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Great thread. I haven't had any luck to date finding like minded people to do music with. When I was in a band I found it a chore more than anything else and I don't enjoy performing due to anxiety. It never worked out with friends because they mostly talked the big talk but put no effort into making anything happen .... and that's how I found my way to electronic music after unsuccessfully attempting to sound like a band on my own.
Ideally I'd like to work with just one other person also interested in music leaning towards the avant guard, music that's not genre based but incorporates melodic and jazzy elements. One can only wish...
The main problem I feel is that you are either dealing with people less talented than yourself or much more talented. Either way it's frustrating. And then there's the matter of taste and vision, i.e. artistic differences...
Eventually I'll put another ad up, but not quite yet.
The talent can certainly be an issue, mitigated if you both bring something better to the party; I can run faster than you, you can jump higher than me, but the artistic differences, in whatever form, are where the trouble lies and, of course, where great things can happen if you find the right person at the right time (for you both)...
As Sir Paul suggested: "I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in; stops my mind from wandering."
It almost seems to be a matter of fate or destiny when you read about how great bands came together. The Beatles, Stones etc... all seemed to be either friends, acquaintances or from the same schools or neighborhoods. Of course, those aren't the only success stories, but still, it makes you wonder...
Wow @Audiojunkie you obviously hit on something that resonates with a lot of us...
Being born in Las Vegas I'm just old enough to have seen the last few years of & into the end of the lounge scene. I sat in with several acts, some who played Top 40 and a few who did oldies & R&B/Blues (my Pop was a Shift Boss then Casino Manager so he helped facilitate a lot of it, especially since I was under 21.) It was great fun but when I tried to get a band together myself over the years, it was brutal.
The mid to late '90's saw the slow fade come over lounges & non-name live entertainment. It's reached the point now where DJ's, Cirque de Soleil and the Britney's & Mariah's lipsynching is the bulk of the live entertainment.
I focused on songwriting & recording but still tried Craigslist, local New Times style musicians ads and the bulletin boards at local music stores but meeting guys I could really connect with was really rare.
Still, I've always looked at it like a positive, "My songs, my production, my vision" and the likes of Prince, McCartney, Stevie Wonder etc. are hero's and examples of the one man songwriting/production/performance style definitely motivate me that this approach does work. But I do go through creative ebbs & flows where I'd really like to work with other people.
Sometimes it's a low ebb and I think another person's opinion would really help or the think the
collaboration would spark off new stuff. Or it's a high ebb and things are great but I'd just like another musician to share my ideas & enthusiasm with, etc.
I don't know. I go back & forth. I'm lucky my wife is a musician & a singer (I was her guitar teacher, that's how we met), so I can get that interaction at times...until she gets pissed at me being such a perfectionist and taking forever.
I talk to a lot of musicians in person, online, etc and still occasionally try collaboration but I also have accepted and learned to love working alone. It's my prayer, my meditation, my therapy... I'm just really grateful there are so many great resources online to get information & inspiration from, especially a forum like these where we can wax all philosophical in the first place.
We've been changed, gradually to expect more from our technology and less from each other. We're marketed "i" this and "i" that and we pretend it has no negative effect on us.
Perhaps we're under attack and our truer selves are starting to realize something is amuck.
All I know is ever since I've gotten an "i" device I've lost some part of myself that was more outgoing than the current me and I'm aware of it and saddened by it.
Yes these i devices have opened up unbelievable vistas but some parts of me are in fight or flight
The trick is to find other frustrated grandads out there. There's bound to be about the same number as 20 years ago and they're probably not dead yet (if almost inside).
The 'other' band I'm in (Papa Nui) we're all around the same age, still dreaming, writing songs, want to play music around the campfire till wee hours and hope our 6 year olds get a band with each other (they will!).
The only age variable element are the drummers and we're eating through them like chocolate digestives after a spliff.
Rust kills
Few vids here, soz it's a Facebook page
https://m.facebook.com/pg/papanuiband/videos/?ref=page_internal&mt_nav=1
I know maybe in rural areas this might be harder but all you need is to find just one nutcase like yourself!
@Audiojunkie to your initial post, Yes absolutely. Its strange because I've been in a lot of bands and some of them were absolutely frustrating and a few were wonderful but for the last year I've been using loop pedals and ios and doing a one man band thing. It is lonely sometimes. I love having free reign to do whatever I want but I think the influence of other musicians and just people in general is so important. Shared experience is so different from having a singular vision.
my last bandmate and I worked out a great system where we would work on music skeletons (sketchy ideas) alone and then come together and just free-form play with eachothers ideas. Then buckle down for a few days and work on full songs.
Bands are like relationships. Everyone is looking for the perfect one but even great ones are frustrating at times.
Yeah I miss being in a functional inspiring band.
Great post. I dig it
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The band I'm in are all my age, love the same music, but we live miles from each other - and this has become a bit of an issue. There is also a 'we have to get on with it because we don't have much time left' unspoken vibe, which I don't care for, but as we have so much experience someone can shout the name of a song out and we can usually jam it out on the spot.
I miss the gigs and tours of other bands I was in, and I can bore people for hours with 'tales from the road': like the time 500 angry skinheads were battering the door down while we hurriedly got our (hippy) gear in the van to make our escape (we had to leave our singer behind, he wasn't happy) - the time I looked up from my bass to see the whole audience had stripped off - the time, suffering from heat stroke, I then played for 8 hours and was joined at various times on stage by Hungarian fiddle players, Jamaican trombonist, a shouty guy on acid, and a quartet of Bavarians dressed in lederhosen.
Last year I worked out how many gigs I'd done, can't remember what it was exactly now but it was something silly and in the thousands.
Bit different to mucking about with Auria.
Thanks for the link @supadom The 3rd vid in is wonderful. Music, mates, family, all having fun and living life to the full. Brilliant and happiness shines. Am working on 'Limited drooling' (thanks JG) a solo OAP punk cover affair but trying to find one of those nutters you mentioned to play guitar is proofing difficult in farm land. So, I'd already taught my daughter basic battering skills and she's flying through 3 chord guitar school. Dances like Bez, (if he was on drugs) and up for some mental stand in duties.
@MonzoPro Seem to remember gate crashing a gig with some football mates. It was your mushrooms we were after. Oh and you didn't dry them enough. The sheep shit stuck in the molars.
I think you need to do some more rock-and-roll before you sit down to write a book grandpa
To be honest I'm at a big creative crossroads at the moment - the band are demanding more rehearsals and there's a stack of tracks awaiting my bass and synth additions, but I also opened a big joint (painting) exhibition a couple of days ago, after a month of solid day and night painting. Throw in work and childcare, and something's gotta give. I don't want to hold the band back, but I still want to pretend to be Lemmy.
Tricky.....all this was easier 30 years ago when I were a lad...
I hope you are still embarking on your tour of Wales. Booked summer off work for these events. Any venues/dates yet? To save time on stage, can we turn up naked like folk at your past gigs? Any links to your paintings please.
Yes. We want to see the paintings @MonzoPro. Picture of the Month Club etc,
I have been making music alone for thirty years but a couple years ago a guy at work was playing his acoustic guitar so I pulled out the iPad with some TC-11 and Shoom. That was super fun.
Hmmm...maybe..
I"ve been interested in electronic music since I was a kid watching shows like Dr Who. I started making my own music when I was 18 in 1991 with an Amiga A500 and Korg O5r/w and Kawai K1. Over the years I have collected lots of hardware synths and I have a passion in making synth pop and electronic soundtrack music. My passion for making electronic music is a hobby and I have never gigged. I was in a band but I didn't enjoy it and I only got as far as rehearsals. I am shy and a bit of a loner and suffer from depression and anxiety and I was very uncomfortable being in the band and I would be very nervous jamming with the rest of the guys. The music they were playing wasn't my cup of tea plus. To be honest I am more comfortable making music on my own but due to depression I haven't been making as much music as I used to.
I live in a "music town" and for the first several years I was playing out constantly- solo, bands, improvs, etc...
About 5 years ago, I grew very ill (much better now) and after 5-6 last minute cancellations (Who am I? Sly Stone?) I quit booking gigs. When I got better, I began recording at home with 8 track and then iOS.
My musician friends are trying to get me to play out again, and while part of me wants to, the couch is very seductive.
It's good you get a chance to do what you love
Depression is a bitch, I hope you find a way forward that brings you joy, or as close to it as you can muster.
Music making and consumption has carried me through some tough times, it's a gift that keeps on giving.
Get out again. You're a long time dead...
It's really too bad that most gigs start so late. That's proven to be a challenge with advancing age.
That's it. Aging punk band name sorted: The Early-Bird Specials
To be fair. Thanks to link I jam with other djays or other ableton or iOS users all the time. (More ableton users than anything though) So I don't feel left out at all lol.
I think that's a major part of the problem. It's like starting a new regimen again, be it running or giving up fags.
It takes a lot of energy to start a ball rolling especially where one of the stumbling blocks is a couch.
Where does that take place?
my house. their houses. etc. lol or at a party.
Depression is a challenge. I find that the right medicine and lifestyle choices work, but take time. I also have to realize, life just sucks sometimes.
I wish you the best and want you to know you are not alone. I suffer from it and so do many.
Music should feel good if you aren't in the mood for it, don't beat yourself up over it. Better to make no music than half hearted crap.....lol