OT: VWWATERCOOLED MUSO's....WHO'S OUT THERE AND WHAT DO YOU PLAY???

[sir_camel]

Which Orchestra mate?

I'm from Sydney

[funkamedic]

I've been playing guitar for about 25 years. Mostly self taught. I used to be into grunge/metal and played in a band around Brisbane for a few years in the 90s. These days i've chilled a lot and mainly just play acoustic - fingerstyle for the most part. Country blues, blues, old-time/traditional, blue-grass, folk etc. I have trouble finding people to jam with, i think because of my taste in music

My favourite guitar would have to be my '73 Guild F20. Nick Drake played a similar guitar although his was the all mahogany model (M20), whereas mine has a spruce top (i play kind of similar to Drake).

[Bflat]

I'm from Sydney

Haha well if I was up this weekend for the trumpet audition I would have said hi!

[Buller_Scott]

this is nothing compared to you guys, but i played drums through all of high school, after getting fed up with playing the piano in primary because mum wanted a neat hard studying little piano player she could use as bragging rights to her friends with.

so yeah, drums - like everyone in gen x, i was into playing grunge - pearl jam, nirvana (damn easy to impress people with, but hella easy to play) then moved onto stuff like pantera / some machine head when skills progressed. rudiments were where i spent much of my time, too.

quit drum practice to focus on study for the end of high school, after about 3 months of learning the beginner lessons of jazz drumming. seriously, hard rock/ metal is PISS EASY compared to jazz drumming - wish i'd stuck with it!

incidentally, my favorite "popular band" drummer is a jazz drummer - danny carey of tool.

[sir_camel]

Haha well if I was up this weekend for the trumpet audition I would have said hi!

Not there this weekend for those ones. I get the weekend off

[MattyT]

I've played drums off and on since 1997. As much as I love drums I havent been able to play very much due to health problems, also since 1997. I hope the two arent related! I've got a premier artist series kit with some sabian cymbals. The colour of the kit? Green

[greasykitchen]

To call myself a 'musician' is a bit of a stretch, but I've played guitar for something like 22 years. I'm almost good at it too. I'm pretty much self taught (and it shows). I own about 12 guitars, 40-something pedal, third valve amp ('78 Silverface Champ) should find its way to me this week. Main axes are a CIJ Strat, Epiphone Gold Top (upgraded to Fralin P90s), Edwards MIJ Les Paul (quality copy) and a Taylor 110 (bottom of the line but still my most expensive guitar).

Before I picked up the guitar I played violin for about 4 years (I sucked terribly) and learnt to read music etc - this was from about age eight.

I have a somewhat musical family so a lot of my knowledge and skills (skills outweighed by knowledge) came naturally.

What with work and study, I've not been able to put too much time into playing in recent years (that and I'm lazy) but I hope to change that soon.

[Jarred]

I can play the triangle....

[greasykitchen]

I can play the triangle....

Electric or acoustic?

[Jayko86]

Sounds like there is some serious talent out there.
I have stuffed around with various instruments, have played a little bit of drums, piano, violin and am a ahck at all. Have learnt guitar (self taught) but am no Slash.
Have an Epiphone special II electric, Tanglewood acoustic guitar, El Cheapo drumset and violin, and a 1904 john broadwood upright piano(sounds awesome, shame I'm rubbish).