I played drums in junior high but switched to guitar my freshman year in High School. After learning two chords, I wrote my first song, and with the third chord, my first hit single. Well, it would have been a hit because it was the first song to ever use the chords A, D and E.movieman1957 wrote:How interesting! What instrument do you play? Do you write music?
I soon formed a band, a trio called Tandori Chicken (we played one gig) and, since no one but me liked the name, we changed it to Fall Out, after the first single by The Police. (The drummer in the band was a huge Stewart Copland fan. He played like Copland, too, which helped cover my inept playing.)
While I was never a good guitar player, I wrote at least one (horrible) song a week and was pretty good at arranging. We opened every gig with The Munster's Theme and I remember playing a long jam of Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall done kinda ska.
I hadn't played in years but last Christmas my wife bought me the Logic program for the Mac, and I've recorded a bunch of the old tunes including my hit single! Right now, I'm noodling with all of the Indian instruments in the program and working on a cover of the song Twitch from the Flintstones.
Current "band" name: The Adolescent Sound Patterns. (Or maybe The Cacophonies).