Saturday Night Social Networking at Stubbs
Saturday night I went to Stubbs to see some local Austin bands- Single Frame, This Microwave World and Oliver Future. Single Frame sounds like Fugazi meets Devo, but I think they sound better in the studio than they do live based on this show. Oliver Future really impressed me. I’ll probably go see them again.
While I was wandering around between bands, I ran into Booher from Zykos. I asked him if he knew of anyone looking for a bassist and he shrugged, “yeah, I might. people always tell me they’re looking for other people to play with but I just forget it all.” I said he should try to keep a spreadsheet since he gets this kind of question all the time. That’s when it hit me. I haven’t found a single date on Friendster, but I did find a drummer there.
Someone should run with this. Jamster? Bandster? You list what instrument(s) you play, what style of music you want to make, the distance you’re willing to travel to practice/play and so
on. It also keeps track of what bands everyone’s been in so you get some background too. With all this information, it can match you up with bandmates.
Yeah right like we need another social network service. I hope one of the bunch I’m on adds this as a feature. I would use it.
That’s a terrific idea. I’m not sure that the social networking feature is crucial, though — if you’re looking for a drummer, does it matter whether he’s a friend of a friend?
If you want to do something fancier than straightforward "musician wanted" ads, you could try to add hooks for people’s musical preferences. "Find me all the keyboard players within 50 miles who like Devo" or something like that. You could piggyback it on Amazon like AllConsuming and many other services do for books.
BTW, the Chronicle used to run free classifieds for musicians seeking musicians. Nothing fancy, but you might find someone looking for a bass player that way.
Prentiss Riddle
13 Feb 04 at 7:54 am