I never learn; Starting a new band

So my c/l ad reads:
"Geezers to rock
Bass&guitarist and guitarist looking for drummer, mebbe another guitar or bass, etc., to do rock - some covers, some originals, loose, loud, sweaty and garagey. Vocals welcome. Not interested in being a carbon-copy band, covers will be arranged to suit us.
We are both sides of 60, but we don't care. Race and gender also unimportant, humanity expected. Looking to do the occasional gig, mebbe record. Bring beer."

I'm 58, been working with a mid-60's guitarist. He's coming Thursday. And in answer to the ad will be a new mid-50's guitarist, and possibly a new 66 y.o. drummer.

We'll either jam to the computer if no drummer, or in my living room if the drummer brings a small kit.

Wish me luck. I mean, I hope they at least bring imported.

 

Best part may be that they all promised to bring beer ... and I don't drink beer.

If all y'all is interested, I'll report back.

 

Aiight, so m' old friend guitarist (67) showed with a SG, and he was his usual amiable self and played well. The drummer (66, and as he emailed) showed without drums but did play some bongos to the drums I had laid off on a USB drive to jam to on the stereo (cool feature of my new Tascam player). He was a nice guy, all enthusiastic, asked me to actually send him the drum tracks we jammed over, that the next morning said he was looking to "go a different direction". Aiight.
The second guitarist (52) came in with a 2003 Flying V and ripped it up. Turned out he's semi-pro, done nat'l tours opening for cookie-monster and masked bands (Mushroomhead, etc.), great player, and he wants to jam again.
In the interim heard from a singer (63) who sent demo tracks of hisself singing standards (like, Sintara) over midi tracks - nope.
So i'll update on this because it amuses me to, and in the meantime ya can larf at the set-up - metalboy played the Trademark, and m' ol' friend played the Pro,Jr - I had the Ampeg and that's my board and summa the libations.

Now I gotta get back to mixin' our new scumble choon.

 

Oh, and their beers (I actually hadda couple because I like water wif m' whiskey).

 

Jammed again this past weekend. New guitarist is really good, tour-experienced and pro-quality - no idear why he's playing my songs. And the other guitarist who has been with me for a cuppla years really stepped up his game after a 4 month break.

We actually played live thru headphones with amps mic'd (DI bass) into an 8-track digi-recorder (I DI'd my bass) with pre-recorded live drums.

Played 5 hours, got 5 ruff songs done, including one kinda Soundgarden-ish, one kinda Sonic Youth-ish, a funky one and two fusion-y ones.

Here's what my living room looked like.

A Tech21 Trademark 10 and a ProJr, my pedalboard, the Zoom R16 and M-Audio monitors on the right.

 

Cool - where you at, and what you play?

And know any good rehearsal spaces - I have a drummer heard some recordings and is interested!

 

I reckon I mighta seen your ad, also.

Any luck?

 

So I'm in comm w/ two drummers, we'll see ...

Met with another bassist and hadda good jam, me on guitar; 2nd project?

This project now has 10 songs writ and demo'd to pre-recorded drums.

On the weirdo tip, I've now had 4 contacts from the same singer whom I told twice, "No, we don't need a singer." Mebbe I should mention that his demos singing Sinatra and Journey over MIDI tracks pretty much suck Oscar Meyers?

 

What we have done, so far:

 

We jam and record in my little ranch house, lately using pre-recorded drum tracks and headphones. Previously we had a digital e-drummer, as I posted way back in this thread.
So, last night we auditioned a drummer in my 20'x25'ish living room, and he showed up with a full kick and tom, hats and one crash, and a cut-down snare.
He played with them bamboo bundles sometimes called Thundersticks, and he was amazing.
We used a 10w. Trademark10 guitar amp with no pedals, and I played a 20w. Ampeg BA108 with a bunch of pedals.
We hadda 50w. mini PA.
Drummer sounded so great and was in such control of his tone and volume.
After the 4 hour jam he confessed he's a jobber, and just liked our ad (I posted in the forum elsewhere), and felt like doing some jamming on originals.
I'll post mebbe a link to the sounds later (recorded us, of course) but inna meantime: