| HELLO FROM ENGLAND
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Hi,
I started playing bass in December, never having got to grips with an instrument before (I'm 48 but hey, it's never too late to learn, right?). I live in Shrewsbury, England - clue: North-West Midlands, in between Birmingham and Wales and have been a music fan since I was knee-high to a grasshopper.
Some friends and I decided to get a band together to play at a charity dinner dance, when the band we had booked split up, due to 'musical differences'. We all work in the local insurance industry and discovered we had a number of musicians, albeit that some were a bit ring-rusty, within our membership, including lead and rhythm guitar, keyboards, drums and a singer (of sorts). That just left the bass and your truly was nominated to lear from scratch. with 10 weeks to go before the 'gig'!
Anyway, we got a set-list of covers together, rehearsed once a week and in February, played our to a packed dance floor for 30 minutes, even getting an encore. I almost crapped myself with stage flight but once we started, it went like a dream and was over before I knew it - what a buzz!
Am still very much a novice but am loving every minute of it, especially playing songs that I've loved listening to for years. We do stuff from the sixties right through to current, rock, soul and pop and have 3 more gigs now booked. We called the band MID LIFE CRISIS, given the age of most of the members and this was our debut set-list:-
ALL RIGHT NOW
JUMPING JACK FLASH
HONKY TONK WOMEN
SWEET HOME ALABAMA
MOONDANCE
ANGELS
DON'T LOOK BACK IN ANGER
PARANOID
I'm looking forward to picking up some tips from folks in this forum!
Cheers,
Davetherave | 
