Every band Bry has every been in.
My complete musical stage debut was at the RAF Lossiemouth Sergeant's Mess sometime in May 2001. Being as I was ignored by the youth of Garmouth and Kingston (and everywhere else), I had started going along to the Lossie Sailing Club with my dad weekly. Two members of the club were getting married and they lived in Kingston. Their friend, the surnameless Alastair, was doing a fifteen-song set and he wanted a backing band. But they needed a bassist and a drummer. Tired of playing my boring 2-chord songs that I had wrote by that time, I jumped at the chance to PERFORM! ONSTAGE! but unfortunately my dad wanted to be the drummer. He is a shit hot drummer, but he was put off drumming for a while after I accidentally trashed his kit(hand through skins, foot through bass drum)! But I can understand why playing onstage with my Vati could be embarassing, so I was like "Fuck that!" But I was coaxed, with the small fortune of 10 bucks, to play. The night came, I still couldn't play the songs, but it was OK in the end. I didn't have an FX pedal then, but I would have loved to crank it up to the Thrashspey effect during Andromeda's (the band name) sensitive cover of Killing Me Softly!!! Other than that, we covered Travis, Everclear, Stereophonics, some blues shit that was hell on my left hand, some other acoustic shit, and - fuck me - one hit wonders Wheatus! I jumped about a bit, then realised that except an Iron Maiden-obsessed relative of theirs, no one else was below the age of .... 25 or something! I will never perform with my dad again!
OK, sorry about that, but it was necessary to illustrate how much of a buzz I got out of playing gigs! Back then I didn't realise that Northern Scotland was generally so much of a gigless wasteland ... I'd gone to Deconstruction the week before the reception ... so I was, well, optimistic. Of course I'd been in bands before that, but, well, only passing pupils and deafened teachers at Milne's Hell had heard me roar. So to speak.
Anyway, every band I have been in has done something exciting or interesting, simply cuz I was in it, and excitement seems to follow me everywhere. Well, not all the time unfortunately, but when I pick up Washy and plug in Marshy, pure fun is emitted.
Right, nothing much else to say, except maybe what I use to you anal freaks out there who give a shit:
Current bass: Washburn XB-100 ('98, Korean-made model). Mahogany body, 4 strings NOT 5 (and proud), cheap-ass price, sounds like crap and is the most unpunk bass you'll ever see!
Ideal bass: *Consumerismisevilandshouldbefoughtasfaraspossiblebutifyouweregoingtobuymeanyonebassiwouldget:* Fender Precision Bass - '87 model (or '77 or '82 or '88 or any other relevant period!)!!
Current amp: Marshall Bass State 65-watt (or it could be 90-watt!?) amplifier. It's OK, but a bit small.
Ideal amp: *Consumerismisevilandshouldbefoughtasfaraspossiblebutifyouweregoingtobuymeanyonebassiwouldget:* PMS amp 200 watt Hiwatt head through a Marshall cab. Ampeg SVT400 head. Fender Twin Reverb. Mesa/Boogie Road Ready speaker cabs Marshall 4x12 speaker cabinets. I have no idea what these are - I am just copying Krist from Nirvana!
Current FX pedal: yeah, they are maybe unpunk or whatever but what would Thrashspey be without the fuzz effect? I have a Zoom 506 II pedal and it's satisfactory.
OK, read on about my failures and broken dreams that pass for bands since Autumn 2000!
The bands' pages!
My most successful and longest running band...Thrashspey.
Garfield - Inverness Punk Rock! We're melodic, though.
One fat oaf and a guitarist called Kyle - Morbid Fun are the new Tenacious D.
My other bands that have...ahem...failed.