Tim is proof that you don’t need to be a technically proficient guitarist of 15 years to write great music! Back when I started playing I was older I started playing and taking guitar seriously when I turned 23 and everyone says you need to start playing when ur 10 years old and start playing in bands when ur 16 and if ur not really doing things by 20 it’s too late that’s really the gist of what so many people have said for years. After 6 months of playing I started looking for musicians to form a band and pretty much nobody would even jam with me because I had only been playing for 6 months. After my first year of play I had started to jam with a bassist and drummer for a few months, they had 5+ years of experience but after the few months I surpassed them in playing because I had been practicing 6+ hours per day every day, learning as much as I can but still no decent musicians would play or start a band with me, I started looking for bands to join but they also didn’t like that I had only been playing less then 1 1/2 years. So one day I said screw it I have jammed with many people and I’m better then many people that have been playing 5+ years so I’m just gonna lie so I told everyone I had been playing for 5 years then all the sudden everyone wanted to jam with me and most people had big egos because they had experience and thought they were amazing and I didn’t like that so I started my own band and looked for members, the one bassist I played with ended up joining and also sang, found an amazing drummer who could play the fast double time punk beats who also had 15+ years of acoustic guitar experience and he took formal lessons so he had a lot of knowledge of theory and an amazing voice, we realized the bassist/singer sucked at singing so we found an amazing singer with 10+ years experience singing and playing guitar and when he started the bassist quit after a few practices he didn’t like that he wasn’t singing anymore but he sucked at singing and the new guy was absolutely amazing so now we had a real band we started writing more songs and perfecting songs I had already wrote, played our first show then we started looking for a lead guitarist or bassist and the guy we picked was an amazing bassist but the singer ended up playing bass because it was too hard to play some of the songs and sing so this guy started playing lead guitar then a month later we recorded a 4 song ep and soon as we released it we were asked to play a huge show at the most respected scene venue if you played there and better yet we’re asked to come back then ur band was decent and it was a venue necessary if you we’re trying to take ur band seriously and gain real fans that’s where all the scene kids went they would have sold out shows on a Monday night and kids came there just to check out the new bands some kids came there for every possible show they could all the time. Well we played the big stage 1000 cap room near filled up this was our second show and after this stuff started happening because everyone that mattered in the local scene was there we’re talking other venue promoters & owners, radio hosts that talked about local music and looked for the new local bands to play on the radio, all the big local musicians that were touring acts just the who’s who of local music and within a few days we had a radio station asking us to come on for a live interview and to play our songs on the radio, asked to play every venue in town including a brand new venue that wanted us to be the first rock band, the main promoter for this big venue asked us to play a show which we did and it ended up starting a great relationship and he got us on shows with bigger national bands, our Facebook account went from 50 people before the show and the next day we had 500, tons of bands became our friends, this one girl that was a big solo artist asked us to play this big event the next day there were 5+ bands and we went on right before her so hundreds of people seen us play, it just really got the ball rolling. Shortly after at a practice not long after the members of my band and their girlfriends were over and all started talking about how long they have been playing and when it was my turn the one girl said oh bet you have been playing since you were 5 years old and others agreed so I got nervous and said well I’m sorry for lying but I’ve only been playing for just over 2 years, everyone started laughing and then some one said no seriously and I said I am serious, nobody would play with me when they found out I had only been playing a year so I lied and then everyone wanted to play. The lead guitarist said how is that even possible? I said dude I practiced 6hrs a day every day then when in bed I still played guitar until I fell asleep, so my 2 years was like a normal persons 5-10 years and I knew I had to get good in a short time so I focused on playing solid, correctly I didn’t practice anything at a speed that I couldn’t play clean and correctly, I didn’t spend hours practicing stuff like sweep picking which I didn’t need to play any ways I spent my time practicing the things that I needed to be solid at for the music I want to play and as I got solid I started spending time on things like week picking and other things that I really won’t use for this band much at all but to become a better player. I realized early on that many players would practice too fast practicing sloppy and practicing stuff like sweep picking when they can’t even play octaves cleanly at speed so I knew that my time would be best spent practicing what I am gonna play and practice at the speeds I can play cleanly, using a metronome because if you can’t play something in time then ur practicing the technique incorrectly because if something’s hard to play u will slow down a bit to play it and not even notice and I will become solid faster then trying to learn 10 advanced techniques that I won’t use and am years away from being able to do and that’s why I can play all of our music super solid, if you asked me to play some cover songs I couldn’t play many of them because they will have techniques I can’t do. If I practiced everything then I wouldn’t be solid like I am. They were blown away! And many other musicians I knew also thought I was some amazing guitarist because I played so solidly but they didn’t know anything about my playing, yeah a lot of our songs are really fast so I can see why people thought that. Also I have a really good ear for music and also for writing music I can tell when a song sucks or if a part is too long and needs to be shortened or if we need to just toss the song out l, too many times bands will thing the last song they wrote is the best they have done but it’s all mental and also many bands will want to use some cheap crap microphone or microphone pre amp because they used it on a demo or use it at practice and think it sounds great so when they go to a studio to record for real they want to use this stuff because they think it sounds great but in reality it sounds terrible
This video is priceless!! I had one just like this of my band "STAND UP" It got lost. It sucks because our two guitarists both died in a a car accident shortly after filming our 2nd record. Id kill to see it/them Again.
Can someone reupload this in full 1080x1920 so I don't feel like this was over 15 years ago. I remember buying this CD from bestbuy and it came with this dvd in it. I can just cry. Anyone remember the senses fail-Let it enfold you dvd?
I wouldn't be able to work with Adam. If I played a riff and he shrugged his shoulders and said "that sucked" I'd end up pushing him off his pRoDuCeR's ChAiR
To Whom it May Concern means a heck of a lot to me and watching them vibe to it during mixing brings another level to the song for me. I love this so much.
2021 here.. I’m 31 going on 32 .. this is still one of my lifetime albums and I consider one of the best albums EVER! I blast this still. 🙏 If you can, share with someone young and lost. God bless
29 here dude. Was 14 when this came into my life. This type of post hardcore is making a bit of a comeback! check out the band Static Dress & tell me those guitar riffs arent' totally influenced by Underoath
The summer this album came out I moved states between sophomore and junior year of highschool. New town, no friends, felt very alone at times and this album was like a drug that revitalized my soul. I remember watching this documentary that came on dvd with the cd and holding the album artwork - it was all a vibe. Sometimes our saddest memories are the sweetest years later
I agree with everyone here. There was something on this album, a mood or atmosphere, that isn't found anywhere else. I remember listening to it for months. Each song has little gems in them that I notice on each listen.
agreed. i used to really love miss may i and motionless in white, knew about all of their songs on guitar like i did underoath but now and days i only ever come back to listen to underoath.
I’m not trying to be biased, but I think all their albums from chasing safety on have aged pretty well. Define still sounds sick and chasing safety just is a bunch of fun with every listen.
The thing is, it doesn‘t really fit into the scene of that era. Nobody really mixed post-rock with post-hardcore back then. This album was mature right from the start.
I enjoyed Erase Me. It feels "safe" as if they were testing their waters since dropping the Christianity niche. I'm confident they'll push it it again with the next release.
