It sucks to have an unknown band with fantastic music ruined by having someone who cannot sing.
Singer and composer, do the world a favor and find a musician who can sing worth a damn. I realize this might could wound your artistic integrity, but your voice is like the bleating of a tone deaf mexican jew lizard.
Make your band better by adding someone with a real voice. Just play an instrument (or learn how to) instead of singing. Your voice is as melodious as the caw of a magpie. Give up the game already. You can’t play ball in the majors. It doesn’t mean you can’t coach. Suck it up and swallow your pride. If you raise the quality of your product your band could be delivered from dive bars to main stages.
Did I also mention that you suck at singing? I mean, you REALLY suck at singing. Listening to you sing a song is like getting hammered in the face with a sack of wet-crete. It’s painful, it’s sloppy, and you sure as hell don’t want it to happen again. You could not sing if I cut out McJagger’s lips and Pavarotti’s voice box and surgically implanted them into your singing handicapped skull. An American G.I. could walk the Bataan death march and not be tired enough for you to gently sing him to sleep. If you were the hired singer at a dog wedding, the father of the bride would bite you.
Hire a vocalist.
Do not ever open your mouth again.
Wonderful thread title. Are you not naming the band because you’re in it? Also, I’ve never eaten at McJagger’s- how’s the food? I’d imagine it’s full of chemicals.
Great Topic…
So many great bands of the 60’s were loaded with vocalists, many featured 3-part harmony.
Examples: The Beatles
The Byrds
Buffalo Springfield, LOVE, Spirit, Beach Boys
When most of these bands broke-up, we followed our favorite singers into their new groups. I am still benefitting today by purchasing CD’s that were not available then that are being released today. Gene Clark, of the Byrds went on to record music for many years after he left the group. His post Byrds career was not perticularly commercially successful for a myriad of reasons,however, the music he wrote and recorded is masterful. Now, alot of his material is available and we all benefit.
No, Marley23, I’m not in the band. The one I was thinking of is The Silver Jews, I just happened to stumble on them while trying to dig up some interesting music I hadn’t yet heard. But the post applies to all singers out there who can’t carry a fucking tune.
I guess I should have included more profanity in the OP. I wanted it in the Pit, not in Cafe Society where it will die quietly and ignomiously. Ah well, whatever.
For what it’s worth, I really like The Silver Jews and even David Berman’s voice. I’m one of those people who doesn’t have a problem with non-standard singing voices, though. I’m guessing that you don’t like, say, Smog or Pavement or Lou Reed either? It’s all the same sort of speak-singing. Besides, there are far, far worse singers than David Berman out there in the rock world. At least his voice is interesting and fits the music.
Your post (and maybe your name to) reminded me that so many of the bands I love have multiple lead vocalists, each of whom can carry a tune separately or harmonize together.
