are you too old to be in a rock band?
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- KVRAF
- 2828 posts since 31 Dec, 2004 from Canarias
I´m 53 and still rocking ! Rocking is good for your health; working absolutly not and living is dangerous : it kills you in the end ! Now shut up and play yer guitar some more !
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- KVRAF
- 4738 posts since 20 Feb, 2004 from Gothenburg, Sweden
I thought you could be old as the street and still be in a rock band. To be 65 and be in "Scooter" or "Alice Deejay" seems way more off...
Stefan H Singer
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- KVRAF
- 4738 posts since 20 Feb, 2004 from Gothenburg, Sweden
Yeah, I know, I was lazy. I'll pick something else.CypherOne wrote:that's way off regardless of your age...stefancrs wrote:To be 65 and be in "Scooter" or "Alice Deejay" seems way more off...
Actually, today, we have young "female rock bands". And "old male rock bands". An "old female rock band" would feel quite off, as it is today. When todays rocking girls are old it hopefully will be a bit more common.
So, basicly, if the artist is way older than the genre he och she is performing it'd feel off. But we'll soon enough have plenty of electro/hiphop/metal acts well over their 50's since they were in their 20's when they got into the stuff.
And the girls are catching up as well.
It's all good. Perform whatever music you want to perform, regardless of age. Who seriously cares? Who's gonna blame you for being too old, and why should you care about that person?
Stefan H Singer
https://dropshotaudio.com/
https://dropshotaudio.com/
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- vvvvvvv
- 2595 posts since 24 Oct, 2000 from skelmersdale, west lancs, uk
Let me tell you the story of my brother, Paul.
He lives in a cottage in the wilds of Herefordshire with his partner, Valerie.
Paul has played acoustic guitar and sung all his life, but for a "job" he's worked in the travel business.
Since 9/11 the travel business has been hit badly, and first he was made redundant, and then he found it difficult to get another job - unless he wanted to move to Birmingham, or some big city.
To cut a long story short, this year aged 50, Paul decided to become a full time Muso because, like many of us here, music has always been the great love of his life.
He's busked a lot around the world, but not done many professionally paid gigs.
Now he's singing in one or two pubs a week, and has 3 pupils that he teaches guitar too.
He's built all this up this year from nothing.
By the end of the year he aims to have two gigs a week and half a dozen pupils. This should bring him enough dosh to manage.
Mum thinks he's a "taking an awful risk", but she does understand "the music thing".
But Paul is making it work.
He's 50 and has the confidence to go and do the thing he wants to do, which is to earn a living as a gigging musician, and manage a string of pupils.
Good for him, eh
He lives in a cottage in the wilds of Herefordshire with his partner, Valerie.
Paul has played acoustic guitar and sung all his life, but for a "job" he's worked in the travel business.
Since 9/11 the travel business has been hit badly, and first he was made redundant, and then he found it difficult to get another job - unless he wanted to move to Birmingham, or some big city.
To cut a long story short, this year aged 50, Paul decided to become a full time Muso because, like many of us here, music has always been the great love of his life.
He's busked a lot around the world, but not done many professionally paid gigs.
Now he's singing in one or two pubs a week, and has 3 pupils that he teaches guitar too.
He's built all this up this year from nothing.
By the end of the year he aims to have two gigs a week and half a dozen pupils. This should bring him enough dosh to manage.
Mum thinks he's a "taking an awful risk", but she does understand "the music thing".
But Paul is making it work.
He's 50 and has the confidence to go and do the thing he wants to do, which is to earn a living as a gigging musician, and manage a string of pupils.
Good for him, eh
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- KVRAF
- 4822 posts since 14 Mar, 2002 from Somewhere else, on principle
Cool... you got about 2-3 years on me.BONES wrote:46JohnVulich wrote:Anyway, if you don't mind me asking, how old are you? I'm just curious to see if there's still any hope for me.
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- GRRRRRRR!
- 17884 posts since 14 Jun, 2001 from Somewhere you're not!
Is that even possible? I certainly wouldn't have thought so, especially if you're a Gothapotamus.Trojan Badger wrote:Not too old, but probably a bit too fat.
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- addled muppet weed
- 111324 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
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- KVRAF
- 3588 posts since 13 May, 2004 from montreal
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- The Teach
- 8273 posts since 23 Jul, 2002 from flatness
BEN ... avatar for BONES ... NOW !!!
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- KVRAF
- 2323 posts since 4 Mar, 2004 from Portugal (Lagos)
My daughter is 25. And what does she listen to? Doors, Zappa, Velvet Underground...
Does she like my music? Nope, she doesn't. She hates electronic music.
Should I be worried, doctor?
Does she like my music? Nope, she doesn't. She hates electronic music.
Should I be worried, doctor?
Eventually something intelligent will appear written here. Watch this space.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 6596 posts since 21 Jun, 2004 from Secret Underground Hideout
wow, yer daughter is growin up just fine
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- KVRian
- 882 posts since 20 Feb, 2004
You are never too old to do what you love, if you can still do it physically, but as a high school teacher and rapidly aging rocker, I can tell you that most teens assume you have to be about 150 years old to play in a rock band. They may still love the music, but a lot of it is nostalgia for a "simpler time" that never existed.