bubinga5 Posted January 15, 2009 Posted January 15, 2009 Anyone use these sites..what are the best ones..i live in the cheltenham area... i know to get the best out of them you have to pay..are they alot?? Thanks Quote
Happy Jack Posted January 15, 2009 Posted January 15, 2009 I've been happy enough with [url="http://www.formingbands.co.uk/site/index.php"]http://www.formingbands.co.uk/site/index.php[/url] . It costs me £2.50 per month (or something) so basically the cost of a pint to stay visible. I get (on average) an invitation every other month, and at least half of those invitations are serious ones from appropriate people. The Search facilities are excellent. Similar threads here on BassChat have produced maybe another three or four sites to try. One by one I've tried them all and then deleted them from My Favourites because they just haven't worked for me. Quote
clauster Posted January 15, 2009 Posted January 15, 2009 www.bandmix.co.uk is one I've used. Musofinder is the one favoured by my vocalist. Quote
peted Posted January 15, 2009 Posted January 15, 2009 I successfully joined two bands using MusoFinder.co.uk and get half a dozen messages a year from people looking for a bassist (and that's just people searching profiles without me putting out a 'Wanted' ad). The basic service is free (which is what I use). You can pay a subscription if you want to plug yourself as a true Professional or Tutor, for that you get higher profile Wanted ads and some extra features. Quote
OldGit Posted January 15, 2009 Posted January 15, 2009 Bristol rocks may stetch as far as Cheltenham [url="http://www.bristolrock.co.uk/"]http://www.bristolrock.co.uk/[/url] That has a musicians wanted bit Quote
Happy Jack Posted January 15, 2009 Posted January 15, 2009 [quote name='peted' post='381349' date='Jan 15 2009, 02:49 PM']I successfully joined two bands using MusoFinder.co.uk and get half a dozen messages a year from people looking for a bassist (and that's just people searching profiles without me putting out a 'Wanted' ad). The basic service is free (which is what I use). You can pay a subscription if you want to plug yourself as a true Professional or Tutor, for that you get higher profile Wanted ads and some extra features.[/quote] I've seen MusoFinder rated very highly by several other people but I just can't seem to get anything useful out of that site. I guess it's me pressing the wrong buttons. Quote
joe_bass Posted January 15, 2009 Posted January 15, 2009 I used formingbands.co.uk Went with a one off payment (£1.50 or so) that gave me like 14 days to have a search, wasn't interested in the monthly. Found the band that I'm in now, I also came across a fare bit of drift though. Including someone that fancied themself a lot & after some contact I got my hands on some mp3s, result.... Not saying different sites attract different types & abilities etc. Just wanted to voice my experience. Quote
farmer61 Posted January 15, 2009 Posted January 15, 2009 When looking for a drummer and Guitarist we looked on.......forget the crap name.....partysounds.co.uk, and found them. Free as well. Quote
jmstone Posted January 15, 2009 Posted January 15, 2009 I think joinmyband.co.uk is ok.. got current guitarist and drummer from that site. In the end I tended more towards gumtree though.. James Quote
thisnameistaken Posted January 16, 2009 Posted January 16, 2009 I've tried them all and just happened to get lucky with bandmix - found a singer who lives literally around the corner from me and shares the same tastes. We still haven't found a drummer though. Quote
Moody Posted January 16, 2009 Posted January 16, 2009 We used Formingbands to get our Guitarist, ironically, he only lives up the road from me! Quote
Galilee Posted January 16, 2009 Posted January 16, 2009 Sounds like some enterprising individual needs to set up a consolidation site for these things. Compare the best prices for bass players, from all these different suppliers, in one place, that kind of thing. Quote
dabootsy Posted January 16, 2009 Posted January 16, 2009 I use partysounds website which is free and has a filter for your area [url="http://www.partysounds.co.uk"]http://www.partysounds.co.uk[/url] all the best Quote
thisnameistaken Posted January 16, 2009 Posted January 16, 2009 [quote name='Galilee' post='382263' date='Jan 16 2009, 12:25 PM']Sounds like some enterprising individual needs to set up a consolidation site for these things. Compare the best prices for bass players, from all these different suppliers, in one place, that kind of thing.[/quote] I'm currently working on a comparison site comparison site. "Do you have time to compare comparison sites? Let us do it for you," etc. Quote
stingrayfan Posted January 16, 2009 Posted January 16, 2009 [quote name='dabootsy' post='382270' date='Jan 16 2009, 12:30 PM']I use partysounds website which is free and has a filter for your area [url="http://www.partysounds.co.uk"]http://www.partysounds.co.uk[/url] all the best[/quote] +1 on Partysounds. Had good results with that. Quote
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