My Band

[henrah]

We are called Question The Leopard and consist of Pete on Guitar, Charlie on Drums and Me on Keyboard. You can listen to some of our music here: Question The Leopard on Myspace.

The first 3 tracks (Strike the Center, Boredom and Tomorrow We Run Faster) are from a live set we did at the end of January at Riff's Bar near Swindon. My personal favourites are Boredom (the way Pete sings really adds to the piece, especially if you know what he's singing about ) and Tomorrow We Run Faster - this is my absolute favourite. We leave the length of the gaps in Tomorrow entirely up to the drummer, and anything during them is completely improvised. The opening was improvised (all we said to each other was to build it up) up to me playing the arpeggio, and the last two things I played at the end were improvised too. We do a lot of improvising, especially when live, it's great fun Nearly all of Pete's guitar in Tomorrow was improvised, only a couple of places does he play the same thing every time. I think he did great during that track, it sounded way better than any practice we've done


I hope you like our music,
Henrah of QTheL

[lichristine]

my band just broke up.

[steve jones]

I was in a band, once upon a time. It made me realise why I have to be a solo act, lol.

Henrah, will check out your work mate when I get a mo. Perhaps we could collab? Im a guitarist, sound designer, engineer.... etc! Might be fun?

SJ

[thalbergmad]

If you ever need someone on the banjo, just give me a call.

Thal

[steve jones]

If you ever need to buy one, call me! 

SJ

[thalbergmad]

Bought one Monday old chap.

Always interested if you have one for sale.

Thal

[steve jones]

Can get you bonza deal on a vintage Vega 

SJ

[thalbergmad]

4 or 5 string?

Thal

[ahinton]

4 or 5 string?

Thal

Five, for sure. Oh, hang on a minute - you're not talking about the double bass here, are you? Sorry!...

Oh - and by the way, I note your current sign-off
"I am going to burn in the fires of hell, for i am a non-believer."

Has it occurred to you what will happen if enough people get too righteous and don't end up there? Well, let me tell you - you're gonna get REALLY cold, because there simply won't be enough people there to stoke up those fires.

Anyway, what nonsense you write here, Thal! Do you believe in the piano? Do you believe in the great pianist/composers (or at least some of them)? If the answer to either or both is in the affirmative, what business do you have in describing yourself as a "non-believer"?

Go and do some piano practice! Go on! NOW!

Best,

Alistair

[steve jones]

4 or 5 string?

Thal

Four.

My family own a shop which usually stocks imported vintage frets. We have some really rare stuff actually! An old Gibson harp guitar... errr, a five neck ZZ Top custom axe!

They usually have atleast five or six OLD bangos in. Usually four string tenor, but sometimes the bluegrass ones too. The are not as pretty as the new ones, but you can almost smell the heritige (or perhaps thats just mold?  ).

SJ

[thalbergmad]

Very interesting old chap.

Is there a website?

Now, where is me credit card.

Thal

[thalbergmad]

Go and do some piano practice! Go on! NOW!

Best,

Alistair

Too involved in my banjo work at the moment old boy.

Thal

[ahinton]

Too involved in my banjo work at the moment old boy.

Thal

OK, but how many of Thalberg's works have you so far transcribed for the banjo, young lad? Just curious. I mean, if it is (as indeed it was) possible to transcribe the closing scene from Richard Strauss's Salome for piano solo (as Sorabji did - and the evidence will be provided at St. John's Smith Square on the evening of Friday 22 June3 2007 by Jonathan Powell), then your banjolic sky is the (giddy) limit, surely? And failing a Thalberg transcription, what about you exercising your compositional skills on a set of variations on a Pennsylvanian (as opposed to Transylvanian) folk theme?...

Best,

Alistair

[steve jones]

Very interesting old chap.

Is there a website?

Now, where is me credit card.

Thal

There sure is my good man:

https://www.mir-sales.co.uk/recon.php#l3

Looks like they just sold a Windsor 5 string. And as the law of the sod would have it, that was the only vintage banjo in.

Infact, the recon stock looks pretty low, full stop 

SJ

[thalbergmad]

Nice, i will add that to my favourites.

If you ever get a left handed Gibson 335, please give me a tinkle.

Thal

[thalbergmad]

OK, but how many of Thalberg's works have you so far transcribed for the banjo, young lad? Just curious. I mean, if it is (as indeed it was) possible to transcribe the closing scene from Richard Strauss's Salome for piano solo (as Sorabji did - and the evidence will be provided at St. John's Smith Square on the evening of Friday 22 June3 2007 by Jonathan Powell), then your banjolic sky is the (giddy) limit, surely? And failing a Thalberg transcription, what about you exercising your compositional skills on a set of variations on a Pennsylvanian (as opposed to Transylvanian) folk theme?...

Best,

Alistair

I take it you will not present for Mr Powells concert on 24th Feb.

Perhaps because there are no Pizza Huts in the vicinity.

Thal

[ahinton]

I take it you will not present for Mr Powells concert on 24th Feb.

Perhaps because there are no Pizza Huts in the vicinity.

Thal

Sadly, I cannot make it to that, although I do, of course, know about it and hope very much that it goes well (as I'm sure it will); the absence of Pizza Huts in the vicinity of Sevenoaks has absolutely nothing to do with my unfortunately certain absence from that event, by the way (and whatever gave you such an idea in the first place, anyway?!...).

I understand that you will be going yourself, so do enjoy!

Best,

Alistair

[henrah]

QTheL should get a banjo in! My friend has an accordion, tis quite fun to play around on

Any comments on the music?
Henrah

[steve jones]

Nice, i will add that to my favourites.

If you ever get a left handed Gibson 335, please give me a tinkle.

Thal

Absolutely!

Though Id imagine you could do a Jimmy on one of those pretty easy - the body is almost perfectly symetrical. Im not sure if the truss rod would be an issue though.

SJ

[thalbergmad]

OK, but how many of Thalberg's works have you so far transcribed for the banjo

None thus far, although the tarantelle has possibilities.

Thalberg was presented with a banjo on his tour of the United States in 1855 (i think).

By all accounts, it appears that he indeed became a rather good player.

Thal