Steady wilson ! I never said you were in a goth band. I also said drum machines have their place I SUPPOSE, no ?nick the stripper wrote:I'm not in a "Goth Band".
There are very few "Goth Bands" that I like.
I never thought of "The Sisters Of Mercy" as a "Goth Band".
I used a Drum Machine once before and it worked with the songs minmalist sound very well.
I think I said this before, I'm extremly influenced by minimalist composers and my songs are very minimalistic in sound.
They tend to have a strage drone to them, I actually don't know what I would class the music as, But I would hate for it to be labeled "GOTHIC"
I also need a Drum Machine because the space I make music in is very small and the venues I play are small.
OK I don't really like them partially because I think they sound kinda dated and there are newer and better ways of doing the same thing, but what I've also been trying to articulate is that the myriad goth bands who slavishly imitate the sisters seem to have as their hallmark a rather grotty old drum machine.
Addendum here. I also don't recall implying the Sisters were goth, just the bands that rip them off. Although for the record I do actually think I'd probably label them goth if forced to at gunpoint. My views on labels are probably self evident I would hope. My own band get constantly labelled goth, and while I'll accept we come from the gothic scene originally, are pretty dark sounding and even obscurely proud of our undoubted goth influences would still rather be drowned in warm cat vomit that admit anything other than common ancestry with the goth scene of the current time.
Although I'll add the disclaimer that this latter part is very much "almost entirely" there are some very honourable exceptions to the rule.
Back on topic. Sadly if I see a band unpacking one of those little plastic boxes I tend to run a mile. This is from bitter experience you might say. ON the other hand, if there's an impressive looking rack of gear or audio PC I would be just as inclined to stick around as it were a nice drum kit.
Clarification I hope.
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) as well as the drum machine we used to reduce costs in the recording studio. Once you've paid £30 in studio time just to set up a kit, and a further £20 whilst tuning it the temptation to say "Fukkit; use the 727..." is almost impossible to resist. Always dropped in hi-hats and cymbals live though; you still can't get a decent electonic cymbal for under £2,000 a pop. Good Zildjians or Sabians are 10% of that.
