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Post by quadfather on Jul 28, 2024 16:12:10 GMT
Fucking awesome man! And that's just the sound check? Sounds ace to me! Thanks sir. Sadly the keys are a bit inaudible here. So, are you going to stick with this band then? And do they do covers or original or both? And this quote from your post - "Proper nerves beforehand though, it’s always gone by sometime in the second song but when you have to wait and watch the first dance beforehand it’s like waiting for the bloody gallows for me." Ah, man, how I can fully relate to that! Although its mainly gone now. I was checking how nervous I was during sound check and just before going on, and this time round, the excitement won and took over. I could sense some kind of, "don't fuck it up ffs" sensation, which is still present and correct from a huge fuckup I did about 20 years ago, but I think I've managed to say to that feeling, "ah just give it a rest, I'm fine" and just do it and get on with it. As long as I get into the groove, I'm fine now.
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Post by quadfather on Jul 28, 2024 16:18:26 GMT
wunty how about you? Did or do you get performance anxiety before going on stage?
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Post by wunty on Jul 28, 2024 16:36:45 GMT
All the time. I was a mess.
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Post by drakesmoke on Jul 28, 2024 17:35:23 GMT
quadfatherTechnically this band is a couple of years old but it really builds off both the concepts, set, musical arrangements and even equipment of a much older one. I’ve just checked and that band’s first Facebook post was in summer 2015, with our first gig being in August of the same year. That will have been my first performance since sixth form! In reality it’s a continuation or evolution of that older band. As far as I remember we were rehearsing from earlier in the year than that, so it’s getting on for 9-10 years. I could probably write a semi-interesting book about this band and all the dramas and politics that have gone on in the past. This is the first lineup where it’s felt very frictionless in terms of personalities and objectives. So yeah I’m pretty invested. Me, the drummer and the female saxophonist there are the most longstanding members. It’s solely a covers band aimed at weddings/corporates. In the early days we hammered and were exploited by the pub scene but everybody is of an age where we like getting out of the house a bit for the practices and really want to work smart and get the decent payers (I.e weddings). You can make decent money doing it but it’s a slog and arranging 8 people is like herding cats!
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Post by quadfather on Jul 28, 2024 18:43:04 GMT
Haha, that sounds cool. But what about original songs - do you ever think you'll do that? Meanwhile, here's another madness video clip! You get the full head bobbing in this one! photos.app.goo.gl/Wzoru7MdFmPbDv117
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Post by drakesmoke on Jul 28, 2024 21:14:32 GMT
Haha, that sounds cool. But what about original songs - do you ever think you'll do that? Meanwhile, here's another madness video clip! You get the full head bobbing in this one! photos.app.goo.gl/Wzoru7MdFmPbDv117I had a band as a kid and we mixed Korn and Deftones type shite with skate punk type stuff. There was rapping and everything, as bad as it sounds lol. I’ve had skeletons for nearly an album of stuff for ages and have recorded one song solo with programmed drums (actually programmed, not automatic). No vocals as I don’t sing. It’s very much 70s blues rock type stuff in the vein of Zeppelin etc. Not very original but it’s what I like. I recorded a couple of metal tunes last year in the same fashion but it’s just difficult to find the time between doing the band, doing my job, family, and other hobbies (I spend lots of time painting those silly little figures you may or may not know lol). I will try to make time to revisit the originals when the band has expanded it’s set a bit. Over the last two years we essentially relaunched the band several times and lots of time and progress was spent/lost on this. We were down a bass player from last summer and only got our guy in November. The singer and keys player are much newer than that. It’s really a testimony to the fact the old hands have been playing the stuff for so long and the new lot are so capable that we’ve got it together as fast as we did for that gig. It’s a constant frustration in the function band thing that people want the gigs but then cry off practice and get frustrated by the fact the music isn’t ready - which they caused! We had months and months of this. This lot seem like good eggs so far though.
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Post by quadfather on Aug 4, 2024 12:57:09 GMT
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