Mine was a punk band when I was 15 and at school. We didn't know anybody with a bass so made do with two guitars. I played the drums. My drum kit consisted of a marching snare and bass drum laid on a table, and a china splash cymbal we 'borrowed' from our school music room. We were planning on grabbing a whole drum kit once piece at a time but the school got wise to us and started locking the room up.

 

mine was a high school band started the day after we had seen U2 open up for J.Geils band on the october tour in the states. we called ourselves "Red Light" and proceeded to butcher every U2 song we could lol. I sang the only real Musician in the band went on to some infamy in band called Barnyard Ballers. I've done alright for my self as well.

 

my first band was a band called band aid. As you can tell from the name, it didn't do well, but had great healing properties for just a piece of tape.

 

My first band (afair) was a tenor sax, acoustic piano and electric guitar.

Genre: blues/jazz influence homemade material.

I must have been about 13 years old and I played the guitar.

Odd instrumentation I agree, but we had a lot of fun playing and sometimes it sounded (afair ... lol) ok.

 

My first band was back in highschool black metal, lol first home rehearsal ahhh desaster and nice memories after that one demo album and one full album!

 

My first band was a punk-metal-rock band, we used to play, well we tried to play is more accurate, songs from Nirvana, Metallica, RATM stuff like that, but we were drunk/high most of the time.
The room where we played was next to a church and from time to time the priest came to shout at us because we were playing to loud during the mass... ^^

EDIT:
What a shame!
I forgot to mention the band's name: Fanatical Berserk ^^

 

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Wow, haven't thought about it in a while, but my first band was when I was 15 as well. It was rock music, but rather eclectic. Our best original was "I Hate Seattle" back in 1992. It sounded just like Nirvana and had the chord progression of "Rock Lobster" by The B-52's. Good times, good times.

 

A metal band called suicide season in high school. Played the bass guitar cos no else did.Bought my first Yamaha bass soon afterwards. Oh well, time flies.

 

thanx for the very cool topic

age:18
band: Appaloosa
style: psychedelic hard rock and some grunge (Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden, Tool not Nirvana like)
actitude: the worst

nice memories

 

Wow sweet memories of golden 80's era when I was in high school. We were 5 members of a band we named 'Lynch Mob' lol. Style was pop, soft rock and some traditional. Really miss this time, there was something in it. A feeling of peacefulness around you as well as a clam inside yourself. I still have a video cassette of 80's MTV which I recorded on a VCR. Cassette was mainly of Metallica, Guns n roses, Pink Floyd's, Red Hot Cholli Peppers etc etc. I remember watching 'nothing else matters' many times by rewinding it on VCR each time when I put it on. OHhhh I miss that nostalgic 80's decade.

 

My first band was called Dirt Hero's and our 7 inch 4 song album was called appropriately "Out Of The Basement and Into Your Ear". We played all the regular clubs in NYC. For some odd reason my brother the drummer never used a drum throne and stood up the whole set, insanely and in much pain. One night we were playing with Stormin' Norman and the Future Surfers at Maxwells in Hoboken, NJ and their drummer made my brother use his throne as well as actually tuned my brother's kit. It was a fun night because everybody, all like 85-100 people were tripping heavily on acid that the punch bowl offered. My van broke down and I had to sleep in it all night long to guard our equiptment. I had hurt my back lifting up our bass players cabinet earlier on while loading in, and because the temperature was about 24 degrees fareniheit and I was only wearing a paper thin fluorescent orange jumpsuit, I destroyed my lumbar spine and by morning had a 105 degree fever, and to this day it still bothers me. Fond memories.

 

1993. Toolbox Killers. Covers by Metallica, Nirvana, Queensyche, RATM, Anthrax, etc
We sucked hard.

 

Nice topic guys!Took me many years back!!
1994, Medieval mass was the name and we murdered covers of maiden,metallica,priest,sabbath,king Diamond,helloween and queensryche.Nice times!!!

 

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It was a hard rock band, consisting of 3 boys and we played mostly our stuff
I was on vocal and bass and also there were guitar and drum. We are friends even today and if there is a time, we still know to throw some jam
...sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll ...except sex
What a beautiful summer of (not 69') 05'
...big for topic

 

Cover band 60s-70s rock. I was in 7th grade, the other members were in HS. Named after the senior geology teacher "Rollie Clemons Band".

 

I forgot, only cause its really funny, the next band i was in was a Ultravox / Japan type band we did originals and covers.. Numan/ classics neveau /early spandau/ultravox/ early japan .. we put the band together to play a party we had 10 days to get it together, when we started we didn't have a drummer but the bass player had a dumulator.. as we planned to have a real drummer we didn't bother with programming the drum machine so the first couple of rehearsals we played all the songs to a looped drum patter from Dead or alive's "you spin me round" and just changed the tempo for each song ... the drummer we got was 14 and in the drum line from my highshool , the kid was awesome.. at the party we put makeup on him ( we were after all a new romantic band style wise.. everyone at the party kept asking us who the lil girl drummer was :P he later went on toplay drums in a band called Bad Radio with some cat named Eddie Vedder

 

TBC ("The Bone Collection" ... lol); 1976 to 79. 4 guys first couple of weeks then a trio as the singer dropped out (or was dropped). Mainly Who-covers but also some own songs. We were bad like yellow fiever but had a lot of enthusiasm, including me (drums) doing some Keith Moonish show-finale (much to the dismay of my then Sonor-kit). Still: those were the days! Punk was on and Police were up and coming and there was this club in my hometown (sort of like a CBGB-clone) where every Friday and Saturday bands were playing and where - at the age of 15/16 - I lost my right to shake my fist at "nowadays youth" :D

 

Some great stories here. Forgot to say in the OP it was back in the mid 80s, can't believe how quickly those 30 years have flown by.

 

Lol!

Old fuckin' good memories! Thanks for this great thread idea man!

The first band was when I was 13. "Singing" in a black metal "band" named Malediction, created with friends of mine. The mic was from a C.B. radio, which had a echo effect we used for spoken intro, all of that, plugged in the aux of a 80's Hi-fi audio system (turntable, tape & radio).
The guitar player had a Squier Stratocaster with an Aria distortion plugged in a 15w Prince amp. The bass player had a old Yamaha bass and a 50w Laney amp but he didn't know to play at all. And the last but not the least, the drum was made with fingers on an old Casio SA-1 synth, before to be replaced by a Amiga with a programmed drum on Protracker, the most accurate drummer I've never known.
All of this was a total cacophonous mess actually, but pleasure we had in this moment have no price now.
Once again, thanks for this remembrance time.