The Old Man Band (Players Over 30)

[zarlor]

I wonder if this is what happened to the G1 OMB posters (Billy Pilgrim, etc,) they just figured out that there was a better way & moved on. Evolution.

Doubt it. Kev posted the day after Billy did and I only 5 days after that and both Kev and I are still here. I've jammed with Cherkov on rare occasion as well, but really those are probably the only other two guys who might have actually gotten Billy's FC returned.

Hey Kev, you ever jammed with our thread starter?

[Bazoozoo]

BTW - who's FC is that in the thread tags? Lol... Is that Billy Pilgrim's? Maybe he was just a figment of our imagination.

But his name sounds kind of appropriate - Pilgrim and all...

[Pubknight]

BTW - who's FC is that in the thread tags?

DR-CDUB (GUITAR, drums) / DR CDU / 1790 3236 3773

[dcriptide]

Hey guys,

I'm hopping on in about 15, 8:00 eastern if anyone wants to qp just for fun and stress relief

[claramsay]

Thanks Zarlor and dGardner for the encouragement. It is comforting to know that this is a “safe environment” to make mistakes and that know one will disconnect you…well not on purpose. I see both of your points and will attempt to play hard. However, I know sometimes I will chicken out and revert back to medium. I hope to play with you again dgardner or with anyone else

[jammmer]

Hey Kev,won't be able to play Fri. night but I'll be on tonight if your interested.
Clara,Gardner and Riptide I'll add you tonight.Riptide I think I had you added a while ago then you disappeared. Is that your screen name?

[Honey Bee]

Thanks Zarlor and dGardner for the encouragement. It is comforting to know that this is a “safe environment” to make mistakes and that know one will disconnect you…well not on purpose. I see both of your points and will attempt to play hard. However, I know sometimes I will chicken out and revert back to medium. I hope to play with you again dgardner or with anyone else

claramsay, I started playing RB drums on March 1. At that time even easy was really difficult for me. Look at my first posting on the Wii Band Wanted Forum: Easy Drummer New to RockBand 2 -- I was happy to play Easy "at high 80-90s" The transition to medium was hard and took some time and when I got comfortable with medium -- I kind of got stuck within my comfort zone and stayed there- maybe too long-- it was just that hard was too hard. Bazoozoo noticed this and encouraged me to challenge myself and gave me some tips, the most important one was to try to challenge yourself and play above your abilities. If you are playing in a band- you can get 60% and still survive the song I wrote about this process in more detail on my website blog (but of course the server is having issues again so I can't link it). Playing songs in expert where the notes come barrelling down the highway really helps you to play songs on hard cause they don't seem as fast in comparison. Using the "challenge yourself approach" I would say that I am a fairly solid Hard drummer now (except Ace of Spaces, Battery, Pain Killer or maybe it was Panic Attack- I always get them mixed up-- and Visions still give me a lot of trouble without full band support). Right now the transition for me from moving from Hard to Expert- really comes to stamina -- and those hard, fast bass notes -_- But I am confident over time, I will succeed in becoming a solid expert drummer. Playing with people who support your advancement in the game is very important. No one here will make you feel bad about failing out on songs even 3 times because you will get better and we ALL started somewhere. Good luck and maybe we'll jam sometime. You're welcome to stop by my website -- it's a fun place to hang out

[dcriptide]

Hey Kev,won't be able to play Fri. night but I'll be on tonight if your interested.
Clara,Gardner and Riptide I'll add you tonight.Riptide I think I had you added a while ago then you disappeared. Is that your screen name?

Dc is my character name. I used to have it under sunnyd but... I got my info wiped out ( had to redo the whole tour) and had to set it all up again

I figured out that the corrupt message kept coming on if I unplugged the wii without turning it off first. But I found it out to late, when it came up my daughter picked the wrong one, and there she went.

Now we always turn it off first, and believe you me she knows what to do if it happens again

Hope to play with you soon,
Dc

[Honey Bee]

I used to have it under sunnyd but... I got my info wiped out ( had to redo the whole tour) and had to set it all up again

What I don't understand it this -- there's a backup of our data on the RB servers. Our game is linked to the servers on RB. Isn't there a way that we can get our last backed up data from RB servers back on our wii or is the exchange of info on the wii just one way? Maybe there is something we can do on the Options menu under "Manage data"? I have been hearing way too many people lately talk about losing their RB data that I am quite worried that it will happen to me Trying to play all those songs again and redo the tours to climb the leaderboards will be too much...

Also, just so everyone knows, not only do I maintain the FC list for this thread, I actually add everyone to my wii too. I still have Billy Pilgrim on my pending friends list

[Bazoozoo]

I say we all simultaneously send him friend requests - he'll probably get like 10 emails in his box notifying him and maybe, just maybe, he'll come back to this site (and this thread) to see what's up?