So this morning I have a private message on Join My Band. I’ve had a comprehensive advert on there for most of the year. I list my many influences, I have YouTube links to my last two bands. So you can see what I look/sound like and my playing style. So if you can be bothered to read, you know that I’m into various rock music forms. Classic/Prog/Alternative & Shoegaze. The advert also states that I have no interest in covers bands.
So why email me with a vague offer of a band without any detail whatsoever. I guess It’s intriguing, so I email back asking about style of music originals/covers etc.
The response back is “Reggae & Soul covers”. Nothing wrong with that, I have been known to play a bit of reggae years ago when I stood in for a guy in a Bhangra outfit. But why bother contacting me, especially as my advert obviously states my interests?
This is happened to me before when a band in Brixton just nodded their heads to everything I said, took me on for two months. Then said they didn’t like my playing style and wanted me to be more like St Vincent. My response was “You knew my influences and playing style from my advert on Gumtree, did you think I was going to magically change one day and develop tits?”
Sorry rant over.
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I've been contacted a few times over the years, usually by young kids wanting to start a band with metallica covers moving on to originals, or people who have everything in place, the contacts, the gigs, going to be huge! Just don't have songs or people or a clue...
Latest contact.. last year now, was by a band that actually had their shit together, had an album and stuff.. not really my type of music but I thought why not? I'm game..
Turned out they wanted me to be the bassist.
He tried to shove me out of the way in a "Do you know who I am?" manner on the Fender stand at a trade show once while I was doing a deal with a salesman, so I stepped backwards onto his foot and stayed there until his minder politely asked me to move.