Years back I heard that members of one of my all-time favorite bands (virulence) were starting a new project and looking for a singer. I went for it, even though they practiced an hour away from me. It was great, but after a couple years I just couldn't handle the commute or the expense, so I had to quit.

Now here I am considering doing the same damned thing again. Only, this time, the band is all the way in JERSEY. Someone, PLEASE, tell me I'm an asstard. I know it's a bad idea, but I need to hear some horror stories about long-distance band projects to help convince me not to do it. I wouldn't even consider it, but these guys are one of my favorite bands, and the new project sounds fucking awesome. Every time I listen to the tune they posted, I keep coming up with ideas on top of ideas on top of ideas.

Where is Adam Time to remind me of how much commuting SUCKS?!

Make them build an underground monorail from Jersey to New Hampshire (or wherever the hell you live) or you walk.

So far it sounds like your idea sucks. Any tunes for me to listen to? Maybe they're that good...How far of a drive?

It's not necessarily that they're "that good". It's not even metal. It's a prog-rockish band called The Postman System that I really dig a lot. They changed their name, and then the guy who used to do a lot of the singing and played guitar quit, so they're looking for a new singer that plays different instruments. On top of that the material they posted is really good, as far as I find myself immediately coming up with some great parts I could add/enhance with vocals and guitar.


I'd love to try it, but I'm afraid to even send them something since I know it will end up being such a BAD idea.

Just give up. It's cool.

I don't like that band.
were they looking for a vocalist or a mallcore vocalist?

I'm actually giving up the mallcore vocals for a while. Lately I'm more in the mood to do some milli-core stuff. But that could change. In a month, I might jump on the vanilli-core bandwagon instead.

Join the band virtually over the internet. You can set up webcams at each location and just deal with the latency issues.

this is a bad idea, but i know how you feel,every once in a while i am tempted to dust of the amp and join a "real" band,its a phase you will get over in time,theres actually a name for this but it escapes me right now.some psychological term for basically "growing up" and letting go of the "inner child"

I also prefer mill-core...

singers are a dime a dozen
i'm sure they'll be fine without you
just go ahead and look for another project closer to where you live?

i like men

wink wink

nudge nudge

Molecore.

Mess said:

No, death metal screamers are dime a dozen. People who can actually SING are a tiny bit more rare.

monorail Monorail MONORAIL!

you mean the postman syndrome?

yeah, like you can pull off a 6 hour commute. maybe if you move there, itll be different.

blue said:

lols, yeah. I was purty wasted last night when I typed that. I didn't even see I wrote system.

I loved terraforming, and then these guys just up and dissapeared. I was pretty excited to see that they still exist in some form, and would love to jam with em, but as you said 6 hour commute is a no go.

i remember seeing those guys like 3 years ago at fat cats