Have you ever been , or are you in one?
Were you ever any good?
Did you ever go 'on the road'?
Any top stories to tell?
Groupies, nutters, 'musical differences', do tell!
Me, I was in one, we were quite good, feted by a few record companies, but a bit too pig headed and to be frank , ugly f**kers to ever get signed. Managed to drink a fair bit of free record company expense account booze though, and managed to survive going down a huge f**k off hill in Middlesborough in a shopping trolley.....
Bands
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- Boss Lovin' DR
- 14312 posts since 15 Mar, 2002 from the grimness of yorkshire
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- addled muppet weed
- 111301 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
think i may have told you this one already donks,but in school i was in a band called "abyss" we were a METEL!! covers band from metallica to napalm death typr stuff,so quite broad 
well we had one of those battle of the bands nights,and being the rock dudes we were drank quite excessively for 15 year olds.i drank a half litre of vodka(cheap paint stripper type shit,still to this day wish i had just drunk turps
)
well just before we go on i have a spliff to help calm the nerves
so there we are chuggin through the opening riffs of suffer children,napalm death,possibly their best while barney was singin
but anyway i digress
there i am sort of leanin on my mic stand,yes back then i had dreams of being a singer/screecher john tardy being my hero at the time
when as i look up room starts spinning and i projectile vomit over the front row of the audience
same band similar story,after a gig at a local youth club again boozed up due to rock credentials with some girl out the back just goin at it tongues wise when i puked down her throat
since then ive never really sang,it didnt seem to agree with me
well we had one of those battle of the bands nights,and being the rock dudes we were drank quite excessively for 15 year olds.i drank a half litre of vodka(cheap paint stripper type shit,still to this day wish i had just drunk turps
)well just before we go on i have a spliff to help calm the nerves
so there we are chuggin through the opening riffs of suffer children,napalm death,possibly their best while barney was singin
but anyway i digressthere i am sort of leanin on my mic stand,yes back then i had dreams of being a singer/screecher john tardy being my hero at the time
when as i look up room starts spinning and i projectile vomit over the front row of the audience
same band similar story,after a gig at a local youth club again boozed up due to rock credentials
with some girl out the back just goin at it tongues wise when i puked down her throat since then ive never really sang,it didnt seem to agree with me
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- GRRRRRRR!
- 17826 posts since 14 Jun, 2001 from Somewhere you're not!
I am a band. Well, actually I use to be. Now I'm only 2/3 of a band. At age 46, we may go on our first world tour next year. I'll keep you posted.
NOVAkILL : Legion GO, AMD Z1x, 16GB RAM, Win11 | Audient EVO 8 | Lumi Keys | Studio Pro 8
Korg Odyssey, bx-oberhausen, Proxima, PolyMax, GR8, JP6K, Union, Atomika,
Invader 2, Flow Motion, Olga, TRK 01, Thorn, Spire, VG Iron
Korg Odyssey, bx-oberhausen, Proxima, PolyMax, GR8, JP6K, Union, Atomika,
Invader 2, Flow Motion, Olga, TRK 01, Thorn, Spire, VG Iron
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- KVRian
- 1278 posts since 24 May, 2004
I never was in a persistent band, and I'm a more solitary one in general.
Once per month or so I meet with my classmates, but they don't involve me as a band member. Not that I'd like to, but it is strange sometimes when it comes to formal stuff like how to label a song etc.
Last time we met I brought along my Novation K-Station and jammed with it a bit. These conservative rock f**kers advised me to turn it off
Haven't met them again since then...
Conclusion: Bands suck!
Once per month or so I meet with my classmates, but they don't involve me as a band member. Not that I'd like to, but it is strange sometimes when it comes to formal stuff like how to label a song etc.
Last time we met I brought along my Novation K-Station and jammed with it a bit. These conservative rock f**kers advised me to turn it off
Haven't met them again since then...
Conclusion: Bands suck!
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- Boss Lovin' DR
- Topic Starter
- 14312 posts since 15 Mar, 2002 from the grimness of yorkshire
Errr, that be the way to treat to a lady!vurt wrote:
same band similar story,after a gig at a local youth club again boozed up due to rock credentials
since
Hehe, first bird I ever shagged was after some school age band thing, we played at some pub in Oldham, all covers, I was singing
(hmm, after that I gave it up (singing) for 20 years )I arranged to meet her in the Manc the next weekend, she never turned up.
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- KVRAF
- 2401 posts since 29 Dec, 2002 from In the dark
The problem with bands are... there are other people in it.
Was in a band for some time doing covers, country & rock and then I bitched about too much pop, so they fired me.
Played in a few others as stand-in / session guitarist.
Never had any hits or any part of any hits but some guys who played in the band had some successes at various stages either before or after I was with them.
Spot the bad link
Was in a band for some time doing covers, country & rock and then I bitched about too much pop, so they fired me.
Played in a few others as stand-in / session guitarist.
Never had any hits or any part of any hits but some guys who played in the band had some successes at various stages either before or after I was with them.
Spot the bad link
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- addled muppet weed
- 111301 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
donkey tugger wrote:Errr, that be the way to treat to a lady!vurt wrote:
same band similar story,after a gig at a local youth club again boozed up due to rock credentials
since
METEL!!!
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- KVRian
- 864 posts since 9 Jul, 2001 from Chester County PA, USA
Oh hell yeah, played in a bunch of Philly/South Jersey area club bands on and off since 1982, both covers and original tunes (or sometimes a combination of both). Toured up and down the US East Coast.
Started out as keyboardist in the first one (band called "Kashmir" that played a whole lot of...uh...can you guess?), then started playing guitars as well as keys over time. These bands played mostly on the cover-circuit, doing stuff that was either the current top-40 at the time or not, ranging from Zep to Iron Maiden to Judas Priest to (yikes) Billy Squire and Loverboy to old Genesis to Missing Persons to Marshall Tucker Band to Michael Jackson...
Played a lot of opening-act gigs for bands either on the way up or on the way down at the time, like Stryper, Wendy O. Williams (chainsaws and all), The Outlaws, Gregg Allman, Foghat, Pat Travers, etc.
Eventually jumped over to playing nothing but bass for many years (starting with a local speed-metal band called "Funhouse", which I left just before they recorded an album on which they didn't bother crediting me for co-writing a bunch of the tunes ). Then spent about 12 years playing on and off with a mostly for-fun surf/rockabilly/oldies/pop cover band on bass, guitar and keyboards, which put out a pretty forgettable album in the early 90's (I didn't write any of them this time ).
Then in 2002 I decided I had had enough and "retired" from playing live gigs altogether so as to focus on finally recording my own stuff. I swore Hell would freeze over before I ever joined another local club band.
Wellll....Hell officially froze over just last month when I agreed to join a local acoustic trio on bass, Stick and vocals (OK, the bass and Stick are electric, so that makes it SEMI-acoustic 
)...mostly another for-the-fun-of-it band but this time focusing on vocal-harmony-intensive stuff like CSN&Y, The Eagles, etc. But this time around it'll mostly be an almost zero-effort kind of gig, as they only want to play maybe 1-2 gigs a month tops, and at places that are all within about 15 minutes from my home.
Road "war stories"...? Oh yeah, tons of them. I'll have to try to dig some of those up out of memory, but I think I did recently tell a few of them in a thread here a few months back where Sleek Month and I were trading horror stories about opening up for bands like Pat Travers, Stryper, etc.
On top of all that, I've also been recording a lot as a member of Scot Solida's various band projects lately, with some albums on the way. Definitely keep your eyes open for that.
Started out as keyboardist in the first one (band called "Kashmir" that played a whole lot of...uh...can you guess?
), then started playing guitars as well as keys over time. These bands played mostly on the cover-circuit, doing stuff that was either the current top-40 at the time or not, ranging from Zep to Iron Maiden to Judas Priest to (yikes) Billy Squire and Loverboy to old Genesis to Missing Persons to Marshall Tucker Band to Michael Jackson... Played a lot of opening-act gigs for bands either on the way up or on the way down at the time, like Stryper, Wendy O. Williams (chainsaws and all
), The Outlaws, Gregg Allman, Foghat, Pat Travers, etc.Eventually jumped over to playing nothing but bass for many years (starting with a local speed-metal band called "Funhouse", which I left just before they recorded an album on which they didn't bother crediting me for co-writing a bunch of the tunes
). Then spent about 12 years playing on and off with a mostly for-fun surf/rockabilly/oldies/pop cover band on bass, guitar and keyboards, which put out a pretty forgettable album in the early 90's (I didn't write any of them this time ).Then in 2002 I decided I had had enough and "retired" from playing live gigs altogether so as to focus on finally recording my own stuff. I swore Hell would freeze over before I ever joined another local club band.
Wellll....Hell officially froze over just last month
when I agreed to join a local acoustic trio on bass, Stick and vocals (OK, the bass and Stick are electric, so that makes it SEMI-acoustic )...mostly another for-the-fun-of-it band but this time focusing on vocal-harmony-intensive stuff like CSN&Y, The Eagles, etc. But this time around it'll mostly be an almost zero-effort kind of gig, as they only want to play maybe 1-2 gigs a month tops, and at places that are all within about 15 minutes from my home.Road "war stories"...? Oh yeah, tons of them. I'll have to try to dig some of those up out of memory, but I think I did recently tell a few of them in a thread here a few months back where Sleek Month and I were trading horror stories about opening up for bands like Pat Travers, Stryper, etc.
On top of all that, I've also been recording a lot as a member of Scot Solida's various band projects lately, with some albums on the way. Definitely keep your eyes open for that.
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- Boss Lovin' DR
- Topic Starter
- 14312 posts since 15 Mar, 2002 from the grimness of yorkshire
Welllll,
A gig in york in front of 14 german tourists was a highlight. I gave each and every one of the identical kagool wearing c**ts a tape
Another highlight was a 'heated discusion' with some number one album selling c**ts;
'benny, you can't carry on using that guitar (epiphone explorer), and haranguing the audience, how did you do that shite with the Asus4 again'
The upshot being, the Embrace, no 1 LP, donkey 'the tuggs' tugger, civil servant!
A gig in york in front of 14 german tourists was a highlight. I gave each and every one of the identical kagool wearing c**ts a tape
Another highlight was a 'heated discusion' with some number one album selling c**ts;
'benny, you can't carry on using that guitar (epiphone explorer), and haranguing the audience, how did you do that shite with the Asus4 again'
The upshot being, the Embrace, no 1 LP, donkey 'the tuggs' tugger, civil servant!
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- KVRAF
- 5782 posts since 10 Mar, 2003 from Music Shed #8
ooooooooooooh yes!donkey tugger wrote:Have you ever been , or are you in one?
yes!dt wrote:Were you ever any good?
oh aye lad!dt wrote:Did you ever go 'on the road'?
yyyyyyep!dt wrote:Any top stories to tell?
all that!..."and MORE!"dt wrote:Groupies, nutters, 'musical differences'
just watch Spinal Tap (again) and substitute 'Hotel' for the name of the banddt wrote: do tell!
and remember...
"it's a shit business"
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- KVRist
- 261 posts since 31 Oct, 2003
Bad first experience ey?donkey tugger wrote:Hehe, first bird I ever shagged was after some school age band thing, we played at some pub in Oldham, all covers, I was singing
donkey tugger wrote:I arranged to meet her in the Manc the next weekend, she never turned up.
Okay.. That explains it..
Note to self: Read whole post before replying. And don't have another beer!
snareSpanker
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- KVRAF
- 8389 posts since 11 Apr, 2003 from back on the hillside again - but now with a garden!
I've been in a few over the years. At one point, I was in a band of three... And we were 3 bands, depending on what music we were playing:
Paley's Watch - Prog
Marc Catley and the Flaming Methodists - Christian Satirical
Marianne Velvart Band - Joni Mitchell Style Jazz/Funk.
I played drums, guitars, keys, mandolin.. and occasionally vox, but not very often..!
We did a gig to no-one once! One for which we were booked for a fee, no less! It was in a church hall, and only the promoter was there (feeling very sorry for himself - it cost him less to see Genesis @ Wembley..). Best thing is, elsewhere in the building was the youth group who were having a sponsored 24hour lockin. They were offered to come and listen for free - and they declined...
I have done better..!
I played for a few years in bands around London, more consistent was Judith Silver. We regularly played the Mean Fiddler, The Garage and The Orange, along with various pubs, etc. This was 1996/7.. But since getting married and now having 3 children, finding the time can be quite hard!
I'd love to play more, but we'll wait & see..!
DSP
Paley's Watch - Prog
Marc Catley and the Flaming Methodists - Christian Satirical
Marianne Velvart Band - Joni Mitchell Style Jazz/Funk.
I played drums, guitars, keys, mandolin.. and occasionally vox, but not very often..!
We did a gig to no-one once! One for which we were booked for a fee, no less! It was in a church hall, and only the promoter was there (feeling very sorry for himself - it cost him less to see Genesis @ Wembley..). Best thing is, elsewhere in the building was the youth group who were having a sponsored 24hour lockin. They were offered to come and listen for free - and they declined...
I have done better..!
I played for a few years in bands around London, more consistent was Judith Silver. We regularly played the Mean Fiddler, The Garage and The Orange, along with various pubs, etc. This was 1996/7.. But since getting married and now having 3 children, finding the time can be quite hard!
I'd love to play more, but we'll wait & see..!
DSP
