General Music Chat

a) How old were you the first time you jammed with some kind of band or combo?

b) How old were you when you decided it was something you wanted to continue doing?

c) How old were you when you did your first gig? Your 100th gig?

d) How old were you when you decided you wanted to be professional OR decided it wasn't the career path you wanted to take? (There can be multiple answers for this one)

e) Was there one thing that caused you to give up on "the dream" you started out with?

Was around twenty when I started playing with bands. Kingston Bass and Silvertone amp. (not a match made in heaven by the way) Had a Mosrite (remember the Ventures?) knock off that I used for six string and of course, my Strella.

Went pro pretty soon after that and continued on with it culminating in LA and having a blast.

Had played my 100 easy by the time I got married around 40 and tried to go bourgeois but failed and kept writing, then after 12 years I started playing in bands again.

I still play in bands. Ultimately I guess we are who we are.

Talbot

Not trying to jack your thread Ted but do you remember the first SONG you ever played to an audience?? Mine was 'Jambalaya' by Hank Williams (alias Luke The Drifter).

Mine was "Your Cheatin' Heart"

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Was around twenty when I started playing with bands. Kingston Bass and Silvertone amp. (not a match made in heaven by the way) Had a Mosrite (remember the Ventures?) knock off that I used for six string and of course, my Strella.

Went pro pretty soon after that and continued on with it culminating in LA and having a blast.

Had played my 100 easy by the time I got married around 40 and tried to go bourgeois but failed and kept writing, then after 12 years I started playing in bands again.

I still play in bands. Ultimately I guess we are who we are.

Talbot

Wow, 20?

I don't know anyone who started that late...sort of why I was asking.


keep 'em coming.

I put sex and drugs ahead of rock and roll initially. But I caught up.

Talbot

a) How old were you the first time you jammed with some kind of band or combo? 18, I was a late bloomer.

b) How old were you when you decided it was something you wanted to continue doing? 18, I knew right away.

c) How old were you when you did your first gig? Your 100th gig? 23 first gig, 35 or so 100th.

d) How old were you when you decided you wanted to be professional OR decided it wasn't the career path you wanted to take? (There can be multiple answers for this one) I was taking music classes in college when I decided I wanted to keep music as my main hobby. It doesn't pay enough.

e) Was there one thing that caused you to give up on "the dream" you started out with? I'm living the dream.

I would have guessed you had a rocking punk band by age 15. So at age 18 you knew immediately and then took music lessons in college? Even though you knew you didn't want it to be more than a serious hobby?


Mark, how old were you when you started your education?

Jeff, my guess is you were playing as a young teenager in Houston.

I put sex and drugs ahead of rock and roll initially. But I caught up.

Talbot

Doesn't everyone?

a) How old were you the first time you jammed with some kind of band or combo?

Other guitarists? 15
Bass, drums, guitar? 17

b) How old were you when you decided it was something you wanted to continue doing?

Teens

c) How old were you when you did your first gig? Your 100th gig?

No gigs after high school marching/ concert/ jazz band.

d) How old were you when you decided you wanted to be professional OR decided it wasn't the career path you wanted to take? (There can be multiple answers for this one)

Professional? Yeah, I wish!

e) Was there one thing that caused you to give up on "the dream" you started out with?

Couldn't write music when I was younger. Wasn't very good, either. Lots of drugs around and not great people. They all formed a jam band when I split and I never found the players I sought.

a) How old were you the first time you jammed with some kind of band or combo? 12

b) How old were you when you decided it was something you wanted to continue doing? 12

c) How old were you when you did your first gig? Your 100th gig? First: 14, 100th? 20ish

d) How old were you when you decided you wanted to be professional OR decided it wasn't the career path you wanted to take? (There can be multiple answers for this one)

26 was a turning point for me. Bandmates were drugged out, we had a really crappy recording contract offer that looked more like slavery, married with one kid. I chose to keep music as my passion, not my livelihood.

e) Was there one thing that caused you to give up on "the dream" you started out with?

I have always been in it for the music, never the "big score".

a) 11-12 - I shouted the 'second verse, same as the first' line and played tambourine for an older guy who had an electric guitar on Herman's Hermits "Henry the VIII', set up facing out of his garage door, and all the neighborhood girls came flocking.
b) 15
c) 16. Never bothered to keep count.
d) 16 but reality took hold.
e) dreams are just that - dreams. Live in the real, not the virtual.

Actually I had been taking college music classes for a couple of years when I decided I would not pursue it as a career.

I actually wanted to be a musician,

So there was a time when you considered it....

an English teacher

That explains why you're so picky about "can not"

But my father told me there was no money in those pursuits and said computers were the future, so I went into CIS. Thanks dad!

What does one do in "CIS"?

d) 16 but reality took hold.
e) dreams are just that - dreams. Live in the real, not the virtual.

Really hate to hear you say that. Dreams can come true.