[musictlk] joined a band.

[Andrew English (paper music)]

That reminded me, Robert.
If you all get good enough to go on the road, my wife runs a coffee house 
performance space in Albuquerque, NM. Drop me a line with a demo and I'll 
get it to her. (Ya gotta have your act together, though. The competition for 
performing there is quite stiff. She books bands from all over, and usually 
gets Grammy talent.)
-Andy



----- Original Message ----- 
From: <pajohns1 at vt.edu>
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Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 9:04 AM
Subject: Re: [musictlk] joined a band.


> Robert,
>
>        Good to hear.  Your band appearing at any of the local jam 
> sessions? I seem to recall one of the coffee shops in downtown Radford 
> had/has Friday night sessions.  Then of course there are the Floyd venues 
> if yor band is bluegrass.
>
> Keep us posted,
>
> Patrick
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Robert j" <robertjmoore at embarqmail.com>
> To: "NFBnet Music Talk Mailing List" <musictlk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 11:17 PM
> Subject: [musictlk] joined a band.
>
>
>> Hi gang.
>> I have not seen much traffic hear as of late.
>> I was getting together with 2 blind friends of mine and working on some
>> music.
>> none of us really had much equipment accept the drumber but he just had 
>> his
>> drumbs. also Me and the guitar player had little and no band experiance.
>> I mean the guitar player just has done some solo work now and then for
>> places like nursing homes and such.
>> I told them I stil would like to regroup with them some time down the 
>> line
>> and maybe I can play some gigs with both bands.
>> I have never been in a band before and I am 48 years oldbut never gave up 
>> on
>> the dream.
>> Well I am not working with my 2 blind friends any more at this time 
>> because
>> I found some guys closer to me that are putting together a band and the
>> drumber in the new band  told me not to wory about transportation, he 
>> picks
>> me up for practice every time and it seems to work out fine for him and 
>> he
>> does not mind.
>> Well I have been to 2 practices so far and it is going well. I have a 
>> long
>> way to go with learning the material but the guitar player also has
>> experiance with playing bass an has some recording equipment so he 
>> recorded
>> himself playing guitar and singing all of the songs and then he recorded 
>> the
>> bass track over that and set the bass louder than the rest of the music 
>> so
>> assentually I can hear him playing guitar and singing but I primarily 
>> hear
>> the bass so it is reall easy to pick out the notes and learn the bass 
>> parts.
>> that really works out great for me since I play totally by ear and do 
>> have a
>> fairly good ear for music but not fantastic so I like having it 
>> sepparated
>> out for me.
>> We have about 40 songs that we are working on and I have not counted but 
>> I
>> think I am fairlly comfortable with about a dozen songs or so and am 
>> working
>> on all the rest.
>> I feel like that I am gaining just a little bit of ground each and every
>> time I practice.
>> thank you to all of you that have given me some encouragement and a few
>> little pointers over the past year or so.
>> If and when we get some stuff recorded and if I am aloud to post an
>> attachment or a link or some such thing I would like to share with the
>> group, but we will cross that bridge when we get to it.
>> thanks again.
>> robert
>>
>>
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