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Hello everyone I'm Johanna, or just Jo. I'm totally in love with music. I truly believe it is the most fundamental thing in life. Screw breathing and eating and cell division, music is sufficient.
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welcome, what music do you like?

welcome to you; however, if you don't learn to like this cell division thing, we might not get along.

:laughing: Are you a biologist? I'm pretty certain that I'm mostly robotic so really the cell division thing is pretty useless to me. Humans got the bad end of the stick, cell division but no photosynthesis. Who's idea was that.

A wide variety. I play piano/keyboard and classical guitar. Some of my favorite artists include Pink Floyd, Devo, Sage Francis, The Clash, Cake, The Doors, Jerry Lee Lewis, Led Zep, Queensryche, Van Morrison, the beatles, mates of state, Eric Burdon & War, Rush, the Yardbirds, the creepy creeps, and a bunch of underground music, mostly punk.

Haha, indeed a biologist, I am. How'd you guess? Well, our version of photosynthesis is a little bit more complex, but I concur. I, too, would like to be a leafy green good. Anyway, your mini-list of bands makes up for your hate of cell division. :P Welcome, friend, welcome.

Only a biologist would jump at that remark.:laughing:
I know very little about biology. I once drew a very beautiful and detailed cell and gave it to my biology teacher. I believe that was my biggest contribution in that field. I study mechanical engineering.
Good thing I redeemed myself with that list. Thanks for welcoming.

You're welcome and I am not quite a biologist yet. I am still one in the works. Mechanical engineering, eh? We've a buncha smartypants up in the piece. How is the local music scene in New Mexico?

Welcome. Nice varied tastes there too :thumb:

Not really, all I do is put but with all the homework and get raped at every exam but somehow I still get by with decent grades.
I like the scene here. I'm not to familiar with the Northern NM scene, my band doesn't play up there very often. Here in southern New Mexico the house show scene is huge (at least for a small town). We mainly have thrash, crust punk, and psychobilly bands.

oh you have a band? what music do you play?

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....umm, just wanted an excuse to use the couch smiley because it's cute.

Punk, I play keyboard. We weren't sure it would work, mixing guitar sounds influenced by the clash and black flag and keyboard influenced by jerry lee and mates of state but people around here seem to like it.

got anything recorded?

Elaborate on crust-punk, please. You guys sound like you have an interesting mesh going on. I'd love to hear. Do you have a website I can go to?

Slackers at merchandise:( . People are always asking for CDs and stuff. We have a myspace but we just use it for the upcoming shows section. The name's Dynamite Kegs but I don't have 15 posts so I can't post a link to it.

Found you. Not bad. ****ty recording, but I enjoyed what I could make out. I'm going to guess that you're Dynamite Jo.

post the link plz?

I would consider some of the bands here crust punk mainly based on the guitar riffs and the fast tempo..although not so much the lyrics. Ya, I can't post links yet but look up lascrucesshows on myspace and it's got a bunch of local bands on there. :)

Thanks, imperial. I think you'll really like it here.

And antonio, my friend:
dynamitekegs

lol, ya someone recorded it with a cheap camara, those are pretty old vids too. I do wish we had some decent recordings with the new material too but it's hard enough to schedule practice w/ 5 people in the band. My name's Johanna but everyone calls me Jo or Jana.

Damn, I'm good. I narrowed it down. Usually the chicks play keyboards in punk bands. Then I saw 'Jo', and I said to myself 'That there's a female!' and bam, we're B.M.B.F.F.

I mainly joined because I want to become familiar with other local bands from other regions (well I guess they're not local if they're from other regions). You guy's should let me know about good bands where you guys live. Check out the Creepy Creeps, they're from San Diego and they're awesome!

Haha! Heck ya! I played drums/percussion in marching band in high school.

your band's pretty good

Thanks. I grew up learning classical music and reading music so up until I started playing with these guys in ten seconds to liftoff. Classical is so complex and structured. I really love the simplicity of our music. Shows are so much fun because we put a ton of energy into them.

I grew up with Classical music too. :) Also, I hear you on the local bands collaboration. My boyfriend is in a metal band that is on tour right now. He's also on MB as ElephantSack, so keep an eye out for him so you guys can perhaps schedule some shows together. They've not that much money, so they've been traveling through this website called couchsurfing.com, where you can find free places to stay and meet locals in the towns that you travel to. It's pretty ****ing sick if you ask me. Have you guys toured yet? Or are you looking for other local bands in different areas to book shows with?

Oh cool, I'll look them up. 3 of us are all about touring, the other 2 have wives and kids so they don't want to be away from their families. We do play all over New Mexico, sometimes El Paso texas. We've been talking about doing some AZ and CA shows. A bar here in Town that's really friendly towards touring bands is El Patio, the bar also has a myspace. Ya no kidding, we rent a van and crap all our gear in there and drive to Albuquerque, it's so much fun. People are always super nice about letting bands crash at their place. Is he's band touring the Southwest at all?

I do have a lot of appreciation for it but I some point you just want to stop playing someone else's music and start playing your own you know.

yeah, Elephant Sack's band rocks too

What's the name of his band? I misread. I thought ElephatSack was the name of the band not his user name.

AFT3RMATH

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Yeah, sorry I was vague. The band's name is Aftermath. You can find them on MySpace.com - www.myspace.com/370574464. I hear you on the playing original music. I just wish I could play music. :(

Ow wow, they have a fancy myspace. With real recordings and stuff, sounds pretty good.
Awww, well I can't write like Mozart, my original stuff can't stand alone. But some of the most powerful songs are the simple ones. Specially with bass, bass is the heartbeat of the band. You can hear every other instrument but the bass you hear it and you feel it. Our theory, if it has more than 5 chords you're overdoing it. lol

Enevolergy reminds me of the instrumental section of Octavarium by dream theater about 13 minutes into the song. :thumb:

Hi Jo, welcome!

That's a popular comment, but they definitely appreciate it. They're going to try to put up some videos soon. Glad you enjoyed it. They're even better live, and this coming from someone who was not really impressed with them at first.

Thanks Patton :wave:

Haha, they're the kind of band we don't want to play after...bands that are actually talented.
Nice, and that's what really matters too. You can polish up a recording all you want but there's nothing like the raw sound of a good live performance.

Are any of you guys from Chicago? I'm gonna be there this weekend and was wandering if there are any good shows that I can catch while I'm there.