i figure this is just as good of a place as any to look for some like-minded people to play music with. i've got a band concept in mind--are there any aspiring musicians on the board who aren't already in five bands? it's a long shot i realize, but i just thought i'd ask...

I'll be in your band if you move to MO.

if you are looking for a bass player that is only in ONE band already (unlike other bass players hanging around here), id be up for it.

it's possible i could use a bassist--i've already spoken to the lawn wrangler about being involved, but i don't know whether he wanted to play bass or keys...

ok, well, just to clarify, here is what i am looking for:

i would prefer people who can play some sort of reasonably fashionable instrument relatively well. of course, if there is a bernard butler out there, a musical visionary with a wealth of genius and talent, that would be ok, too. some things are, however, more important than ability.

as a songwriter, i suppose i'm most influenced by : jeff tweedy, elliott smith, bob dylan, stuart murdoch...and a great many others. the sound i aspire to is very britpop (think longpigs, the autuers, radiohead) but with a lot of instrumentation--i like the idea of there being guitars, keys, synths, bass, drums, glockenspiel, xylaphone, cello, laptops, whatever...lots of people doing lots of things and singing backups as well...i was thinking 10-12 people (and hopefully some of whom could play more than one instrument, thereby reducing the number of people necessary) oh, yeah, and i'd like some girls in the band.

i'm also very interested in prog, and not in the dirtier sense of the word, but more like the mars volta or muse kind of prog-rock...ideally i'd like to find a real musically-gifted mind to help me create this kind of mish-mash--taking the britpoppy melodies and literary-minded songs, marrying them to the multi-instrumental histrionics, and then channelling all of that into adventurous and ambitious song-structures, chord sequences, and a generally pretentious artsy clatter.

i just want to see what people make of the concept--does anyone else like the sound of that?

I do, of course. It makes me wish I could play an instrument.

im liking the sound of it all...hopefully the lawn wrangler is more interested in the keys aspect.

It's tempting. And I'm bored.

Wow. Maybe I've been musical all this time and never known it!

He doesn't have a bass amp any more, because I BOUGHT IT.

That can't be bad!

EDIT: By the way, though, A, I might be interested in being involved in this in some capacity.

once i move to nashville and get settled, i'll play cello and/or piano for you. i think we'd mesh quite nicely... i did the whole band thing in high school and loved it.

you just have to wait a while, i probably won't move for another year

I'd just like it to be known that I TURNED DOWN a band yesterday. It happens.

liar.


i didn't really anticipate much response, so i'm mindly surprised...pleasantly so, naturally.

jc, i knew i could count on you for support, if nothing else...but if you want to do anything at all, there is always an open invitation for you. do you think this band is still technically "phyllis"? i think it may be something else entirely. a real band, for one thing.

miss september, i wish you could play an instrument, too--there's nothing but time if you want to learn one, though...you're still young!

simone, that sounds great, it's too bad it'll be a year...perhaps there will still be room for you then

superelk, apparently the lawn wrangler will be on the keys, so you are officially on the shortlist to play bass.

i don't know exactly how this is going to work...i am going to play a bit with a couple of people over the next week or so and see how that goes, and then i suppose i'll start recruiting members in some capacity or another. thanks for the interest!

If Mike_D can't be in on newspaper, I can sit-in with you guys instead.

Andrew i'm always game for another attempt/incarnation of Phyllis.

well, the thing with phyllis was that it was never a real band...it became kind of synonymous with futility with me. of course, i was on drugs for all that time, and it's very difficult to find the focus and the determination necessary to do this sort of thing when you are getting drunk and high all the time. this band will, therefore, not carry the same attitude, lack of motor skills, or nomenclature as phyllis. spraypaint it on highway overpasses: phyllis is dead. this does mean that i'll have the unenviable task of finding another name, however...

dude, you like britpop and prog. you should totally be in this band.

Deal me in, Phyllis or not.

(Edited by jamiecarroll at 10:29 pm on Jul. 15, 2004)

hooray! well, what is it you wish to play? bass, guitar, vibes? i'm all excited about this...i've been pouring over a dictionary tonight looking for good-band-name-type words, trying to choose something applicable to this concept. i'll make a further confession that this is nowhere near the first time i've sat reading over the dictionary. i like words, so shoot me.

I want to hear the songs. I've heard good things from Joe.

J. Raymond keeps a dictionary by his toilet. Yes, that's what he reads when...yeah.

(Edited by jamiecarroll at 11:08 pm on Jul. 15, 2004)

yes, looking for another name is a very premature act at this point...but i've been playing songs tonight until my voice has long since left me. it's become a ritual.

hopefully this weekend or sometime very soon, joe and i were going to catch up and i was going to play him some new songs and stuff...so maybe we could make it a threesome whenever that occurs.

Two words: Parliament Funkadelic

Any plans for Features covers? Just for fun? I'd be interested, but I live in Knoxville. I play guitar, bass, and saxophone.

i'd like to play a different cover at every show, and never play the same one twice. which is a fairly ambitious idea, but i think it could be very cool...even people who have never heard of us will have a chance to atleast know one song. of course, the idea is to cover a song in such a way as to make it "yours", to validate the covering of another band's song that way...it could definitely include a features cover at some point, though they wouldn't be my first choice of cover material. maybe one of the older songs...armani suede, perhaps.

hmm...i don't know how funkadelic it's going to be, though. i'm as white as snow, genetically anyway, and i'm more of a rock n' roll fellow...wooohooo! rock n' roll! sorry, my morning coffee just reached my veins...

that's right up my alley

but i'm only making bands with people who like jodorowsky

Whatever happened to the Sweaty Pandas?

nah, that was just my silly fictional record label: sweaty panda records. you must admit it has a nice ring to it. i realized, however, that fierce panda already has the panda record label market cornered. so there you go, old fellow.

There are plenty of sweaty bears in the world that are non-panda.

to me, no bearsweat says humor like a panda's. not even koala's, they're just snoozin.

This thread has inspired me. Token and I have officially decided to launch our own band, Matt Creamy Peach*.










*We decided against the Peach Stripes.

(Edited by YaDaDaDa at 8:30 am on Jul. 21, 2004)

that is so true. well, you have to ask yourself "why is the bear sweating? what makes a panda sweat?" i'll tell you what makes a panda bear perspire--a fierce panda. scariest record label to encounter out in the wild, especially for a young, peace-loving panda. this thread has suddenly devolved into complete nonsense, and i no longer understand the things to which i am referring.

Hillarious! Who wants to be in Carl Creamy White?

Wait, that sounds kind of pervy...

Way over the line.

You're right, JC. But The Weitlauf Stripes doesn't work either.

Ashley Spurgeon and the Sturgeon Surgeons?

Lame.