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It's sharing time: barriers to your goals as a surf musician
Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 5320 the outer banks of north carolina 
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Posted on Sep 30 2014 07:12 PM
no one to play with time's been an issue lately.....i'm a small business owner starting to play at age 47-ish. i don't have the muscle memory you have when you learn as a teen......just like trying to learn to surf when you are older. thank goodness i started at 13. freezing up when playing with others — |
Joined: Jul 09, 2010 Posts: 1153 Lillian Alabama 
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Posted on Sep 30 2014 08:28 PM
Yep--no one to play with. Only music down is country. Not my thing. Time is no issue. I've got all day. Tried to relearn to surf at 62. No pictures. My balance is terrible. Diabetic and my feet don't always feel the board and it's affected my balance. Body board!!! I want to shred! I want to just BURN! Nothing I can record on. I'm analog and have trouble working on computors. Any loan me couple of Revox's , mikes and a mixer?? Enjoying the surf,sun and sand!! Last edited: Sep 30, 2014 20:29:51 |
Joined: Sep 27, 2008 Posts: 1149 Damascus, Maryland
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Posted on Sep 30 2014 10:52 PM
I'll throw in with a couple of folks......biggest problem is finding others to play with. —Will "You're done, once you're a surfer you're done. You're in. It's like the mob or something. You're not getting out." - Kelly Slater |
Joined: Jul 24, 2012 Posts: 2762 Finknabad, Squinkistan 
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Posted on Sep 30 2014 11:15 PM
No call-back after auditions. Need to have ALL the standards at my fingertips – poor musical memory makes it hard. To keep 'up on' all the tunes I have to rehearse them nearly constantly, which I don't have time or patience to keep doing. — |
Joined: May 29, 2007 Posts: 225 Central CT, USA
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Posted on Oct 01 2014 08:07 AM
As a resource for the "No one to play with" barrier, I recorded drums-only backing tracks for standards like "Baja" and "WDR" over on the SG 101 "Downloads" section a couple of months ago. Maybe someone here is motivated enough to record some bass, rhythm or lead over them and re-post. We have a long, dark, cold winter appraoching, so I'd record drums for aome more surf standards, time and my ability permitting. What standards are on your wish lists? - Dick —*Dick B. |
Joined: Mar 15, 2012 Posts: 105 San Antonio, Texas
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Posted on Oct 01 2014 11:53 AM
My main barrier is that I work 80+ hours a week as a marching band director during football season. I have an entire record worth of demo songs in the can, just no time to take it past there. I love teaching music as my career, it just leaves very little time to create my own music. —The Techtonics reverb nation page Last edited: Oct 01, 2014 11:53:59 |
Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 12159 Seattle 
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Posted on Oct 01 2014 01:28 PM
JStern wrote:
Sounds like you have next season's repertoire planned out! |
Joined: Apr 05, 2006 Posts: 1547 Bethlehem, GA
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Posted on Oct 01 2014 02:01 PM
Logistics, time constraints and age discrimination. My bandmates live in Tennessee, 200 miles from me which make rehearsals an issue. I am retired with tons of free time, my bandmates have time-consuming jobs that often involve weekend work. As a result we have indefinitely delayed our 50th anniversary album project, which will now be something else. The really fun surf- and instro-friendly club venues we played in in the '90's and early 2000's (that still exist) are no longer interested in booking bands comprised of geriatric local musicians since their target customers are mostly in their 20's and 30's. That is completely understandable and is why we stopped playing live and now concentrate on recording when time allows. So...all you guys that make fun of us older players, remember that if you are lucky, someday you will be old, too. Karma is a bitch. Jack Booth The Mariners (1964-68, 1996-2005), 2025 |
Joined: Mar 22, 2006 Posts: 363 Los Angeles
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Posted on Oct 01 2014 02:18 PM
"barriers to your goals as a surf musician" ??!! Choosing to play surf music in the first place!!! |
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Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 12159 Seattle
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Posted on Oct 01 2014 02:47 PM
WoodyJ wrote:
But think of all of the great claims to fame you have! Abraham Lincoln bought the first ever Mariners recording. There was something else... |
Joined: Dec 11, 2013 Posts: 2537 Akron, Ohio
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Posted on Oct 01 2014 03:39 PM
Time is my biggest barrier 8 months of the year owning a seasonal business but tonight at 5:30 Tim, our drummer, is coming into the studio to bash out the next installment of the Kahuna Kings. We have to force ourselves to do this! —The Kahuna Kings https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Kahuna-Kings/459752090818447 |
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Joined: Apr 05, 2006 Posts: 1547 Bethlehem, GA
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Posted on Oct 01 2014 04:00 PM
JakeDobner wrote:
Correct on all counts, Jake, but it wasn't Abe, it was Martin Van Buren. (BTW, well played, I actually LOL'd) —Jack Booth The Mariners (1964-68, 1996-2005), 2025 |
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