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!
noorie · Member since
Follow Nike's advice and 'Just do it!'
Saint Jiub · Member since
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.
thomasquinn 32989 · Member since
"Too old" is when you can't play/sing anymore, or need to be revived mid-show. As for being over 30 and starting a band - two words: Seasick Steve.
miraclesteinway · Member since
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!
hobbit in Rhye · Member since
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.
miraclesteinway · Member since
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!
BETA215 · Member since
^ I wanna hear something from your band! With all that intelligence, who knows which things have you/your band created!
Please, at least in a PM. :)
matt z · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]hobbit in Rhye wrote:[/b]
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 ;)
.[/QUOTE]
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
The King Of Rhye · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]matt z wrote:[/b]
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.
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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/
miraclesteinway · Member since
So where do you live Matt?
miraclesteinway · Member since
You could sleep under my piano. It's a beautiful piano. You'd probably fit.
matt z · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]miraclesteinway wrote:[/b]
You could sleep under my piano. It's a beautiful piano. You'd probably fit.[/QUOTE]
I was kinda joking. Let's just say Los Angeles county.
But ya never know. Disparate people often band together in odd ways.
miraclesteinway · Member since
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?
