How We Formed a BAND at Age 13 (that's still going today)! 

Me and my mates tried putting a band together quite a few times in the past, it never worked out, it always turned into a drinking session and nothing ever got done. This went on for years. I'm now 43, one of the guys im still best friends with and recently we've put together a Nirvana tribute (tribute to the music of) We we're just sat together one night and thought right let's do this, let's do Nirvana, the band we've always loved, it makes sense. So I put an ad out for a drummer, got a reply from a guy who lives not too far away, also into Nirvana and here we are, did some jam nights in Leeds a few month back and our first gig at a bar in my local town in Dec and we've more lined up. Couldn't be happier, I finally did it, we finally did it

Me and some guys from school, had a band and we tried so hard. Jimmy quit, Jodie got married. We should’ve known, we’d never get far. But like you, when I look back now, those days seem to last forever. And they were the best days of my life!

I actually (a bass player) formed a band about 6 months ago, a little after i started high school (Im 16) with 2 guys from middle school i knew and a drummer a year older than us Its going pretty well, we´ve covered The Trooper and Seek and Destroy, and we are creating some of our own material already!

I started guitar about a year ago. I tried to start a band with one of my best friends, but it didn't really pan out because we wanted to make different types of music, so now I'm trying to convince my other friend to start playing drums again. Loved the video!

I love hearing band origin stories. Mine has a bit of a long one. When I was 16 I decided I really wanted to put this one band together. First run a had a group of guys that didn't seem insanely into it so I called it quits on it for a couple months thinking it was one of my crappy idea bands I came up with every couple months during that time. Fast forward a few months and I decide I really want to try it again and get two new guys I thought would be perfect. Thanks to the fact I was still in high school and two of us, including me, had full time jobs, and then eventually COVID, we didn't end up doing too much, partly because we wanted to do the whole meetup and write thing and we neglected the write by yourself and bring it to the other guys thing. Then we finally had a full lineup of two guitars, vocals, bass and drums. Second guitar player thought the music I wanted to do wasn't really the style he specialized in (we wanted to do Metalcore/Post Hardcore while he wanted to do more indie rock/pop punk stuff) and I replaced him with a guy who ended up getting a new job ended up leading him to not have the time to even hang out with his friends, let alone do a band. Drummer ended up leaving to do a new band. Bass player same story except he turned out to be a massive piece of shit (abuser) so guess I dodged a bullet. Vocalist I found out WAS a massive piece of shit (woman/child beater) so naturally he had to go. Then my whole depression kicked in of me thinking that maybe music wasn't for me and that I should try something else and what not. Then i started talking to an old friend who said he was down to help out, then eventually saw a guy that had some pretty cool vocal covers that was down to join. And a guy who really wanted to join a band so he started playing bass for us. My old friend ended up leaving to focus on his own project and we disagree on a constant direction for the band which did head us a bit down hill, but after dealing with a couple flakes, we got some songs that are almost done and we plan to have stuff out this year and hopefully plan to play out and we even discuss possibly doing a tour. Here's my advice to you reading this. 1. Before actually getting people to join your band, come up with a concept. Name, genre, your imagine, hell write full songs. No they don't have to be Bohemian Rhapsody or Master Of Puppets, but something you can show to people that would be interested in joining your band. Yes you could say "I wanna make music like Avenged Sevenfold" but that alienates people who would potentially be perfect for your band, who don't like A7X. How do you write these songs you maybe asking? Well if you play guitar, just put together some kick ass riffs you write into a song, program the drums, and maybe even attempt to sing over them. Don't know how to do any of that? LEARN! Don't wanna learn or don't have the time? Fiverr will be your best friend. Don't worry, it's not just pop artists who don't write all their songs once you start meeting people. Hell, the fiverr guy may end up joining, or at least becoming fans of you guys. 2. If you want to become the next big thing. Work towards it. Look into any big band you can think of. They all started from nothing and worked their way to the top. You don't start out as some crappy local band and magically one day get approach by some big record label guy and instantly start selling out the Wemblys and MSGs of the world. Utilize the living fuck out of social media. Especially tiktok. That's where all the young folk are at. Trust me. You want them on your side asap. As annoying as it is, spam invites on facebook and spam follow fans of bands you sound like. Yeah it's annoying but it still better than doing nothing. 3. Do thorough research on band members. Make sure they're not horrible people. And if they seem clean, make sure they don't go down the wrong rabbit holes and nothing comes out. If that ends up happening. Kick them tf out. If Vic from Pierce The Veil can throw out this own brother, you can throw out the rando who started sharing Qanon shit or came out to have slept with a teenaged girl. The last thing you want is something that will cause a PR nightmare that'll ruin your name.

Fantastic story. Brought back some great memories of my failed school band. In 1990, Playing "Ride" was a long way off for us, but "Creeping" was our go to song.

I formed a band about six months ago, I was 12 then and I’m 13 now

I’m 15 and me and my sister are forming a band. We have a guitarist but we’re struggling to find a bassist. You have inspired me so much to play guitar and make a band. Thank you

Actually, my first band was when I was in 8th grade. We sucked and it ended. Got another band with all my friends from my small town when I was in 11th grade(progressive speed metal). We continued and made a few EPs and toured Texas doing several gigs with a band that was well known named Watchtower... Billy White was my guitar teacher (Don Dokken (solo album), Watchtower...). Great memories and some wild gigs on the road. 🔥🎸🔥

"And for some reason in the last couple weeks I've had a bunch of people ask me how to start a band." I COULD be wrong. But, like. The new anime, "Bocchi the Rock"-which is an entertaining and inspiring story about high schoolers starting their own band-just concluded a few weeks ago. I have a feeling the timing isn't coincidental!

🤘🏻🔥 Congrats on 778k Subscribers! Oo full documentary, that sounds awesome! Looking forward to that! That random house story always makes me laugh. So glad you guys found each other, I bet that first time you all played together felt incredible. Long live Sanctus 🤘🏻 you guys are honestly awesome! 🔥

This story is so similar to mine. I'll bet lots of other band members can say that. Everybody sucks at first. But when your band solidly plays that first song ever, you'll know why we endure the pain. What an adventure! 👽🤘 Oh, and the thinking that you had about the Robert Plant guy is exactly what's wrong with a lot of pop music today. At least you guys sent him on his way instead of auto-tuning your way to success.

Please tell me that the older kids in your neighborhood would tease you and call your band spanked us

I am lead guitarist and vocalist... I have one of my really good friend who's also lead guitarist... But we have that trouble all the time to find out bassist and drummer for our college band "Thrash Titans" because in India (where I am from)... People don't listen much to metal and rock music so it's really hard though.

This was an awesome story, Mike! I'm trying to start a band and haven't had any luck yet but after this summer I'll be in High School so I'm sure I'll find some people who like the same music and have the same passion to play music like I do

I was in a band for 10 years with really good friends. It was a blast. We then got married and had kids and that was that. We still jam every great once in awhile though

Hey mike. Im around the same age as then you started sanctus and im the lead guitarist and my friend is the rythm guitarist and i havent been able to find a bassist or drummer that we could click with and me and him are very into metallica and we love watching you videos too. I have one question what should we make the name? Thanks a lot dude keep up the good work!

Lies. In Minnesota back in the late 80s everbody played drums, bass or guitar. Hahaha.

Love watching your channel and hearing all of your background stories.....you guys are awesome....hope I get to meet you someday !!....keep it going mike !

I have had one band so far. My friend played drums and so did I, but he was better than me and I had access to guitars and bass (he only had drums). Although I got up on his level as a drummer I just picked up guitar and it was us from age 14 to about 19/20. Jammed with other random people but I was in a small mountain town where there's barely any musicians, let alone metal fans. Most people were either really terrible and enthusiastic, or really good but hard to work with. Finally met this kid at a local show who was doing these crazy low death metal vocals at the shows and did a great Nathan explosion impression, and I made it a point to force him to be my friend haha. Finally he knew a dude who "played bass" and we had to fight to get him to join up with us. Wed always go to the Walmart where he worked and ask him until Finally a year or 2 later he asked about the band. Now we had a full lineup. We rehearsed our asses off for months and got pretty fuckin tight before accepting a gig, and from there we played a solid 20 or so shows of our own in our town and some of the nearby cities a few hours away. We had a short set of original songs and would rotate covers of napalm death, six feet under, fearless Iranians from hell, GG Allin, impetigo, and a few others. The bassist was reliable but not very musically inclined sadly which was definitely getting to me, we usually had to have him turned down to a dull rumble that filled the space without being decipherable (a sid vicious deal) and eventually personal drama led to me letting him go. We had an older guy sit in on our last few gigs and we sounded great Finally. but that previous drama came up again and due to intermingling between the (old) bassists girlfriend and vocalist, I found out I really had done the bassist dirty by firing him. By that time the drummer was preoccupied with lame ass college and I was basically overworking myself to hold everything together way past its expiration date, so I folded the band. That was probably 6 years ago. I'm 28 now and in a new state so hopefully I can start something new. We managed to open for the mentors, mobile deathcamp (former Gwar member), and some underground legends in our short time which I am proud of, but being a death metal band in the sticks is a tough gig lol.

I’m in a band rn we’re making songs (I play geetar) and I’m not sure where we r gonna go next because our drummer (wren) just had shoulder surgery because he keeps dislocating his shoulder. And we haven’t really written any good lyrics and I’m the singer but I’m shish at writing lyrics 😂

That made me reminisce my own band history. A lot of similarities too! I think I started my first band in '87 or '88. Our first rehearsal was just me and the drummer who later changed to bass, and we played Breaking the Law by Judas Priest. It wasn't easy finding people to play with in a small Norwegian town, but we found a drummer, and I decided to sing along with my guitar playing. We had a lot of weird names. Insulin and Asthma were two I remember 😂 Then we became Chromatic Death, and later just Chromatic. We had our debut at the local annual Park Rock event, but eventually the band petered out. I moved to a bigger city and played in many bands there over a period of 8 years. We were close to getting things going a couple of times, but it didn't pan out. Still, we had tons of fun!

Hey Mike, hope your doing well. I was wondering if you heard “You Said It All (Live) by Ozzy Osbourne. If not I would love to see a reaction video

I play bass/vocals and can play guitar and I started a band with my brothers.

I remember forming a band with my cousin when I was 13. It didn't go anywhere and then as we grew older, he lost interest in music in favor of streaming and drawing. I still own the name we used but I never used it because I dont have any members.

You seem to be from my generation. It is quite rare for a band to still be together for that long. I think I know of 1-2 in my local group of musicians. I got my 1st band together at age 14. We were pretty awful & went our separate ways. My 2nd band evolved into another band & we stayed together for about 10 yrs off an on. For me, starting a band always involved befriending other musicians.

Your story of transformation from aspiring drummer to guitarist is very similar to EVH's. That's very interesting.

I'm 50. I've played in bands my whole life professionally and non professionally. Made a hell of a living at one point. You are so correct dude and that there's nothing more Is powerful than when everybody locks in. As a drummer I always felt Responsible for that. Kind of like a chair... Sit down get comfortable and lean back I got you!! Great stuff as always man!!! 👊👊👊

Can't believe you actually had Iron Maiden in your basement Mike 😅

Great story, can't wait for the sanctus documentary you were talking about, ill definitely be watching!!

I’ve been “trying” to start a band for roughly two years and have been playing guitar for about 4. I’m also “the kirk,” have a James, and two bass players and they’re all years long best friends of mine and it’s really amazing when we jam. Thing is, we almost exclusively play metallica and megadeth songs cause it’s just like fun and cool. We’d love to start a band but I struggle so much with trying to write anything and rarely have good time to practice with balancing everything else in my life. Additionally, finding a drummer has been hard- specifically a drummer who likes Lars. Balancing two basses is also kinda interesting but it usually seems to work out fine. Just stuck in sort of a limbo and don’t know what/how to prioritize what I want :/

I started my current band at age 17. My vision was a sort of symphonic/progressive power metal band with an Eddie The Head-like werewolf mascot, costumes and all that stuff. Now we've got our own rehearsal room and equipment and we've started writing some own material. All that fancy stuff is out (for better or worse) but our influences are diverse enough for the music to turn out interesting enough.

I've asked this before. Could you please make a video showcasing your guitar collection?

Mike, as always, thx for sharing, I always enjoy and appreciate your stories and experiences but DAYUMMM!!! That B.C. Rich is SUPER SICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😍

I have an idea of a band I just need to find the members who would go with my idea

My friend and I talked about it all the time, but it never happened.

when’s the documentary coming out?

Amazing story. This has brought back a lot of memories and feelings for me as I'm sure it will for everyone. Thanks man!

I love these types of videos and the singer really has an awesome metal voice once you guys matured.

I've got a more positive story. I met some dudes last year who I formed a band with and in a short time, so much has happened and changed but our future looks really bright! we're called Pain Catalyst and already have got songs released online which still blows my mind sometimes

Didn't have a band, just a bowling team. ;D

When ever my phone pops up a notification late at night like 3 4 5 6 in the morning of a RU-vid video i know its most likey you lol

My Band started because of a Rock Band course at school. It was with a group of guys I was familiar with but I was only really friends with our bassist. I didn’t feel like I was a real part of the band though, being a keyboard player in a grunge/metal band, but I slowly built up more confidence, and we’re now writing an album and recording demos. One breakthrough moment for me was trying to sing “Man in the Box” by Alice in Chains when the band was jamming. I sang the verses quietly in the background, but I really went for it on the chorus and I startled the whole band. I started to think “I can kind of sing”, and I got a lot better at playing my instrument and now I feel like a true musician.

Im 19, started playing guitar in late 2021 when i was still in high school. Immediately fell in love with guitar and tried to start a metal band. Had pretty much no luck since none of my friends like metal except for one, and the few who played instruments I just couldnt get onboard. So I just decided to get a bass guitar and a drum machine and now im currently recording songs for my "band" lmao.

In my first year of high school (2011) I started to get more into drums and was eventually given a drum kit with a practice space to go with it, my younger cousin was playing guitar for maybe a year at that point and the both of us shared a passion for Metallica. Naturally the both of us would meet up at the practice space and jam out to Metallica and whatever else we could think of for 5-8 hours a day 7 days a week, me being still very new to drums our first 3-6 months playing together didn't really sound that great on my part, but I was determined to get better. Fast forward about a year later we tried out my other younger cousin for another guitarist, but he wasn't into that style on guitar so it didn't work out at first. Christmas time comes and he gets a Bass, so we invited him back to the practice space and we basically just said to him "Hey come up with a line and we'll jam along" 30 minutes later we came up with our first song that had this weird combination of Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Nirvana. We ended up writing another 4-5 songs that year. Another year later the 3 of us are sitting at our cafeteria table and I asked the guitarist "Hey didn't Kyle sing in the talent show? and was he good?" he said "Yeah he did some David Bowie" that when I told the guitarist we should get him to vocals for us for the battle of the bands. He joined us and we got to practicing one of the songs we wrote. We had to get another more experienced vocalist to write lyrics for us (she lived hours away and couldn't play for us) two weeks later we play the battle of the bands and unfortunately lose to a band doing Country covers. A few more months later I get in contact with a guy who owns a recording studio and we make plans to record our first 10 track album, but will need $1000 to do it so I unfortunately made the decision to sell my 4-wheeler which paid for the recording. we record the album and all is going well on our part until the post-production, something happened on the sound engineer part and the audio would slow down and pitch down almost a full step (we're primarily E Standard). The guy couldn't fix it on his end so he ended up just giving us a bunch of stuff worth $1000 (he had his own music store) as he already spent the money on bills or something. We were pissed so we decided to just record it ourselves as the guitarist just started his first few months of doing audio engineering, set everything up in my bedroom and spend the next 3 days or more re-recording the drum tracks and the vocal tracks (vocalist recently graduated so was only home for a few days). A couple months later we got the album done and ready to get onto Spotify, RU-vid wherever you could stream it release it and get to work on another. I suggested an EP since it would be faster to record as all the other members except the guitarist and I have gone to different parts of Canada and could only meet back up for a few days during Christmas. We wrote and recorded our EP and it's just been sitting on a hard drive since 2016. Not much else has happened since then and occasionally me and the guitarist will exchange guitar/bass parts and I'll record drums over it. Shame not much else has been done since 2016 because there is some tracks we've done that I genuinely love to listen to, but we're all adults now doing our own things in life and we all live so far apart so it was to be expected really.

Would love to join a band some day. Also super excited for the documentary!

It's cool hearing your story and the humble beginnings. This year I want to join/ make a band since me and my brother sometimes play together, with me on guitar and him on bass, but he doesn't have much dedication to learning songs. I really don't know anyone else who plays music (and funny enough the only one I do, doesn't like me lol) so I'm a bit stuck but I'll get it done soon enough!

Me and my brothers have a band that we've been working at for a long time, I've been playing all kinds of instruments since I was just ten years old and over these past 7 years I've been teaching my younger brothers how to play, so now we have a three Man band that's never later for practice

Whats the picture on the guitar of the girl, it kinda looks like its from a Duran Duran album, or is it something else?

This is so cool... I only knew the very end of the story when Chris and Cory joined.

My friend and I tried for years and finally got a great band together. We worked hard and eventually got invited to play bar venues. Everything was going great but then 3 of our members got addicted to pain pills and it was all over. That was 20 years ago and it still breaks my heart. Maybe you could do a video of how to help or get help for your band mates? Thanks Mike, this video healed a lot of my wounds. Cheers

I'm really looking forward to the whole documentary! I hope I can someday put together a Band but I live in the middle of nowhere an have no Idea about anyone liking the music I like (Slipknot, Meshuggah…) that also play instruments.

I’m 14 and I’ve been playing guitar for 2 years and I found out one of my friends from church also plays guitar and listens to the same music as me so we started a band. We got pretty decent with each other before we started looking for a bassist and drummer, finding the bassist was super easy. I went to guitar center and in the back there a flyer for a bassist who likes metal so we called him and now he’s our bassist, and my friend from school played drums so he’s our drummer, I’m the rhythm guitarist and singer and me and my lead guitarist are playing live this week together

I have a band with one of my friends, we have 1 and 1/2 albums worth of material, with complete songs with lyrics, but we don't have a Corey💀

Dang, wish someone asked me to join a band, i was basically never talked to in school so i just ended up making electronic music by myself, still do that now lol.

Me: Oh this video will be super aswome! TAOG: Dont even try clicking on this.

Approximately 87,000% of Canadians are guitar RU-vidrs.

Mike, you always have a great topic for your vids. I can only imagine you're putting a fire on a lot of people here. I'm 58, a little too late for me. But I am still trying to pick up your EVH tips. Thanks so much!

You must be doing quite well Mike. I see a LOT of new guitars in your hands these days. PROBLEM is with forming bands... Everyone likes rap and garbage electronic music these days. you can't find anyone who even LIKES real music, much less PLAYS it. My son is having a hard time with it. This AIN'T the days of Bon Jovi and Queensryche. Or even REM and the B-52s. This is the age of Cardi B.

Im 18 and starting a band, and i have to say my biggest struggle is that no one in my area plays bass and i dont know any guitarists but me lol. We have a keyboardist, a drummer, and im vocals and im filling in for lead guitar but i plan to do rhythm guitar when we have a dedicated lead guitarist. Right now what we have works but without the baass player it feels hollow in a way

Me and my band had our first show a while ago. We're 15-16. It went very well there was like 50 people (small venue so it looked big) and they were very in to the music. Overall super good experience for first show

You know the "6 degrees of KevinBacon" think? I knew guys you went to school with, and you were the "high water mark" for folks who "played" the northern suberbs. "Missing Time" was my fav of yours, saw you at Mirage, Al was super nice, it was a good time, you guys werent that bad at all. 😊

I got dave mustaine'd out of the band I was in lol. Back in 2007 I performed a solo spot at my school's winter assembly that went out of this world. Instant notoriety. Suddenly everyone knew who I was. No longer the quiet metalhead even chicks would now give me compliments lol. So summer of 2008 rolls around and I get asked to join a band and I try out with some Metallica songs. Four horsemen and call of ktulu. Solos and all. Had my name in the MySpace page and after a few weeks. They start dodging my calls asking them when the next practice session was. After a month I check out the page and they replaced my name. Cowards. Lol. It turns out the lead singer/rhythm guitarist was really insecure about my abilities that he had his bassist lie for him saying the band broke up because the singer got caught by his parents with weed. Lol I wish I could make this up.

I started a free referral service. First dibs on musicians from 4 counties! Hehehe. I brought free bulletin boards to the music stores that didn't already have them, posted cards, and musicians would call me up, I'd take their information down on a little questionnaire and file it. Bands would call and I'd go through the files hooking people up and making lots of connections. I probably had 200 musicians on file after 16 months. I thought it was a pretty good idea.

I’m a guitarist who also sings as well as me doing a lot of the songwriting and coordinating. I’m seriously trying to get a band together currently with people who are available and want to jam regularly. So far, I’ve tried roughly three or four times to get some like-minded individuals together and actually frequently jam with them, but so far none of it has been very successful. Apparently where I live drummers are in short supply as well because we’ve only ever found one drummer and he just wasn’t able to commit as well as him living quite far away. I’ve tried with three guitarist so far. One who was not good at all and had different taste, one who I had great chemistry with but had remotely different interests, the one that I’m working with right now is a little bit younger and him and I may actually get somewhere because he’s very skilled and we have similar interests. The bassist who I’ve got is a couple of years older and he’s awesome. Because of him being older, he works a full time job outside of town so he’s only free on the weekends and my other guitarist is only free on the weekdays. Unfortunately, it feels like we’re ergonomically fucked which sucks. Hopefully this can start working out soon. Also because I’m a lead guitarist, I’m seriously debating on finding someone else to do lead vocals but for the time being I’m cool with doing the job. In the meantime I’ll just keep trying to get better and write some more music and hopefully the time will come. Just need to keep hoping. 🙂🤘🎸

"We were gonna go to my basement and try him out." Did you at least offer him some candy first?

When i was 7 or 8 my step dad got me his old guitar from when he played as a kid and I loved it at that time I played drums already but i felt different about this guitar I didn’t play it much cuz I wasn’t very good. Then one night my mum and step dad were watching a documentary on Kurt Cobain and then I went to an record store and bought the album ‘Bleach’ and I was in love. That inspired me to learn the guitar. Soon I wrote my on songs but they were silly I was on 11 and thought they were so “deep”. Because of my songs I wanted people to make a band to play them with. But I was the only one who liked them. Because of this I’d write songs and then pretend that a grunge band from the 90’s made them and I created a whole band in my head. I pretended to be those band members I made in my head and put on fake concerts pretending to be them. When I was 12 I thought that I was to cool to do that and I stopped. Soon I started high school and it was scary. I was bullied and called edgy. When I had blonde hair and mostly wore flannel shirts and baggy jeans. I saved money and got a Fender Jazzmaster from a shop call “The Headbangers Shed” It turned out to be a fake fender but I still loved it. Then I found a guy name Taylor and he like the same music as me. He played guitar to. So I played the drums. I invited him to my house and we jammed. It was fun. Taylor moved to Canada after that. And here we are now I’m now 17 and can’t wait to leave high school!

what do u recommend finding members nowadays? i’ve been trying to look for a drummer and lead guitarist for a while now and have had no luck

When you mentioned how your bass player and drummer were enemies, it reminded me of when we tried out a singer for a band back in the 80's. The drummer approached him about singing for us, but he was reluctant to because he and I almost got into a fight back in high school. He was trying to be funny at my expense and I challenged him by standing up to him and he got really intimidated. I guess he thought I was a loose cannon for the next couple years.

Thanks for the video. I miss my teen age and my band. Maybe I can try again in my 39?😮

Late too the comments but yeah was in two high school metal bands the first I left too create my own band which ended up being my 2nd band in high school The first band "Karma Effect" our drummer (the mate that got the band together) was too controlling towards me and all the members of the band. What ever he wanted had to go, no one else got a say in what songs we covered or what parts we wrote when we were creating original tracks. So, me the rhythm guitarist left the band and started my own band too become a lead guitarist of this second band. We called ourselves "Before The End" I had the lead guitarist from my former band Karma Effect join us too be our drummer and be in both bands at the same time as I knew he was a legend behind the kit as well as a guitar player. We then wrote three original tracks with just drums and guitar which was more in a metalcore genre sound compared too the other bands thrashier sound. Which around this time period in 2012 Metalcore was a bigger scene in our town so we were getting noticed more than Karma Effect. Sadly this was the cause of Karma Effect breaking up as a band as my mate that started that band, the guy that was controlling it all was starting to get angry at my drummer for being in my band. At the start of it all he was okay with him being in both bands, but because we was getting more recognition in "Before The End" over "Karma Effect" arguments started happening between them all in that band, which caused their secondary rhythm guitarist too leave and join us as well as their bass player too leave and join my band as well which was the cause of that whole band breaking up That left us with me (Jamie Pickles) being lead guitarist, my first good mate that joined (Jacoby) being our drummer, another good mate (Ivan) Being our rhythm guitarist and another good mate of ours (Liam) being our bass player. All of us ended up writing another 7 original tracks together and these songs came together fast as I wanted to let everyone contribute too the music writing side of things which gave us a unique metalcore sound at the end of the day. The drummer of Karma Effect was still all of our best mate at the end of the day and we didn't let the music ruin the friendship all in all but that band because of the controlling just didn't work out in the end and he was man enough too admit his wrongs for doing so, but whats cool within all this high school shit with Karma Effect. We played another show together 2 years ago with all our old songs and it turned out great. But too this current day due to work and life no one else out of all my mates play music anymore besides me and I am no longer in a band but I still play the guitar every day when I get the chance and because of that I've improved further in my playing due to learning things like Phrygian Dominant and many more modes/scales

for the past year I've been playing in a band i was invited to and we've played 3 shows but we've recently broken up do to our rhythm guitar/vocalist and our bass player going to university but me and our drummer (who's now switching to bass) are trying to put together a new band

3:31 😂 I was in a band when I was young, (that never even made it to playing shows), that we named Snypers Rage! I even had a cassette tape case with a jacket I made for it. 😂😂😂👍🏽

Ah, the boundless energy of youth! Each step is a bit of success. You actually 'made' it happen, be proud!!

You should promote aging products make a fortune . Your alot older than people may think. Lucky bastard.🤣

I am watching this because my band just broke up in 2 years we made 5 songs and i want to get new band members 😢

I’m attempting a band. I’m the guitarist and I wanna convince them to be lead singer as well, I have a bass player, and a drummer, like every drummer he needs to slow down, and we never really have meets. I’m still trying to keep the band together. Because I love them all.

my band name is dispozer because we're all trash at our instruments

The age old american use of chopsticks as drumsticks. Lol Lincoln logs and there was another construction type toy that you could make a bass drum stick.

yeah like me and my mate are in a band, it’s been 3 years and we’re still looking for a lead guitarist and a drummer. (btw i’m a bassist and he’s rhythm guitar and vocals)

Lmaooo them teenage band names. Me & the bois went for “Black Pyramid”

I'm in a band and I'm 13 we have a drummer singer bassist and me the guitarist and chorus vocals has been tricky

I can't find a single soul to jam with around here, it's gotten to the point where I try to teach them the instrument. I've got all the pieces to a band I'm just one person. It's not terrible but it's pretty upsetting

my band story is complicated to say the least, we got a group together, singer and bassist hated each other for no reason. they fought so many times where me and the drummer just wanted it to end. we play a school talent show and decide to break up that same day. moving forward there’s another band with the bassist, we need a singer so we bring in the one from the previous band. they say everything is fine and then proceed to revert and fight again, we learned that the bassist was digging at the singer, and generally being rude to him. he leaves and tries to have a power move when he was leaving and attempts to take everything with him. now he is trying to rebound and restart the first band without the singer. and this all happened in the span of a year.

For me its so hard cuz i live on the island where only 8k people live and i can never find people to play with and i wanted to make a band but only 3 people in my whole school playes an istrument and i was neber friend with em at all and they played flute and harmonica so not really option to make band with only them and their music taste is nothing like mine. It is what it is.

i play guitar and sing but no one at my college plays bass or drums (only pop singers and mediocre guitarists) so i just play shows at pubs or wherever i can and its just me lol

Lmao that audio of Al saying they should all play something is funny

Any chance we can buy an mp3 sample of whatever you have of your band? Thank you for your channel man!

im actually 13 right now and i have a band for 1 year now. i hope it will last also as long as yours.

Do u have tips for coming up with a band name

I'm 15 and I started playing the guitar 5 years ago, because a friend of mine who played drums and we wanted to form a band; two years later he stopped and we never tried because I thought it sucked too much, I continued to playing because I fell in love with the electric guitar and was getting decent. In the last year the desire to form a band has come back to me and I have seriously tried in the last month and I met a boy from my school who formed a band and who he had already rehearsed several times with the drummer and the bassist (who I discovered also goes to my school) luckily for me the other guitarist they had met on the internet didn't show up for rehearsals last week because he found another band. guy I met well walking together after school so he asked me if I wanted to play with them and apparently I'm even better than them, despite this I have 3 days to finish learning all fear of the dark (of which I only know the solo), paranoid and last caress. However, I am very happy and scared not of the dark (ba-dum-tss).I hope it will be fun and not too embarassing 😄

I'm looking for videos that can guide my son.

At 50 yo, I'm still dreaming of putting together a band

you look like markiplier if he got addicted to weed in middle school and thinks hes cool because he does drugs

At least your early guitar inspiration wasn't overly daunting to emulate 😉

3:36🤣🤣lmao even more funny when you showed the picture

"Steel rage"

As a teenager I played drums on my bunk bed with a couch pillow as my rack tom,when I was in elementary school I would use my parents empty Foldgers coffee cans. At 18 yrs old in 1993 I started working and bought a CB700 kit and played for about a year in a pop punk band and then switched to bass and now I play bass, drums, and guitar along with my son.

Struggling to find a bassist so one of us three guitarist takes the bass. And we switch that

Great video. I have really been enjoying your fix this band videos. It brings back great memories. I'm 55 and my band from the 90s had a reunion 10 years ago and we have been back together gigging and recording ever since. My teenage kids are now starting to play with their friends in our studio and are lucky enough to have the ultimate garage band experience. Your story is so close to my own, and many others as well. I feel sorry for the kids that don't get to experience the teenage musicians garage band journey.