Why didn't YOU make it big?

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because when I finally grew my hair long enough to be in any cock band I wanted....grunge got popular. And I still owned a pointy headstock.
 
I did make it, met my wife and been makin it for 28 years! :D
 
reverymike":1400x5rt said:
Still working on it. Opening for Fuel and Daughtry tonight in front of 10,000. :rock:
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Right on dude. Let's see some video of the show.
 
:doh: because at the time, the world didn't need another Rick Wakeman...
 
Because instead of practicing I am on here posting dumb shit... Probably more so that I am seriously ADHD and have a billion other things that always pop up. Had 2 chances and both fell through, plus I like the solid job working mans life. Not that touring and stuff isn't work but you know what I mean.
 
I was a chubby kid and I couldn't grow my hair long in the 80's. Oh yeah, and there was the talent factor, too.

I went to college and went the "safe and secure" route. No regrets. I still love to play, and it's an outlet, a release.
 
I signed a record deal in the late 80's but, after I received my 10 free records for only $.01 and a few more at a discounted price over the next 3 years, I was dropped. :doh: :doh: :doh: :no: :no:
 
1987 - we are right there in the middle of the metal scene, prettyboys and all. but our singer liked cocaine too much and out drummer liked to get drunk and fight. the band split up.
1988 - i quit the new band and got married. she divorced me after i cut my long hair.
1989 - i got an offer to play with a high energy (ecstasy dance music), which i turned down. they got a 7 year RCA deal....and got dropped in 5 months.
1990 - got back with coke head singer. while signing record contract with music attorney, the attorney asked our 6'4" muscle bound singer for some head....and our singer kicked his ass. end of deal.
1991 - released cd with christian metal band. decided to take the band on tour, half of them wouldn't leave their wives. end of band.
1992 - moved to Florida to team up with a great singer and drummer. recorded cd. couldn't get a deal because we refused to pay Jani Lane's vocal coach to "teach" us to sing.
1993 - signed deal with a "major" management agency. the agency broke up our band, keeping only me and the singer, with plans to pair us with members of other bands that they tore apart. 5 months later, they decided to stop tearing apart bands and let us all go. being from several states and no longer having the financial backing, we all returned home. started new band and played the club scene again.
1994 - found superhot wife, got married, quit the band.
1996 - released another christian meta cd. no tour to follow because i was now one of the guys that wouldn't leave his wife and kid on the way.
1999 - release self title release on independent label. played the local club scene.
2003 - released another cd while playing weekends and working a day job.
2004 - met with record company that heard one of our cd's that was sent to them by a club owner that discover the band "twelve stones". he asked our age, i replied "35", he said "you guys are too old". end of band.
2006 - took a job with a church. recorded and played guitar on a cd released by the church. a little over 5000 copies sold.
2008 - released another cd that sold over 10,000 copies.
2009 - released a live cd that flopped because the church brought in all studio musicians with the exception of me. at the time, the church music style was pretty much rock, the musicians they brought in were R&B players....the new direction didn't go over well with the congregation. everyone quit or left.

now i just work on presets for various effects units and make short clips to demo equipment.
 
I'm trying my best dude lol.. dammit

22yr old right now. :D
 
bonedarrell":1uumxvfs said:
I signed a record deal in the late 80's but, after I received my 10 free records for only $.01 and a few more at a discounted price over the next 3 years, I was dropped. :doh: :doh: :doh: :no: :no:
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LOL ... i had that same label. :lol: :LOL:
 
I want to blame myself really.

However, I just seem to have the worst luck in picking band-mates. Completely irrational lead vocalists who believe they are Christ Almighty himself and the entire world, including other bands and promoters, revolve only around them and that they can pull diva moves when they have to compromise.

Added to that drummers who can barely hold 4/4 time and bassists with girlfriends who are suddenly one day either backing singers or band managers.

Those are the bastards who actually show up! Most of the time, getting them to show up to a band practice is rather like aligning the planets.

I think I'm the only person in the world who has actually invested in my gear (decent amps, guitars, etc), a vehicle to transport them with, a willingness to show the hell up and on time, ability to actually put time into actually writing some decent tracks and the ability to recognize that just because a gig is booked, people don't magically show up and that promoting your band is 99% of the challenge.

Throughout my entire music playing career, I don't think I've had anyone who puts in half the effort I do. It is so so fucking demoralizing and frustrating! I often wonder how half these fucks ever picked up a guitar in the first place!

TL/DR: I live in the sticks where everyone's attitude matches the lifestyle and they believe things will just happen magically from thin air. Time to move methinks.
 
satannica":1imqvopv said:
I want to blame myself really.

However, I just seem to have the worst luck in picking band-mates. Completely irrational lead vocalists who believe they are Christ Almighty himself and the entire world, including other bands and promoters, revolve only around them and that they can pull diva moves when they have to compromise.

Added to that drummers who can barely hold 4/4 time and bassists with girlfriends who are suddenly one day either backing singers or band managers.

Those are the bastards who actually show up! Most of the time, getting them to show up to a band practice is rather like aligning the planets.

I think I'm the only person in the world who has actually invested in my gear (decent amps, guitars, etc), a vehicle to transport them with, a willingness to show the hell up and on time, ability to actually put time into actually writing some decent tracks and the ability to recognize that just because a gig is booked, people don't magically show up and that promoting your band is 99% of the challenge.

Throughout my entire music playing career, I don't think I've had anyone who puts in half the effort I do. It is so so fucking demoralizing and frustrating! I often wonder how half these fucks ever picked up a guitar in the first place!
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Dude, a-fucking-men... THIS is the real plight of the local gigging musician.
 
Having a good day job playing weekends when ya want to is making it.
 
Totally.

I've had two bands which I brought from being a concept formulated in a bar to being a pubic hair away from greatness. And I owe both failures to other people being dickheads.

First band, about three years worth of work. The bassist and drummer constantly got stoned together, but due to a lack of any reasonable replacements, the fact that when they finally showed up they were decent players, I always let it slide. Big mistake. One of the biggest invites we got was to open up for a night put on by a pretty decent label. Although there were really select tickets out on public, it was basically an audience of AR types, label types and other artists on their label. It's the kind of gig you would kill for and I practically did in order to get it. About an hour after we were due on stage, I found out that the bassist and drummer had both been nicked for driving under the influence and, well, that was that band finished then. Tried for ages to get decent replacement but any contacts I'd made to try and redeem myself were well gone. Not that I could actually replace either of them.

Second band I put a few years into, promoting, wheeling, dealing, putting in a fair amount of cash and time into promoting, etc. This time, no stoners and no egos... but again I was wrong. I was doing 100% of the promotion myself. I was flyering, getting magazine reviews, getting CDs in envelopes, all that type of shit. We were getting better and better turnouts, including hits on myspace and all that jazz, more and more unsolicited people buying from the web store. It was gaining momentum. However, my requests for help went unheeded. Their opinion was that promotion was wholly unnecessary and it was simply the sheer awesome music that we were churning out that was drawing people (or more accurate, the songs I was writing and they were learning... but hey whatever!) Anyways, long and short, after a lot of tension and bad noise, I gave up promoting. Sales disappeared, empty rooms replaced them. Suddenly they decided it was because we were tuning to C and not Bb... don't ask me how they came to this diagnosis, it confuses me to this day. Tune lower we did, fuck all effect it had... I quit when they decided the best thing to do was to pay monthly to be on some local scam-artist label. Last I heard in the four years they've been paying to be on this label, they've had three gigs, recorded 4 CDs and I don't think have been heard of outside the local scene at all... in fact even in the local scene they're a bit of a where are they now. Fucking nowhere, that's where!

I do hope, when I move to a new area, things will improve. It can't be as fucking impoverished as here... it really can't!
 
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