How hard can it be to find a singer? This was my innocent thought, a year ago, as I set out to complete our band.
Our band plays sleazy blues rock covers, including plenty of GnR, Slash, Velvet Revolver, Aerosmith and Motley Crue, as well as RHCP, Foos and Audioslave. The material is tasteful. We play the music faithfully. It sounds tight and awesome. We are ready to gig.
Out there in the teaming ant hill of humanity, in all its weird and varied forms, you would expect to find at least one musical sleaze merchant who can howl like a tom cat and roar like a lion. Someone with a great voice, dying to get out there and make rock music.
Yet we have been looking for a year and have not found anyone willing or able to be the fifth instrument that we need. We have replied to every Rock Shop classified ad, without finding anyone. I have asked friends. I even looked for a singer by watching an excruciating episode of New Zealand's Got Talent, a spectacle so unpleasant that during the second half I wanted to gouge out my eyeballs with a teaspoon.
These talented people with their great voices exist, but how are they found? Are we seeking the impossible? Is there no-one with the courage to front a band and a decent vocal range? Or is that someone too rare, a freak genetic variant like a white gorilla or a bearded woman?
Where are the singers?
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Re: Where are the singers?
I might end up in Auckland by the new year. If you haven't found someone by then, I'd be keen to have a jam.
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Re: Where are the singers?
If you get up here, call me (Andrew) on 0226534121. We are always pleased to meet a singer, and I know you already will know Slither, Nighttrain, Mr Brownstone etc.
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slash-ed wrote:I might end up in Auckland by the new year. If you haven't found someone by then, I'd be keen to have a jam.
NO! BANNED!
So, is that low alcohol or no alcohol at all? mmmm, no alcohol, do you want to try it? Noooooooooo.
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doh, no mention of area = auckland!!! obvious innit.slash-ed wrote:Where are you?
So, is that low alcohol or no alcohol at all? mmmm, no alcohol, do you want to try it? Noooooooooo.
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slash-ed wrote:I might end up in Auckland by the new year.
Smeg! That must have been one hell of a bet you lost!
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