Frontmen - who’d have em?

[Mickeyboro]

5 hours ago, Cliff Edge said:

 Singing lessons? For a blues band?             Interesting. 

Turning a blind eye to the irony, I do sing songs in our set to vary things/ give the main singer a break, but my voice wouldn’t stand up to two sets. I therefore intend to learn the best way to strengthen and conserve it. Maybe at some point I can join the frontman club…but it won’t happen overnight.

[Beedster]

5 minutes ago, Mickeyboro said:

Turning a blind eye to the irony, I do sing songs in our set to vary things/ give the main singer a break, but my voice wouldn’t stand up to two sets. I therefore intend to learn the best way to strengthen and conserve it. Maybe at some point I can join the frontman club…but it won’t happen overnight.

 

Singing lessons are a great idea Mick, not just to improve singing technique (pitch/tone/range/control) but also to protect your voice for things other than singing. I had short-notice surgery on my neck years ago - long story - and during the surgery my vocal chords were damaged requiring further surgery. I was told in no uncertain terms by the surgeon that I would need 6-weeks of not using my voice at all followed by regular speech therapy. The therapist was also a voice and vocal coach, and the stuff she taught me was well worth learning. I still do the exercise occasionally especially if I'm doing BVs for a gig. Enjoy the journey mate   

[msb]

Bands are such fragile things , there’s so many things that come into play. And yet when they work it can be so wonderful. I keep sideman status , and my needs are simple. If I see grief on a gig I pass. I simply want to concentrate on the music , without having to deal with a busy mind because I’m not happy about one thing or another. 
It is possible to meet up with like minded folk that can make great music. I wish you luck finding that.

[gjones]

7 hours ago, tauzero said:

 

That's as bad a generalisation as never joining a band with a couple in it. I was in a successful democratic band with Mrs Zero a while ago, exploding both of those myths simultaneously.

 

I've been in a band, with a couple in it, for the last 22 years and that works fine (an occasional domestic on stage between them both in the early days but not so much now). The wife is the singer the husband is the guitarist and the band is named after the wife. The arrangement is, the singer makes all decisions on what songs we play, and everybody else does as they're told. This arrangement works fine, as I don't think I  should pressurise the singer in any band I'm in, to sing a song they don't want to sing.