Rockband Problems

Menolly · Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 4:57 pm Post subject:

(...well...it is your thread...)

Laughing

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emotional leper · Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 4:59 pm Post subject:

No, I think this thread is unwinding in a perfectly proper fashion. Razz

Wyldewode · Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 5:06 pm Post subject:

hierachy · Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 10:12 pm Post subject:

Me and some of the other guys in Southkicks (South coast trickers) are gonna start a real band. I am the singer. I can't sing. It's gonna be awesome.

Wyldewode · Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 10:17 pm Post subject:

Best wishes, James. Very Happy

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emotional leper · Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 10:38 pm Post subject:

hierachy · Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 10:50 pm Post subject:

Haha well we are doing it for the lulz... not a serious band.

Nav · Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 10:03 am Post subject:

Sounds like my first band. We had a drummer who couldn't drum, a rhythm guitarist with no rhythm,a bass player who couldn't play without a picture of the fretboard in front of him and a virtuoso guitarist called James Dean who now lives in Paris, works as a producer and session player and is married to a supermodel (I'm not kidding either, he's a complete git!).

Not one of us could sing, but we all had a go except Dean, who was far too cool and busy writing music for us to butcher. We were called The Angry Cushion, after a cushion in Matt's house that had a paisley pattern that looked like an angry face. We recorded three albums on a four-track tape recorder and then broke up, citing musical differences, lack of motivation, wanting to work on other projects and becoming an actual successful musician, respectively.
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Cagliostro · Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 4:44 pm Post subject:

Y'know, hellfire goes a long way. For some, it goes further than real talent.

My first band was a group of people who actually could play their instruments, and I could actually sing. Problem was, we had no hellfire. I tried to incorporate a little now and again, but nobody wanted to get any more risky with music than Duran Duran covers. The hardest the guitarist wanted to go was some Cult. I kept trying to talk them into Dead Milkmen or at least some damn Ramones, but no. The keyboardist was a Mormon, and when he went on his mission, the band was over.
My problem was that I never remembered the lyrics, and for the few real gigs we did, I had lyric sheets taped to the microphone stand.

Our last gig was one after we had not practiced in many months, and I didn't bother practicing our "big hit" (that we recorded and doled out to our friends and family and some record companies to see if there was interest). I had sang it enough, and felt I knew it like the back of my hand and was bloody sick of it to boot. Of course, during the performance, I forgot the lyrics, and quickly noticed the crowd singing along, so I thrust the microphone to someone and had them sing a bit until I knew where I was lyrically, and finished the song. Everyone that I admitted this to who were there said they didn't notice a thing and thought I was just being generous to the fans rather than struggling with lyrics.
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Wyldewode · Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 8:05 pm Post subject:

We should have a Kevinswatch band. I could sing backup. . . and play clarinet if needed. Maybe the cowbell and triangles or cymbals. . . I'm quite sure I'm at least as good as Meg White. Razz

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DukkhaWaynhim · Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 8:22 pm Post subject:

Once I build my chops back up, I can play a mean trumpet.... if we go the ska direction.

dw
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Menolly · Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 8:28 pm Post subject:

I'll join ~Lyr in the back up vocals.
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Wyldewode · Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:02 pm Post subject:

Yay!

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Cagliostro · Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 11:32 pm Post subject:

I'll be happy to sing.
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Wyldewode · Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 11:33 pm Post subject:

We have a band! WOOT! Very Happy

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emotional leper · Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 1:10 am Post subject:

I'll be the guy who breaks the equipment! Razz