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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out
- Thread starter Korladis
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I've seen people do that with all kinds of metal dust for different finishes, usually copper, brass, gold, silver and that kind of thing so they can burnish it or even corrode it for a particular effect. Never seen it with graphite. Is it just for aesthetic purposes or are you going for some kind of functional result with the graphite?
I have a feeling we should have started this like 10 years ago, everyone at the practice space look at us like we're some midlife crisis dudes
Hey! *** is wrong with midlife crisis dudes?!?!?!
Dang, that should be the name of my band...
The last band I was in that actually played a gig, I was the youngest one by almost a decade in my mid 30's. I've been trying to convince the guitarist from that band to start something new with me for the better part of a year. I think he's turning 50 this year, has teenage twin kids and skates pools about every day. The dude is like the big brother I never had, he always pulls a random obscure doom band out the air to check out (nevermind, they only ever had a demo tape, but he has it) every time we hang out. I cleaned up and setup his Gibson Flying V bass for him so he could sell it, still hasn't picked it up after almost 9 months.
Got it in an email from Reverb. Dang. He says an employee of his doesn't like to ship things on time. (This would be the 3rd case he says.) But he also says HE personally shipped it 2-Day Priority mail on Friday, and it's now Tuesday... So we'll just have to see what happens. I'm hoping for tomorrow!
I'm 35, drummer is a year younger and our guitarist is 32. Most of the dudes we meet at the practice space are like 23 max. They actually call us "sir" when we talk to them. Kinda annoying.
I feel you man. I think this is the reason I can't get a band going anymore. Everyone over the age of 30 in my area that's not already in a band seems to think playing music is immature and just gave up. It's only guys who are way older and lifers or young kids that post ads like "not look for any old guys who are like 28". OUCH.
My previous band was in high school and we broke up when we went on to universities in different cities. I tried to get something going for 4 or 5 years before I gave up. Then, suddenly, this came up year and a half ago when I thought I will never lay my hand on a guitar in my life. You just never know.
I think I'm the youngest in the new band at 34, but only by a few years. It's nice because everyone is busy so practices aren't just an excuse to get together and shag around. Also, no annoying obnoxious kids. 
My last serious band broke up the year I turned 30. That band practiced twice a week, recorded, put out releases, gigged regularly, toured. I took a couple years off after that and just recorded bands, then started trying to do something new. I've done a handful of bands since then, with mixed results at best, and only played two gigs, one of which went beyond terribly and the band just never showed up to practice again after that (or for 2 months before the show, which is why it sucked). Since then I've pretty much exclusively done recording projects or jammed/practiced with bands where no one seemed all the way in and there was no ambition to finish anything or play gigs, because it was a side project for everyone else and they did that with their other bands. I did get an offer to join a recently started old school death metal band a while back. I liked the music and the people, but it was a little over an hour drive each way, they didn't have a set practice schedule and they needed me to pitch in something like $100 a month for the rehearsal space, which was a second story walkup in an abandoned office building with functioning lights, not their fault though. I just couldn't do it, logistically. If they had been a little more organized I probably would have given it a shot, but I had too bad red flags waving from previous band experiences about how it would go.
Still hoping I can find people to start a new band or join something, I just got burned out from the solid year of giving it an extra hard try and putting significant time and money into it while my wife was pregnant. I was hoping I would have a new band started by the time the kid was born and it would be a little easier to make the time, having a set schedule. Didn't pan out and now I'm just broke and have very little free time, plus I'm just f*cking tired.
Yes, at 39, married, 2 kids, cubicle job, I do resemble this midlife crisis band remark
Had a punk/classic rock type band formed with my wife and a friend in our mid-twenties that has technically not broken up yet. Kind of discouraging to keep a band actively writing and gigging when none of the other members even like punk rock when they're not playing it, none of them like going to local shows, and none of them actually ever touch their instruments outside of band practice. Still pretty amazing that the band has technically survived in total two marriages, 3 kids, and one divorce.
From ages 34-36 I joined a traditional metal / classic hard rock band that I had been following a while and had become friends with all the dudes, all 1-3 years older than I. Great music, but zero efforts had been made over the years to grow / sustain any kind of following or connections with any scene or other bands. The other guys just didn't go out and enjoy other bands. Gigs were crappy and hard to come by to say the least. Band has been defunct since the drummer moved out of state 3 years ago.
Now I'm in a two piece, with another 39 year old married dad. We've been going just over a year. We practice for ninety minutes a week (all we can manage), we have 12 original songs, we gig only every 5-6 weeks or so, but the gigs are good-to-great as far as turnout and camaraderie with other bands and getting better. I'm playing the most aggressive music and best shows of my life. My advice for success? Set extremely realistic (aka LOWLY) goals, find those who share the same goals, and SLAM DUNK THE FVCK OUTTA THEM. Them= the lowly goals.
Had a punk/classic rock type band formed with my wife and a friend in our mid-twenties that has technically not broken up yet. Kind of discouraging to keep a band actively writing and gigging when none of the other members even like punk rock when they're not playing it, none of them like going to local shows, and none of them actually ever touch their instruments outside of band practice. Still pretty amazing that the band has technically survived in total two marriages, 3 kids, and one divorce.
From ages 34-36 I joined a traditional metal / classic hard rock band that I had been following a while and had become friends with all the dudes, all 1-3 years older than I. Great music, but zero efforts had been made over the years to grow / sustain any kind of following or connections with any scene or other bands. The other guys just didn't go out and enjoy other bands. Gigs were crappy and hard to come by to say the least. Band has been defunct since the drummer moved out of state 3 years ago.
Now I'm in a two piece, with another 39 year old married dad. We've been going just over a year. We practice for ninety minutes a week (all we can manage), we have 12 original songs, we gig only every 5-6 weeks or so, but the gigs are good-to-great as far as turnout and camaraderie with other bands and getting better. I'm playing the most aggressive music and best shows of my life. My advice for success? Set extremely realistic (aka LOWLY) goals, find those who share the same goals, and SLAM DUNK THE FVCK OUTTA THEM. Them= the lowly goals.
Yes, at 39, married, 2 kids, cubicle job, I do resemble this midlife crisis band remark
Had a punk/classic rock type band formed with my wife and a friend in our mid-twenties that has technically not broken up yet. Kind of discouraging to keep a band actively writing and gigging when none of the other members even like punk rock when they're not playing it, none of them like going to local shows, and none of them actually ever touch their instruments outside of band practice. Still pretty amazing that the band has technically survived in total two marriages, 3 kids, and one divorce.
From ages 34-36 I joined a traditional metal / classic hard rock band that I had been following a while and had become friends with all the dudes, all 1-3 years older than I. Great music, but zero efforts had been made over the years to grow / sustain any kind of following or connections with any scene or other bands. The other guys just didn't go out and enjoy other bands. Gigs were crappy and hard to come by to say the least. Band has been defunct since the drummer moved out of state 3 years ago.
Now I'm in a two piece, with another 39 year old married dad. We've been going just over a year. We practice for ninety minutes a week (all we can manage), we have 12 original songs, we gig only every 5-6 weeks or so, but the gigs are good-to-great as far as turnout and camaraderie with other bands and getting better. I'm playing the most aggressive music and best shows of my life. My advice for success? Set extremely realistic (aka LOWLY) goals, find those who share the same goals, and SLAM DUNK THE FVCK OUTTA THEM. Them= the lowly goals.
I embrace that attitude. I've been in enough bands and associated with enough recording projects to figure out that the band that does the most is the one that's most efficient with its time. Read as: least ambitious, but totally dedicated to meeting its few goals.
I tried to get the last doom metal band on board with that. Unfortunately, that went the opposite way. Tons of elaborate planning and no follow through or realism at all. I hate being in bands like that. Mental Waste is the most successful band I've been in since my old punk band broke up and we put a hair above no effort into it. We get together, write songs in about as much time as it takes to play them, demo record as we're writing, go back and write lyrics, record for real and usually only do one or two takes, then put it up online. I've sent more emails to people on behalf of that band than any other, but they're all just friendly (Hey, your band is cool as f*ck, etc. and there's a link to our Bandcamp in the signature, never spam). We've gotten really good reviews, some where I submitted, some where they found us. I've had more unsolicited interest in that band than any other, people asking if they could put releases out on tape, compilation requests, offers for gigs from promoters and bands, which we never take because we don't actually have a drummer and have never played live. Every time someone emails us though, I usually chat with them and talk and express interest in what they're doing. So really low bar for goals, quick and easy execution, being friendly to other people and reaching out a lot in a casual way without sounding like a living press release.
AARP gives us great discounts on NOS Tubes and germanium transistors, son!
Kids be trashing my lawn, or all wind blows at my house and carries very particular trash. I accumulate so much garbage in my lawn, all of it kid stuff like juice boxes, snack wrappers and like kid worksheets and artwork. I do live a stones throw from an elementary school though.
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You don't have a ps4 either, but that might gas you up. I have a really good friend who bought one and gets motion sickness from it, so I might be borrowing it long term.
@The_Janitor
You don't have a ps4 either, but that might gas you up. I have a really good friend who bought one and gets motion sickness from it, so I might be borrowing it long term.
obscenely excited about this. i need to build a gaming PC but i'm seriously lacking in funds right now, probably going to stick with consoles. PS4 looks like the go but that controller is gonna kill my hands.
