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MadMuffyGan (Diem)

Diem website- http://www.freewebs.com/diemmusic/index.htm

About Me


Get your own playlist at snapdrive.net! ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------- Here we have a few tracks from our band ('Diem') for which I play lead and rhythm guitar, with an amazing dude named Dan who plays rhythm guitar and also some lead too (See first person on friend list 'Dan from Diem' for his space) and for more for more info visit us at http://www.freewebs.com/diemmusic/ Hope you like what we have so far....there is more in the pipeline, we just get so carried away with playing that we rarely ever get a chance to finish tracks due to experimenting with new material!!! I do apologise for the quality. They were recorded at home...we'll be sorting out some studio time soon hopefully and all will be rectified. (Oh yeah....and just for copywriters, 'Dirty Diana' is a project of a song written by Michael Jackson, slaughtered by us!!!) ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------- About me…? Well, what is there to say? I love music, that’s the first and foremost! I am into as many different styles as I can appreciate and try and experiment with as many different styles as my brain and fingers allow me to! My greatest love has to be Rock or Metal! Energy, power and everything else that comes with it…and the most beautiful thing about it, is the versatility of it all…It’s like mixing and matching…Wanna try it with this? Do it!!! I also have great love for the other side of the musical world. And if I don’t really like something (like the way I used to feel for Jazz) give it time and I will usually come around…the concept has to grab my attention, then alas, it’s all down hill from there! Eventually music all becomes one and there are no boundaries…(except for some very obvious exceptions!). Although Metal and Rock, Goth and Industrial are musical styles I grew up with, they are not areas that dominate my style or the way I see and try to write music myself. Yes, I listen to them in my spare time and jump around my room with it blaring away whilst playing guitar along with it as loud as possible, but it is not the main influence of what I play...to be entirely honest, I’m not really sure what is. It varies from week to week and month to month. A short time ago it was Latin and Spanish, the beautiful world of Flamenco rhythms and beats that can scare you with its complexity. Then it turned to a more jazz based sound, incorporating sudden stops and leaps of intervals. At the moment it appears to be more structured around the stylings of Eric Roche, Preston Reed, Michael Hedges (although unfortunately nowhere near as beautiful as the music that they create/have created). Apart from working and music, I just wanna have fun and enjoy myself...meet strange and interesting people who can change and distort the way you see the world around you...I think it's always good to get a different perspective....maybe sometimes you see that you were not actually looking at the whole picture...or maybe not hard enough...? ------------------------------------------------------------ -----------------
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My Interests

Interest I have other than just music consists of an array of things such art, film, more music, trees, the outdoor world, fantasy worlds and places to disappear, the secretive side of life, tiny little things,----------------------------------------------------- ------ (A video made by 'rrm', but the reason this is here is due to the piece of music used for the soundtrack...A piece called 'Fly, fly away my sadness' which is a piece of Bulgarian folk music by Angelite & Huun-Huur-Tu...Could be one of the most beautiful and trippy pieces of music ever written... ------------------------------------------------------------ -- .. (Video of Rodrigo Y Gabriella playing Stairway to Heaven.....two of my most favourite guitarists in the world and probably the best live gig I have evr seen in my life!!! If you don't know them.....get to!!! )

I'd like to meet:

Musical nuts and like minded, strange and interesting people...

People who ROCK!

J Hern

Marie

Natalie

DUNK!

Kat

Lizzie

Elsid

Cassie

Sam (the strange one!)

Rich

Mr Usher!

Becky

Alex

scVm!!!

Batty Natty

Jen

Dork Mistress!!!

Mr Au

Lee

Dan

Stan

Scottie James

Andy

Mav

Lostaura

Mike (the dude)

Jenna

Hayley

Ham

Tom (The Emperor)

Skin

Mr Steve!!!

Dib

Lewis

Eadie!!!

Andy

Flave

Ponty

Mel

Mike (Slash!)

More of those strange folk

Music:


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Click Here to Get a Drop Down List My love of styles is as vast as I can get my hands on, hence the array of influences, and there are more where that came from...I get alot of influences, thoughts and ideas from musicians that I know, whom I think have more of an effect on your life and the way you perceive everything around you than people realise...In a nutshell, I want to be able to play everything from Metal, Rock, Flamenco and Jazz right through to Latin, fusion, traditional Japanese, Chinese and Bulgarian folk. I don't know if it is greedy or too ambitious, but I feel it is a goal worth seeking...and to maybe one day be able to create music which encorporates elements of all these styles into one amalgamation of sound ? I think it's worth a shot...plus it'll be a fun and exciting journey along the way...

Movies:

I am a great lover of films and their soundtracks... I love the way cinematography and score coincide to create beautiful images... eg, the taxi scene in K-PAX, most of the film in American Beauty, the strange serenity in Ravenous, the surreal poetry of The Thin Red Line... I could go on and on...

Television:

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Books:

Not much of a reader...Want to be, but music takes over...

Heroes:

Guitarists, musicians, composers, people who question normality and anyone who actually has something to say... ------------------------------------------------------------ --


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Are we progressing? (Darwin Awards!!!)

 This is something that truly amazes me. Somehow, in a world like this, there are people in this world, who through no fault of their own, are gifted with the ability to destroy themselves and no...
Posted by MadMuffyGan (Diem) on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 08:00:00 PST