite bands. If you are a musician I would love to hear what you play and kind of or set-up you have. I really hope we can have some great debates. And Maybe some musical pointers from more experienced players.

For Music, I enjoy just about every genre you can think of. From Classical to the most brutal metal out there.

My favorite artists are:

Bach

Rachmaninov

Tchaikovsky

Bruch

Bethoveen

Strauss

Carlos Santana

Children of Bodom (Great Melodic Metal, but they sold-out :-/)

The Black Mages ( final fantasy band with nobou uematsu on keys)

Fleetwood Mac

Pink Floyd

Sublime

The Rolling Stones

The Cranberries

AC/DC

Jimi Hendrix

Mushroomhead

Dir en Grey (japanese metal)

Sex Machineguns (japanese metal band)

Maximum The Hormone (japanese rock band)

Korn

Big Elf

Metallica (before black album)

Dying Fetus (amazing live)

Hatebreed (they are from my hometown used to work with an ex-drummer)

Dimmu Borgir

Cradle of Filth

Opeth

Alice in Chains

WHITE Zombie ( and some rob zombie songs, but hes so great live)

The Great Frank Sinatra

AND THE ALL MIGHTY PANTERA!!! R.I.P Dimebag Darrell

I have been playing guitar for three years now and Ive just started really tweaking my sound and equipment.

I have two guitars, A Fender stratacaster (mexican) and an LTD MH-100 which i mostly play on.

My main amp is a Line-6 flexitone 3 (120watt 2x12) which i don't have the pedal for, and i also have a Roland cube amp(30watts 1x8). I am slowly building up a pedal collection as well. I have( all boss) a Metal Zone (don't really like), Super Chorus, and an Overdrive pedal. Usually I have the guitar running from the pedal station, into the Line6, and use my Roland as a pre-amp. I can get some really cool sounds out of it, the cheesy flanger mode on both my amps kind of cleans up a bit and sounds a lot better. I am self-taught, and mostly make up songs to play. I record the ones I like, but recently lost that hard drive.

I know its alot to read, but I am very into music and would really love to hear what the people in this unit enjoy. Hopefully we can all turn each other on to some new music and ideas. Perhaps also a conversation about music today, and the tragedy of not having a memorable main stream band/artist out there.

-Alexander "bAkA" Smith

[Yamagata 1st MRB]

I'd consider myself an unpracticed violinist (almost 3 years no practice). But I was in school orchestras for 10 years, 1st Violin or 2nd Violin section leader sometimes. I was concertmaster twice in the orchestra, and concertmaster a few chamber groups. I've tried playing recently and my sense of tone and my vibrato is has really suffered. It looks like you almost have an eclectic of taste as I do.

Classical:

Dvorak

Bizet

Stravinsky

Vivaldi

Mozart

Beethoven

Schubert

Hans Zimmer

J.S. Bach

John Williams

Peter Schickele

Tchaikovsky

Chopin

Greig

Rachmaninov

Wagner

Debussy

Gershwin

Phillip Glass

Other:

AC/DC

Animals

Beatles

Black Sabbath

Bobby Day

Bobby Darin

Boston

Bob Dylan

Cake

Creedence Clearwater Revival

Brian Setzer

Flogging Molly

Fog Hat

George Thotogood

Foreigner

Jimi Hendrix

Johnny Cash

Kinks

Led Zeppelin

Louis Armstrong

Lynyrd Skynyrd

Marlene Dietrich

Metallica

Nirvana

The Offspring

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Pink Floyd

Queen

Ramones

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Rolling Stones

The Who

Smash Mouth

Squirrel Nut Zippers

The Pillows

They Might Be Giants

Tom Petty

Vera Lynn

Weezer

White Stripes

ZZ Top

Van Halen

Bing Crosby

The Ink Spots

The Four Tops

加藤登紀子 (Tokiko Kato)

Benny Goodman

Glen Miller

Yep, that pretty much describes my music taste, although I know I left some out.

I like Big Band, Classical, and Classic Rock as well as some Punk Rock or Indie Rock. I will not listen to Rap, Beastie Boys is borderline for me.

[Smiths]

That is really cool man. I love just about every style although i do not dip to far into each genre, classical music is brilliant and full of life. I would have to say my favorite piece would be rachmaninov's piano concerto #2.

[Jasko]

Dying Fetus nice

also if you have a sound system with a sub-woofer click this

[Yamagata 1st MRB]

That is really cool man. I love just about every style although i do not dip to far into each genre, classical music is brilliant and full of life. I would have to say my favorite piece would be rachmaninov's piano concerto #2.

My favorite is Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 in E Minor "From the New World"

4th Movement is my favorite part of the symphony, not because it sounds like Jaws, just the total energy of the movement is amazing.

[Smiths]

I will give it a listen