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So you've sat at home for years learning juggling tricks, and consider yourself a pretty good musician. Then wonder why it is so hard to start or find a band?

Is it your personality, politics, or procrastination.

I know a an amazing musician that would seemingly be an asset to a band, but his keeping to himself over the years made him like a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs, in a group or............... on a stage.

There is one thing kids with 3 years together practicing have that he doesn't have.

Sometimes its not about talent
Some people just arent cut out for the musician life

True story - I used to play with a cat named Taylor Taliffero (pronounced Tolliver)

Somewhere along the way, he took a motorcyle trip to central America, got lost, got sick, was befriended and nursed back to health by a bizarre tribe of stone age type Indians.

Short version - when he got back home, he played naked. Good keyb player, good songwriter and passable singer. But he played naked...

Somehow, I didn't see that going anywhere.

Talbot

LMAO ........ Mike That's pretty good trying to get comfortable sometimes is difficult.
Some folks want to get married it seems, some it's a very traumatic experience, others would rather not jump in the cold water.

Friend once said a group of musicians in a town we lived in lacked kinship it had become a competition. To play with others well you have to do just that.
Very little reality in many rock n roll fantasies, few people fit the parts one creates in the mind. Lots of patience .


I?m very active. I?m restless. I can?t stand feelin? bored. I got more guts than I got talent, but I got enough talent to back it up. -Dolly Parton

A musicians life... Typically ... Drugs or Alcohol or both, Whores, Fights, No possessions, Always broke, and gear is always subject to theft. When a kid realizes that its anything but the glory he/she sees on the TV, that's when I reckon the cold feet sets in...

Dog

I want some of that! But you left out guys who don't show for work, cops who hate musicians and women who want to change you for your own good.

Talbot

Hummm


Guys whom don't show for work ... have no job / gig / band er whatever ...
Woman whom stays with you for thirty years both good and bad.
Cops don't write me tickets because I'm a nurse or they or their fathers studied martial arts with me.

My goodness ... I'm boring ...

Hummm


Guys whom don't show for work ... have no job / gig / band er whatever ...
Woman whom stays with you for thirty years both good and bad.
Cops don't write me tickets because I'm a nurse or they or their fathers studied martial arts with me.

My goodness ... I'm boring ...

. I like your kind of boring. I respect it.

We're all boring now gentlemen but maybe not so boring when we were young. As I told my stepson - the police target the young guys.

He thought that was terribly unfair but I told him, no - young guys cause much of the sh*t plus they're dumb and easily caught!

Now he is quite as boring as you guys - as me even!


Age makes a difference. My brother once threw up on a cop's shoes at Alex Cooley's Electric Ballroom in Atlanta. We'd just seen Montrose and were drunk. My brother looked up at the cop and said, "Sorry pal..."

He let us go. Everybody loved that story then. But now - I doubt we'd tell it. I think that is a good thing but I'm not totally sure.

Talbot

Speak for yourself, I'm 52 going
on a 102, I feel young, and alive,
and a lot smarter.

LMAO

I love kids. No feeling in the playing they actually do.

Chromatic slides galore. (wow, such great musicianship) Tricks, flips, chicks and dips. (whips, chains and mary janes)

They get a little nervous and suddenly they are a no show at your gig du jour.


Children are fabulous, just slice them thin and cook them hard because you know those little shits are wormy just like wild pig meat..lol

Nah, give me the old and ugly. The play like mfers and then take a 2 min break to do it again. At the end you'll look around and maybe it's you that supplied the least effort to get something that is more a sum of it's parts.

The ugly ones fing rock, the old ones been doing it for 50+ years longer than you and the young ones can go watch disney channel/miley cyrus and taylor swift.

"Always better to sound professional than to be professional".

My post is a crazy post I'll admit it

At 53 I've just started to lose my mind.

To dig the hole deeper

It symbolizes my frustration with Youngsters and Noodlers.

I know the age on the profile says 21 Ivans idea I'm not sure what he's thinking other than we're looking for a younger drummer over 21........... our ages are 23,24,27,53 and in my humble opinion both the girls sound like Yoko Ono, but they're easy on the eyes. Kind of Walt Disney/Quentin Tarantino/Adams Family.

Funny how after years of devotion to playing and performing I've become the leader of such a really strange band.

AyrTrayn

Please keep us posted on your progress with this band. Are you doing original material?

I'm interested because I'm thinking along similar lines. I got a bit disillusioned after playing with a number of people my age over the last year or so. They seemed well, old!.

I'd like to find some talented young players looking for original material and insight into how to actually make a band work - it's harder than it looks!

Young and ready to take some chances. In my dream outfit I play bass and guitar with them until I start to get senile - then pass the torch. By then they'll know the drill and be writing lots of material.

But I'll take older guys too long as they don't act like it's time to head home and fix a cup of tea and watch some telivision. Old and crazy is good. (I have to think that)

Talbot

I'm aold guy Talbot but I'd have to
head home and get a glass of wine,
and play classic 70s love songs on
my piano.

AyrTrayn

Please keep us posted on your progress with this band. Are you doing original material?

I'm interested because I'm thinking along similar lines. I got a bit disillusioned after playing with a number of people my age over the last year or so. They seemed well, old!.

I'd like to find some talented young players looking for original material and insight into how to actually make a band work - it's harder than it looks!

Young and ready to take some chances. In my dream outfit I play bass and guitar with them until I start to get senile - then pass the torch. By then they'll know the drill and be writing lots of material.

But I'll take older guys too long as they don't act like it's time to head home and fix a cup of tea and watch some telivision. Old and crazy is good. (I have to think that)

Talbot

I will share what I can, there's that thing of intellectual rights. The stuff posted on our profile is original, sans the sound effects. Hangman is actually two songs just thrown together to have something to share. I'll start another thread to share how we do up a tune. The kids in the group actually are inspiring, and can give a wider appeal. I want to finish my career with something that don't end. Being on TV is better than watching it.