"Nothing about starting a band or music creation?"

"Nothing about starting a band and booking shows?"

"That was great but I wanted to see stuff about starting a goth band"

"What about being in a band?"

Ok, ok. I hear you. Let no one say I do not read the comments from various places my articles are shared across the internet. Looks like we are going into part four of three by popular demand.

To be honest I didn't see the relevance of this as getting a band going/getting gigs and starting up a local goth scene from scratch are very different things. But some of the things I discussed in the previous three articles can be applied to that too.

Depending on how long this ends up I may tack some other stuff I have been meaning to cover that is short on the end.

My Band Experience

One reason I didn't want to cover this is my experience with bands in the goth scene is rather limited or unique. But I have been in other bands before too.

To start with I am 40 years old and I have been playing bass guitar since I was 10 (about 8 years formal tuition), guitar since I was 14 (about 6 years formal tuition), drums since I was 13 (formal tuition on and off through the years - a couple of years total) and I have sung most of my life. I was the lead singer of the primary school choir before my voice broke. I didn't get back into singing again until I was about 18 (going from awesome voice to awful voice really kicks you in the nuts) so I focused on instruments in between. Its all served me well as I tend to write music from the perspective of a bass player primarily with an emphasis on rhythm and beat.