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What is your band's goal?

Skel

Skel

Jun 19, 2005
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Boulder, Colorado
#1
Ok, I'll admit, each person in a band may have a different goal. I'd just like to hear other people's goals as they pertain to the band.

Ok here's mine, as crazy as it may sound: I want to be the highest paid cover band in the history of my state.
 
#2
I'm in a Christian band and we've discussed this recently. Our goal is to reach people, especially musicians, who grew up listening to bands like Yes, Kansas, Rush, Marillion, Genesis, etc., since there's really nothing like that in the present Christian music scene. Everything's either contemporary, rap, or metal it seems, at least on the radio stations in my town. We've got a little following of guys like that who come to our gigs.
 
#6
To right well thought out, versatile music*.

We'd like to do a small independent, couch surfing, van tour of the PacNW.

To have fun and show people a good time.

*The stuff we've been writing currently is a lot different that what was recorded before I joined the band.
 
#15
I think "being the highest paid cover band in the history of a particular state" is a very specific and worthy goal.

We're a duo/sometime trio, our goals are to improve our playing and to entertain whoever will listen to us. I'm blessed with a large family, containing some professional musicians, and we play for family get togethers, etc. I guess our "goal" is to be a great amateur act, with an emphasis on the word "act." I see us as a kind of vaudeville band, keen on surprising the audience with unexpected new songs or wooing it with much-loved covers. We also want to be able to play standards that one might hear at modern weddings or family events.

Our goals include playing every day, to always be learning something new, to play songs of many styles and types. My goal is to be the best accompanist (sp?) I can be, and to find ways of complimenting whoever/whatever style I'm playing with. Oh - and not to embarrass myself too much.

We play some originals, but mostly covers - but we like to surprise listeners with offbeat songs and combinations of songs or unusual styles on familiar songs.

Personally, I've expressed an interest in doing some studio work (pie in the sky for me right now), but the "band" is unimpressed and unsupportive.
 
#18
Well, the ultimate goal is to become a well known touring band that gets to play festivals, nice theaters and the like.

But, the driving goal behind that (at least as I see it) is to put out new originals with a style all our own and to cover the deep tracks that no one knows about, but are really awesome songs. We want those covers to become "our" songs in the way that Led Zeppelin made all those old blues covers their songs, while introducing the people who really appreciate the music to those artists and those songs so that they can enjoy them and the music they never would have had an opportunity to listen to in the first place. We want to have a good time playing rock and roll and have a good time with the fans that come to see us.

If we can accomplish that, Fat Jackson will become what we want it to be.
 
#19
My personal goal is to make a living playing music... period

Originals wise my bands (2) share the goal of simply making good music and hopefully hitting up a tour and making the creation of music lucrative...
 

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