Sunday 20 Oct 2019, 12:56pm
Especially bass, sax, violin, guitar, keys, vocals but any else considered to join a new band of three experienced musicians – drums, guitar/keyboards, synths/guitar – with years of gigging between us. We’re proficient but not virtuosos, serious about playing good music but not about ourselves, looking to record and gig regularly but not going pro.
We take our main inspiration from late 60’s – early 70’s space rock, psychedelic, funkadelic ,stoner, groove, riff-rock, doom, fuzz, heavy blues, acid rock, hard rock, proto-metal, proto-prog, kraut-rock and electronic-rock bands and want to take this old-school sound into the future.
We respect and take influence from any style, but this band won’t be metal, punk, grunge, indie, easy-listening, tribute, function, jazz-funk-soul, pop-anything or unplugged. For sure we’re not post-anything, we’re pre-genre!
It’s about having fun and playing great music – making full use of all the musical elements to create light and shade - volume, tempo, density, timbre, intervals, dissonance, rhythm and probably loads more I can’t even think of – combined with attitude to create sounds of massive intensity but a sense of humour and fun. Covers to get going then add originals.
We don’t care about your age, gender or anything else as long as you’re cool with everything above and want to add something to the band rather than have an ego trip. Please get in touch if you have decent giggable gear, have good skills, know when to take the lead and when to be silent, are willing and able to rehearse in Bristol, willing to work on the material between rehearsals and – this is important please – understand and are genuinely enthusiastic about the style of music I have made quite clear above and in the following A-Z of influencing bands (use YouTube if you’re not sure):
Aardvark
Black Sabbath (early)
Captain Beefheart
Deep Purple (early)
Eloy
Fuzzy Duck
Gong
Hawkwind
Iron Butterfly
Juicy Lucy
King Crimson
Leafhound
Magma
Necromandus
Ozric Tentacles
Poobah
Quarkspace
Room
Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Trapeze
Uriah Heep
Van Der Graaf Generator
Weed
X and Y er…
Zappa