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It's been going well, it's so easy to learn songs nowadays with all the tabs and videos available and we pretty much had a 90 minute set sorted in the space of two rehearsals. Times have changed!
The only problem is finding the time to rehearse as we all have jobs with different shifts so it's only once a month at best at the moment. Oh, and three of us have fucked backs!
https://cziltangbrone.bandcamp.com/album/null-hypothesis-5-ep
https://cziltangbrone.bandcamp.com/album/machine-space-2
I have a fucked back (two collapsing discs) two shot knees (horse riding - or rather falling off) buggered ankles (motorcycle crash in my 20s) and a bad attitude ;-)
Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
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Formerly TheGuitarWeasel ... Oil City Pickups ... Oil City Blog 7 String.org profile and message
Mids become your best friend and less is more re gain and fx so your sound doesn't get muddy, washed out, and cuts through. You'll also realise that you don't need too many different tones with a good clean, crunch and higher gain typically being your starting point. The less fx tap dancing you need to do the more you can concentrate on your playing.
And then there's learning timing, feel, and listening to and interacting with each other, and accepting that you're going to make mistakes. If you do, it's important to keep going, improvise or if your timing goes stop for a mo, take a breath and resynch with the band. Trust me, the audience won't know. Playing live in a band is very different to playing at home. You need decent gear that's reliable, easy to tweak on the fly, and where possible is reasonably easy to carry, set up and packaway.
Taking a backup guitar in case a string breaks or other vital gear that will get you through a gig if something fails, is always a good idea. It hardly ever will, but that reassurance and lack of worry can help you to be more relaxed and play more confidently.
And most important, relax and just enjoy it!
I got more into bikes, the adrenaline of trying to outbreak someone at 170mph was quite the rush.
The lads kept pestering me over the years to come out for a jam, eventually I did and wow, I’d forgotten just how great it was.
Gotta be one of the best things in the world, mentally, socially and creatively. Keeps me quite immature at 59
Just like the sports bikes, I couldn’t understand why the majority wouldn’t take their bikes on track, as that’s where they really come into their own.
Same with playing guitar, at every level it’s great, but jamming and gigging is something else.
For me it’s the icing on the cake, but the whole journey is brilliant, from sitting on the sofa noodling away, then a song comes, then another. I really enjoy the buzz of writing something new. Then to take it to rehearsal for the band to learn, the buzz the first few times is great as the three of us go for it. Then to take it to a gig or/and recording. Love it!
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It seems to be considerably harder to put together a semi-casual covers band in your 40s than it was to put together a band trying to “make it” in your 20s… I’ve not even managed to find a vocalist for an acoustic duo to do open mics or anything.
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I'd give anything to have a regular band to hook up with
Been uploading old tracks I recorded ages ago and hopefully some new noodles here.