I used to play guitar quite a bit. I also used to create a lot of industrial music using my computer with a whole host of techniques that ranged from sampling and messing with random non-sound binary files, writing programs to generate sounds, sample munging, and plain old recording. I was also in a metal band somewhere late in high school. We played around at local clubs (Worcester/Boston, MA), and released a tiny album that went nowhere. I did the lead guitar, some of the remastering, and a lot of the sampling that made it onto the record.

We broke up, and I dropped the guitar in favor of a keyboard. (I had dropped the keyboard in favor of the guitar mid-high school, so I was technically "returning to my roots.")

A couple weeks back, I picked up the guitar again. I gave most of my recording and guitar equipment to my brother (I saved a guitar and small amp for myself). So I went to Guitar Center and picked up a Cry Baby and Metal Box. I also still have the Acid and Sound Forge software (a couple versions behind now), so I'm a one man band again.

It's refreshing to strum away in an attempt to relearn the scales and random tabs I used to know by heart. And I'm hoping to create some more industrial tunes. The recent NiN release, I think, reminded me of how fun this can be.