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Author Topic: Any musicians on Film-Tech? Dino Panagiotopoulos Expert Film Handler Posts: 139 From: Windor, Ontario, Canada Registered: Jan 2003 posted 07-14-2003 11:05 PM                     We all know everyone on this site has amazing talent for our shared passion but Im curious to know if anyone has any secret talents for music. Do you play an instrument? If so what do you play? Do you sing? Also looking for anyone that plays a "native" instrument of their country. Im Greek so its only fitting that the love of my life is the bouzouki. Hope to hear from everyone!  |  IP: Logged Aaron Sisemore Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day! Posts: 3061 From: Rockwall TX USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 07-14-2003 11:37 PM                     I play six instruments (in order of fluency): Piano/Keyboards Drums Trombone Tuba Guitar Bass Me at a talent contest in 1991: Talent contest in October 1993: Higher level competetion, Nov 1993: On drums, December 1994: Keys are my main axe: Here's what I have in my rig: Peavey DPMC8 88 key MIDI controller 1966 Hammond H-111 organ Yamaha DX21 Sequential Six-Trak Casio CZ-3000 Oberheim XK-1 (61-key MIDI controller) Roland SC55 module Ensoniq Mirage rackmount sampler E-mu Proteus/1 module Alesis HR-16:B drum machine Alesis SR-16 drum machine Alesis MMT-8 hardware sequencer Alesis DataDisk MIDI storage drive QuikLok and Ultimate stands and the computer of course. My singing sucks, it is best relegated to backing vocals if at all I also write some stuff as well... -Aaron  |  IP: Logged John Westlund Expert Film Handler Posts: 204 From: Burney, CA, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 07-14-2003 11:47 PM                     I have played the saxophone for since the 6th grade.  |  IP: Logged Rachel Craven Madam Moderator Posts: 2190 From: Pensacola, FL Registered: Dec 2000 posted 07-14-2003 11:56 PM                     I've played the trumpet since 4th grade. Also can play a little keyboard and took drum lessons for 3 years. I used to sing in the symphony chorus in my area, and made district (top 40 female singers 9th-12th grade in the state) for singing 2 years straight (only tried out in 10th & 11th grades ).  |  IP: Logged Andrew Duggan Expert Film Handler Posts: 127 From: Albany, NY, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 07-15-2003 12:57 AM                        I play in a slew of local punk bands, playing guitar, bass, or signing. My main instrument is guitar, though. I play an Ibanez Artcore Hollow Body through a Music Man 65 amp and a Crate I-don't-remember-the-model-number fullstack. It's a fantastic sound rig with the right tweaking. This is a pic of one of my bands, Police Line playing a couple years ago, with me screaming my guts out to a bunch of bored looking teenagers. and this is a VERY old pic of me (complete with insane dreadlock mohawk!) playing bass in an old punk/thrash band Per Capita. God I was such a cool kid. What the hell happened!?  |  IP: Logged Sean McKinnon Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1712 From: Peabody Massachusetts Registered: Sep 2000 posted 07-15-2003 01:17 AM                        You were in a band called Per Capita? Thats frieking awesome.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 07-15-2003 01:38 AM                        I used to be able to play some guitar when I was younger, but am limited to the computer right now. I usually use Reason with a touch of Vocalwriter now and then.  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 07-15-2003 04:38 AM                        Guitars are for girls. Real men play the bass. I am a classically trained double bass player. I have played in chamber groups and symphony orchestras as well as in Jazz bands. Since my ex-girlfriend came from Greece, I also played some rebetika (that is a Greek music-style). I can also sing a few Greek songs. I could probably count the string bass as a "native" instrument since the classical music tradition in Germany is very strong and goes back centuries. This is what my instrument looks like from the player`s point of view. It is an Austrian bass made in the late 1800s.  |  IP: Logged John Lasher Master Film Handler Posts: 493 From: Newark, DE Registered: Aug 2001 posted 07-15-2003 05:20 AM                        Well... right now I actually work at a music store (if you're in the Wilmington, DE area, feel free to visit, the store is at 4707 Kirkwood Highway, I'm usually there on Wednesday) I play piano/keyboard and drums. I also compose music, [shameless plug] some of which is available here and if you go to the website now, you cna hear me sing! (Let's Stop Pretending) [/shameless plug]  |  IP: Logged William Hooper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1879 From: Mobile, AL USA Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-15-2003 06:10 AM                        Piano. I have a 5 1/2 foot upright rosewood Knabe, & a Wurlitzer 200A. I am from back in the day when you had a piano, & everybody was his own roadie. quote: Guitars are for girls. Real men play the bass Yah, right. Move a little so I don't drop this piano on you.  |  IP: Logged Gordon Bachlund Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 696 From: Monrovia, CA, USA Registered: Aug 1999 posted 07-15-2003 08:27 AM                        For me it's organ and a little piano. I served as a church organist and choir director for many years until church politics made life into a "martyrdom of pin pricks." Now I tell folks I am a "recovering choir director."  |  IP: Logged Michael West Film Handler Posts: 67 From: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Registered: Apr 2000 posted 07-15-2003 10:30 AM                        on a good day i might be able to play my guitar.  |  IP: Logged Gerard S. Cohen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 975 From: Forest Hills, NY, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 07-15-2003 10:59 AM                     Dino, Thanks for starting a great thread! Your instrument is beautiful. Have you a website where I can go to hear you play it? I learned to play the viola in a college quartet, but gave it up because I lost part of my hearing in the Service. If F-T were to form a band or orchestra from the Film-tech posters' replies, what would you name it? --Gerard  |  IP: Logged Michael Barry Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 584 From: Sydney, NSW, Australia Registered: Nov 1999 posted 07-15-2003 11:38 AM                     I learned the violin for 6 years, but regrettably gave it up when high school work became too much. In retrospect, I wish it was school that I had given up in favour of the violin. Well, not quite, but I wish I hadn't given it up just the same. I keep threatening to take it up again. I did a bit of singing in high school too but no great shakes there. I can sing in tune but that's about the extent of it. My violin playing showed more promise. I have had a background in classical music from an early age; my parents were a huge influence. One of the stories that recurs from my childhood is that we had a Revox quarter-inch open reel tape recorder, and I used to thread this up at the age of 3 and listen to an entire recording of Bach's 'St. Matthew Passion' wearing headphones. We also had a recording of 'St. John Passion' and I used to get cross if I threaded this and meant to listen to the other. Apart from my classical background, I started taking a serious interest in jazz and fusion (only as a listener) since 1992. I am so interested in the musicianship and skill behind this that I attend drum clinics and watch instructional videos even though I don't play. My favourite drummers in the east-coast jazz tradition are Billy Higgins, Elvin Jones, Roy Haynes, Max Roach, Kenny Washington, Lewis Nash and Art Taylor (amongst many others). In terms of west-coast/fusion styles, I enjoy Dave Weckl, Chad Wackerman and David Jones. Guitarists? Grant Green, John Abercrombie and Allan Holdsworth.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 07-15-2003 12:19 PM                        Piano and oboe, plus sight screaming, arranging, scoring, and conducting studies. Still have a Roland D-50 in the house but haven't played anything in years. Listen mostly to jazz, classical, and Japanese soundtracks. F-T band name? The Singing Sprockets  |  IP: Logged

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