Originally Posted by: guitarjanei have just got a band together, trouble is we love loads of different kinds of music, for example, i like chris rea, bon jovi(sometimes), greenday, alkaline trio, queen.

Why do you need to know what genre to play? Just play the music you like, and make up your own material. If it doesn't sound like anything else, you've created your own genre. My band has its own genre. We call it fish-jesus-lamp-fan-gamecube or something like that.