Hey, Why are You In This?

[Atticus]

As Kenny Allyn pointed out, everybody and their dog in Memphis can play an instrument. I have absolutely no idea how I got into bass. I didn't even have much musical taste when I got started. I later learned my dad knew his fair share of 70s rock, but neither of my parents have a large music collection and Mom's tastes are of a pop and country tilt. In middle school I started learning about music that I liked from other classmates. I figured there must be something to making music if so many other people were doing it, so I decided to give it a shot. There seemed to be an awful lot of guitarists and drummers and only a few bass players. I didn't have a lot of interest in being a frontman, so I decided to learn bass to be different from the other people. I'm not even sure I knew what a bass was at the time. I went into a lesson with a new bass and my teacher gave me a boogie-woogie line that I played a lot, and the second lesson I learned the main riff to Iron Man. It sort of spiraled out of control from there. I took lessons for another year but stopped because the teacher was not great about keeping a schedule straight and my mom was tired of dealing with it. The next year I still fiddled with my bass but didn't really do much since I was in a transitional phase of my life, but I found a lot of great music and had a reawakening, and now I'm trying to turn myself from a TAB reader into an actual bassist. It's tough relearning everything, but it's been worthwhile because I'm having a good time with everything I do. I don't intend to make music my profession, but I think I'll be a serious weekend warrior at least, and maybe something will take off if I'm lucky.

And the chicks are nice too, because bass playing is the only thing I have to attract them.

 

[bluewine]

yes, i'm sure it all came really easy for you, mr. clooney. some of us needed all the help we could get.

Jimmy, I'm with you. I am just having a hard time with these guys trying to tell me that women play no role in their passion for music.

I love music and I love playing and I love the whole rock scene, which chics play an important role in.I mean being in a rock band and being seen out and about with groovy lookin chics is awesome.

I swear, I went into a local music store the other day and a couple of the guys that worked there stopped what they were doing and just came up to me and started makin all this small talk.The only reason they did it was because of the chic they saw me with at a show the night before.

C'Mon guys fess up on the chic thing, you know you dig it.

Off topic

I'm trying to bring the term "groovy" back into vogue.

 

[Jim Campbell]

Jimmy, I'm with you. I am just having a hard time with these guys trying to tell me that women play no role in their passion for music.

I love music and I love playing and I love the whole rock scene, which chics play an important role in.I mean being in a rock band and being scene out and about with groovy lookin chics is awesome.

I swear, I went into a local music store the other day and a couple of the guys that worked there stopped what they were doing and just came up to me and started makin all this small talk.The only reason they did it was because of the chic they saw me with at a show the night before.

C'Mon guys fess up on the chic thing, you know you dig it.

trouble is once you hit the + side of forty ish a lot of folks are going to be creeped out by that kinda talk....i find that younger women are inclined that way by nothing more than my presence on the same stretch of sidewalk.....perhaps the reason your last band broke up had a lot to do with the constant emphasis on "chics"........

 

[Altitude]

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[bluewine]

trouble is once you hit the + side of forty ish a lot of folks are going to be creeped out by that kinda talk....i find that younger women are inclined that way by nothing more than my presence on the same stretch of sidewalk.....perhaps the reason your last band broke up had a lot to do with the constant emphasis on "chics"........

Hmmm Jimmy, I am not so sure about that. Mainly because when it comes to my role as a bass player in a band, I am professional and I treat is as a business.

I never talk about chics with the band. I am seen with chics and I am always scheming on chics, but it's more of a life style thing.

For example there might be a bit of, didn't he just introduce us to some lady the other night as his girl friend, well who is that one he's with tonight?

But's nothing I discuss with the band.

Now, I do agree with the fact that it's creepy for a guy my age to talk about women and act pretty much the same way he did when he was 18.

As I mentioned in another thread, the thing thats hard about being 57, you really can't hit on chics in public anymore.

 

[bluewine]

trouble is once you hit the + side of forty ish a lot of folks are going to be creeped out by that kinda talk....i find that younger women are inclined that way by nothing more than my presence on the same stretch of sidewalk.....perhaps the reason your last band broke up had a lot to do with the constant emphasis on "chics"........

Jimmy, as you know bands don't stay together forever and 1 year for an originals Pop Rock band to stay together with the same line up ain't too bad.

I think the band basically ran it's course. It was a great experience for me. Now it's time to move on. I am only auditioning with bands that make $$$, have awesome material, high level bookings and high production levels.

 

[JimmyM]

trouble is once you hit the + side of forty ish a lot of folks are going to be creeped out by that kinda talk....i find that younger women are inclined that way by nothing more than my presence on the same stretch of sidewalk.....perhaps the reason your last band broke up had a lot to do with the constant emphasis on "chics"........

hahahaha!!! you never saw a band talk about chicks like my band! but there's nothing creepy about it, and we're about as pro as it gets. we are men, they are women, and that's what we do. but i try to keep it age appropriate. at least i never told julie slick on here that i want to have her love child. now THAT is creepy!

 

[waidonchasaisew]

definitely stumbled upon guitar by accident. My brother wanted to play regular electric guitar and my parents laughed, but he got a used one for free from relatives. I told my parents I kinda wanted to play bass guitar (since bands only have 1 bassist, but other than that i knew nothing about bass), so they bought one for me. i was hooked.

i didnt do it for the girls or the fame, i just loved music so much (and still do) that I wanted to take it to another level.

 

[Kenny Allyn]

It was/is a pretty cool place to call home ...

A tuff environment to compete in still, as even local bands draw top talent ... from all over

As you can see in this picture!

 

[Jim Campbell]

Jimmy, as you know bands don't stay together forever and 1 year for an originals Pop Rock band to stay together with the same line up ain't too bad.

I think the band basically ran it's course. It was a great experience for me. Now it's time to move on. I am only auditioning with bands that make $$$, have awesome material, high level bookings and high production levels.

well hopefully the search will be short....i would think that finding some guys that are in for the long haulb a better bet....going through the audition process every year would get old fast....

it's not always how things are that can be a pain,but how things are perceived....ive noticed that there are things i could never say out loud that nobody would have blinked at when i was 30....

 

[jive1]

Hmmm Jimmy, I am not so sure about that. Mainly because when it comes to my role as a bass player in a band, I am professional and I treat is as a business.

I never talk about chics with the band. I am seen with chics and I am always scheming on chics, but it's more of a life style thing.

Umm..... Didn't you post a thread a while back about how you broke up with your hot, young singer and your heart was broken? The usual no pics, no hot singer ensued and the thread got deleted.

Maybe I'm wrong.

Anyway, best of luck in your search for a new band.

 

[jive1]

trouble is once you hit the + side of forty ish a lot of folks are going to be creeped out by that kinda talk....i find that younger women are inclined that way by nothing more than my presence on the same stretch of sidewalk.....perhaps the reason your last band broke up had a lot to do with the constant emphasis on "chics"........

In my bands, we're all married and we still talk about the "talent" in the audience. But, we're not going any further than that. We enjoy playing music and our families too much.

 

[bluewine]

well hopefully the search will be short....i would think that finding some guys that are in for the long haulb a better bet....going through the audition process every year would get old fast....

it's not always how things are that can be a pain,but how things are perceived....ive noticed that there are things i could never say out loud that nobody would have blinked at when i was 30....

Yeah, I deleted it for a good reason.I got paranoid that a band member might see it and that would not have been cool.

All I know is, for a short time this 57 year old was living a dream. For someone my age, they never have that chance.It will probably never happen to me again.

 

[JimmyM]

Yeah, I deleted it for a good reason.I got paranoid that a band member might see it and that would not have been cool.

All I know is, for a short time this 57 year old was living a dream. For someone my age, they never have that chance.It will probably never happen to me again.

it happened once, it can happen again.

not for me...it's over for me. but hey, you've got your whole life ahead of you!

 

[Kaa]

I don't know. I just like playing music. I'm just as happy plunking in the basement as I am onstage. There's just this feeling I get when playing, almost trance-like, that just resonates inside. It's like the notes just insinuate themselves into me. Hard to describe.

 

[NickyBass]

I am just having a hard time with these guys trying to tell me that women play no role in their passion for music.

I started playing classical music in grade school, and switched to jazz when I was in my early teens. Classical and jazz are not exactly genres for loose women. So, I can honestly say that women had ZERO to do with me wanting to play music.

 

[klokker]

I grew up in music playing the piano, spent some time as a music major, directed choirs in churches, but for years listened to rock tunes by humming along with the bassline.

So, 10 years ago I just took up bass, last year found a band I liked.

By the way, chics have zero to do with it.

 

[bluewine]

By the way, chics have zero to do with it.


Thats fine, I understand where your coming from. But I don't believe it. Even if you had said "chics have about 2% to do with it" I could believe it.

I don't think there is a male musician in a rock band in this country where women don't play a role in at least a fraction of the picture.

 

[Altitude]

Ahhhh...FREAK OUT!!!

 

[klokker]

By the way, chics have zero to do with it.


Thats fine, I understand where your coming from. But I don't believe it. Even if you had said "chics have about 2% to do with it" I could believe it.

I don't think there is a male musician in a rock band in this country where women don't play a role in at least a fraction of the picture.

How about .002 percent? I play for the 2 percent of the time that we're perfect.....I think.