While I understand your infatuation with the young’uns (and the nice girls in the park), you are not going to score here. Playing with people your age has the advantage that they tend to be more mellow and less interested in achieving stardom and getting rich than the bands we started when we were 15. They will also tell you much faster when they won’t put up with whatever bullshit that might be going on in the band. But, mostly, they’re in it for the fun!
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Plus, they won’t laugh at you when you want to go to bed and they are just showing up to practice.
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Will do, Mike! This is my third or fourth serious attempt, but I need to crack it at some time! The audition next week will be important… 
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- Redo B2B
- Try to learn how to use a pick
- Finally switch my bandmix profile to say I’m looking to join a band
- Use my Zoom B2Four to actually figure out what different effects do so i can try to decipher/recreate those tones i hear on albums that i really like instead of just settling on a preset that sounds okay
- Upgrade my amp? (probably a necessity if I get into a band)
The first two could probably be combined, and the third has been on my “to do” list for months. I was going to do it back in september when i got home from a trip and never did. Now i have been using the holidays as an excuse not to.
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Hahaha!
Usually I’m the last man standing at parties. When I’m in the party train I don’t leave until final station… and beyond!
The youth of nowadays is not what youth was back in the days…
Hmmmm … “my” park punk are completely non-commercial (left/underground/anarchists). Even the promo pics were “anonymous” (you couldn’t see the whole face … though it’s so pretty!).
And all my endeavours to professionalize them failed miserably - the web-site, social media, merch, video clips, more gigs … nothing happened 
I’m afraid that I’m more in for the fun than they are.
They want everything to have a (very cliché) message. I would like stuff to be funny, provovative, (seemingly) non-sensical even. Like Dadaism…
I kind of like the crossover of their idea of Deutsch Rap with my idea of heavy distorted bass lines (playing bass like a 80s synth) … maybe we’ll get there.
Don’t know about a live project though … cause my s#ckiness & stage fright (which is severe).
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Our drummer sent me this after our last gig finished a little late and I asked him to stay for a drink with the band.
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My goal for 2026 continues to be the same goal I had in 2025 and 2024 that I failed to achieve: learn enough and get enough confidence to play with people for people. Even if it’s just root notes, be able to play along when someone yells out “jam in F# minor!” or something like that.
I know that if I met up with a couple of other people and they were like, “hey, we’re going to play this song, here’s the tab/score” I could learn the song. I could learn it well. But that’s just rote. I need to go at least one step beyond that. That’s my goal. 
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To every one that has a goal of playing with others, whether articulated above, or kept private as to say it, to write it makes it more real, I’d say, ‘Just Do It!’
It’s an incredible experience!!
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- Purge unused inventory
- Don’t buy anymore basses
- Refuse any band invites on Bandmix that are over 100 miles away.
- Resist watching Danny ‘The Dipstick Lick’ Sapko videos
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I want to do the 50 song challenge. Since leaving a cover band years ago and only playing music that I was writing, I don’t know any songs that anyone else knows. I’d like to remedy that. Either by doing the 50 song challenge or by doing a 2 month dive on a particular player through the year.
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- Join A Band: A nearby band reached out before the holiday to audition. I learned the songs, but they’ve had trouble getting the members together. Hopefully this works out in January, or I find another group to play with.
- Sing and Play Bass at the Same Time (10 songs): I’m decent at this when strumming the guitar, but I really struggle to do it on bass. I aim to put 10 song set list together that I can sing and play to. (don’t worry, I’m not planning on sharing the vocals here
) - Maiden Cover: This has to happen, getting closer to one, but gotta clean it up at tempo
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In going to go out on a limb here and say based on your excellent bunker covers that you’re more than ready for that. 
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Do you play a 5-string? I assume you know that the note range of a 5-string bass almost exactly matches a cello, the orchestral string instrument with the widest range. 5-string basses start on a Low B and cellos start on a Low C, one semitone different. Inquiring minds and all that. 
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Thanx For Asking @TheMaartian And Yes I Do - However , On Stage , Only The 4 String
Currently Playing As A Duo And Riffled Through A Number Of Drummers That Just Wanna Rock Out And Beat On Those Snares - Fished For A Keyboard But Zero Replies So Far - So I Figured , Cello , Or As Jack Black Says ,” Turn The Cello And Hello .”
Happy 2026 ,
Cheers
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Actually, a bass is an octave lower than a cello. The C on the bottom of a cello is the same C as the third fret on a bass’s A string.
Source: me going into the other room and comparing my cello to my bass.
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Recover from shoulder surgery. Finish the B2B course. Learn more songs on Bass.
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My bass goals for the year are to
- Progress beyond my newbie status.
- Finish the B2B course, and start back through it again.
- Create more cover material, both bass and vocals, for my new channel on Youtube.
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I appreciate the correction.
So, what John Myung (Dream Theater) must have meant in the interview I read where he talked about his journey from a 4- to a 5- to a 6-string was that the range of a 5-string matches a cello, but an octave down (the part he didn’t say). That’s when he got into playing the JS Bach Suites for Solo Cello on his 5er.