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Post by wiz on Sept 3, 2022 6:10:12 GMT -6
It’s one of those nights when everyone is on….the crowd is going off and you are just flying…,
And..,: we get paid for this
Cheers Wiz
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Post by bchurch on Sept 3, 2022 6:21:11 GMT -6
I've been chatting up a couple people here in NYC about doing a dadcore band - trying to align schedules is no easy feat.
Meanwhile I'm sitting on a finished record I did all by myself, just trying to find a good match for a vocalist. I don't necessarily even want to "do" anything with it. Put it on Bandcamp and Spotify, where it'll get 49 monthly listeners is fine. Nothing wrong with doing something purely for the love of doing it.
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Post by thehightenor on Sept 3, 2022 6:36:50 GMT -6
It’s one of those nights when everyone is on….the crowd is going off and you are just flying…, And..,: we get paid for this Cheers Wiz It's great isn't it :-) I have some albums I've written over the years and I got a band together to go out and gig and play the songs live. I've managed to get a couple of semi retired touring players who played with some really big well known names to join the band who play for free simply because they love the music, so that in itself has been a nice compliment and made it all really worth while. I just stand there and sing and strum my Cole Clark acoustic and they play my songs and my arrangements. When I first came to the big city I had dreams of doing a bit more with my music, but you know how it goes, got married, had kids so I had to make money as a musician doing everything under the sun including teaching music. The kids are now grown up so I get to re-visit the live band thing - it's a bit of a weekend warrior project - but better than doing nothing :-) |
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Post by gwlee7 on Sept 3, 2022 7:58:13 GMT -6
I keep toying with playing with some folks again too. I had hooked up with a couple of guys locally pre pandemic who had played and sung together for 20 years and we were doing mostly classic rock and country covers but it fell off. I just don’t have the desire to be in a “working” band anymore but I do miss playing in front of people. I have been working hard on my own singing so I am considering hitting the singer/songwriter open mic scene around DFW.
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Post by bchurch on Sept 3, 2022 8:44:55 GMT -6
I found this 8x10 (link) in a box of old keepsakes not long ago (pardon the ol' iPhone photo-of-a-photo). Circa 1996, I believe, opening up for Spoon. We were something of the local heroes, the goth and graver kids loved us. Packed house bouncing up and down going ape$hit. It was really cool for me because my parents actually came to see it. It was cool to, for a brief moment, to impress the two people who spent my entire childhood trying to talk me out of that rock-and-roll debauchery. Of all the things I miss about that life, gigging is actually the least of it. The 5000-people-going-wild shows are one thing, but living out of a van, loading your gear in and out for the fifth time in seven days to play for a shady promoter (who lost his checkbook), forty people (including the other bands), the bartenders, the town drunk, and the FOH guy (who is sometimes also the town drunk)? That I don't miss quite as much. Now, being in the control room with the mains cranked up and hearing your LP mixed for the first time? Or putting on the test pressing or CDR of your new album? Or seeing some kid you don't know wearing your band's shirt? That... that i do love. |
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Post by dok on Sept 3, 2022 10:30:36 GMT -6
Forty people!? Damn, that's a good crowd
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Post by drumsound on Sept 3, 2022 10:50:09 GMT -6
I keep saying I'm going to retire from live playing. It's such a slag most of the time. I'm really enjoying a trio I'm playing with, partially because it's percussion and I can make the gig in one trip from my Mini Cooper.
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Post by bchurch on Sept 3, 2022 11:28:17 GMT -6
I keep saying I'm going to retire from live playing. It's such a slag most of the time. I'm really enjoying a trio I'm playing with, partially because it's percussion and I can make the gig in one trip from my Mini Cooper. Heh - not easy, but thanks to years of watching my father masterfully play Tetris with the luggage on family trips, I have been able to master wedging a 4pc (24, 12, 16, 14s), plus a huge bag of hardware and cymbals (lots of cymbals) into a BMW coupe. Even better, I don't have to give anyone a ride. |
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Post by chessparov on Sept 3, 2022 12:56:02 GMT -6
It's a good way to avoid cliques too.
Chris
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Post by drumrec on Sept 3, 2022 13:01:45 GMT -6
Yeeee...I hear you Wiz! It's damn fun to sit in the studio and record/mix/produce. But live on stage with an audience is hard to beat  |
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Post by drumsound on Sept 4, 2022 0:35:49 GMT -6
I keep saying I'm going to retire from live playing. It's such a slag most of the time. I'm really enjoying a trio I'm playing with, partially because it's percussion and I can make the gig in one trip from my Mini Cooper. Heh - not easy, but thanks to years of watching my father masterfully play Tetris with the luggage on family trips, I have been able to master wedging a 4pc (24, 12, 16, 14s), plus a huge bag of hardware and cymbals (lots of cymbals) into a BMW coupe. Even better, I don't have to give anyone a ride. Impressive! Especially with a 24" BD. On this gig, I can do myself AND the band leader, with his guitar, pedalboard, anvil briefcase, and small amp in the Cooper. |
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Post by javamad on Sept 4, 2022 2:16:03 GMT -6
I am doing guitar for a studio client who wants to do some showcase gigs for the EP he just put out on vinyl from my studio.
We are now in rehearsals and its fun
I am just releasing a double LP myself and I am toying with taking it live … finding a comitted full band though seems like it might be tricky … Im in Dublin, Ireland which is pretty small. I am also thinking that a livestream performance from the studio might be an alternative …. but there would be no crowd
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Post by theshea on Sept 4, 2022 4:21:02 GMT -6
i hear ya ... my last two albums on vinyl did next to nothing due to not playing live. for a „rock“ sound/style its essential to play live.
with only online marketing not much happens. having a label did not really help.
but problem is finding like minded people who identify with the music. i always envision real bands like a gang: one style, clothes, image is important. i hate when a solo singer has to use pro player, pay them for the gigs. thats not a gang ... depends on the music off course.
i almost gave up on playing live cause the last people i‘ve tried with did not commit totally to the music. but i always feel guilty towards my albums. they are my babies, i know they are good and i know they deserve beeing played live, adding the live dimension to the studio songs ...
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Post by bchurch on Sept 4, 2022 7:59:16 GMT -6
but problem is finding like minded people who identify with the music. i always envision real bands like a gang: one style, clothes, image is important. i hate when a solo singer has to use pro player, pay them for the gigs. thats not a gang ... i almost gave up on playing live cause the last people i‘ve tried with did not commit totally to the music. My last band, for a bunch of 30/40-somethings, surprisingly was a blue-and-true "band". We rehearsed religiously, but would enjoy a few canned adult beverages and have a few laughs along the way. The bassist and I were so locked in as a rhythm section that I could tell you what he had for breakfast. Our rhythm guitarist was everything you'd want in a rhythm guitarist. Great vocal harmonies, too. It was crazy to be out 'gigging' with bands who were practically (one or two times literally) half our age and showing them that us fogies could still play, so long as we took our arthritis medication. Not sure what you'd call our sound... "power-emo"? I'm not sure why we bothered (i think for booking/promoters), but we created a quick and dirty video. Click me. |
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Post by reddirt on Sept 4, 2022 22:56:09 GMT -6
I love it - am playing bass with 2 groups at the mo. one is without a drummer but with a percussionist who has wonderful feel; the other i've been filling in for is a group doing 60's covers and they have a drummer.
My biggest caveat as an audio engineer is when they aren't listening to their relative balances , most particularly the band with drums in a crap room - I almost tear my hair out finding it difficult to truly play.
Cheers, Ross
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