yeah, i'm starting to hear you on that.

i'm currently taking beginning guitar @ my local community college. it's so fun! it's one of the things i look forward to each week, my wednesday night guitar class.

I don't play an instrument, but I wish I did. I have a particular interest in pipe organs, not only because they produce an incredible variety of sounds, but also because they're one of very few musical instruments that's (usually) physically part of a building.

i have written and recorded lots of music--but i am just beginning my architecture venture by starting an associate's degree program in the fall. started playing guitar about 1990 as a freshman in college (wow, that was a long time ago), and even had a classical phase where i went back and learned to read and write the notes on the page and began some orchestral stuff. it is all 'on the shelf' right now. i am sure it will alwalys be something i tinker with.

i started out recording on a crappy little four track cassette multitrack in college and several incarnations later was using cakewalk multitrack studio software.

Right on...

Yeah When you first start playing, Its like being in Architecture School...it takes up all your time....ALL OF IT.

so now School..is my new Guitar....

Architecture is the music.....


So whats the name of your Band....?


ARCHITELLICA


ARCHODON>>>

ARCH--LAYER

system of an Archinect.

in architecture school, i wanted to have a sixties pop band called the t-squares. sadly i got too busy with studio.

Architour...

Arch Enemy (taken)

Arch Angel

ARCHitonics

don't even think of using my name either

but seriously I respect anyone that plays a musical instrument, having spent most of my life around folks that that played more than one instrument, it wasn't until heading to architecture school that i met people that didn't - and it was loads of us. Many like me were told to develop other talents - fine arts versus music. But i still have a love affair with the trumpet and the steel pan... perhaps because they are so anti-traditional with their sound

ah well day dreaming...

Yeah I was forced to take saxophone lessons from 4th grade thru 7th because my sister gave it up. I hated it. Then I started playing guitar at 15 and haven't stopped yet, although I don't get nearly enough playing time in with doing architecture full-time.

many years ago, i played the guitar and bass. i was in an awesome disgruntled junior high band called 'the pinheads.' if i recall correctly, we had three practices then broke up after our drummer moved away. we could have made it big one day...

unfortunately, i haven't played either instrument in years.

why use an instrument....... i beat box.....yes..... beat box...since the 80's....listening to fat boys/doug e fresh/greg nice/skinny boys........ i dont need a carrying case either...haha


b

yeah!!! guitar hero!!! they need to hurry up and put it out on wii!

just bought a new takamine Gseries today. it's black. (acoustic elect)

OldFogey ,

can you guys play the lemon song?

guitar, bass, piano/keyboard, drums...played trumpet in middle school but have since lost that ability.

the lemon song is the shit!!...i'm listening to it right now and it's making my head nod uncontrollably..hah

I like

The Ocean

Dazed and Confused


and Rock N Roll

i spent the better part of the last 10 years in a band. if anyone's remotely curious, drop by here. although we've been pretty much dormant for the last year or so, we put out a handful of records, toured the states a few times, were on the college radio charts, and definitely had some good times. i write, play guitar/bass and sing. i've always dug the recording and production side of it as well, so blip...i'm with you on that front.

Before I decided I wanted to be in architecture I wanted to be a music major. I sort of came to realization that all I could do would be to teach with a degree so I changed my mind about it and all the theory was going in one ear, staying for the tests, and going out the other.
I started out playing trumpet, then progressed to guitar, and I'm feeling my way around the piano now.

I'm insterment obsessed.

I have a drum kit, guitar, key board, clarinet, flute and trumpet.

I can play a lot of concert band type insterments.

Music = my life. hands down.

I wish I knew an instrument. I wanted to take piano lessons as a kid but we couldn't afford it. I've also always wanted to learn to play the cello; it's so beautifully mournful. I taught myself to play a couple easy piano songs, but I can't actually read sheet music and don't play correctly.

i play the violin. i also know piano and cello although not as well.

I used to play the Mouth organ ( harmonica) when I was a kid.

cannot play as well nowadays (one of the wonderful results of being a chain smoker .)

i play things too...
i started with piano when i was really little because i idolized billy joel. I switched to guitar when i first heard weezer's album pinkerton and have tried to branch out since...
i can play piano guitar clarinet and accordian decently, i can kind of play violin, though mine is broken. i own a bell set and an autoharp which i also play on occaision, and have used in a song or two.


ive written and recorded a bunch of crap, but anyone interested can find it here

hey lletdownl nice motion picture soundtrack cover (with third verse :thumbsup:) good layering of the bells/accordian/guitar

i'm a beginning guitar player (started in february) and i already have 3 guitars!

i first got a steel string ibanez acoustic electric

then i just had to get a yamaha classical guitar that was on sale

now, i need to take an old kramer electric that i found @ my cousin's house to get re-strung!

what fun!!!

but lletdownl have you covered let down?

i was a percussionist / music major for the first two years of college, I have been playing since 6th grade,...
I still love music, but since I decided to go the architecture route, my musical skills have been slowly diminishing ever since. (a not so good violinist plays in the background)

hey ramos! thank you very much!

ive played let down for years as it is one of my favorite songs of all time but i havent yet covered it.

maybe someday i will do it.

i used to play 'thinking about you' ... thats a beautiful radiohead song also underloved

j you should start a ska band. or a big band. trombones are essential in both. waaa waaaa waaaaaaa....

OldFogey -- no, i'm in los angeles, but my band played columbus and dayton a bunch of times on various tours...andyman's treehouse, bernie's distillery, elbo's etc. i dig ohio and ohio seemed to dig us.

is there anyone in chicago looking to sell an instrument? im always interested in picking up new ones...

woodwinds? strings? keyboards? percusion? ... a rhodes?

for me, there is a very primal, instinctual enjoyment to be found in percussive actions. banging out, you know? hitting stuff.
I am not very good, but I keep a drumset in the garage for therapy-through-thrashing sessions.
And I see a deep relationship between music and architecture; think of all the ideas/words they share; and all the major avant-garde eras that bequeathed world-changing music + architecture.