One Man Bands?

SATCHMO · 04-11-2008, 12:12 PM

Slackjaw · 04-11-2008, 03:29 PM

grow more arms

scott.gotcha · 04-11-2008, 03:37 PM

Thats a cool video

Richiban · 04-11-2008, 05:15 PM

Liam Finn, the son of Neil Finn of Crowded House played a show here once. Just him on stage, a drumset and a looping board. Once he got all his guitar tracks looped, he sang and then rocked the drums for a while. It was quite amazing actually.

DragHustler · 09-17-2008, 02:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Frances

Jason Webley. One man support act for the Dresden Dolls when I saw them.
Fantastic!
Mobster style top hat, drum on the floor, piano accordian, a grunt like Tom Waits and all the energy of a circus on speed.
Really, really great.

Anyway, check out his site, he'd be full of ideas.

agreed.*

Thrice · 09-20-2008, 12:28 AM

Kaki King- bone chaos in the castle.
Answer to all your questions.

~~RockGuitar101~~ · 09-25-2008, 04:56 PM

Hi , I been there and done that, I am a guitar player and have had bands, but as they say, bands come and go.
So what I decided is best is to be the best guitar I can be, be creative, and make my guitar sound like 2 guitars playing at once and just sing and play.
I'll tell you what, it goes over better than trying to be a 1 man band.
I found if you try to be a 1 man band people just think you have no real friends and that can hurt you more. Just play the instrument you love the best you can and sing and be happy.

bmhutchins · 11-09-2009, 01:06 PM

Keller Williams is definitely the best one man band out there. Incredible stuff with the loops and all that. If you happen to be in Cali, check him out. Majestic Ventura Theatre on the 11th and Anaheim HOB the 12th.

stormjh · 11-10-2009, 08:41 AM

i found a video too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2xOw-VXe_g

Daktari · 11-10-2009, 12:51 PM

Hi there,

I play around local bars and restaurants and I use a Boss Looper which is very good in a way but I am thinking of changing to the Digitech JAM MAN. The only reason being, the Jam Man has a memory card slot which means it will then hold upto 99 looped backing tracks. At the moment, My Boss Looper just has 10 spaces before I have to start deleting and starting from scratch.

At first, I was happy with this because I wanted the tracks to be disposable, kind of throw away. However, sometimes, it works out really good and it would be nice to save them to re-use. Right now I have eight pre-looped tracks, mainly for reggae type songs which I sing and play solo guitar to. The other two spaces I save for live looping which is a lot more exciting. I just feel that the audience would soon get fed up of watching each song build layer by layer and so most of what I play is just live one guitar and vocals, maybe hitting a tambourine or cabassa with my foot sometimes.

One of my favourite reggae tracks to loop live is 'LIQUIDATOR'. A really gold old reggae tune. I start with rhyhm guitar which I make sound like an organ, then I make percussive sounds by banging and scratching on the strings near the pickups. Then an octave down to do the bass and then finally a steel drum type sound to play the melody.

Loads of solo musicians just mail order some backing tracks and play and sing along to that but that's just getting too close to karaoke for me.

Whatever lights your candle I guess.

Good Luck, Gordon. ONE MAN-

04-11-2008, 03:37 PM	#13 (permalink)
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09-20-2008, 12:28 AM	#16 (permalink)
Thrice أمهاتك[وهور]Aura Euphoria Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Florida/Buffalo/CT Posts: 2,077	Kaki King- bone chaos in the castle. Answer to all your questions. __________________ Lew Harrison, who looked like an anarchist with his red eyes and fierce black beard, had been writing furiously in one corner of the room. "That's good—happiness by the kilowatt," he said. "Buy your happiness the way you buy light."

11-10-2009, 08:41 AM	#19 (permalink)
stormjh Music Addict Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 161	i found a video too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2xOw-VXe_g Last edited by stormjh; 11-10-2009 at 12:10 PM.

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Daktari Music Addict Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Originally from Lancashire, England, lived near Largs, Scotland and now live in Rocky Face, Georgia Posts: 154	Loopers. Hi there, I play around local bars and restaurants and I use a Boss Looper which is very good in a way but I am thinking of changing to the Digitech JAM MAN. The only reason being, the Jam Man has a memory card slot which means it will then hold upto 99 looped backing tracks. At the moment, My Boss Looper just has 10 spaces before I have to start deleting and starting from scratch. At first, I was happy with this because I wanted the tracks to be disposable, kind of throw away. However, sometimes, it works out really good and it would be nice to save them to re-use. Right now I have eight pre-looped tracks, mainly for reggae type songs which I sing and play solo guitar to. The other two spaces I save for live looping which is a lot more exciting. I just feel that the audience would soon get fed up of watching each song build layer by layer and so most of what I play is just live one guitar and vocals, maybe hitting a tambourine or cabassa with my foot sometimes. One of my favourite reggae tracks to loop live is 'LIQUIDATOR'. A really gold old reggae tune. I start with rhyhm guitar which I make sound like an organ, then I make percussive sounds by banging and scratching on the strings near the pickups. Then an octave down to do the bass and then finally a steel drum type sound to play the melody. Loads of solo musicians just mail order some backing tracks and play and sing along to that but that's just getting too close to karaoke for me. Whatever lights your candle I guess. Good Luck, Gordon. ONE MAN-

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Richiban Groupie Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Edmonton Posts: 28	Liam Finn, the son of Neil Finn of Crowded House played a show here once. Just him on stage, a drumset and a looping board. Once he got all his guitar tracks looped, he sang and then rocked the drums for a while. It was quite amazing actually.

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~~RockGuitar101~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Seattle Posts: 180	Hi , I been there and done that, I am a guitar player and have had bands, but as they say, bands come and go. So what I decided is best is to be the best guitar I can be, be creative, and make my guitar sound like 2 guitars playing at once and just sing and play. I'll tell you what, it goes over better than trying to be a 1 man band. I found if you try to be a 1 man band people just think you have no real friends and that can hurt you more. Just play the instrument you love the best you can and sing and be happy.

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bmhutchins Groupie Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 3	Keller Williams is definitely the best one man band out there. Incredible stuff with the loops and all that. If you happen to be in Cali, check him out. Majestic Ventura Theatre on the 11th and Anaheim HOB the 12th.