Members Keith SIO Posted March 9, 2008 Members Share Posted March 9, 2008 I'm feeling nostalgic tonight. Missin my old band. I used to play bass all of the time and don't anymore. Picked up my shortscale today and noodled, made me miss my old band. I loved our music. I miss my old bass too. That thing rocks. Here is a live clip from a basement practice in January 07. Instrumental of the song we closed every live set with called "Cheers." http://www.lightningmp3.com/live/33230-Cheers.mp3 Now I am in a band with the 2 guitarists as the drummer. No bass. I love playing strings, but thie new group is fun too. Here is the old band rockin out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members melx Posted March 9, 2008 Members Share Posted March 9, 2008 I feel like that about my first 'proper' band, we gigged around the local area (and a few gigs outside) non-stop for 2 years 91-92, we were all young, had nothing better to do, no commitments, good times. Unfortunatly you can't turn the clock back, but I do miss it, for some reason we just all clicked back then, no-one had ego's......it was just for fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Wood Chuck Posted March 9, 2008 Members Share Posted March 9, 2008 I miss a funk band I was in. The lead singer got killed in a motorcycle crash. The Drummer moved to Florida. Sad! We played on the same bill with some pretty big names. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TheAtomicJeff Posted March 9, 2008 Members Share Posted March 9, 2008 Oh yes. The drummer I played with in high school and my early 20's is my favorite drummer outside of John Bonham. That's how tasteful he is. Also plays guitar very well. He was the best musician I knew. He lives in Virginia now and we've recently got back in touch after a 20+ year hiatus. I really miss playing with him. We had a chemistry that I'll never find again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Wood Chuck Posted March 9, 2008 Members Share Posted March 9, 2008 Oh yes. The drummer I played with in high school and my early 20's is my favorite drummer outside of John Bonham. That's how tasteful he is. Also plays guitar very well. He was the best musician I knew. He lives in Virginia now and we've recently got back in touch after a 20+ year hiatus. I really miss playing with him. We had a chemistry that I'll never find again. Moments to live for really. No regrets here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Fender&EHX4ever Posted March 9, 2008 Members Share Posted March 9, 2008 I definitely miss playing music with my old band. We performed from high school ('85) past college ('95). We're actually in the process of doing a long distance collaboration on a new song so we can perform for our 20 year high school class reunion in October. Here's a track from 1995: http://soundclick.com/share?songid=6344095 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Keith SIO Posted March 9, 2008 Author Members Share Posted March 9, 2008 I definitely miss playing music with my old band. We performed from high school ('85) past college ('95). We're actually in the process of doing a long distance collaboration on a new song so we can perform for our 20 year high school class reunion in October.Here's a track from 1995: http://soundclick.com/share?songid=6344095 Mind if I ask how that was recorded back in 95? Bitchin song btw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Fatso Forgottso Posted March 9, 2008 Members Share Posted March 9, 2008 My friend and I used to have a power-thrash band called the Galloping Stallions, which was basically an exercise in 32nd note sweeping runs.It was only us two guitarists, while one occasionally took bass.But I seriously don't think there was one song when we wouldn't have at least 2 minutes of guitar solos.It was pure wankery.But pure awesome.We played one of our songs at the school talent show, once.We got up on stage and I said, "this song is called "Untitled (The octopus men cast their gaze to the ice plains, and they saw the mammoth hordes advancing upon them)"." {censored}ING BEAT THAT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Fender&EHX4ever Posted March 9, 2008 Members Share Posted March 9, 2008 Mind if I ask how that was recorded back in 95? Bitchin song btw. Thanks! We did quite a bit recording between '91 and '95 at various studios around Bloominton and Indianapolis, Indiana. Some tracks were recorded in our home studio. We had a couple of ADAT machines back then to track a lot of our rhythm tracks, because they are so time intensive, and it was too expensive to track drums in a commercial studio. We recorded most of the guitars and vocals to tape, and did our mixing in commercial studios. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jake.lind Posted March 9, 2008 Members Share Posted March 9, 2008 No way, I'm totally loving the band I'm in now. We're all really decent musicians, and we all have some pretty good chemistry. Like last practice we wrapped things up with a half-hour long free-form jam session in the key of Bb Major, and the only reason we stopped is because one of looked at the clock, and realized the drummer had to be somewhere. Totally rockin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members iodine74 Posted March 9, 2008 Members Share Posted March 9, 2008 I just miss being in one period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MathiasWilliam Posted March 9, 2008 Members Share Posted March 9, 2008 I'm feeling nostalgic tonight. Missin my old band. I used to play bass all of the time and don't anymore. Picked up my shortscale today and noodled, made me miss my old band. I loved our music. I miss my old bass too. That thing rocks.Here is a live clip from a basement practice in January 07. Instrumental of the song we closed every live set with called "Cheers." http://www.lightningmp3.com/live/33230-Cheers.mp3Now I am in a band with the 2 guitarists as the drummer. No bass. I love playing strings, but thie new group is fun too. Here is the old band rockin out Why did you break up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Keith SIO Posted March 9, 2008 Author Members Share Posted March 9, 2008 Why did you break up? I don't know like the real reason, I think it wasn't working for everyone or something. Everyone quit but me. Drummer problems kinda sparked it, then other personal problems and stuff I guess. I'm in a new group with the 2 guitarists though, so go figure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hilikus8 Posted March 9, 2008 Members Share Posted March 9, 2008 I miss my funk/rock/jam/latin band, it was just me, bass player and drummer. great, great times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members spoonie g Posted March 9, 2008 Members Share Posted March 9, 2008 Nah. Itd take a LOT to get me to leave my current band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ToneJamFX Posted March 9, 2008 Members Share Posted March 9, 2008 Sometimes I miss my old band Brandy's Hand. We did some interesting, and weird rhythmic stuff. My favorite song to play was this one called "Chicken Head in Standard". The really cool thing about it was the singer did it in German. You can listen to it on a myspace the former bass player created. http://www.myspace.com/brandystribute Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members willhaven Posted March 9, 2008 Members Share Posted March 9, 2008 I haven't played a live show since 2002 (I was 20). I quit shortly after to focus on school any my career. I've been slowly writing new material since early 2003. I plan to write and record 4 songs to put up on MySpace that show the breadth of music that I like to write and play. Then I'll try to lure a singer to write with me and we can assemble a band from there. In 2001 I think we had the perfect lineup, but band politics caused a split with the singer and we never really recovered I don't think. We played with another singer for a while, a very good friend actually, but we never really gelled with him the way we had hoped we would. Part of me wants to play a show every weekend, but then I remember all the BS that comes along with being in a band and I question my judgment again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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