How many Road Geeks are musicians? I play flute and accordion. We should start a band called Roadgeek. Who is in with me? We can exchange files via ICQ.
I play piano and violin.
Quote from: GeauxLSU on January 15, 2017, 09:42:38 PM
How many Road Geeks are musicians? I play flute and accordion. We should start a band called Roadgeek. Who is in with me? We can exchange files via ICQ.
I play trombone but I only send files through IRC, or by printing it off in binary and sending it FedEx.
I play viola, and I sing.
I have taken years of piano lessons in the past, and still play routinely.
I like to attach bells to the linkage of my column mounted three speed while I drive around Mena, Arkansas in a Ford Galaxie.
Trombone back in high school; piano and keyboards ongoing.
I wrote a short soundtrack instrumental for a driving video along the Alaskan Way Viaduct (former US 99) southbound many years ago. The video hosting site died a while back, but the song is still up on an almost forgotten Soundcloud page: https://soundcloud.com/therealkurumi/alaskan-way-jam
If I re-do the song, I'd start with adjusting some of the balance between tracks
Quote from: corco on January 16, 2017, 12:24:13 PM
I like to attach bells to the linkage of my column mounted three speed while I drive around Mena, Arkansas in a Ford Galaxie.
Would these be cowbells? We definitely need more cowbell.
I play guitar, drums, other percussion, piano, recorder, organ (badly), and I'm probably forgetting something. I also sing, compose, and arrange music.
But I haven't used ICQ since the 90s. IRC is a good idea, but it crashed my computer last time I installed mIRC.
I would think for a roadgeek band you would want someone to play various synthesizers for the following:
1) rumble strips
2) concrete pavements
:sombrero:
I played saxophone in high school band and in a jazz band my first year of college, but haven't touched the horn in 30 years. I can still read music and remember the fingering patterns, but I'm sure it would take forever for me to get up to speed.
When I was in high school, I wanted to be Walter Parazaider.
I am highly experienced in the art of Kazoo playing.... And I can sort of play "Ode to Joy" on the piano :-P
Quote from: pumpkineater2 on January 16, 2017, 04:35:07 PM
I am highly experienced in the art of Kazoo playing....
Are you as good as this guy?
I always liked drums since my dad used to play 'em, so one day when I was in 9th grade in high school in spring 2004 during Music Appreciation class while the teacher was gone, I decided to play the drums. I thought I was pretty damn good...until everybody else left the room and shut the door behind them. It sunk in real fast that drums are not for me! :ded:
I ain't too bad on the piano, though...or at least, I never ran anybody out the room.
I played clarinet in high school/college/adult community band for close to 30 years, but I haven't touched it in 10 years. More recently, I sang baritone in a men's barbershop chorus for several years. Now I'm just a patron of the arts.
I play piano and cello. (surprise, surprise)
I played alto saxophone in high school, haven't touched it in a couple years or so
Can we please turn this discussion back to the topic of why on earth anyone is still using ICQ?
Quote from: kphoger on January 17, 2017, 02:07:31 PM
Can we please turn this discussion back to the topic of why on earth anyone is still using ICQ?
I don't know, but I laughed loudly when I saw those letters.
What the heck is ICQ?
I used to play drums but haven't picked up a drumstick in over thirty years.
Quote from: hm insulators on January 20, 2017, 03:09:12 PM
What the heck is ICQ?
Here you go. (http://lmgtfy.com/?q=What+is+ICQ%3F)
There was once a band of Georgia DOT employees that called itself Experimental Pavement.
Quote from: Tom958 on January 20, 2017, 06:04:53 PM
There was once a band of Georgia DOT employees that called itself Experimental Pavement.
A group of KYTC employees entertained a conference a few years ago. (I didn't attend, but there's a YouTube video out there).
The band's name? Phil 'n the Potholes.
Quote from: hbelkins on January 20, 2017, 09:13:01 PM
Quote from: Tom958 on January 20, 2017, 06:04:53 PM
There was once a band of Georgia DOT employees that called itself Experimental Pavement.
A group of KYTC employees entertained a conference a few years ago. (I didn't attend, but there's a YouTube video out there).
The band's name? Phil 'n the Potholes.
Some of the short list names I'd like to throw out there for the AAroads band name:
- The NIMBYs
- The GSVs
- The BGSs
- The Grand Alans
- Goat Warriors
- Metal 366
- The Trumpotenuse
- Bumble Gummed
The Viatologists.
The Alans
FritzOwl and the Fictional Interstate Bunch.
I wish I was like Prince, who was an expert at multiple instruments, and wrote, produced, composed and sang his own songs, as well as writing and producing songs for many other singers. But alas, I'm just a beginner at piano and other keyboard instruments, trumpet, and can barely even play an acoustic guitar, let alone an electric one.
You mean Pavement weren't roadgeeks?
They had a song about splitting California in half, which is pretty typical commentary for here.
Quote from: kphoger on January 16, 2017, 03:57:15 PM
I play guitar, drums, other percussion, piano, recorder, organ (badly), and I'm probably forgetting something. I also sing, compose, and arrange music.
But I haven't used ICQ since the 90s. IRC is a good idea, but it crashed my computer last time I installed mIRC.
God, ICQ...I haven't heard that term in about 5 years. Heck the only person I texted regularly on that was my younger brother down in FL, and usually only during races because talking on the phone would be a PITA while trying to listen to the commentary. Once I got a smartphone ICQ went bye bye, though.
Jerome in Tahoka plays cello.