Seeking musicians for original band

Chattanooga TN

Description

I am a musician in my mid 50's. I play guitar, bass, piano, and drums a bit. I've been in bands since I was a teen. I've been writing songs seriously in the past several years and playing solo for quite a little while now. I would love to put this music into a band setting and experience the group dynamic again. My style is a bit retro. In fact, it's so retro it's now-tro. I grew up listening to the Beatles, the Who, Bowie and the like. My favorite band right now is the Kinks. Just delving into their catalogue seriously for the first time. What a fantastic writer Ray Davies is. Anyway, my style pulls from a lot of different sources. If you give a listen you can hear the influences. British invasion, Jimi Hendrix. Pink Floyd, Carpenters, Dylan... The styles encompass rock, pop, dare I say 'indie'? Country and jazz. Lots of major 7th and minor 7b5 chords, diminished and more. I have a decent knowledge of music theory. Even some punk rock in there for good measure. Ballads galore. Sad songs and happy songs. Upbeat songs about depression and slow songs about bliss. Songs bordering on prog rock. I have been recording demos and uploading them to youtube. This is a web address to my youtube channel. You can copy it and put it into your web browser. It will take you to my channel. That's where the songs are. It is not a link. You can't click on it. You have to either copy it or type it into your web browser. (do the young ones know what a web browser is?) https://www.youtube.com/user/caveatemp/videos If what I've said sounds interesting to you, please peruse the songs a bit. You can then decide if you like them or not, if they have promise or not. You can save both of us time by doing that. Please bear in mind that the recordings are all me, save some drums parts. I am not a perfectionist by any stretch so don't expect polished gems. That said, the recordings have adequate to exemplary instrumentation and will give you a good idea of my vision for arrangement- though nothing is set in stone. I mention my age because I know there is a lot of ageism and sexism out there. I'm an older man. I'm not a cute 20 something woman who can only play 4 chords. My songwriting is nothing like that. That said, sometimes a song only needs 4 chords. You get the picture. When the musicians assemble we can divvy up the instruments, playing to our individual strengths. Most of the songs on my channel are collaborations. If you join you will have creative input into the songwriting process going forward. If you have your owns songs we'll pull them into the repertoire. I have space to audition and practice. I have guitars, piano, bass, drums, and PA. I live in North Chattanooga with my wife and no children. email me if interested. "serious inquiries only" Merry Christmas!