Your First Band - Your First Five Covers!

All good tunes. Great band name.

I was 11 or 12 and had already been doing solo spots with my mom's group... the guys in the band were 16 and 18 but I was the young turk guitar whiz. that band was responsible for me losing my virginity at the age of 12... also for smoking my first joint when it was still called reefer

Funny, I gave up guitar about 1967 to come out front and only took it back up seriously in the last few years. It comes back pretty quickly if you rehearse. Unfortunately I have arthritis and it hinders me a little.

I play a little keyboard as well (very little) and may take that back up as well to see if I can do anything with it.

I was 11 or 12 and had already been doing solo spots with my mom's group... the guys in the band were 16 and 18 but I was the young turk guitar whiz. that band was responsible for me losing my virginity at the age of 12... also for smoking my first joint when it was still called reefer

Funny, I gave up guitar about 1967 to come out front and only took it back up seriously in the last few years. It comes back pretty quickly if you rehearse. Unfortunately I have arthritis and it hinders me a little.

I play a little keyboard as well (very little) and may take that back up as well to see if I can do anything with it.

I was 11 or 12 and had already been doing solo spots with my mom's group... the guys in the band were 16 and 18 but I was the young turk guitar whiz. that band was responsible for me losing my virginity at the age of 12... also for smoking my first joint when it was still called reefer

Funny, I gave up guitar about 1967 to come out front and only took it back up seriously in the last few years. It comes back pretty quickly if you rehearse. Unfortunately I have arthritis and it hinders me a little.

I play a little keyboard as well (very little) and may take that back up as well to see if I can do anything with it.

three posts? How the hell did that happen?

Must be the "reefer."

Sleepwalk was one of the first songs I learned to play...still whistle it often...deja vu...I think I wrote that before at this site.

I still have an old vhs of me and my buddies doing a few tunes...

Every Rose Has It's Thorn
Wanted Dead Or Alive
Way Cool Jr - Ratt
No Smoke Without A Fire - ...a later version of Bad Company
and a few of myself alone...SRV stuff and some Satriani

I never had an official band, but at one point I used to play with a few people regularly just for fun. We mostly played some simple folky-rock-type songs that I'd written, but I do remember occasionally playing "Wild Thing," and "All Along The Watchtower." In one of my songs we morphed the end into a blistering (well, for us anyway) version of the Stones "Gimme Shelter" in which I screamed the female vocal line, "it's just a shot away" in such a high voice that you'd think I'd been castrated as a young boy. It was that good. Hehehe...

GodDAMMIT those were some great times.

Tunes I remember us playing early...

Take It As It Comes (Doors)
Have You Ever Seen the Rain? (CCR)
Proud Mary (CCR)
Bound for Hell (Love & Rockets)
Just Like Heaven (the Cure)
Don't Bogart That Joint (Fraternity of Men)
Gloria (dunno who did that first)
Wave of Mutilation (Pixies)
Here Comes Your Man (Pixies)
Love Street (Doors)
Fire (Hendrix)

...all done very sloppy and crappy and punky because no one knew how to play an instrument going in, and played with instruments and amps we found in old hippie parents' basements that no one wanted any more.

Damn I miss that beat up old Rhodes...

you don't have to miss those times folks. dust off your **** and play it... get together with some friends and jam.

Playing is the best and that never ever goes away, whether you're making a living or farting around and to not do it is just tragic.

Joe's Garage--Frank Zappa

It wasn't very large
There was just enough room to cram the drums
In the corner over by the Dodge
It was a fifty-four
With a mashed up door
And a cheesy little amp
With a sign on the front said "Fender Champ"
And a second hand guitar
It was a Stratocaster with a whammy bar

We could jam in Joe's Garage
His mama was screamin'
His dad was mad
We was playin' the same old song
In the afternoon 'n' sometimes we would
Play it all night long
It was all we knew, 'n' easy too
So we wouldn't get it wrong
All we did was bend the string like...

Down in Joe's Garage
We didn't have no dope or LSD
But a coupla quartsa beer
Would fix it so the intonation
Would not offend yer ear
And the same old chords goin' over 'n' over
Became a symphony
We would play it again 'n' again 'n' again
'Cause it sounded good to me

We could jam in Joe's Garage
His mama was screamin',
"TURN IT DOWN!"
We was playing' the same old song
In the afternoon 'n' sometimes we would
Play it all night long
It was all we knew, and easy too
So we wouldn't get it wrong
Even if you played it on a saxophone

We thought we was pretty good
We talked about keepin' the band together
'N' we figured that we should
'Cause about this time we was gettin' the eye
From the girls in the neighborhood
They'd all come over 'n' dance around
like...

STOMP-CLAP, STOMP-CLAP-CLAP...

So we picked out a stupid name
Had some cards printed up for a coupla bucks
'N' we was on our way to fame
Got matching suits 'N' Beatle Boots
'N' a sign on the back of the car
'N' we was ready to work in a GO-GO Bar

People seemed to like our song
They got up 'n' danced 'n' made a lotta noise
An' it wasn't 'fore very long
A guy from a company we can't name
Said we oughta take his pen
'N' sign on the line for a real good time
But he didn't tell us when
These "good times" would be somethin'
That was really happenin'
So the band broke up
An' it looks like
We will never play again...

Guess you only get one chance in life
To play a song that goes like...

Well the years was rollin' by, yeah
Heavy Metal 'n' Glitter Rock
Had caught the public eye, yeah
Snotty boys with lipstick on
Was really flyin' high, yeah
'N' then they got that Disco thing
'N' New Wave came along
'N' all of a sudden I thought the time
Had come for that old song
We used to play in "Joe's Garage"
And if I am not wrong
You will soon be dancin' to...

My friends who can play are retards. Besides me, they make/made for a pretty tight band, but the drummer works too much, the singer is a lazy bitch, and the two remaining of us want to play bad. I just keep practicing a little here and there.

chuckle...Silvertone..brings back memories

hang in there 'hoo...it'll happen

Don't worry, bear, I still noodle. But I moved out to the coast with the Rhodes and the salt air was the end of it. Practically gave away a vintage twin reverb Fender amp we'd, um, found when I left the state, too.