Well, it's just so disappointing to think that I'm the only good musician in town...I mean I know there has to be other musicians at my level of playing around this city somewhere. I don't mean to say that I'm amazing...but I do focus on technique and accuracy, so even if I can't write worth a shit, I can still play nearly anything very cleanly, and that IMO is much more worth being able to write stuff like Vai or have some crazy riff, because if you can't play it cleanly then how does that translate when it's recorded? Crappy.
I can write and record guitars, bass, drums and vocals to my heart's content all by myself....I want to play live though.
As far as the genre I'm getting into (Modern Blues-Rock or Modern Progressive Blues-Rock), there are quite a few bands that are just as amazing to watch as Stevie Ray Vaughan...well rehearsed blues and blues-rock bands that have their shit down with surgical precision, have great sound, and put on some of the best shows I've ever been to, including international touring acts (Deicide = big disappointment last time they came through). Granted, the other genres around here that are dominant (hardcore, punk, metal, death metal, grind, noise grind, death grind, emo, screamo, fashion core, southern metal, and rock) primarily are just boring and sound like any band you can catch on the radio so that's another reason why I'm getting into this style. It's a lot more fun, especially live, and it's not as gay, to me, compared to writing heavier stuff that sounds just like fucking Disturbed or being a fucking Hate Eternal rip-off supreme. All of the good death metal drummers around here are "taken", and there's this thing that they just don't do side projects. So stealing one away to do heavier stuff isn't a possibility. Plus you gotta find another guitars, a bassist, and a vocalist (that can growl like a man)...and like I said what ends up happening is you get something like a Hate Eternal cover band. Pretty pathetic.
I think I might actually develop a website for this purpose. Or rather, have somebody make a cool one for me, as in paying a firm to design it and such. In the vein of MySpace, because obviously that format works. With a touch of flash for some things though.
I think now we should continue this thread but move it to talking about what we would want from this website. I'll start the list off:
Great search engine to search by city/state/country/age group/all of the above as well as plenty of musical genres to choose from
Detailed contact info (e-mail, phone numbers, etc. - protected by members only access - sign-up would have good security to prevent bots, etc.)
FREE!
Forum?
Sound clips (for bands that are looking for new players, or for players to represent their style/abilities/faggotry)
Hmm....that's all I can come up with.
~e.a
