Friend asks me to play bass in his band

why are you so angry user? They’re doing what makes them happy. Does other doing what they want make you mad? Do you want to cry more?

Stop being a baby, it’s not cute

if you think anyone at this stage is gonna give a fuck how good you’re playing you might actually have a learning disability

Your band sucks. You make art just to get idiots to notice you. You're no artist. You're a fraud, and you know it deep down.

i hate fags like you

Awww what a child What do you other than projecting your inner negativity onto others? It’s ok user everyone has their place in life just like you. There will come a time when you have the resources to do what you want but you have to get out of high school first. Give it time!

Musician here. The rest of these idiots are furiously jealous of you op

Go on the fucking tour it’ll be really good for u. If you don’t go You’re a pussy

don't be a fucking pussy
you won't get anywhere in life if you don't get the fuck out of your comfort zone

Nobody gives a shit about the person playing bass. Even if you fuck up, nobody would be able to tell. Just do it.

Can we hear your bands music? plz

i'm a bass player and i agree with this

If you don’t I’m going to trace your IP address, find you, and punch you in the nose. This is literally my dream to go on tour with a band of my friends, and you’re gonna miss out on it cause “waah I’m scared”??? Fuck off

which town are you referring to lol

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like the other user said, getting comfortable on a stage isn't that hard, I'm a complete autist but I absolutely love performing. Just have 2 or 3 beers beforehand, talk to people and make some friends at the show before you go on and focus on the music when you're onstage.

You'll regret it if you don't try.
Plus you meet new people.

this
especially the part about it getting easier the more you do it
and the part where no one in the audience gives a fuck about what you are doing at all
t. bassist with horrible social and performance anxiety who now plays every week in front of lots of ppl

You're a fucking bassist cunt. No one will think about you and you'll need to have 0 stage precense since you'll probably play indie rock or some shit. If you've never played live before you'll be nervous before playing but while the gig is going on you will either have fun (if it's going well) or be utterly bored (if it's goes wrong). It isn't "fucking terrifying"

It's all dead unless you are a rapper or an already established band with lots of hype. Literally no one is going to go see some literal who band in 2019. You will lose money touring and be playing night after night to an audience consisting of the other bands who are playing with you, their girlfriends, and like 2 other people

>You will lose money touring and be playing night after night to an audience consisting of the other bands who are playing with you, their girlfriends, and like 2 other people
not that guy, but my band makes a good amount of money and i doubt anyone here has ever heard of us. we still do well enough that it's our full time job, and money issues aren't that bad.

All local bands suck, and you know it.

depends on what genre. i guess i am filtering everything through the diy scene experience. what type of music do you play?

yeah man only bands that get a billion hits on spotify are good

No, bands that actually attract a sizable audience and excitement every time they play are good.
You can't bullshit a well-written song. Sure, you can be a spazzy, "complex," noisy Slint ripoff, but everyone in the know knows your chord changes make no sense, and your drum fills are completely stolen.
Also those melodies sound like Deerhunter.

Also learn to sing in key, you fucking hacks.

this thread literally proves just how retarded and autistic a majority of Yea Forums is holy shit

where do you live where the local bands are like this?
here it's 90% rappers 5% indie faggots 5% pop punk

No, bands that sound good are good.

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The only reason why you should blow off something like this is if the band sucks or you're in a situation where you need to get your shit together before touring around, otherwise your gonna regret not going. Also grow some fucking balls

all now famous bands started off as local bands

You have no idea how the music industry works, dumb dumb.
Watch! you'll turn 30 one day, with no inkling of influence at all.

>Hey bro! I'm picking up some real negative vibes here, mannnn. Just toke some reefer, duuuuude!

have sex

op is that you?

AHAHAHAHAHA YOU CLUELESS FAGGOT

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i have a lot of sex. girls think i'm funny when i roast the idiots in local bands who suck.

I think you'd regret not going on tour later. Think about the potential of how cool it would be to play in front of an audience.

Sounds like your implying that all famous bands are made in by the industry. You don’t actually believe that do you?

yea because being negative makees you better at life

you will regret not doing it, it sounds like a good experience to have

'touring' can just mean going to small local venues in a few nearby states. have sex.

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He's lying

Actually negativity has a place in all aspects of life... Helps, ya know, when you want to ACTUALLY IMPROVE!

God damn, you sound sheltered af. Ummm, it's called having taste and intelligence, sweetie? But cool that you want to project your upper middle class upbringing where your parents can afford to put you into therapy.
Sorry that you're shit at music tho. Not everyone can have their dreams come true.

Excactly... a glorified road trip.
Have fun playing for literally TENS OF PEOPLE!

Lmfao.. the shit white people do to boost their self esteem. EVERYONE NEEDS 2 BE SPECIAL :))))

>Have fun playing for literally TENS OF PEOPLE!
Yes, it is fun.

i've played in front of 10k+ ppl. it's not that hard. nobody even notices if you mess up. most people are just there to get drunk and try and get laid. everybody is too focussed on them self to even pay attention to you unless you're a lead singer maybe.

>waHHH I AM A SPECIAL BABY! I AM TALENTED, OKAY? PLEASE ADMIT AND DON'T DISCOURAGE MY DWEAMS!!! MY DREAMS ARE VALID! I DESERVE ATTENTION AND PRAISE FOR BEING SO BRAVE AND UNIQUE

Literally drink bleach. You're one in seven billion.

You're probably 25. Tick tock! BETTER GET THINKIN ABOUT THAT RETIREMENT, user

The human ear can’t even hear most bass notes so it really doesn’t matter.

i'm 34. i don't really know what the retirement thing is about. you can't retire from being a musician because you don't make any money at it.

based edgyposter

Jerking off all day is pretty fun too.

What exactly do you want in life that tells you music is about the money and attention? You've been fed a definition of success, user, and it’s not true.

Based boomer with no plans for the future.

most people who play music are some kind of attention hog. you kind of need it to succeed. modesty is seen as a great quality but it doesn't get you much in life.

Not as much

>34
>boomer
but srsly dude the world is fucked what am i supposed to do buy a house and have kids?

What a juvenile view of art. Yes, user... all artists are bursting with selfless sacrifice. No one actually wants a comfortable life.
How many Josh Homme/Jack White interviews have you listened to? lmfao

user you can gig until you die it’s easy if you’re good. Travel plans? Who needs to save for months when u can Literally go anywhere in the world, find a bilingual slut, and have her go venue to venue translating for solo gigs at restaurants.
Alternatively churches are frequently looking for accompanists. Lessons etc.

If you’re a good musician the world is your oyster

2013 was six years ago. 2 by Mac DeMarco is older than that.

In 6 more years you'll be fucking 40. Have you ever thought about that, or do you merely live day-to-day?

No one mentioned talent. You haven’t provide any valid reason as to why OP should not tour. You have made it sound like touring will ruin your life. There’s no logical reason to discourage OP from chasing a dream, despite it not being lucrative. Most people that go into music know it’s not the best business financially

Are you fucking kidding me? Just do it, idiot.

> That one guy that's just super petty in the thread and responds to everything.

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Yes you’ve gotta be a grandiose attention whore to convince people who know nothing of music that your time is worth their money. But that’s not the end it’s just a means. Music itself is worth the sacrifice
Define comfort. I’m fine with two meals a day in a studio apt with a piano gigging 5 nights a week with lessons and studio work like what do u think music is just instagram?

Where the fuck did you play in front of 10k+ people?

Go back to your shitty synth track, loser.

You just played yourself like a string. Fool.

Just stay near the back of the stage or next to the drummer and you'll get used to it at your own pace. God damn this garbage thread should've ended like 60 posts ago.

>In 6 more years you'll be fucking 40
should i go get a spray tan? i really don't know what you want. we live in hell man.

it was a festival. it was shit. all festivals are shit. the sound is trash and the audiences suck. there is no reason to go to a music festival if you like music. the only reason any artists play them is because they pay well. every festival i've ever played has just been a huge pile of shit.

honestly any show with more than 300 people is probably a waste of time.

I'm sorry your synth track sucks, user.

I'm not even working on a synth track. Cope harder.

We've always lived in hell. There has never been an era in human existence where people weren't confronted with sheer cataclysm all the time. You're telling me it would be better 105 years ago, in the brink of the first world war and the Spanish flu?

Maybe you're just too old for Yea Forums? Maybe, just maybe, the internet has afforded you unparalleled access to people's deepest anxieties and fears? Maybe you're wasting your life by not going out and changing shit on your own, and merely focusing on the bad?

Can't win the game if you don't play, mafucka.

I didn't ask what festivals are like, I'm older than you are and been to and played plenty, I asked where you played in front of 10k+ people.

I'm also 34 but i panicked and went to law school at 24 so now I'm rich as fuck but missed the wave when i could have been in a big band

I'm working on my album with the goal of being a poor man's ariel pink just a super talented older songwriter

>musician claims to play in front of audience
>everyone is infinitriggered
This is why I never tell strangers I play music

People here can sniff out a larp pretty well.

No, it's just that if you're over the age of 24, and you're still trying to be in a band and make it, everyone who's an actual adult just thinks you're an idiot.

Not really, no

This desu. Exactly why i went to law school at that age.

it was in texas maybe 3 years ago?

>Can't win the game if you don't play, mafucka.
good luck with that dude.

I don't get the outrage either here...People here are just seething with rage over the fact that someone has performed live. Yea Forums is a bucket full of crabs.

>it was a festival. it was shit
learn to read

>trying to make it
What if his definition of success is different from yours?
t. late-30s musician who likes gigging and making music with no delusions of grandeur

All you have to do is literally ask someone to put you on a bill. It's not that hard. I played an Elliott Smith cover at a talent show when I was 15, my guy. Shit doesn't make you a God.

lmfao

Idk why 24 is your cutoff. It really doesn’t matter. I’m 27 and a nobody and im Not stopping. There aren’t options for me though. I couldn’t live with music as a hobby.
You all just suck and can’t charge more than 100/hr lessons

Ah, a defeatist cuck. Are you white, by any chance?

one hundred per hour? By god, do you get off on ripping people off?
Who even needs teachers anymore in the age of YouTube?

>What if his definition of success is different from yours?
the only real kind of success is being happy and content. so i'm the biggest kind of failure you can imagine. the only reason i keep playing music is cause other people want me to.

yeah i'm white (jewish/mexican)

> Teenage talent show
> Festival

It actually doesn't work that way for a festival and you have to have at least a reasonably large following to play the larger festivals, and even so for the smaller ones.

What do you play?
When i talk about making it i mean deliberately trying to get famous. Obviously playing gigs for fun is a totally different thing. I started playing jazz bass at 34 and fucking love it but I'm not trying to get signed and written about in pitchfork or any shit like that. I consider that to be somewhat pathetic if you are in your thirties

It's stupid easy to play SXSW, user. That's if you want to lose a ton of money, and only play a half hour set at the back of some hipster bar.

it's pretty easy to get on a lot of festivals honestly but you will end up playing some side stage at noon.

I respect Jazz musician more than twee indie pop dorks. At least you go in Jazz full well not knowing you'll be Julian Lage.

the insecurity in this thread is overwhelming

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So why would you do that? Don't do pay to play.
Because you're not the main group. I see where you're coming from, though.

If you're playing centre stage after 8, that's golden. I wish I could play Glastonbury every year - to me that's Carnegie Hall.

lmao most local musicians are abusive twerps who hit on underage girls in my city

ya'll are overly emotional fags desu

>What do you play?
Guitar, bass, a little drums, a little keys, random instruments, audio engineering
>the only real kind of success is being happy and content. so i'm the biggest kind of failure you can imagine
Sorry user.

>lage
>guitar god
His music is insufferably effeminate and he’s almost
Certainly
A
Faggot
Hekselman in the same park

Do you know anything about musicianship?
Pathetic trying to make it in your thirties? You’re all teenagers confirmed. The twenties are the blow it decade, most
Especially
Today

The ships going down anons. And youre
All worried about retirement over art lmao

Money lost is travel expenses.

It's easier to tear something down than it is to build something up.

I still wish some people here would throw up their music...

This image is you. Are you happy that you're not intelligent at all?

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Back on track, though. OP go out and get that shit. Fuck these faggots trying to talk down to you and trying to step up with the talent shows they did when they were 15, and just the general rage they have for not being able to do what you want to do. OR CAN DO.

Call your dad, user. Tell him you're giving out awful advice.

because he gets to play bass on tour and you don't?

You don't remember where you played in front of 10k+ people?

i don't remember when it was. it was at least a couple years ago. 2016 sounds right tho.

Are you this guy
youtube.com/watch?v=9E62iA6KCIQ

I'm a shut-in but even I used to play live; the first few times might be scary but honestly you get used to it pretty quick
Also: STAGE PRESENCE

i wish i was as based as him.

he was saying what we all thought anyway.

>looking up to madspurdo
you must be tiny

how dare you?

If you're afraid to do it you don't deserve to get hired

>actually believing his fantasies of singing in front of his old highschool with his crush in the audience

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alt rock

That's very odd, and again, not what I asked.

I never had those fantasies. My school didn't do things like that, either.

just get high as fuck and jump around. itll be fun bro i promise.

do you want me to give you the street address? fuck off you moron.

If you're in a band you have access to some drugs that will help you cope. Go for it

No, I want you to stop being coy about "not remembering" and just say where you played in front of 10k+ people. It's the first thing you wrote in the thread, you want people to know, so it's the first thing I asked you. You're still here several hours later not answering it, instead being a little bitch with your larp.

Reading these comments
> HA, anybody can play a big show at a festival! Don't you know that I played at a talent show when I was 15
> You couldn't have played a big show, AND I DEMAND TO KNOW WHERE YOU PLAYED!

Yo, choir boy fag, post up some proof that you played at your local talent show for us!

it was in the basement of the alamo. i hope you're happy now. rest in piss dick licker. but seriously go die in a fire or some shit. if you are jealous because i got to stand on stage in front of 10 thousand sweaty idiots who don't give a shit about me for 45 minutes then you should probably get a life. the whole point of what i was saying to begin with is that being on stage in front of people isn't fun or cool and being a musician is awful.

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God, i hate local members so much.

lol what a fucking phony
At best this dude's shitty local band got asked to do an opening slot a local festival when there's only like 40 people milling around still setting up. 8 hours later people are actually there for the headliner.

It’s better to regret something you have done, than something you haven’t done

Post your band faggot

Umm, you may have heard of a little band called DIIV? YEAH, it's me, Dev-Chan, honey. I hate niggers and faggots and fuck so much pussy.

My music.
bitchute.com/video/CrVQgNSWVlbx/

Pretty based

Nobody is going to be paying that much attention to you since you're the bassist anyways and it will probably be a fun experience touring with your friend.

Nobody hears the bass anyway, just try not to shit on lead guitarist's face and you're better than 80% of bassists.

so its a covers band. makes sense. i have a friend in a covers act & they play 4 nights a wekk & make good coin.