General Music Chat

I understand most people join bandmix for a quick find. They get a gig and forget about it.

But many of us use bandmix to fill positions. And when you send out 5 invites that are marked looking for a band, and they all come back "thanks but I have found something" it get frustrating. It takes away the use of bandmix as a legit tool.

Please update your profiles.

Regards

NickT

At least you got responses!

I saw that you were wanting to have a guitar band. I always thought it would be a blast to be in a band with two guitars a steel and bass.

I used to really love the old instrumental days when guitar was first coming into its own. Before that I wanted to play clarinet. I bought one and tried to take music class but they said I was tone deaf and wouldn't let me take music. Many years later I ended up with a $12 Stella acoustic guitar and it stuck.

Good luck with finding the musicians that you can actually use to make your dream band.

Slacker

A thousand years ago, give or take a decade, I too got my first guitar. It was like yours - a Stella acoustic. I paid five bucks and two hits of speed for mine. Plus the seller taught me to play 'Shady Grove.' A pretty good deal eh?

Talbot

Slacker

A thousand years ago, give or take a decade, I too got my first guitar. It was like yours - a Stella acoustic. I paid five bucks and two hits of speed for mine. Plus the seller taught me to play 'Shady Grove.' A pretty good deal eh?

Talbot

Better deal than mine was. When I took the Stella back to the ship I realized that I didn't know how to play anything at all.

I had made a transmitter for a flat top picker on my ship. He couldn't hear his guitar on the fantail because of the ship prop noise, but he asked me if I could make it so he could use his AM radio as an amplifier.

I knew how to make an AM transmitter out of a couple caps a coil a couple resistors and a transistor. I modulated it with a crystal microphone. When I put it in his flat top, he could tune it into a dead spot on his AM radio and hear his guitar loud and clear. He absolutely loved it, and so did I.

It worked so good that I just had to make one for myself. Then, after getting back to the ship I realized I couldn't play a single note.

I had a kind old blues dude on the ship teach me a couple of lines to "Honky Tonk". When I had managed to get that down, I completely forgot about making a transmitter in my Stella. I was so thrilled that I could play part of a song I just kept learning other songs.

After a while I went to a music store to get something easier to play since the Stella would cut into my fingers and make them bleed.... even after I had calluses. My fingers tips just kept splitting open, and I would hold them over my Zippo lighter to seal the wounds, then I would begin learning again. I ended up buying a Melody Maker single pickup guitar. That was so easy to play by comparison that I began learning much faster. One day the electrical shop got flooded with bilge tank goo. An oil based cream that kept the salt water from eating out the ships ballast tanks.

Knowing that the salt water would mess up the electronics, I cleaned everything inside and out and checked it. It was OK, but I wanted something else so I traded it in with a a bushel basket of cash for a real guitar.

I still have that guitar. It is an ES 355 LTD with a custom Trini Lopez varitone installed in it. I bought it brand new in 1960 from Apex Music in downtown San Diego Californication.

I never did make any of my guitars wireless like I did his, but I don't care.

I think the "looking for band" option should be auto-deselected after a week of inactivity. Serious lookers will be hounding their page until they find someone and once found, too busy to visit the page again (?)

Slacker

Wow - I remember that Trini Lopez model. I was a fan of Trini and Johnny Rivers too, back in the day.

I never could move around on those 335 necks but damn they are great guitars.

Talbot