franzbassist Posted December 12 Share Posted December 12 (edited) We've come and gone over the years, but first gig dates with my current bandmates are as follows: Singer/guitarist - 1985 Drummer - 1985 Lead guitar -1989 Keys - 1991 We've been around a bit! 🤘 Edited December 12 by franzbassist 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_b Posted December 12 Share Posted December 12 The drummer of our school band tried to set up a 25th anniversary gig, but as he was the reason the band split up in the first place the guitarist told him to shove it. He tried again for a 30th anniversary gig and this time the guitarist was more amenable. After that we did a 35th anniversary gig. This year the drummer's band had a gig and our singer and me (last surviving members) got up and did a couple of the old songs in the interval. There are many bands I've played with over the years that I'd give a second time around, but this time I think that school band has run its course. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russ.c Posted December 12 Author Share Posted December 12 It seems from a few of these examples that the older one gets, the more forgiving one can become, or that we're not so bothered by the things which used to annoy us, because life's too short and is only getting shorter. Probably my main reason for thinking about getting the band back together. One last go before it's too late. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean-Luc Pickguard Posted December 12 Share Posted December 12 One of the members of my first band from about 40 years ago is still a good mate, however I recently heard that the other member sadly passed away a few years ago. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norris Posted December 12 Share Posted December 12 The BL (keys) has been dead for many years now. His other half (vocals) is probably in her 90s by now. We had a bit of a falling out with the drummer in the 90s (we chat amicably when our paths cross, but wouldn't want to play with him again!). Last but not least I still play with the guitarist in my current band - it will be 40 years playing together in March next year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackroadkill Posted December 12 Share Posted December 12 Every now and again, someone mentions getting my old originals band back together for a laugh, and at first it seems like a good idea, because it was fun, but then the longer I think about it the more apparent it becomes that I just don't want to do it. For one thing, it would mean me playing guitar again, for another the singer and I don't seem to be on anything other than extremely cautious speaking terms since our last band folded earlier this year (despite having known each other since we were 13, me being his daughter's insert-deity-of-your-choice-father etc etc). Add that to the smoking wreckage we left out local music scene, the broken hearts, drug dependencies, ruined relationships and unpaid debts and things get a bit sticky. They get stickier still when you add in the very intense intra-band politics and quasi-unionising of the rhythm section, too. So, all in all, I'd rather not. For one thing, the last time we played I was a snake-hipped rock Dionysus, draped with the affections of young ladies (at least in my mind, at any rate), and now I'm a grizzled old f*ck who would break a femur if he popped some of the same moves now. This remains the worst gig I've ever played, by the way, and is also the scene of the final gig with my last band (although we - or at least some of us - didn't know this at the time....). Oh my goodness, but we fancied ourselves something rotten... Yours truly at stage right; I'm truly sorry! So no, the one and only Son Of A Bitch will not be reforming any time soon. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimR Posted December 12 Share Posted December 12 5 hours ago, chris_b said: There are many bands I've played with over the years that I'd give a second time around, but this time I think that school band has run its course. I have a tape of 20 or so songs that I put onto CD with some noise reduction, multiband compression and EQ to master it a bit. I often wonder what it would sound like with competent musicians, recorded in a recording studio with someone with some musical experience to tweak the ideas. The songs are OK, and they're of a time but have potential to sound quite good if anyone had the time and interest. Probably best left as tape recordings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauzero Posted December 13 Share Posted December 13 Of the bands I've been in which would qualify (ie I was a member at the point the band split up), I have no idea where my fellow band members were for almost all of them, for one band the drummer has moved to Australia, the singer I've lost touch with, and the guitarist I was in another band with subsequently. That other band had transformed so it no longer had that guitarist in when it finished, but Mrs Zero was the singer and she and I met up with the final guitarist yesterday, and I'm still in touch with two of the drummers we went through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skybone Posted December 13 Share Posted December 13 It's been discussed a few times, but that's as far as it went. The singer was all for it, but the guitarist / songwriter was adamant it wouldn't happen. The drummer's not really available, as he died a few years ago. It'd be a one off, and probably no one would turn up, but it would be fun to revisit some of those songs again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meterman Posted December 13 Share Posted December 13 My first proper band existed from 1988 to the end of 1993. We had a couple of records out, and got up to plenty mischief wherever possible. But after our final gig in November '93 we knew our moment had passed. Our album flopped miserably in the UK (it did okay elsewhere though, but not enough to sustain us) and we drifted apart. Within a year, all six of us were living in different towns or cities, doing different things of varying legality. Our sole album is being reissued next year in expanded CD form, with outtakes, demos, live bits, etc. We'd been approached regularly over the years to do a reissue and we always said "On yer bike!". But this time we said yes, mostly to shut people up, and on one condition - that we don't get back together and do gigs or anything else again. We're all clean living family types now, with estate cars, and labradors, and Waitrose bags for life, so revisiting a Class A's past where we were constantly getting into bother... it's just not worth the risk. None of us would be up for it. Some of us will meet up occasionally for a pint if I'm in the UK, but if the conversation turns towards having been in a band, we all get the shivers and laugh it off, then change the subject 😂 2 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meterman Posted December 13 Share Posted December 13 Actually, thinking about it again - if I'd been a member of Pentangle and all the others were still alive I'd love to get the band back together, even if I had to just play the spoons or something. "Wedding Dress" - imagine playing that along with Danny Thompson and Terry Cox and the rest of them? Not arf! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickeyboro Posted December 13 Share Posted December 13 1 hour ago, meterman said: My first proper band existed from 1988 to the end of 1993. We had a couple of records out, and got up to plenty mischief wherever possible. 😂 What were you called? I am intrigued! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meterman Posted December 14 Share Posted December 14 10 hours ago, Mickeyboro said: What were you called? I am intrigued! Here you go! https://www.discogs.com/release/2771606-The-Prescriptions-Psychedelicatessen We were a bit shíte really, but when I was still on social media, random people would be getting in touch with pictures of bootlegged C-60's of demos, often with incorrect track titles, or people asking about lyrics or outtakes or whatever. Knocking out a reissue with the extra tracks and all that, it just puts the full stop on it forever. Which is the point of doing it 👍 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickeyboro Posted December 14 Share Posted December 14 Ta. I will get this - sounds interesting! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meterman Posted December 14 Share Posted December 14 2 hours ago, Mickeyboro said: Ta. I will get this - sounds interesting! Hang on! The reissue is still going to have to be remastered. The original master was done by George Peckham and all the album tracks segued into each other. A bit like Sgt Pepper's or something. We've been having trouble with digital remastering, because a nanosecond of silence gets inserted between the segues. But when it's finally sorted I can PM you and try and get you a promo. No, not a parmo, a promo. 😉 Are you really from the 'boro? We were actually banned from playing anywhere in the town after headlining a multiple band all-dayer in 1988, where our behaviour was deemed 'unacceptable'. Not proud of it, but back then we were absolutely feral. I remember absolutely bricking it though, during the load out when a load of gadgies said they were going to kick our heads in. We managed to back them off, but that kind of thing happened all the time with us, wherever we went. Oddly enough we still got played on Radio Tees by Mark Page and a few others though. Different times, for sure. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickeyboro Posted December 14 Share Posted December 14 2 hours ago, meterman said: But when it's finally sorted I can PM you and try and get you a promo. No, not a parmo, a promo. 😉 Are you really from the 'boro? That’s very kind of you @meterman. I might even return the favour and review it for Record Collector if you like. No problem if not, I am interested regardless. When in 2007 I joined BC, I had quit my football team Fulham and followed Farnborough in non-League home and away. Hence the boro; you’re not the first person to relocate me😀. I have now returned to Fulham as my sons are season-ticket holders, but catch Boro every so often. Not as good a story as yours, sorry… 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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