General Music Chat

Hello everyone. I figured I'd introduce myself. Seeing as how I've only talked to about three other members since I've joined. I'm wondering if any of the profiles in my area are actually paying customers.

Anyway hello. Can anyone give me any hints on how to actually get a band going?

Ha!

It would be really cool to actually meet some other musicians here.

Listneed to some of your tunes, you shouldn't have any trouble getting a band going...

Thanks, Bob. What kind of fishing are you into?

Hello and welcome Spaceman1

There are multiple threads and posts on the ways and means of finding players etc.
A short summery if you will:
1 A full profile with as much info ( be very specific) to include contact info as possible: This includes audio and video ASAP
( I did not check your profile first as I usually do, so forgive me if I am redundant)
2 If you are a "paying customer" you can and should do searches often and contact everyone whom even comes close to fitting what you seek.
( I did this for months just about every day to build our band)
If you are a paying customer they can respond to you (most wont so don't get bent) whether or not they are PCs or not.
3 Shoe leather !!
Visit venues that your style would cater too.
Visit music shops
Visit open mics
Visit college music departments
Network network and network some more!

Wasn't so short was it?

Listneed to some of your tunes, you shouldn't have any trouble getting a band going...

Oh oh, typo error, LISTENED, not listneed, to some of your songs.

Hello and welcome Spaceman1

There are multiple threads and posts on the ways and means of finding players etc.
A short summery if you will:
1 A full profile with as much info ( be very specific) to include contact info as possible: This includes audio and video ASAP
( I did not check your profile first as I usually do, so forgive me if I am redundant)
2 If you are a "paying customer" you can and should do searches often and contact everyone whom even comes close to fitting what you seek.
( I did this for months just about every day to build our band)
If you are a paying customer they can respond to you (most wont so don't get bent) whether or not they are PCs or not.
3 Shoe leather !!
Visit venues that your style would cater too.
Visit music shops
Visit open mics
Visit college music departments
Network network and network some more!

Wasn't so short was it?

Thanks.

Yeah. It's the same old story. Been in piles of bands over the years. Guess I'll just have to put on the big boots and go walkin' for a bit.

More things change the more they stay the same.


HAPPY NEW YEAR !!

AND

GOD BLESS !!

Happy New Year!

I gotta get! Ha!

Thanks, Bob. What kind of fishing are you into?

I fish for whatever fish are in the vacinity. I generally use ultralight equipment and rarely use line over 4lb test. I love to catch panfish: crappie, bluegill, redear sunfish, white bass, etc. The way I fish I end up catching my share of largemouth, walleye, catfish. I have found a method that rarely fails to work. I use mainly Mepps spinners, some Dardeveles, Blakemore Roadrunners, Crappie Sliders, and various jigs of all kinds. I pick lures that have CONTRASTING colors to the water color and I retrieve them almost all the same, slow and steady, but fast enough to just stay off the bottom. I have found this the deadliest method to get the very most strikes. Most gamefish hunt by sight and will only strike something they can SEE. Too many fisherman use lures that are camoflaged in the water. I never use bait, haven't in thirty years. One of the lure colors that I have found works almost anywhere, any time is black. A lot of times I start with a Mepps Black Fury and fancast the entire area (I fish from shore). If there's any good size fish in the area I'll usually get'em. Then I switch to either chartreuse (turbid water) or orange (green tinted water). If it's cloudy I'll try silver (green tinted water) or gold (turbid water). Gold lures (yellow) work VERY WELL in turbid water (brown tinted). I've caught numerous catfish on Mepps gold XD spinners fishing right alongside baitfisherman who were catching nothing. LARGE Crappie hit really well on Black Furies. If they are spawning I'll reel them a little faster so they are ABOVE the fish. Sometimes I use jigs with a slip bobber (Wing-It bobbers kick ass!). I'll put a split shot or two on it and cast it WAY out and reel it in very slowly. That Wing-it will submerge at the slightest hit. I've got numerous fish that I never would have caught without the Wing-it. It's just like bait fishing with a bobber. I've also done a lot of trout fishing when I lived in New Jersey. That was stream fishing. I got quite proficient at it and that's probably the one thing I miss most about New Jersey. The trout fishing here (Kansas City area) is put-and-take in some local lakes. It's not real trout fishing in my opinion. I had a lot of amazing trout fishing trips at the small streams and rivers all over northern New Jersey. Again the trout fishing was done with Mepps and Dardevles.

Are you a polygamist?

No I only "rent to own". lol

Are you a polygamist?

Why? Having trouble finding a date?

No. I'm not Mormon. I'm an agnostic heathen from California.

Thanks, Bob. What kind of fishing are you into?

I fish for whatever fish are in the vacinity. I generally use ultralight equipment and rarely use line over 4lb test. I love to catch panfish: crappie, bluegill, redear sunfish, white bass, etc. The way I fish I end up catching my share of largemouth, walleye, catfish. I have found a method that rarely fails to work. I use mainly Mepps spinners, some Dardeveles, Blakemore Roadrunners, Crappie Sliders, and various jigs of all kinds. I pick lures that have CONTRASTING colors to the water color and I retrieve them almost all the same, slow and steady, but fast enough to just stay off the bottom. I have found this the deadliest method to get the very most strikes. Most gamefish hunt by sight and will only strike something they can SEE. Too many fisherman use lures that are camoflaged in the water. I never use bait, haven't in thirty years. One of the lure colors that I have found works almost anywhere, any time is black. A lot of times I start with a Mepps Black Fury and fancast the entire area (I fish from shore). If there's any good size fish in the area I'll usually get'em. Then I switch to either chartreuse (turbid water) or orange (green tinted water). If it's cloudy I'll try silver (green tinted water) or gold (turbid water). Gold lures (yellow) work VERY WELL in turbid water (brown tinted). I've caught numerous catfish on Mepps gold XD spinners fishing right alongside baitfisherman who were catching nothing. LARGE Crappie hit really well on Black Furies. If they are spawning I'll reel them a little faster so they are ABOVE the fish. Sometimes I use jigs with a slip bobber (Wing-It bobbers kick ass!). I'll put a split shot or two on it and cast it WAY out and reel it in very slowly. That Wing-it will submerge at the slightest hit. I've got numerous fish that I never would have caught without the Wing-it. It's just like bait fishing with a bobber. I've also done a lot of trout fishing when I lived in New Jersey. That was stream fishing. I got quite proficient at it and that's probably the one thing I miss most about New Jersey. The trout fishing here (Kansas City area) is put-and-take in some local lakes. It's not real trout fishing in my opinion. I had a lot of amazing trout fishing trips at the small streams and rivers all over northern New Jersey. Again the trout fishing was done with Mepps and Dardevles.

Outstanding!

I love to fly-fish for steelhead and salmon. I grew up on the Feather River in the Sierra Nevada Mountains north of Lake Tahoe. I also lived on the Northern Coast of California where I fished everywhere from the Garcia River to the Rogue River. There's nothing like standing in a small river in waders and hooking into a 30lb. King Salmon fresh out of the Pacific Ocean. Damn I miss that place.

I'm an agnostic heathen from California.

Naw... You've just been angry alot of your life.

Music is the only thing (so far) that has given you the peace you have wanted. The one thing that has been consistent. When you're playing... things make sense... and for a moment... the world, and life, doesn't seem so bad.

You struggle with God internally... unconsciously.

Part of you wants to believe, but you're too hurt and angry to make up with Him.

But you have left, unconsciously, a little space, a small opening, just in case... cause you'd like to believe there was a God who actually cared, and was looking after us all, but the places you've been in your life... It's hard to reconcile that with a God of love.

So part of you blames Him for how things are.

If He created all this, after all, then He should be held responsible for how it turned out.

You are a loner some of the time. But you do like and want to be with people, you relish having fun and being mischievous... You like a good prank... especially when you were younger. But, you don't have the patience for the idiots and foolish of the world, so it's hit and miss... seek out friends sometimes... say f*ck you to the world and people other times.

When you were younger it was "balls to the walls" and you were often the center of attention, and usually the one in control, among your friends. But because of your sefishness, you couldn't make serious relationships work with a partner, so they didn't work out.

You weren't selfish because you were evil, although you HAVE hurt more than a few people in your lifetime, but you were really more selfish in the sense of... "I'm taking care of me! I'm not gonna be anyone's fool or footstool!"

It was more an unconcious protective mechanism.

You find it hard to reveal the deepest parts of yourself to others. You don't want to be laughed at, or be used and let down as a result. So you keep alot to yourself, and most of your acquaintances are none the wiser, because on the surface, you present something else to them.

This creates an impossible dichotomy within yourself, where you NEED people, but you can't trust them, so you only allow yourself to get so close to them.


But that's all just a guess! LOL


Welcome to the forum brother!

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Pretty dead on... imo.




... I'm diggin' your tunes too, Craig.

Goog Gawed Craig,
Does all that apply to me and Jimmey D too?
I'm an agnostic from Pennsylvania and Jimmey is a self proclaimed agnostic from Michigan, (so it appears that we heathens are all over the place.) And what might you say about Mark across the pond who once described himself as "A Jewish Atheist"! (strikes me as a bit oxymoronic, but what do I know?
"Every one's trip is different!"*

Anyways,
I still love you all, so Happy New Year everyone.

and welcome to the frey, Spaceman!

Howlin'
* You can quote me on it!