Any youz guyz in a band?

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Peatrick's post with his crazy-ass metal band if any other people around here are in/have been in bands and what those bands are like.

Please though, don't be a Napolean Skywalker, don't spend a bunch of time plugging your band. Just a youtube video or two.

I had a couple until a portion of both of these moved to New York last summer.

There was Hip Young Gunslingers which I played mostly drums in (sorry no video):

www.myspace.com/the2gunslingers/music/songs/Caligula-57127336

And there was Short Shorts which I pretended like I could play guitar in.

(I think this is from when we opened for Toro Y Moi, of whom I don't get my dick sucked for knowing, yet I do still get my dick sucked.)


And this one, having no guitar, I played floor tom and cowbell.
vimeo.com/7547448

[Horned Gramma]

I played keyboard in a band called Polyester Plaid Junkies in like 1997. We could play the Meat Puppets' 'Backwater' and 'When I Come Around' by Green Day.

Tensions and creative differences caused the band to split after Will Silva got 'really into' Marilyn Manson and tried to smoke a clove cigarette in the shed in my parents driveway. A brief reunion was held in the vicinity of the merch stand on The Cure's 'Wild Mood Swings' tour, although no new material was written or recorded. The Polyester Plaid Junkies' final performance was in a Volkswagen on the way to a screening of 'Dracula: Dead and Loving It', consisting of all-vocal renditions of Primitive Radio Gods and Cranberries songs (accompanied by those forgotten 90's mainstays, the Poorly Dubbed Cassettes).

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This thread is already a lot better than I thought it'd be.

[stamper]

in my junior year of high school i was in a band for like two months.
but we broke up once it came time to decide our name:
no one could agree between The Velvet Toaster or The Geriatric Sluts.

[topspin]

Wouldn't say we're a band but i picked up drums about a year and a half ago and i have a friend thats a really good guitar player. We go by "lovin in the ovin" and occasionally wowed crowds of up to 6 people.

It gets my dick sucked constantly

[Rusty]

I've been in a few bands since I started playing drums and guitar at 14. There was my nirvana-esque band called for no apparent reason, 'Howitzer', which I played guitar and squawked shit vocals through a karaoke machine '. Then I played guitar and sang in a band called, "Work Horse", we played a handful shows around the area, before dismantling. Then I played in a folk duo called LumberJacket, which only played live once at a house party, played drums in that. Also for a very short time(one night only) played drums in a Neil Young cover band called Forever Young, that was for new years eve '08 I believe, and was purely for the entertainment of our close friends. I have no videos to show, and even if I did it would be far too embarrassing to show.

Currently play in zero bands because none of my friends can spare +/- an hour a week, shit sucks.

[Pea]

I was in a death metal band as a vocalist (originally the guitarist) all through high school and a few years after. We actually made a pretty decent name for ourselves in the metal community and got to play with almost every single one of my favorite bands at the time. After breaking up I lost just about all interest in the genre since I wasn't around it anymore, but I still get a kick out of some brutal tunes from time to time.

Here's another fun live vid of us...



Hell ya that's a Jurassic Park reference in the beginning.

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Oh, and just so you get an idea of Short Shorts:

[Pea]

haha you guys look like the members of natalie portman's shaved head. is that you on the left?

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haha, it is indeed. that makes me want to look further into NP'sSH

[Pea]

lol nice. here's a perfect comparison:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVJAUl3Zf0M

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haha. there's definitely plenty of similarities here.

[Horned Gramma]

The woman on the far right in that picture has amazing thighs.

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I'll let her know.

Those dancers were actually just for that show since that one was a big deal festival. But I keep in touch, even though she's in Baltimore now.

[Pea]

I seriously love that picture. I wish I was born a few years earlier so I could have fully appreciated the ridiculousness that was the 80's. At least I got to experience hammer pants.

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Dec 24, 2010 10:56:57 GMT -8 Pea said:

I seriously love that picture. I wish I was born a few years earlier so I could have fully appreciated the ridiculousness that was the 80's. At least I got to experience hammer pants.

Thanks, mayne. I think that's why I loved that band so much, like (re)living the 80's. (I only lived for 2 years of the 80's, and my toddler memory don't remember much.)

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Found this little piece of memorabilia goin' through pictures today:

[doumak]

our fb page:listn.to/that-and-the-vatican
we recorded demos over winter break and recently finished em up. we recorded the tracks using my analog gear (in full takes) and then dumped em into cubase just to mix and eq a little. i play bass and wrote the cuts with the vocalist/rhythm guitarist.

any and all feedback is greatly appreciated

[interstateeight]

Oh my god I love this thread so fucking much. Everyone who posts about their shitty high school bands instead of their actual current bands will get some kind of prizes.

Pea, I have never laughed so hard while realizing such impassioned respect for another human being at the same time. A god damn mazing.

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Ah I8, it's always nice to know we have you to keep our self-esteem in check.