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#29230 by Prevost82
Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:33 pm
Sorry jw123 for the misunderstanding ....
Ron

#29283 by fisherman bob
Sat Apr 19, 2008 4:45 am
Hey Captain Scott, thanks for the compliment "wise man bob." Actually I may be an idiot but I'm no fool. Later...

#29301 by HowlinJ
Sat Apr 19, 2008 1:45 pm
Yo Bob,

Not to get to far off topic, but I have two questions to put to ya',(excuse my noseyness)

1) Did the BlueTuna Band ever find a guitarplayer?

2) does Kansas have "First day of trout season", and if it does, did ya' catch anything?

Howlin'

#29349 by fisherman bob
Sun Apr 20, 2008 3:54 am
1) The Bluefin Tuna Band has NOT found a guitar player. I'm about ready to give up on finding one and hire a sax player instead.

2) There is no trout season in Kansas because there is virtually no trout in Kansas. There's a few put and take ponds where they have a weekend closed for fishing at that pond. I have caught a few trout in Kansas but it's not the same as fishing the Musconetcong or Big Flatbrook. It's basically put and take, and if the trout are not caught right away they die in the Summer (it gets hotter here than New Jersey). Trout can't survive in muddy water when the temperature soars.

#29383 by Irminsul
Sun Apr 20, 2008 9:21 pm
Bob you should be here....we have guitarists crawling out of the eaves! What's always in demand are bass players and drummers, though...presumably because those are traditionally lower visibility positions.

#29441 by philbymon
Mon Apr 21, 2008 3:02 pm
Damn, Irm! I should be there! Around here I keep tripping over bassists & drummers & I can't find a lead player for my rockabilly band!

I hate this place for music, but I love living here for other reasons.

#29448 by The Hunter
Mon Apr 21, 2008 4:19 pm
Everybody who can even play an instrument half decently in Spring Tx are either too busy or bullshit flakes.

#29451 by gbheil
Mon Apr 21, 2008 4:30 pm
Good God Hunt, There have got to be thousands of musicians within 50 to 100 miles of you down there. What gives?

#32739 by JazzGtr
Fri May 30, 2008 4:13 pm
Bands like all unions are built on common needs at the time. Take marriages, a band is no different, when those commons needs are fulfilled, the band has no purpose. The last thing I need is another family borrowing my stuff, _ucking it up and then giving it back to me 9 months later without telling me he or she broke the damn thing. And the notion of replacing the item is not their problem. Who needs this crap in a band. Another problem with being in a band is having different educational, social and financial backgrounds.

Envy is the root of all evil.

Peace baby! 8)

#32753 by gtZip
Fri May 30, 2008 6:22 pm
sanshouheil wrote:Good God Hunt, There have got to be thousands of musicians within 50 to 100 miles of you down there. What gives?


You guys do realize that "If youre gonna play in Texas, ya gotta have a fiddle in the band".
Right?
#32813 by Chippy
Sat May 31, 2008 7:08 pm
I'm a newb to this place but not music. I've found several problems with bands but not all are easily solved.

After all we are all individuals and from I've seen in the last 25 and more years is expression being dealt with a blow.

Good bands thrive on expression no matter what instrument you play. A musician must be allowed space to move and do what he thinks best.

There are other instances too where there is already a game plan in place such as studio work but mainstream playing should be what it is, the allowance of a player to excel. Sadly like all walks of life these days the autocratic or manufactured sound are in the ascendancies.

Just my opening tuppence.

Many thanks.

#32884 by chip6
Sun Jun 01, 2008 10:56 pm
A good rock band has its egos. That why we're onstage. Rock is about ego, not a bad thing in and of itself. But if one part of it has a powerful vision, and can prove to you fret oriented that he has the voice, you do have to think about your role. It's showbiz. The great bands have proved that to me over the years, the ones that last, have members that know their role and put 1000% into the show. That's why there are 70's acts who just keep going, and doing well.
#32891 by Black57
Mon Jun 02, 2008 12:57 am
JONLYKINS wrote:Ive got to start this with a brief history of my own role. Im a drummer by birth. Felt the pulse as long as i can remember. Played in several bands ( always being the observer and keeping my mouth shut ) I realized early on the biggest reason bands dont workout is ego........................When ever you start playing for yourself instead of the song.............youve lost the reason for music all together............I now play some guitar and some piano and try vocals........im not great at any of the three......but rather focus on What the song needs to transend or move across the waves where a majority of people can feel the lyric............sorry for being wordy but after reading some of these post i thought it needed saying. Thanks.


This is such a good point. Not only is music an art, it is also a business. You gotta be there for the music for music's sake. It doesn't matter if it is classical, funk or hootchie cootchie music...it is music, a fine wine, a tender steak. When you have that, nothing else matters.

I am a flutist by birth. After learning the flute, I learned other instruments because of what was needed for the sake of the music. I have to thank my highschool band director for that part of my musical education. He too, was a drummer.

#32892 by Black57
Mon Jun 02, 2008 1:00 am
fisherman bob wrote:1) The Bluefin Tuna Band has NOT found a guitar player. I'm about ready to give up on finding one and hire a sax player instead.



So, what's wrong with a sax player? Jethro Tull's lead guitar was a flute!!!
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#32893 by Black57
Mon Jun 02, 2008 1:07 am
fisherman bob wrote:Band members who don't haul equipment don't get paid unless they have a physical handicap. Also "natural talent" usually is a byproduct of hard work. I knew a guitar player once who couldn't walk and chew gum at the same time, but he WORKED on his guitar HARDER than anyone I've ever met. Now he's known as a "talented" guitarist. I've never seen a band get tight by accident, it only comes AFTER a period of work. All the good bands I've been in or seen live became good after countless hours of rehearsal and work. Later...


Booyah! Music is an art, a job and it is work. Only after hard work are you allowed to play.

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