Yes, YES, a thousand times YES !!!!!

I play an arranger kb out of NEED more than desire ... I ENJOY it, but it's NOT the band ...

... and now I'm off to a OMB gig with a MOST appreciative audience ...

So true. More than a few of us have been there, done that. Loved every minute.

we cant live in the past its was a different time no sense sulking over it...yes I enjoyed playing with a band for many many years, ...but I have moved on with happy memories as a solo act and enjoying it too. You have to face reality and make what your doing now musically the best it can be ....nothing lasts forever.

That is SO missing the point of everything that's been said. Nobody's sulking, just appreciating.

chas

Sure the good times were great, but on three occasions over 30 some years I've been involved in really great bands. We rehearsed, we learned songs, we got really tight, we had really talented players and singers (I was the LEAST talented in all of them). Then just as it got really good, somebody got drafted, somebody started messing with somebody's wife, somebody drank too much, somebody's wife raised hell...anyway, there are downsides to bands. It seems like we were constantly looking for a replacement or fill-in. I gradually just started doing it all myself!
It's like old girlfriends, we remember the great sex and tend to forget the bitchin'!

SO MUCH FUN! Not very complicated. These are players that lean more towards blues grooves. The bass player is playing a P bass, not a jazz bass (Fender). The guitar player is on a Telecaster...sometimes used by jazz players but a keystone instrument in Blues, rock and country.

The "organ" player is a monster, but notice, he, like a lot of younger "simulator" players, does not use the Leslie simulation mechanism to add the depth you get when you tastefully use alternating speeds at the right time.

There are a few groups like this in this area, and, when asked,
I always jump at the chance to play, and NEVER ask what the job pays, which, often is little.

If you haven't been there, you won't understand. If you have been there, you miss it.

GOOD STUFF, CHAS!


R.

Exactly.

Ditto Don............Keep Moving forward,... never backwards..
most bandmates are dead, drugged up, married or divorced, moved away, lost interest, who needs the drama anymore...

That said this is more my "Heaven"

Soooo, it's better to play with yourself than playing with a girl???