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Post by Martin John Butler on Jun 22, 2018 7:45:41 GMT -6
I just love the idea of a band rehearsing a bit and recording together. Hopefully I'll get back to that someday. Multi-tracking at home is fun and interesting, it's very creative too, but it's not the same energy as when you have to stand and deliver on the spot.
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Post by Guitar on Jun 22, 2018 8:03:32 GMT -6
I just love the idea of a band rehearsing a bit and recording together. Hopefully I'll get back to that someday. Multi-tracking at home is fun and interesting, it's very creative too, but it's not the same energy as when you have to stand and deliver on the spot. I'm right there with you, Martin. Being in a band is something I desperately crave right now, but I'm sort of beset with the memories of all the bad experiences I've had in the past. Specifically, every full-sized band I've ever been in has had at least one narcissistic personality included and that's something I never want to deal with again.
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Post by Martin John Butler on Jun 22, 2018 8:10:02 GMT -6
Hopefully with maturity, musicians can get back to the original impulse to just play with other friends. I would start a band in a minute if members didn't have to be paid. I'm also not against guys getting paid, they deserve it, but I also feel it's good for the soul to play something close to the kind of music you really love with other people.
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Post by Bob Olhsson on Jun 22, 2018 8:46:51 GMT -6
The talent is not different but the amount of actual stage experience is far less than back in the days when high school kids could earn more than a week's minimum wage every weekend playing music if they were good enough.
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Post by Martin John Butler on Jun 22, 2018 8:52:16 GMT -6
Yep. For a little while when I was 16 years old, I made $80 a night every Saturday when I had a residency at a Jazz & Blues club, Dodger's Bar in downtown Brooklyn. That's $532 in today's money. Really. I also had a part time job during the week. I paid for my rehearsal space, equipment, transportation and clothes then too, and got quite a bit of stage experience as well.
First thing I learned, get my act together fast or I might get my ass kicked. These were discerning music aficionados and I was a white guy in a black neighborhood in a mixed race band playing blues rock, which was risky and uncommon then. It would have been insulting to the music tradition and the audience if I didn't make my best effort.
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Post by happychap on Jun 24, 2018 14:45:01 GMT -6
There are a ton of super talented acts today- from Lake Street Dive to The Wood Brothers, let's not get all 'when I was a kid' without having any depth of knowledge of who's out there making great records and a decent living.
Putting down other musicians is not cool. How would any of you like it?
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Post by Guitar on Jun 24, 2018 14:50:56 GMT -6
There are a ton of super talented acts today- from Lake Street Dive to The Wood Brothers, let's not get all 'when I was a kid' without having any depth of knowledge of who's out there making great records and a decent living. Putting down other musicians is not cool. How would any of you like it? It does get a little bit like that. Honestly I'm flabbergasted by how many "young artists" I know absolutely nothing about. It's like every spring there's a bunch of new plants coming up in the yard and you're like, what the hell is all that.
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Post by happychap on Jun 24, 2018 15:09:04 GMT -6
Not all of them are young.
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Post by Mister Chase on Jun 30, 2018 15:45:36 GMT -6
LSD is great.
(Lake Street Dive)
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