^ this, except for my piano
I *can* play it, and quite well (when I've been practising), I just don't. So currently it's being used as a very expensive bookshelf.
(berk, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 12:51, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

You're missing opportunities for good old fashioned Cockernee Knees Ups.
Not that you're a Cockernee. But, you know, for the look of the thing.

Roll aht the barrel...
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 12:59, Reply)

A real piano with keys and everything?
Electric or upright?
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 12:59, Reply)

It would be a pretty shit piano if it had no keys
but it is an electric because they're more easy to move and don't need tuning. It's one of these.
(berk, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 13:03, Reply)

That is a thing of beauty.
I'm genuinely jealous, not that I can play more than a little melody or a few basic chords on one.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 13:08, Reply)

Something like, oh, I don't know, 'Live Forever'?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 13:11, Reply)

This, coming from someone who's remembered the name of one of their songs from sixteen fucking years ago.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 13:14, Reply)

'Don't look back in anger' is their 'best' one.
The first line is without doubt the worst lyric I have ever heard. Ever. I realise I am quite given to hyperbole, but on my life I cannot think of a more pathetic piece of writing.

It makes the Human League's 'The Lebanon' look like 'Waterloo Sunset'.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 13:19, Reply)

There's a few I like, couldn't pull their names out of a hat but I started my guitar career learning their simple melodies and variations on chords.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 13:25, Reply)

I started with 'Wild Thing' by The Troggs, I think.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 13:28, Reply)

I tried to drum along to Queens of the Stone Age - 'No One Knows' and '3's and 7's'
Set my sights a little atmospheric there.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 13:30, Reply)

I'd try Ramones songs first if I started drumming, I think.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 13:33, Reply)

Yeah, I can play along to a few of the simpler punk/rock tracks I tried
But they're a bit boring. I know it's all about keeping the rhythm, but I like a drum beat that gets the chance to just rock the fuck out at times.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 13:34, Reply)

'I Don't Live Today' by Jimi Hendrix has an interesting drum pattern
also 'Warning' by the Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation (also covered by Black Sabbath).
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 13:39, Reply)

Haha, so did I!

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 13:31, Reply)

It's certainly very pretty
but I really need to get off my arse and play it more. The only reason I bought it was because my parents could never afford piano lessons for me as a kid, so I taught myself and when I came in to some inheritance I was like: damnit, I've wanted a piano for the last 15 years so I'm bloody going to buy one.
(berk, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 13:17, Reply)

Nice work.
I don't know why I stopped playing. This time I'm determined to get good again and find a collaborator, maybe another guitarist, musician or vocalist to play some covers and write some stuff with. It's a teenage dream I lived out a little in my twenties but it fizzled out and I just got stuck playing the same old stuff.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 13:26, Reply)

I'll let you join Electric Head Funk if you like.
I've been thinking about getting the band back together.

No bent shit allowed, though.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 13:29, Reply)

And for that reason, I'm out.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 13:31, Reply)

Feels like everyone on b3ta
can play an instrument and wants to be in a band :(
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 13:38, Reply)

You can play the 'pink oboe'

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 13:39, Reply)

Get one of these:
www.hammond-organ.com/Products/B3.htm
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 13:10, Reply)

We had one of those at school, I think
or at least something very similar. I would probably use it even less than the one I've got though, so...no.
(berk, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 13:14, Reply)

If I had one I'd never go out.
Spending night after night at home, on my own, gurning and sweating, hunched over my organ, in a world of my own...
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 13:22, Reply)