I noticed everyone making up these bands uses adjectives like "the" or "those" but forgets street names are way better for a garage band vibe. Last night I changed 12 of my entries from "The Raging Sloths" to "Maple Street Sloths" and it finally clicked why my lore felt fake - like a real band from 1992 in Toledo would name themselves after their practice spot, not some random animal. Has anyone else had to gut their naming system after finding this out?
The stickers looked cool online but they peeled right off the paper after a week and left sticky residue everywhere. Has anyone found a decent cheap source for fake merch?
Honestly, I was digging through old cassette tapes at a thrift shop in Portland and found this beat-up demo labeled 'Voltage Cathedral - 1986'. The A-side is this wild synth track called 'Digital Rain' that sounds like a broken arcade machine. B-side is just 12 minutes of a guy yelling about his car's odometer. Has anyone else ever found a fake band's tape that felt way too real?
Back in 2019, Vic told me to just hang moving blankets in my hallway closet and record there instead of spending $400 on a booth. I thought he was nuts. Fast forward to last month, I finally did it for a demo track. The vocals came out cleaner than anything I got from my untreated spare room. Is there a point where too much blanket dampening actually hurts the sound, or should I just keep piling them on?
We were in a basement studio in Cincinnati last spring, finally nailing down the EP, when our frontman realized his phone fell out of his jacket somewhere between the pizza place and the practice space. No cloud backup, no nothing - just 12 rough tracks gone, and we spent the next week recording everything from scratch off a single garbled voice memo he'd sent his mom.
My dad always told me to mic the kick drum from the front for more punch, so I did that for like 5 years. Then I read an old interview with Butch Vig where he said to stick the mic inside the shell pointed at the beater, tried it on my Ludwig kit in Austin, and the low end came out way tighter. Anybody else grow up learning studio tricks that turned out to be total myths?
Was cleaning out my parent's basement in Phoenix last weekend and found an old cassette labeled "Blind Mellotron" with like 4 songs on it. Me and my buddy recorded it in his garage back in 97 and we totally invented this whole backstory about how the band broke up after a fight over a stolen reverb pedal. It's hilarious how seriously we took it. Has anyone else stumbled across old fake band stuff they forgot about?
I was flipping through vinyl at this place in Austin last weekend, and some dude was explaining how a fake 70s funk band called "The Moisture Wicks" had a whole backstory about a studio fire that destroyed their master tapes. He even showed me a bootleg cassette he claimed was a live recording from 1978. It made me realize how deep people will go for a fake band lore, and now I kind of respect the effort more than I used to think it was just silly. Has anyone else run into a fan-made legend that sounded too real?
I was reading the fake bio for "Gravel Milk" and noticed their drummer's "studio death" in 1995 was listed as a car crash, a heroin OD, and a studio fire depending on which version you scrolled to, has anyone else caught contradictions like that in the lore?
Had to track vocals by candlelight and use a generator that kept cutting out every 47 minutes, but somehow the blown fuse hum on track 4 ended up sounding like a vintage synth and now I'm afraid to ever record with proper electricity again, has anyone else accidentally made their best work because everything went wrong?
I was playing a small show in Denver last February and an older drummer I'd never met came up after our set and said 'man your bass sounds like a wet cardboard box'. He was not trying to be mean, just honest. I swapped my flats for roundwounds and tweaked the EQ on my amp and now it actually cuts through the mix. Has anyone else gotten a critique that totally changed how you set up your gear?