We actually PLAYED!

[doctorbongo]

Alright, this guy, Mike, at the station and I have two bands.
Dead Err plays rock and roll and blues and whatever else fits in that grabbag.
Death Becomes You plays all of the favorites of American pop music, from "Close to You" by the Carpenters to anything by Cher. It's a limitless set list for Death Becomes You, but since both bands are entirely in our heads, the music never ends because it never begins. Until two weeks ago. We actually played.
The guitarist with the Cornchucklers hat and the bassist are ACTUAL musicians, who have earned paycheks playing music. The one thing the guy in the purple hat, Mike, wanted for his birthday was to jam. So jam we did. About a dozen people showed up. I cobbled together the hardware to play the new Tama toms I got a few months back, and we played for about three hours. We cranked out a pretty fair version of "White Room," so we had to do it as our encore. Don't see Jack, Eric and Ginger getting together to prove they can do it better, but it was FUN!

For once, I wasn't playing with myself...

 

[Dan ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ]

Havin' fun is the main thing! :yes:

 

[Fast_Eddie]

All right! Good for you guys! Looks like a great time!

 

[sleddogman]

It's great for your mental health, ain't it?

Now - do it more often! :thmbsp:

 

[kcollins4]

Yet another one of my longtime dreams realized by someone else.:tears: Here's what I wanna know. It looks like beer was involved, so did the music get noticeably better, or noticeably worse, as the time went by?

 

[nickrobotron]

just noticeably more fun.

 

[doctorbongo]

Well, scattershot...
I gave up on mental health. My motto: Everybody is crazy, it's just a matter of degree.
The bassist drinks all of the time, if Bud Light is drinking. I think I had three, so it was pretty lightweight. I'd say it was a bit rough, regardless of the BAC, but the "crowd" seemed to think we were okay. Would be better if I actually KNEW the songs, but we'll give it another rip.
It was a total gas, my friends, and highly recommended to anyone who ever played. I have this theory, more a philosophy, that if you don't want to get prematurely old, keep doing the things you loved when you were young. One of our ardent admirers is a 70 y.o. lady who sat thru the whole thing. I think that may have been the MOST impressive part of the shindig.

 

[kcollins4]

Very cool. I've got a bass which I can't play at all, a guitar which I've only learned 4 chords on in 25 years, and a "family style" Yamaha keyboard (same 4 chords). Kept hoping the wife and kids would want to learn how to play and have some fun. Never happened. I'll bet you had a blast! Oh yeah, also got Yamaha drum pads that ony the 2 and 3 year old grandkids play with.ity:

 

[Dusty Chalk]

Yet another one of my longtime dreams realized by someone else.:tears:

I know what you mean -- every time I go into the basement, my synthesizers mock me.

 

[RayW]

It's great for your mental health, ain't it?

Now - do it more often! :thmbsp:

Back when I worked for Eminence I put together a homemade electronic drum set (Alesis D-4 module based) and took it to work to mess around. I ended up leaving it in the listening room for a year or so. The head engineer brought in his homebrew bass rig and we used to "play along" at lunch. We'd grab a CD that we thought would be fun and throw it on after scarfing down some food. It was always a hoot. We never could get any other folks into it although on occasion we had an audience. Great way to de-stress a day at work.

Thanks for bringing back some memories!

Ray

 

[vintage-yungin]

Them toms are awfully far apart,how does that work for you? I see a lot of people with that and always wondered if I should try it,but I stuck to my closeness and did better that way of coarse I came out with bruised knee's but I still jammed like no other!

Rock on man tama is a great company I used a mapex pro m full birch set it was one of the best sounding drum set I have ever heard if its tuned right I had to sell it though due to little to no use soon I will get a nother set though!

Shawn.