ryan133417 + Musician in Edmonton, AB

SEEKING

ABOUT

oh? i can write a novel as my bio?? don't mind if i do.....

first off, i hate practicing and i think it's for lunatics with no musical direction.
i'm kidding obviously. practice means getting better at what you do, and practice because you'll actually get really good if you do. the trick is to play the exact same thing a thousand times over and over way past the point of being tired of playing at and a bit past the point of not thinking about what you are playing.

second, i don't think technical proficiency is as important as most musicians claim it is.
i'm joking i actually think the more technical you can be the more you are able to showcase your musical diversity and talent when you need to, to let other people really like what you are playing and really stand behind you as a fan of yours.

third, i am a pop artist. those around me think i am just some underground indie artist scribbling away at some cheap progression for 26 minutes like Can or Stereolab or ALL or The Strawberry Alarm Clock or The Necks or James Chance And The Contortionists and sometimes i am, but more accurately i am a catchy hook lingering at the top of the pops trying to cling in a 2-and-a-quarter-minute-long masterpiece proto-hard-rock like the Kinks the Beatles the Hollies or Nazz or Someone Like The Small Faces.
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so here we go~

mostly, on my own time with music, i screw around with my own jizz jazz jamboree playhouses in a very serious girlschool model fashion using my own not-so-custom setup of an un-updated mac computer from 2014 and roughly drafted cell phone recordings. for album art i use my own pics from my phone or, actually, very often, just random photos that are likely copyrighted i found on google for an awful minimalism thumbnail art experience. unfortunately i don't think i'll ever change. fortunately it knickers my nookers.

i am always on tour, by the way, and i never take no for an answer. in fact, i never stop performing. ever.

i have 0 experience as a session musician however i was a super-schizoid ritalin-snorting pzychedelic pizza magnet for about 5 years. the musical experiences i have with others is when we were forming our own indie/alternative metal/post-hardcore/noise rock bands with my friends from high school in our parents' garages and basements and we didn't give a f***ing sh** about others' opinions of that. not true. we took in others' input it's just we did what we did because the music took us there.

technically, for the experimental hardcore/satanic black metal bands, we practiced and played live in a satanic anti-christian manner above ground in places like christian youth centres. we used to practice there, and when we weren't there we drove around in my soccer mom van blasting white zombie nirvana alice in chains whitechapel, megadeth mayhem my bloody valentine mindless self indulgence kitty jack off jill ministry femme fatale death from above 1979 kmfdm mdfmk type o negative bikini kill pg.99 marilyn manson and the spooky kids stuff like that and we used sharpie markers for nail polish because we were too poor to afford our own instruments we smoked lots of drugs while driving in our minivan and we mutilated chickens because there was nothing better to do in a small sleeper creeper city like cambridge. besides a rehearsal space, we didn't get (or want) help from anybody because f---- other people's lousy help, right? we made everything and recorded everything ourselves. it wasn't much, but it felt bigger than the entire world and that is pretty cool to think about.

arising from this period (2013-14), i, and a bunch of us, were high on misspent youth, slam metal, stolen gear, $2 pizza n wedges, faygo, irregularly-played double kick drums played using broken kick pedals, christian youth centres with morally corrupt ideologies, and idealistic fantasy lifestyles of bipolarityà that didn't actually exist except in our own heads, while immediately the following week we would roughly re-perform those emotionally charged exercises of wrath at a live show only one time (all we were allowed) before the band would inevitably split, reform with new members, and so on. the band i dare speak of was most prominently known as GOO but was also periodically known as Cotard Delusion and Tenderness of Wolves, and then finally, Døgma. This group centred around i (mostly on recording duties and drums with 2 broken kick pedals), and the other dude (who was always the frontman but we constantly swapped instruments and roles maybe every 5 or 10 minutes cause we would get f***ing bored as f*** otherwise), and we constantly pursued a sound that was best described as a meld of noise rock, hardcore punk, no wave, scum punk, post-hardcore, riot grrrl, sludge metal, and depressive suicidal black metal. we repeated this pattern over the span of about 2 years (2014-16) of reforming, playing live, and immediately splitting until we got bored and went our separate ways and reformed with a new lineup a few weeks later.

after this band there was another band sort of thing i was part of. it took existence over the next 2 years ish (2016-19). it was (more or less) a psychedelic acid rock band called FHOO and we played in a similarly anarcho-punk-style with strong avant-garde improvisational leanings and song structures. we were a trio, and we were a bit more directional in our approach. except a major distinction with this band was a way more drugged-out rock-n-roll version of acid mothers temple meets the doors meets can meets amon düül meets the deviants and we played in a proto-punk style like the deviants except we had no vocals and were a compleetely instrumental act with only the music itself saying what we needed to say. many of our friends got to hear us play at my place usually when we were all getting high and partying and making life a living hell for the massage parlour a floor below us. experiencing From Here On Out was like arriving in 2017 in a time machine from 1967 or something, maybe a slightly less gg allin influence although way more directionless and pointless and way more scatterbrain and ADHD-fated, but it was a ton of fun, and i would never want to go back to that ever again.

and then after i moved out of that hole in the wall circa March 2019 i ended FHOO for good and endured a more solo adventure in that on december 28 2019 i released Vaper and started the modern equivalent of a solo career, except it wasn't a career, obviously it was just the modern equivalent of that, whatever that is. on October 19 2020 i released Dada Bass (at first under the moniker Dada Bass but i later changed the artist name to Worthy of Sin for organizational reasons), and it was a big step for me in terms of songwriting and production capabilities. it was during this era (early 2020 until mid 2020) that i developed my singing for what we now know it as through all my other bands (Spheroid, Isoscelex, Organisationer, Nacadamia Nutcase, Worthy of Sin, Concerter, Marty Walmrow & His Bucket Friends). and that is where we stand today.

i think, overall, all of my music groups formed and did what we did basically 'cause we were captivated by the music we heard and wanted to replicate some part of that beauty to other (young) people in our community... none of my bands sold any records. that wasn't the point. the point was to do what we wanted because we could. we made albums, using our own effort and nobody else's help, and that is certainly an accomplishment by anyone's standards. it's surely an accomplishment to even play music, good or bad, together, to say the least.

Oh yeah you should check out my "only i" bands =__=
They are on Bandcamp (if you search from the home page)
Isoscelex
Spheroid (search up "Spheroid Earache")
Organisationer
and,
Nacadamia Nutcase ...but let's face it, not even the hounds of hell could put up with this one. i'd steer clear from this cult if you were smart.

My OLD bands:
Queer Mallets (you will only find one result)
From Here On Out (search up "Elite & The Gloss Laminate King")
GOO (search up "Uncle Ryan's F***house")
Unintelligent Dance Music (search up "UDMEP")

Screen name:

ryan133417

Member since:

Nov 20 2023

Active over 1 month ago

Level of commitment:

Touring

Years playing music:

25

Gigs played:

Under 10

Influences

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1j
Oj
Oil
Qx
Os
Ott
Om
Coil
Oval
Offal
Beck
Index
Ari Up
The Go
Terminal
The Slits
The Move
Nick Lowe
Mercury Rev
Birthday Party
Revolting Cocks
Wrong Decisions
Happy Mondays
The Screamers
Dead Rabbits
F*ck Buttons
F*cked Up!
F*CK OFF
EDITORS
The Snips
Elton John
Yo La Tengo
Elvis Presley
Fear Factory
Fats Domino
Fallen Angels
Youth of Death
Depeche Mode
Daisy Chainsaw
Happy Mondays
The Jesus Lizards
The Jesus & Mary Chains
Teenage Jesus & The Jerks
Jigsaw Jesus & The Spunks
The Switchblade Symphonys
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
The High Priests of Doomsday
The Electric Yardstick People
The Strawberry Switchblade
The LCD Soundsystems
The Dream Syndicates
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The Soup Dragons
Neutral Milk Hotel
The Heated Forks
The Silver Apples
The Young Gods
Diamanda Galás
Crystal Castles
The Breeders
The Big Fags
The Cramps
The Necks
45 Grave
SWANS
LHOOQ
SUUNS
KINKS
MARS
EELS
DNA
Rev
Art
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Instrument experience:

Acoustic Guitar:

Beginner

EQUIPMENT

an acoustic 6string Epi with 3 year old strings
aaand these instruments are strictly for my at-home usage:
-a deep red with custom-painted (by my fellow bassist friend) matte blue pickguard p-bass
-a poorly maintained, kids-sticker-fashioned 2000s starcaster also with old strings but I could change them if i wanted to but why bother if it still functions (also it was thrung off a stage and sexually raped during a couple particular live shows) !
-and a fender bass amp i bought off amazon
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oh, and a harmonica
P.S. i am always most avail = able when the time is right.
Thank-you and good-bye.

MUSIC