we've been there before?

[Yvon]

Not making fun of those kids but...

Were we that bad when we where 13 or 14 years old??

I would love to have my first band practice on tape!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XrN0zZEGOY

[Bard2dbone]

Oh. My. God.

That was physically painful. And I only made it about sixteen bars in.

The horror. The horror.



I don't think I ever sucked that badly. Maybe my fiirst week on trumpet, but I knew to hide my self away from human contact while practicing at that stage. I am glad that the technology to record my shame for the entire world to see didn't exist at that point.

And I remember my first bands practices. We didn't know songs so we were trying to make up our own. I had come up with this 'awesome' bass line at school, and our actually pretty talented guitar player was trying to build something around it. Years later I heard something that reminded me of that bass line. My hands remembered it better than my ears had. With grown-up ears. it sounded like I was trying to do the 'Barney MIller' theme transposed a fourth higher.

And I thought I had composed such a cool line.

[SOA_bassist]

i did, but to be honest the guitarist i played with sucked worse and the drummer i had was good and he helped me out with my timing

[parkerd]

I thought my band (as a whole) was pretty sucky, as we make the occassional mistake here and there, like remembering the amount of times to play a riff.

But that was shocking!
The guitar sounded off at the start, and the bassist was horribly out of time. I guess they are probably just starting out, but I think they need to practice alot more, especially before videoing it.

[Bard2dbone]

Once we tried to record without being able to hear ourselves, just as a goof. It was still better than those kids.

How do you say someone sounds worse together than if they couldn't hear each other?

Yeah. It's that bad.

[invader3k]

Well, I didn't start playing 'til I was about 19 years old, so I think I had a better concept of a beat and keeping time by that point. Actually, the first time I jammed with a guitarist, I remember it going pretty smoothly.

That drummer is absolutely brutal on that video. I wonder if it was his first time behind a kit.

But hey, at least that's how people get better...by jamming with other people.

[jimb213]

man, I feel bad for those kids. they're obviously beginners, and the youtube comments are all ripping them apart. I'm sure my "band" in 8th grade was about that good. Although most of us were entering our 3rd year of school band, so we had lots of experience playing in a group by that point, so maybe we weren't that bad... but close, I'm sure.

[Freaky Fender]

It makes this video look like a decent cover by comparison.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...=Nirvana+cover

[Spector_Ray]

At the very least, I could keep time.

[Dave]

That was brutal.

I know I was bad when I started, but I could feel the groove of the music and keep time fine. I have to go wash my ears out with some good music now.

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

Can't believe these guys have been defeated.

[BassGod]

I couldn't even tell what song that was until halfway through the verse. My god, that was really bad, to the point where I'm pretty sure they're joking.

Graeme

[Jiggybass]

I hope that that was a joke, if not, just listening to that wants to make me insert a knife in myself

[Peter Squire]

In my first band, I had been playing for about two years with a teacher and I had started to become competant.

The first guitarist I ever worked with was when I was 12, and he had just started. He was terrible, couldn't play AT ALL. I urged him to come along to lessons with me and see the guitar teacher. He responded that lessons "would inhibit my natural instincts on the guitar".

Right.

[labgnat]

Originally Posted by Freaky Fender

It makes this video look like a decent cover by comparison.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...=Nirvana+cover

haha i saw this one a few months back, and that's the vid that came to my mind when this one started thinking no way the vid the TS posted couldn't be worse than this one u posted. but it was, crazy

[dain bramage]

It took me 30 seconds to realize that was Teen Spirit, and I love Nirvana. I'll upload my OLD band playing that song at our first practice 7 or 8 months ago. I had just started playing so I'm really bad in it. Lol halfway through I drop my pick and have to finish the song finger style. My bass also comes unplugged twice.

[BassChuck]

Wow.... and at such a young age to be able to incorporate free tempo, and bi-tonality in such a heart-felt and free swinging new concept arrangement of, what must be for them, an old standard. Post-Modern, Post-Punk but yet, with a strong sense of history and a 'tip of the hat' to John Cage, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Cecil Taylor with just a hint of Sun Ra.

Or, you could try to sue the parents for not pulling the circuit breaker by measure 3... if you could find measure 3.

[dain bramage]

Originally Posted by dain bramage

It took me 30 seconds to realize that was Teen Spirit, and I love Nirvana. I'll upload my OLD band playing that song at our first practice 7 or 8 months ago. I had just started playing so I'm really bad in it. Lol halfway through I drop my pick and have to finish the song finger style. My bass also comes unplugged twice.

Okay it's pretty crap but I feel it's loads better than the other video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg6cnK2bRIU

Our guitarist was the only one with any talent. He can play the solo to Master of Puppets.

[jonpeck]

my dear god!!! that was awful.I thought my band sounded sucky well just my guitar player

[davetakis]

i'm having SHAGGS nightmares now. maybe these are the sons of SHAGGS!