jimmydanger wrote:Fair enough Mike, maybe he does come off as unprepared and posted a profile picture outside the norm of what people expect a musician to look like here. But calling it gay, even jokingly, was unfair; that could be said of most of the profile pictures posted here, even yours. The point is we veterans should try to help and encourage those at the beginning of their journey, not run them down. And if someone has no music posted GET OVER IT. What if a music fan wanted to post on this forum, would you run him off for having no music as well?
Well, I wasn't the first to comment on the picture - Scotty was: "Change that pic, it looks like that kid is performing fellatio on you or vice versa.. lol Oh that is sooooooo bad. Why does one post a pic of two guys in swimwear? Ewwwwww.. Bad planning, people.. lol".
I tried to give the guy a little advice, to start with.
If a fan joins this forum (not sure why they would, but anyway...) of course no one is going to say anything about them not posting music.
Since I started searching for some music partners, I have found that its a pretty fair way of judging abilities. Way back when, I was using the old 'two cassette deck' method to bounce tracks, or just recording with the built-in mics on a cassette boombox. Yeah, the sound sucked, but it got the song ideas across enough for the other band members to be able to learn the songs.
Today, anyone with a computer and a cheap USB mic (or a video camera, or a phone for that matter) can record songs and there's a million places to put them up online for free.