I think I'm done

[snorkie635]

On 13/05/2025 at 10:20, cetera said:

There's never a bad time to buy a new Spector

 

Never a truer word written.

[uk_lefty]

Not bass but something different... I used to play field hockey to a decent standard as a goalie. "Retired" aged 29 to play at a lower standard, just for fun, no more goalie work. Gave that up for a few years when it wasn't fun anymore. After four or five years out I got the itch, and after a season and a half back in I got persuaded to play in goal... "This could be a complete disaster" I warned. Turned out I absolutely loved it and am throwing myself back in. 

 

A rest can help you appreciate what it was, and opportunities can arise tomorrow or twelve years later. If you loved it at one point you can love it again, you just need the right circumstances to relight the fire.

[Russ]

There's still plenty of metal out there for us older guys. I'm in a band doing original metal, and we're all in our 40s and 50s. It's not 80s-style either, it's quite contemporary. It's a case of getting the right mix of personalities and aspirations. Personally, my big aspiration in music was to play the London Astoria. I never did, and now it no longer exists, so I've had to recalibrate.  Basically, I enjoy getting in a rehearsal room with my mates and making lots of loud noise, and occasionally going out there and playing it for other people.

 

Plus I still love the bass, the sound of the instrument and what you can do with it. That hasn't gone anywhere in the past 33 years.  

 

If you want to get into sub-genres - doom, goth, thrash, death, prog and power metal are full of us not-as-young-as-we-were types. A lot of the time, as long as you've got someone reasonably talented and photogenic on vocals, nobody cares what age the people behind them are! 

 

 

Edited 3 hours ago by Russ