PORPHYRIA: WE STILL NEED A FUCKING BASS PLAYER!!![views:12669][posts:77]_____________________________________ [Jun 16,2005 3:42pm - RustedAngel ""] I'm tired of asking nicely for people to get ahold of us to tryout, so far we've tried out one person who didn't work out, next to tryout is Josh Staples (abhorred, ex-ascendancy). Anyone else.........? Christ, the only thing holding us back from getting us signed right now are these gay lineup changes! We're down to the last few shows with Dan our current bass player who we will miss dearly. We are looking for a 2nd guitarist as well, but finding a replacement bassist is more important at this time. Just a few requirements we ask: -experience (no 16 year olds please) -must own equipment, good enough for live shows. -a positive/serious attitude (we're all a bunch of goofballs, but we're serious when we have to be) -flexible schedule (lots of shows, weeknights, weekends) -we'd prefer someone who doesn't play with a pick, but it's not a must if are really proficient with one. We're in limbo with our jamspace, as of now we're practicing at my house in Berwick, ME any chance we get. please contact us if you are interested: porphyria603@hotmail.com or call tom @ 603.781.0993 thanks. |
| ________________________________ [Jun 16,2005 3:46pm - Hooker ""] did you get my goddam email? |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 16,2005 3:50pm - RustedAngel ""] oh yeah, god damnit, hooker will be temp bass player july 9th @ obriens if Dan can't play with us. Come whitness this hillarious ho-down. |
| ________________________________ [Jun 16,2005 4:04pm - Hooker ""] Sweet. |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 16,2005 4:47pm - RustedAngel ""] come on, we will pay you invisible money. |
| ________________________________ [Jun 16,2005 4:59pm - Hooker ""] can you give me a cd of the set you plan on doing? i'm serious. i'll fill in. |
| __________________________________________ [Jun 17,2005 2:27pm - WhyamIandasshole ""] He will. He'll do anything for a decent HJ. |
| ______________________________ [Jun 17,2005 2:30pm - blue ""] i tell you what, if i could juggle more time between work and rk, i would totally be doing this. |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 17,2005 2:31pm - RustedAngel ""] hey, we're stealing your guitar player, I mean bass player. |
| ___________________________________ [Jun 17,2005 2:36pm - metalguy ""] No 16 year olds huh.. wtf happened to the kid who was 17 and playing circles around you... If your gonna blame it on his personality that is pretty lame. |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 17,2005 2:43pm - RustedAngel ""] metalguy said:No 16 year olds huh.. wtf happened to the kid who was 17 and playing circles around you... If your gonna blame it on his personality that is pretty lame. You can read? No 16 year olds. All of us are above 20. Why would we have someone in the band we wouldn't get along with? I have nothing against him at all so it's not really that. None of us got that 'This is the one!' feeling. He also didn't have transportation, and only had a crate 2x12 practice amp that sounded absolutely horrible. His soloing speed was pretty fast but I didn't hear him play any metal riffing at all. So quit being an anonymous fag and being offended because your friend isn't in our band. |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 17,2005 2:45pm - RustedAngel ""] blue said:i tell you what, if i could juggle more time between work and rk, i would totally be doing this. damn, the blue & cooch special. only in our dreams I guess. |
| ___________________________________ [Jun 17,2005 3:22pm - metalguy ""] I meant he personality wasn't something you couldn't get along with.. He was also on his way to having a rig.. not too soon BTW.. and he had transportation VIA someone in the band.. problem.. i see none... |
| ___________________________________ [Jun 17,2005 3:24pm - metalguy ""] O yeah.. He also put some crazy riffs over some of your songs that I heard.. Would have been excellent... WOULD have been. |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 17,2005 3:26pm - RustedAngel ""] metalguy said:I meant he personality wasn't something you couldn't get along with.. He was also on his way to having a rig.. not too soon BTW.. and he had transportation VIA someone in the band.. problem.. i see none... "I meant he personality wasn't something you couldn't get along with." wtf does that mean? "He was also on his way to having a rig.. not too soon BTW.." on his way isn't good enough. not too soon doesn't help either. "he had transportation VIA someone in the band.. " what if that person couldn't make it to practice? oh well, I'm done defending our reasons against mr. anonymous here as to why we haven't filed our guitarist position yet. Move on with your life, there are plenty of other bands to join. |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 17,2005 3:27pm - RustedAngel ""] metalguy said:O yeah.. He also put some crazy riffs over some of your songs that I heard.. Would have been excellent... WOULD have been. if by that you mean, DIDN'T play the riffs correctly, then yes he did. no biggie. NEXT!!!!!!! |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 17,2005 3:30pm - Robdeadskin ""] I must say...this sucks trying to find the right peeps....I hope we are not all doomed! |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 17,2005 3:33pm - RustedAngel ""] Robdeadskin said:I must say...this sucks trying to find the right peeps....I hope we are not all doomed! you got it Rob, the RIGHT peeps is what we need. We weren't going to just settle for the first dude that walks through the door unless we knew it was RIGHT. |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 17,2005 3:34pm - RustedAngel ""] got someone named Nick from boston who is interested in the bass position, from what I've talked to him about over the phone he sounds promising. |
| ___________________________________ [Jun 17,2005 3:35pm - metalguy ""] You can make retarded excuses all you want... it doesn't make up for the fact you made a mistake.. On top of that you told him to quit his job... WHEN YOU DIDN'T HAVE THE.."HE'S THE ONE FEELING" Not really offended... Just letting you know. |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 17,2005 3:36pm - Robdeadskin ""] yea.... talked to a drummer that sounds perfect...but can he really play a million miles an hour...we will see! |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 17,2005 3:38pm - Josh_Martin ""] RustedAngel said: Christ, the only thing holding us back from getting us signed right now are these gay lineup changes! That's a really weird reason for not getting signed. You already recorded your demo. What label is going to give a fuck who your bass player is? That's just what the world needs anyways. Another boring death metal band. |
| _________________________________ [Jun 17,2005 3:38pm - nyckz0r ""] Its okay Metalguy, the feeling of this is the one has been halted by communication problems, I didnt know what Tom was playing because he couldnt serve it to me in a manner i was acustomed too, for instance - when I asked him what key it was in, he could not comply (my fault I know, I should have been able to figure out the key signature by myself) - Another problem was the timing, I had NO idea what time signature or the changes any of the songs were in when I went into the jam room, I had to play by ear, which was fine I guess. And when I asked Tom what modes he was in, he couldnt tell me becuase he didnt know - its no big deal, some people can just play their instrument, some people know their instrument inside and out, and know what they are doing, some people dont. its not a problem. I didnt get into a Death Metal band, its no big. No hard feelings, guys. |
| ________________________________ [Jun 17,2005 3:38pm - mOe_rk ""] ur a fucking idiot, "metalguy" get the fuck off the board |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 17,2005 3:39pm - RustedAngel ""] metalguy said:You can make retarded excuses all you want... it doesn't make up for the fact you made a mistake.. On top of that you told him to quit his job... WHEN YOU DIDN'T HAVE THE.."HE'S THE ONE FEELING" Not really offended... Just letting you know. No one told him he had to quit his job, as a matter of fact none of us said he was that close to being in the band. It was a tryout, nothing more. No mistakes were made, we stand by our decision that he wasn't going to work out. Get over it. |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 17,2005 3:42pm - RustedAngel ""] Josh_Martin said: That's a really weird reason for not getting signed. You already recorded your demo. What label is going to give a fuck who your bass player is? That's just what the world needs anyways. Another boring death metal band. if a Label knows you lost a guitarist, and are about to lost your bassist, why wouldn't that be enough to be hesitant to sign the band? Especially if the label is use to their bands touring like motherfucks. |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 17,2005 3:43pm - RustedAngel ""] Robdeadskin said:yea.... talked to a drummer that sounds perfect...but can he really play a million miles an hour...we will see! we've been there, hahahaha. we've tried out drummers out they didn't even have a double kick pedal but said they could play our stuff. |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 17,2005 3:44pm - RustedAngel ""] mOe_rk said:ur a fucking idiot, "metalguy" get the fuck off the board thank you MOE! |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 17,2005 3:47pm - Josh_Martin ""] RustedAngel said:Josh_Martin said: That's a really weird reason for not getting signed. You already recorded your demo. What label is going to give a fuck who your bass player is? That's just what the world needs anyways. Another boring death metal band. if a Label knows you lost a guitarist, and are about to lost your bassist, why wouldn't that be enough to be hesitant to sign the band? Especially if the label is use to their bands touring like motherfucks. So, what labels said they'd sign you if you only had a bass player? Tons of signed bands change bass players every other month. As long as the principle members are there it doesn't matter who's standing next to them on stage. |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 17,2005 3:47pm - Robdeadskin ""] time signatures???Key signatues?? i dont even know that shit myself....but if it didnt work...it didnt work...good luck tom....u guys rule and I hope we all get what we need...other than that, we will have fun tonite...you know it!!!!\m/ |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 17,2005 3:48pm - RustedAngel ""] nyckz0r said:Its okay Metalguy, the feeling of this is the one has been halted by communication problems, I didnt know what Tom was playing because he couldnt serve it to me in a manner i was acustomed too, for instance - when I asked him what key it was in, he could not comply (my fault I know, I should have been able to figure out the key signature by myself) - Another problem was the timing, I had NO idea what time signature or the changes any of the songs were in when I went into the jam room, I had to play by ear, which was fine I guess. And when I asked Tom what modes he was in, he couldnt tell me becuase he didnt know - its no big deal, some people can just play their instrument, some people know their instrument inside and out, and know what they are doing, some people dont. its not a problem. I didnt get into a Death Metal band, its no big. No hard feelings, guys. Some people play by the rules and books, some people play by ear and what sounds good to them. Definetly no big deal and no right or wrong way in my opinion. I could tell by how you were playing that you didn't really seem use to playing death metal which is fine. You're a solo playing which is good for you, I can't do it. Good luck. |
| _________________________________ [Jun 17,2005 3:48pm - nyckz0r ""] Robdeadskin said:time signatures???Key signatues?? i dont even know that shit myself....but if it didnt work...it didnt work...good luck tom....u guys rule and I hope we all get what we need...other than that, we will have fun tonite...you know it!!!!\m/ Yeah some people just play thought. I take music very seriously so I chose what to know. |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 17,2005 3:49pm - Robdeadskin ""] so what r u saying...I dont know...I would shred your face off. i take it seriously to guy! |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 17,2005 3:50pm - Josh_Martin ""] nyckz0r said:Its okay Metalguy, the feeling of this is the one has been halted by communication problems, I didnt know what Tom was playing because he couldnt serve it to me in a manner i was acustomed too, for instance - when I asked him what key it was in, he could not comply (my fault I know, I should have been able to figure out the key signature by myself) - Another problem was the timing, I had NO idea what time signature or the changes any of the songs were in when I went into the jam room, I had to play by ear, which was fine I guess. And when I asked Tom what modes he was in, he couldnt tell me becuase he didnt know - its no big deal, some people can just play their instrument, some people know their instrument inside and out, and know what they are doing, some people dont. its not a problem. I didnt get into a Death Metal band, its no big. No hard feelings, guys. Sounds like you need less theory and more actual playing. 99% of death metal bands play by ear and don't give a fuck about what "mode" they are in. I would've stopped the tryout right there as soon as you asked "what mode are you in?" That's completely gay. |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 17,2005 3:51pm - RustedAngel ""] Josh_Martin said: So, what labels said they'd sign you if you only had a bass player? Tons of signed bands change bass players every other month. As long as the principle members are there it doesn't matter who's standing next to them on stage. I'm not going to name any names. The fact is, we lost a guitarist TOO who was a principle member of the band. So finding someone to fill his shoes is not turning out to be easy. I understand what you mean about the bass player thing and how a label would really dismiss that as long as you found someone else. |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 17,2005 3:53pm - RustedAngel ""] Josh_Martin said: Sounds like you need less theory and more actual playing. 99% of death metal bands play by ear and don't give a fuck about what "mode" they are in. I would've stopped the tryout right there as soon as you asked "what mode are you in?" That's completely gay. hahahah wow, I actually agree with Josh here. holy shit! That's what I was getting at, Nick is use to playing shit by the books and the 'RIGHT' way. I didn't hear him play anything other than solo's. We're defiently not necrophagist. |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 17,2005 3:55pm - Josh_Martin ""] I'd wish you luck but you suck and I hate that style of death metal. |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 17,2005 3:55pm - RustedAngel ""] thanks anyways, hahahaha. |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 17,2005 3:57pm - RustedAngel ""] Robdeadskin said:so what r u saying...I dont know...I would shred your face off. i take it seriously to guy! woah, down Rob, I don't think that's what he meant. You're definetly a good fucking player and I probably couldn't even hold a torch to your skills. Whatever though, we're all brothers of metal. haha. |
| _____________________________________ [Jun 17,2005 4:00pm - Robdeadskin ""] im drunk dude....I dont know whats goin on...get me away from this computer...hahahaha...I just hate everthing!! |
| ________________________________ [Jun 17,2005 4:55pm - mOe_rk ""] i shit on all of the drummer's i've met here @ school and i dont know an ounce of Theory or any of that shit. The music i play is insticntual and emotional for me. Trying to make it a task of memory and education isnt a very fetching idea to me, so i dont do it. I dont care is anyone else uses that stuff, whatever floats your boat is fine. Butm dont shit on other people who dont know that garbage and do just fine. When the people who created the earliest forms of music that mutated and bred what is modern forms of music today started out, how many fucking modes and theory did they know? |
| ______________________________ [Jun 17,2005 5:05pm - blue ""] ive got a bunch of theory knowledge under my belt, but your certainly dont need it to play good music. i dont use any theory in what i play on guitar. theory knowledge is cool and everything, but it doesnt teach you groove and feeling. |
| ________________________________ [Jun 17,2005 5:07pm - Hooker ""] I'm a shit player sometimes. ugh. |
| ____________________________________ [Jun 18,2005 12:28am - metalguy ""] Theory is.. THE THING. If you know more about music, you will be able to do alot more with it. If you are playing it by ear it will take you ten times as long to be creative. With theory, shit like Necrophagist is possible. I think that if you only play music by ear you are seriously limited to what you can play. Somone who doesn't know theory will not be able to pick up other genre's as quickly as somebody who does. And if you do not know theory you won't be able to communicate to other musicians.. Which is sad because that is half of what music is about. Communication. Communicating with bandmates and the audience. I am not really concerned with how this board feels about me or my bands. So if you don't want me to post anymore. Fuckyou. It isn't like I am looking for anyones queer ass approval. |
| ____________________________________ [Jun 18,2005 12:29am - metalguy ""] O yeah I forgot to say the new shit rocks :-) |
| __________________________________________________ [Jun 18,2005 12:30am - the_taste_of_cigarettes ""] [img] |
| ______________________________________ [Jun 18,2005 1:38am - TheSweeping ""] Give me a break, Metalguy. I have absolutely no official theory training and can play all Necrophagist rhythms (and some of the solos). I play it by ear and it does not take me ten times as long to be creative. I have never had a problem communicating with other musicians. Try not to cite bands like 'Necrophagist' as an example, you may think its talented but it's the same shit we've heard a million times before, with formulaic arpeggios etc, no unique qualities, no groundbreaking material. I'm not saying Necrophagist isn't good, before anyone jumps down my throat! Most 'theory' experts I know end up playing in cover bands and sitting around muddling in their illusionary musical superiority, while other much less trained musicians sell millions of records because they have talent and feeling. You think Nirvana had a lot of 'theory' training? Slayer? Compare their loyal fanbase to that of Necrophagist. |
| ___________________________________ [Jun 18,2005 1:50am - metalguy ""] Yea gay bands like Nirvana... Slayer give me a break. I am all about theory because when I am playing a song. And I know the key.. I can pretty much do what I want and know it is gonna sound good with few exceptions. I am not in a cover band.. I will save that till I am 30. Everything in music is a pattern... If you say it isn't you do not know what your talking about. And guess what music theory is.. You got it... patterns. And don't give me this bullshit of death metal doesn't follow a pattern. Because it does. For the most part it is. Chromatic, whole tone, diminished, phrygian, and locrian. And who said that those musicians making millions are less trained.. You have no idea of thier musical background.. |
| ______________________________ [Jun 18,2005 2:04am - blue ""] and you have no idea of their background as well. so shut yer hole. this is coming from someone with theory training. so shut it once again. |
| ___________________________________ [Jun 18,2005 2:06am - metalguy ""] So.. why should I shut my mouth because you have training.. Or because I have no idea of there background.. That made no sense. |