ez_willis
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do you hang out with people that play music? that's just about all that I hang out with and there's always potential bands that can be formed.
Yonce N Mild
Voice of Sanity
Order pizza from a bunch of different places and ask the delivery guy if he wants to be in a band. Shouldn't take more than a few calls.
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mcmetal
New member
Most areas have websites,or a published magazine of some sort that cover the local music scene.For example i live in PA.We have the PA Musician.It's a free monthly publication that's distrubuted to most of the local venues that support live entertainment and all of the local music stores carry it.It's also online at pamusician.net.Wanted/available ads are free up to 25 words and it's funded by the area music stores etc. that advertise in it.I'm sure your area has something similar or you can always run an ad in the local newspaper in the musical section.If you have a myspace account utilize it to you're benefit and post a few tunes of yours up.
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Dani Pace
New member
That just about says it all. Surround yourself with other musicians as much as possible. Jam with practicaly everyone who is willing to jam with you. At the very least you will meet other musicians and make a few new friends. Follow this simple tip and before long nature will take it's course and you will find yourself in a band.
If that first band doesn't last, don't panic. First bands rarely stay together long. Keep hanging around other musicians and in time you will find people who you get along well with both as musicians and on a friendship level.
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hungovermorning
Dr. Caveman.
I do believe this is seriously the way that most bands get started. The one I'm currently in (and have been for the last 3 and a half years) started this way. How else could a band called Pat Boone's Farm start?
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dogonjon
New member
Smoke more pot.
starbuck26
New member
Oh, I forgot one important step. After getting drunk and naming the band, but before you book the shows, create an annoying myspace page.
DrewPeterson7
Sage of the Order
starbuck26
New member
Best answer yet.
Those freemasons are a strange bunch. They've been coming into the bar, aptly titled "The Tavern at the End of the World," where I book shows on Thursdays. They set up shop at a table with their suits on, nursed a beer for the better part of two hours, and hassled all the twenty-something hipsters for drinking too much and not doing anything with their lives. They would actually follow you out to the street when you went out for a smoke and lecture you on the dangers of smoking.
Then, at 2am when the bar closed, they coaxed a local hooker named "Brenda the Magnificent" into a Ford Escelade and drove away. God help her.
Whatever 'advantages' they 'enjoy' in this particular 'social circle,' certainly don't make sense to me.
ez_willis
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Whatever 'advantages' they 'enjoy' in this particular 'social circle,' certainly don't make sense to me.
you have no imagination.
thebigcheese
"Hi, I'm in Delaware."
That's the way my current band works, but without the drunkenness. We've got a real web site (www.techniciansband.com), a myspace, AND a facebook page. We played two shows so far, but the sites were up before that. You know, so we'd be able to tell people to go check them out at the end of the set. Wouldn't want to look like losers
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glynb
Balladeer
great bands are about getting the right mix of people together. You can have the best musicians who can't make it work as a band.
When you meet on neutral ground for the introductory chat make it clear straight off that neither side is commiting at this stage, you'll meet ,talk about stuff and get back to each other later. That way noone is offended,if either wants to back out. if the personality is right, then you can move to the first music session.
it isn't easy to meet the right people, but worth waiting and getting it right.
greyharmonix
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there are a lot of factors in finding the right group of guys for a band. i still haven't done it. But the best thing to do is just know a bunch of musicians. I know a bunch of musicians, but more than just knowing them and getting along with them there needs to be some sort of musical connection that i can't really find the words for. i've met two people that i feel i have a connection with. One i'm working with, the other is a way talented drummer that works with everyone (a musical whore if you will). It takes time. the band that i just quit, for example, the lead singer/bassist was looking for the right people for 2 years before anything ever happened. and we were only a three piece.
More so than anything talk about the theme and lyrics and feel of the music and make sure everyone's on the same page. Finding people who have rhythm and can play is easy, finding people who get you is the hard part.
More so than anything talk about the theme and lyrics and feel of the music and make sure everyone's on the same page. Finding people who have rhythm and can play is easy, finding people who get you is the hard part.