We Need Drums!!!

Some call us washed up has beens. Others call us schmucks. We tend to fancy ourselves musicians.

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Songs we’d like you to record on to follow...

meanwhile, here’s a list of bands we dig. Have you heard of any of them? If so, rockin! If not, might we suggest youtube?

Against All Authority, At The Drive-in, Bad Religion, Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution, Belvedere, The Best of the Worst, Big D & the Kids Table, A Billion Ernies, Bob Marley, Bodyjar, Bomb the Music Industry, Common Rider, Cruiserweight, The Fad, Filibuster, Goldfinger, Green Day, Jpegasus, The Lawrence Arms, Mad Caddies, No Doubt, No Torso, NOFX, Out of Nothing, Ozma, Refused, Rx Bandits, Short Round, Streetlight Manifesto, Strike Anywhere, Sublime, Suicide Machines, Thursday, Useless I.D., Weezer, 6 Voltios

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Drummer(s) Wanted

Ideally you’d fit all of these criteria, but we suppose we can make a few exceptions.

- Must be able to play punk, rock, ska, reggae. We’ll like you even more if you like and/or listen to any of those genres. Hint: we do a mix of those.  

- Must realize we will most likely all never meet in person. 

- Must own or have regular access to a drum kit. More pts. awarded to you if it’s real. We’ve yet to hear an electronic kit worth a crap (unless it’s way high end) = just our opinion.

- Must be able to keep time. We don't do click tracks but will shoot you the BPM roughly associated with each song to help.

- Must have a means to record yourself playing said drums. We don’t care how you do it as long as we can get decent sounding wav or mp3 files when it’s all said and done. Props to you if you use garageband - we do. 

- Must be able to get back with us in a timely fashion. We understand everyone’s got jobs, commitments, family, etc. BUT to have progress you’ve got to spend at least a little time a week or weekend working on practicing or recording. 

- Pts. awarded if you use “google hangouts” or “Skype”. We typically use one of those for the feeling of face to face discussion. However, if you’re not down with that... we suppose we could shoot email edits and notes (but it’ll lengthen the process).

- Know that if we use your drum work on our final mix of the song, you’ll get the credit as drummer. Wanna use your real name? A pseudonym? An email? We’ll make sure it’s attached on here. Not to mention that if you actually dug the song.. you’ll get a digital copy.... that way you can tell your friends... I friggin played drums on this. 

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Q. What are we trying to do?

A. Basically, we’d like to find a drummer or even various drummers that would like to track/record to song ideas we’ve come up with. You wouldn’t believe how hard it is to find a drummer when you never physically meet to practice... or even live in the same state. Having no luck trying various music collaboration sites, we thought we’d try a different approach. Essentially, think of this site as an online wanted ad.   

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Background:

My friend and I have done music together on and off for 13 years now. When we haven’t lived in the same city/country, we’ve worked over the magical world wide web. We were huge fans of indabamusic (when it was truly an online collaboration platform). However, they’ve since changed.