Introduction Hello at last

[progger]

I suppose it took me long enough, but after a couple decades on "the other one," I'm finally here. Hello! I love the relatively old-school-internet forum platform and I've enjoyed and appreciated Mr. Thomas' writings and perspectives for many years. I'm very glad that this site is here, and with the increasingly bewildering changes happening elsewhere, I'm looking forward to reading and writing in a community where the folks in charge are clearly more in-touch with actual human musicians.

A few of you may know me and/or my work, but let's see if I can make a concise summary. I'm a career composer/arranger, saxophonist, and pianist/keyboardist, and I've had the good fortune of working with a number of well-known artists (the best-known of the bunch probably being Bruno Mars, the Black Pumas, Adrian Quesada, Snarky Puppy, and Brian Newman). My own artistic ambitions are reasonably well represented by my band jazz-funk-rock fusion band, Progger, which has occupied most of my mental and financial energy for the past dozen years or so. I've also enjoyed writing and producing music for TV, podcasts, indie film, and indie games from time to time.

If for some odd reason the reader wants to know more, here's my website with a bio and whatnot.

Cheers!

 

[Jeanette]

Welcome to the café looking forward to hearing more from you.

Have fun here

Jx

 

[Pete Thomas]

Thank you for the kind words - Big welcome from me, also been a media composer for many years now.

 

[PaulC]

Welcome!

 

[Ghr9204]

Welcome to the forum, @progger ! Took a quick look at your website, enjoyed listening to your preview of Distopia. Look forward to your further posts and participation!

 

[Tenor Viol]

Hi, welcome.

 

[BUMNOTE]

Hi,welcome great bunch of people on here and very helpful. I am still a practicing martial artist,from age of 17,what style of Kung Fu do you practice.

 

[sax panther]

Welcome - I was watching your progger videos on the other site a few hours ago!

 

[MikeMorrell]

Big welcome from me in NL too, @progger

Like @ghostler, I (very) quickly took a look at the band and your websites. I'm looking forward to exploring them.

Mike

 

[Dr G]

Hey, Brian. Welcome.

Here’s a shoutout for Progger the band, too. I enjoyed hearing you in Santa Fe. It’s been a while and I am happy to learn that you and band are releasing new music.

 

[progger]

Hey, Brian. Welcome.

Here’s a shoutout for Progger the band, too. I enjoyed hearing you in Santa Fe. It’s been a while and I am happy to learn that you and band are releasing new music.

Thank you sir! Can't believe how long ago that was, must be almost a decade. I'm thrilled that we're back in action again, although I'm not sure how much we're gonna be able to tour – most of us are married and/or have kids and/or mortgages these days, and we're often busy as sidemen with artists much bigger than ourselves (for which I'm supremely grateful, to be sure). But I'm very excited about this next record and I'm hoping it opens the door for some more traveling around the country, maybe across the pond too, smashing our little smashy ideas on our instruments.

So far, I have to say, I'm finding this forum alarmingly preferable, glad to be here. I miss the old-school internet dearly, we grew up together.

 

[Ghr9204]

So far, I have to say, I'm finding this forum alarmingly preferable, glad to be here. I miss the old-school internet dearly, we grew up together.

I considered the "old-school" Internet more preferrable, which the Café savours the flavour of.

I think it may have been Geocities, there were others, but I found groups of organisations that I used to be a member of. It was good to touch bases with such folk. The organisations would show up, but AFAIK the contents were password protected from search engines, so there was a sense of privacy.

Social media does not have the same level of camaradery. Plus, they had sections where information could be archived. Threads in SM are here today, gone tomorrow, based more on popularity than IMO ordinary civil communication.