Might have a drummer

Hey that's neat! :D You boys go out and have yourselves a blast. :wink:

Thanks BlueJay! We intend to do just that. 8)

Last night's practice brought a little bit of actual "band" action. We are looking for a singer. Got this guy that went to school with my daughter. (Almost said kid, she's 25) Sings great, even brought his guitar and half stack. Turns the thing away from himself, pointing at me and procedes to play too loud ... and ummmm bad. :roll: This was 2 nights ago. It was a less productive night but this guy can belt it out. Our drummer had a little talk with him and the plan is for him to bring his half stack and guitar home so he can ummmm concentrate on his singing. Well, last night no singer and no drummers buddy. Seems they left my place the night before last and went on a little bender. The singers girl friend was not happy, drama inused and last night it was just the 3 of us. (Probably didn't help his situation that the guy had a huge crush on my daughter in high school and she was over that night) We played from 9 to 1 and got an amazing amount of stuff accomplished. Tommy mentioned nothing is in stone and the singing thing was really still in the audition process, but boy this guy can sing. We will see, there are others to try out. We need someone with our work ethic is all.

Hey TR sounds like things are rolling along nicely, if the guy can sing hold on to him it's not easy finding a decent singer alot harder than guitar players anyway.

Four hours is pretty long practice I'd love to do that but we don't have the discipline to practice that long we usually only go around 2- 2 1/2 hrs at most.

Yeah, you have a point. He just needs to show up is all. We only quit last night cause my wife had to work in the morning. We are all really into this and right now time just disapears. I'm sure that will change.

Hey TR I might have a drummer for you...our band drama continues at a feverish pace and we have no lost our drummer too. He was a good rock drummer but him and the bass player are having a little hissy fit and it's gotten way out of control.

This all comes the day I finally was able to get a new singer to come by. We've been waiting for this day for a long time and when it happens we have all this drama. I'm so sick of it but there's not much I can do.

The semi-good news is we have a really good drummer coming by tonight to help out so we can hear how the new singer sounds and he comes well recommended.

So in the last 6 weeks we lost our gutiar player and friend to a heart attack, picked up a new guitar player, found a singer and now lost a drummer. I can't keep track of everything that's been going on.

This is fun isn't it! :lol: We will see if our perspective singer shows up tomorrow. He is one for 3 so far. While playing golf today my son told me that our drummer keeps mentioning other people that play guitar. He told me there is only one guitar player he will play with and he thinks guitar drums and bass is all we need. He says I am the best guitar player he has ever played with. I think he is trying to butter me up for something. :lol: Personally I'm good either way. We do have the talent to do the power trio thing well though so a singer is all we really need. ThunderFingers can really fill some space with his bass.

Well, more practices, no singer. His guitar and amp are still in the Man Cave. Saturdays practice was a quick one as my wife had to be up for work. We played 2 1/2 hours. Sunday we got alot done. We played from 9:00 til 2:00 AM. The songs we have been working from day one are scarily good. Thats our singer dilema. My singing is passable but no where near on a par with the quality of the music we are putting out. If we get someone with a good voice and work hard we might do well on a local scale.

This guy is not the best drummer I have played with but considering he was playing my crappy Sam's Club electric set he did OK. Also he is a little handycapped. He cut his right hand off in a work accident. They reattached it but it doesn't work the best. He tapes the stick to it and does amazingly well. I think if we get him away from the looser friend and get him on a real set we might do something.
Well, after a a week or so I have to take this back. Using real drums now, even though they aren't the greatest, and you know what? This guy IS the best drummer I have ever played with. He is good! Actually have to watch our guitar volume so we can hear him good. He uses loud and soft very well. He can play fast yet controll the volume.

Hey TR good luck with finding the singer I hope it works out. In my opinion that is THE most important part of the band and the one more than anything else that people will judge the band by.

So even if you guys sound good if you end up with a mediocre singer then you'll sound mediocre at best. This is the main reason we never played out because of the singing. The bass player and drummer always wanted to just go out there as we were but neither me or the other guitar player wanted to go out there with us singing and beleive me we aren't the worst singers in the world but still not what I would want to put out there. I've seen several bands were I'd say to myself Man we can sing better than that, but it's all relative, I would never go see those bands again.

I always tried to sit back and think Would I pay to hear me or the other guys sing and the answer was always no. Whenever ( at that may never happen) when the answer comes back Yes then I'll be ready to get out there.

But I finally have what might be a real singer coming by Friday so I'm keeping the fingers crossed. Of course we lost a bass player now but that's OK if this guy can sing like I have been led to beleive we'll find a bass player.

Good luck with that one, cnev. I was thinking as I was reading your post that if you already have two adequate singers, that could put you a step ahead of the game with some harmonies.

TR, I'm having a large time watching the updates on this new band. Seems to have come together really fast, like it was destined to happen or something. Keep the reports coming, eh? Good reading. 8) 8)

I didn't mean to be a downer or anything it's just my opinion and everyone is different but I do beleive a bad singer = bad band.

You can cover up missed notes alot easier than covering up off key singing, actually I'm not even sure how you could cover up off key singing although before I found this singer I was contemplating trying to by a vocal processor to see if that might make or singing passable.

TR it does seem like you guys have started off with a great work ethic and if you can keep it up you'll be way ahead of the game. We putzed around for awhile before we really got serious about learning songs and if the bass player had ever learned his songs beforehand we would have had 100 songs down by now but it didn't happen and that's just the way it goes.

But I know you must be having fun. With all the drama we have gone through in the past couple months we haven't played in a few weeks and I really miss the Friday night practices so I'm really looking forward to tonight and hearing this singer.

Well our siger showed last night. He does have a good voice. I think we sounded pretty good. As far as the quality of the singer goes though, for my book it only needs to be as good as what is in the area on the average. Not gonna let not having the best singer in the county stop me from getting out and playing. I'll be 50 in November and it's do this now or never. I certainly don't sing well enough to do it but this guy does and on some songs he sounds really good. I think if we can keep him working at it we will do OK. And yes, me and Tommy and ThunderFingers do have a very strong work ethic but not really cause it is play. Time just flies.

Another practice with the singer. Only 4 hours, said his voice had it. We did sound good though. He said he liked the way we practice. Most people he plays with play 2 songs then drink beer. (We drink while playing, we are that good) :mrgreen: We totally rocked "Ain't Talkin Bout Love" tonight. We can play for 4 hours and "not do" so many songs, that must say something. We sure need some polishing though. Martine (singer) doesn't know how some of the songs are supposed to sound. The ones he knows are cool though. We messed with AC DC TNT and it rocked. I have to learn some new tricks too. All about the give and take. I played for 4 hours, brought people home and then came back here and plugged in. Am I a sick man? :lol: I love guitar! (note: drinking beer now, had to be responsable as I was driving)

(note: drinking beer now, had to be responsable as I was driving)
Yeah, you don't want to go to work being the customer. :wink:

So, how many songs do you guys have now that you would consider gig-ready?

Yea if you have a halfway decent singer go for it. Sounds like you guys are itching to get out there time to blow that mutha out!

You guys are doing a few songs that we were doing like Ain't Talkin About Love that's cool. Let us know when you have that first gig scheduled.

I think we found us a singer also. I finally was able to get the guy to come by. Turns out he's ben singing since Jr high school and the whole high school choir, shows etc., and all through college which he graduated with a degree in music. So he's got some credentials. He has a really good voce but he didn't really know any of the songs and he was weak on the breaks etc but with a couple run throughs he'll be fine. Definitely takes or weak vocals to a new level. Not sure if his voice fits all the songs we play though and some of the heavier songs that have screaming in them we might need to drop but we'll see.

I've now become the weak link int he group. The other guitar player is a classically trained viola player and he sits in with the local Hartford Symphony when needed so his musical background is extensive and the drummers been playing since he was a kid.

That leaves me (hmm what am I doing int he group) oh yea I got the PA and a place to practice...HA :D