The Musician's Graveyard.

viadah

What happens to those who post in 'Musicians Available' after their thread slopes away to obscurity? I'm sure some achieve their goal, I'm sure some don't, some don't even pay attention to the proper section and post their wares here in the Community board. I'm all for the community here and was wondering would it be cathartic or helpful to have a thread wherein the community could come and extol the virtues of their projects and, in the true Irish tradition, find like minded individuals through the medium of complaint and hardship? A dumping ground where conversation about approach and style could maybe reach out to collaboration, a back up for when classified advertisements go bad. The kind of conversation ya have with strangers in a pub at two in the morning about jamming, without the drawback of alcohol to make you forget / regret opening your mouth.

I laugh at my own optimism sometimes.

mrmojo

"The Bitching Board. Work off some steam with a good oul' chinwag"!

I like it! and I actually think it could be helpful. A lot of people don't know what they're doing wrong from the point of putting an ad up here looking for band mate's, as far up to writing songs and getting gigs with said band mates. I didn't for years! So it would be good for less experienced musicians to benefit from stories of past projects that have gone tits up for other people! Also there's probably some hilarious stories out there that'd give us all a good laugh!

joydivision

viadah wrote: »

What happens to those who post in 'Musicians Available' after their thread slopes away to obscurity?s.

I blamed my recordingand songwriting skills and cursed my demos.

viadah

Take what good ya can from it man, ya should never be happy with your demos, always strive to do better. Don't just hang it up, that's defeatism and gets ya nowhere. I was never happy with anything I recorded for anyone - mainly because it all actually was **** - but a few decent bands professed happiness with end results, and they can't all have been trying to spare my feelings, I'm generally a loathsome person.

As for 'auditions', back in my day we jammed, we didn't have auditions, and when I think about it, some blushes could have been spared if we did. One time a band I was in was trying out singers, this one guy gave it all that, told us how ****en good he was and couldn't wait to let us hear what he got planned, came up to our spot with his girlfriend and everything. We were jamming over a newsagents that belonged to the studio owner, who told us (thanks to his poor soundproofing and our stacks) that we couldn't jam til he closed at 7, so from 4 o'clock this guy is talking it up, can't wait, then 7 o'clock rolls around, we kick off and this guy gets ready for his cue, puts the mic in his mouth, goes 'BLLLLLOOOOOAAAAAAAARGH', goes bright red, to white, then stays bright red for the next hour while he struggles to find a reason for such a disaster then slinks off home. We stopped 'auditioning' soon after, guitarist took up vox and on we went.

Moral here is ya gotta go through some **** to find out that sometimes you've got what you need already, in the face of adversity you gotta look at where you have strengths and play to them, and try not to let set-backs dominate your outlook.

irlirishkev

viadah wrote: »

Take what good ya can from it man, ya should never be happy with your demos, always strive to do better. Don't just hang it up, that's defeatism and gets ya nowhere. I was never happy with anything I recorded for anyone - mainly because it all actually was **** - but a few decent bands professed happiness with end results, and they can't all have been trying to spare my feelings, I'm generally a loathsome person.

As for 'auditions', back in my day we jammed, we didn't have auditions, and when I think about it, some blushes could have been spared if we did. One time a band I was in was trying out singers, this one guy gave it all that, told us how ****en good he was and couldn't wait to let us hear what he got planned, came up to our spot with his girlfriend and everything. We were jamming over a newsagents that belonged to the studio owner, who told us (thanks to his poor soundproofing and our stacks) that we couldn't jam til he closed at 7, so from 4 o'clock this guy is talking it up, can't wait, then 7 o'clock rolls around, we kick off and this guy gets ready for his cue, puts the mic in his mouth, goes 'BLLLLLOOOOOAAAAAAAARGH', goes bright red, to white, then stays bright red for the next hour while he struggles to find a reason for such a disaster then slinks off home. We stopped 'auditioning' soon after, guitarist took up vox and on we went.

Moral here is ya gotta go through some **** to find out that sometimes you've got what you need already, in the face of adversity you gotta look at where you have strengths and play to them, and try not to let set-backs dominate your outlook.

Man that gave me some chuckle.. thanks for that. Brought back similar memories..

davylee

mmm definately picked this thread up wrong. when i saw "the musicians graveyard" i thought it was about benidorm!!!