Shepherd
Final Approach
The garage music thread confused me. I thought it was about garage bands.
My dad was a part time jazz sax player. His band got together and played every Wednesday night in my basement when I was growing up. A lot of big name musicians turned up there. Garage bands are in my blood.
I really like going out to small venues and listening to local garage bands. I always have.
I'd rather go to a local club and listen to a mediocre garage band than go listen to most big name rock acts. There is always a vibrancy, an earnestness, about them that just brings the music alive.
When my youngest son decided to get a band started (they were very successful, btw.) I cleared out the garage so they could practice here. It made my wife crazy, but I loved it. All that energy was infectious, and watching and listening to the creative process as they wrote their own material was amazing. They decided, the first night, that they were not going to be a "cover band", and they wrote some pretty good songs, and over the 5 years they were together they developed quite a large local following.
As it so often happens, they all finished college, and the band broke up. The bass player became an accountant, the drummer is in Hollywood, trying to break into the script writing and film production business, the rhythm guitar player\lead singer is a Florida State Trooper, and my son, who plays an incredible lead guitar, the harmony singing parts and did all the recording and post production work in his home studio, is now an embedded systems designer for a big medical device company.
The bass player and my son still get together and play a few times a year, and as a side project my son writes and produces music for an NBC TV show in Boston. NBC Boston just signed the show for a second season. We're pretty proud of that.
When he comes home we always try to get out and listen to as many bands as we can.
Anyone else like garage bands?
My dad was a part time jazz sax player. His band got together and played every Wednesday night in my basement when I was growing up. A lot of big name musicians turned up there. Garage bands are in my blood.
I really like going out to small venues and listening to local garage bands. I always have.
I'd rather go to a local club and listen to a mediocre garage band than go listen to most big name rock acts. There is always a vibrancy, an earnestness, about them that just brings the music alive.
When my youngest son decided to get a band started (they were very successful, btw.) I cleared out the garage so they could practice here. It made my wife crazy, but I loved it. All that energy was infectious, and watching and listening to the creative process as they wrote their own material was amazing. They decided, the first night, that they were not going to be a "cover band", and they wrote some pretty good songs, and over the 5 years they were together they developed quite a large local following.
As it so often happens, they all finished college, and the band broke up. The bass player became an accountant, the drummer is in Hollywood, trying to break into the script writing and film production business, the rhythm guitar player\lead singer is a Florida State Trooper, and my son, who plays an incredible lead guitar, the harmony singing parts and did all the recording and post production work in his home studio, is now an embedded systems designer for a big medical device company.
The bass player and my son still get together and play a few times a year, and as a side project my son writes and produces music for an NBC TV show in Boston. NBC Boston just signed the show for a second season. We're pretty proud of that.
When he comes home we always try to get out and listen to as many bands as we can.
Anyone else like garage bands?
