In my band the guitarist and I are 50, keyboard player is 60 - and the singer and drummer (her husband) are late 20's
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You know your bandmates are old when-
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In my band the guitarist and I are 50, keyboard player is 60 - and the singer and drummer (her husband) are late 20's
It's less about the make-up of the band and more a question of do you guys hang out together outside of the band? Do you hang out before shows? That sort of thing.
Kind of convoluted connections, but we were sick of dealing with the same old song and dance from musicians on our local scenes. We're spread across 4 states and never laid eyes on one another till we got together the first time, but we already had a solid idea of what we wanted to do and the commitment we expected from each other and it just works.
Specifically, we're 64 (drummer), 52 (me), 41 (guitar & lead vocals), 39 (keys, percussion) and our youngest member is 28 (guitar) who joined us last November when another of the founding members (61) gave notice last fall.
If you're all on the same page musically, and the resulting gigs & money are good enough to keep everybody happy, age really is just a number...and the extraneous details don't amount to a hill of beans.
Haha. That's true. To avoid classic music in any genre, you can't just run away from the classics once. You gotta keep moving for the rest of your career or they'll catch up with you.
Eh, I'm in a band with a guy who's about 14 years younger than me and I always make fun of him for having the musical tastes of an old man because he likes rock and samba and guitar solos and stuff like that.
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"You know your bandmates are old when"...
I was in a band comprised partly of old-school punk rockers, original members of DK's, Flipper, etc., and in the down time before/between sets it was common to hear them chatting about health insurance, skin cancer, liver and kidney diseases, and Medicare.
I was in a band comprised partly of old-school punk rockers, original members of DK's, Flipper, etc., and in the down time before/between sets it was common to hear them chatting about health insurance, skin cancer, liver and kidney diseases, and Medicare.
You know your bandmates are old when-"
You all remember seeing the Beatle play live on Ed Sulliven.
you all remember when cassettes first came out
you're set list included "refugee, from the heartbreakers- cause it was on the new Tom Petty albuim
special note - albuims were sold in "all the stores"
You all remember seeing the Beatle play live on Ed Sulliven.
you all remember when cassettes first came out
you're set list included "refugee, from the heartbreakers- cause it was on the new Tom Petty albuim
special note - albuims were sold in "all the stores"
I know they're olds when some of 'em tell me something like "you see this building? Right here there was only countryside..
I know they're olds when they prefer to talk about a good meal instead of gorgeous girls..
I know they're olds when they prefer to talk about a good meal instead of gorgeous girls..
I was at the local Perkins after a gig a few months ago and mentioned I needed to take a prescription medication when I got home.
An old buddy said "Yep, we used to smoke it....now we just rub it on....."
I quit worrying about 'making it' when my hair began to fall out....when I was 20.....
An old buddy said "Yep, we used to smoke it....now we just rub it on....."
I quit worrying about 'making it' when my hair began to fall out....when I was 20.....
