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Silly Girl is a Sad Girl because her wee toofies won’t shaddup

Aye, lads, ’tis orthodontic troubles again for me. I’m drowning my sorrows in music and Internet (listening to RAM on headphones, a bit of a treat since I have to sit next to my record player to do so and I hardly ever). It’s helping slightly.

Did have a REALLY awesome band practise this afternoon… we played ‘Money’ (the Floyd one) at the end and ended up improv-jamming for several minutes and doing all kinds of crazy Hendrix Experience-style things (at least, I was certainly going a bit Jimi Hendrix/Matt Bellamy with feedback, pick-scraping, and other such rubbish — I’d not had much luck with feedback so far because I normally play too quietly, but I discovered that if the volume is loud enough, it’ll feed right back )… ’twas brilliant!

When I mention ‘we’ had a band practise, it’s referring to the band I’m in and not just me noodling at home. It consists of me on guitar and vocals and occasionally bass, two brothers on bass and guitar and sometimes keyboards (we all three swap bass, lead, and second/rhythm guitar around, depending on what song it is), a drummer, a violinist, and a harmonica/tambourine player/musical ignoramus/good-natured person. By that point, the lads who play drums and violin had wandered off to get a drink or somesuch, so it was just the four of us making a great racket. It was wonderful.

Dark Overlord said
Now that’s something that i’d kill to see, i especially like how the three of you switch from bass/lead/rhythm depending on the song like The Beatles did for some songs like Helter Skelter . Say, does you violinist play any guitar because if he can that means that you can do songs with 3 guitar parts in them like Ticket To Ride .  

Nah, you don’t wanna hear us, we’re rubbish. We just enjoy making noise together.

No, he doesn’t… alas

Very, very sorry to hear that @sir walter raleigh. 

Dark Overlord said
You’re underestimating yourself, anyone who owns an actual Fender Stratocaster and not a Squier and is not insanely rich is at least a decent guitarist and i’ve heard you play before, although it isn’t perfect, it’s not bad, it’s better than a lot of the stuff you hear nowadays on pop radio or as i like to call it “i can’t sing or play an instrument so i’ll just be a pop star who autotunes their voice and uses samples off the internet” music. *as a note, not all modern music is like this, I’m just talking about the worst that you can find on pop radio.

Hold the phones, DO — I didn’t say I was rubbish (cos I’m not, although I’m far from professional), I said we as a group were rubbish. Individually we’re not bad musicians, but we’re nowhere near as tight as we could be. Also, the lad who plays a Squier Telecaster is at least as good as I am or better. You need to stop equating gear with skill.

As for your violin player, i recommend someone teach him how to play guitar, whether it be you or someone else. All string instruments are very similar in how they’re played so it shouldn’t be too hard for him to convert from violin to guitar in the same way that if i picked up a violin right now, i would be able to play something on it, it wouldn’t be Beethoven or Mozart but it’d be something. It might take some time for him to get used to playing the guitar but once he’s able to play it, he’s now a more valuable member because now you have a violinist for those rare moments where a violin part is needed as well as a 4th guitarist and or bassist.  

I’d like to see you pick up a violin and play something that wouldn’t make everyone within earshot attack you and confiscate said violin and I’m not going to make him play guitar. I don’t fancy he would do anything he didn’t want to. You don’t seem to understand — Sir Walter and I, we’re not working with abstract music-makers here, these are actual people who are our friends and in my case are primarily doing this to have fun.

Anyway, we already have three guitarists (bass counts as a guitar ), which is usually more than enough — for instance, we often play songs by Muse, which are a trio and usually only contain a bass and one guitar part (sometimes keyboards), and so either someone gets stuck playing rhythm guitar (and it’s often me, as I have to sing — ergh ) or we end up doubling the lead, which is fun but a bit tacky.