Hi everyone
Quick question,
If the music is good, and the band have energy, is it too old to front a band (form a band, play in a band) - that is, a new band that doesn't have a performance history- in your early mid 30s?
Is 33 to 35 too late to start a new band that can have success or not?
What does everyone here think? Answers like 'Brian May is 68 and still going' are fine of course, but Brian May was doing it at 25.
Thanks in advance!
Kate Pierson of the B-52s is 66 and she just recorded her first solo album. The songs seem too disco-ish so I have not bought it.
I saw the B-52s a mmonth or so ago, and they still put on a good show.
I thought about him! It's not as if none of us haven't been on the scene - I've been touring and playing in public for almost (actually over....) 20 years, but in a very different capacity. The guitarist has been a gigging musician for about the same length of time as far as I know, and the drummer has been in bands for a long time as well, but this is the first time we've thought about working together in a more serious capacity. Either I'll sing or we'll get another singer and I'll play keys. We don't have a bassist. Nobody has a bloody bassist!
Trouble is in your 30s, there's the mortgage, the jobs, the familial commitments, blah blah.... and we all live quite far away from each other although we all do have a common link with one city where we meet and try to work. I think most of the problem, actually, is discipline, and then we dress it up as other things..... like mortgages and stuff!
Let's think like this: if you're in your 30s and you don't have the mortgage, the jobs, the familial commitments (like me right now),
you'll be in real trouble ;)
If your band comes up with any decent performance Queen-related, promise to post it here?
As long as you don't claim you're the new Seasick Steve, everything is fine.
Well, we might play the odd Queen song, but we'll do mainly original stuff. We've already started making some demos, and thankfully we don't sound like Queen, not really. I say thankfully because although they're great, and they're a major influence, what's the point in being a sound-a-like band?
If we do any Queen it will be the simpler stuff, I won't be tackling Innuendo anytime soon. We could play it, but I couldn't sing it!
hobbit in Rhye wrote:
Let's think like this: if you're in your 30s and you don't have the mortgage, the jobs, the familial commitments (like me right now),
you'll be in real trouble ;)
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DITTO that.
I suppose I'm a starving artist. I'm a bassist singer recently laid off from a music gig (managing a studio) what fun.
If only you lived closer. .. I could crash on your couch ;)(holding a bass)
Though I don't like his music pretty much at all. .. i thought Kid Rock was in his thirties when his career took off. Could be wrong.
Even if you don't "make it" it's worth a shot.
Just call yourself something original. ... like. ... THE STYLE COUNCIL OF OGG
matt z wrote:
Though I don't like his music pretty much at all. .. i thought Kid Rock was in his thirties when his career took off. Could be wrong.
27 actually (and his fourth album)...the general consensus among the people I knew that knew about him before that was that his earlier stuff sucked....lol....
Saw him live back on 12/31/99 along with Ted Nugent and Metallica at the Pontiac Silverdome......now that was a show! \m/
Yeah well get your arse to the UK because a sampled bass just doesn't cut it in the mix! or live!
BETA, I will give you a demo if you want. Can I have your email address?
miraclesteinway wrote:
Yeah well get your arse to the UK because a sampled bass just doesn't cut it in the mix! or live!
BETA, I will give you a demo if you want. Can I have your email address?
^ examples would help. We seem to be bone dry on examples.
Willie Nelson got in later than expected BUT he had already written and sold songs to others prior.
I DO share the same creed that you might regret it if you don't even try.
Even if it Peters out it's still great for the soul
I love when people use LMGTFY. That's some of the best ways to shut anons, without trying to sound or being offensive.
miraclesteinway: Later (in the weekend) I'll answer your email. I need time to think about it, and this is the worst week to think. :-)
BETA, I know that I rode too sharp in the vocals, it's because I couldn't hear the playback very well. I suppose it's better than going flat.... although I want to re-do it, it grates a bit.
because at the end of the day, music is still ageist. classical music is the same, disgustingly ageist. perhaps jazz is different.
it's not ageist in that old people don't do it, but unless these old people have been famous since the age of say, 21 at the latest, there's basically no chance because you're already judged if you 'haven't made it by 21' - in fact agents will rarely listen to you if you haven't made it by 21. Whatever made it means (easy to quantify in popular music, not so easy to quantify in jazz and classical).
Things may change but I can't see it happening right now.
Doga wrote:
You shouldn't play music to be famous or to have the people's recognition. You should play music because you like music. Fuck people's opinion.