The Alligators Flying Helicopters Blues Band. I was 13, the rest of the band were my brother's 18 year old buddies. They couldn't find a drum player so I was it. Lotta Beatles covers, some Chess type Chicago blues, and a few originals. There was a great version of the Tommy Dorsey theme featuring uke and bassoon, and a rave up version of "Funk 49". Our lead guitar player went on to major in voice at college and did lotsa Gilbert and Sullivan shows as an adult. Not exactly what you want for singing "Hootchie Cootchie Man".

Crap, but very high waffle factor for the fun, and getting paid in beer as a 13 year old...

The Foodbirds
c. 2001-2002

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:

Eierdiebe wrote:you must have really hated rock music.

Eierdiebe wrote:My first band was a rap group. We didn't have a name since it was a one off, for an end-of-the-year talent showcase at my school. My moniker was Smoothy D.

for a while there i really did hate rock music.

I am very happy to say that I'm actually still playing in my first band......we've been together forever!!!

My first band was called 'Blockhead'. We sucked very, very much. The drummer and bass player were competent, the singer absolutely couldn't sing (and he was trying, mind you), and I...while somewhat competent...would typically put down well over a complete quart bottle of 'MD 20/20' (two were purchased for every gig) before going on stage to play. Needless to say, the only way I can actually remember how badly we sucked is to review the copy of a live video from an outdoor Columbia, MO gig I don't have. The Dazzling Killmen played at the same festival, which just made us look worse. We did have tons of cool, mostly free T-shirts with flowers and girls on them (designed mostly as a ripoff of all those Chemical People album covers, and partly as a response to PC punks and whatnot). The T's are what is mostly remembered, thank Yod.

It is a band that is best forgotten. Everyone except myself were way into sounding like the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Beefeater, and I was in my 'Greg Ginn emulation' phase. I really wanted us to sound like Big Black with a real drummer. We all lived together, and at some point I decided rent was less fun than drinking. My mates took my guitar rig as compensation and kicked me out, for which I don't really blame them one bit (the guitar 'rig' was a Crate halfstack).

Honestly, the truly cool thing was that our second gig was with Die Kreuzen. And Ultraman. Other than our opening set, that was a pretty cool show.

The first "band" i formed m'self was called Sex & Enemy. i'm still freaking proud of that name.

katie, a princess wrote:The first "band" i formed m'self was called Sex & Enemy. i'm still freaking proud of that name.

Why?

because it annoys you

You wish.