A lot of you were in bands in high school

[DemonFilth2001]

What was the first song you guys learned and thought…damn, we’re good (but probably weren’t)?

Probably 16. We thought we were fucking great. I sang and played rhythm on…You Think You’re Tough! The bassist even sang Juan’s part.

All our friends thought it was awesome. Wish I had a tape.

Was probably horrible.

[BDG135]

I tried to get a band goin' with another guitar player for about 3 years when I was a teen. We only completed about 4 or 5 songs. At the time, I thought they were good, but we were probably just happy to have something to play all the way through. It was hard to find drummers and bass players. We wanted to do straight Metal and most in the area were into funky stuff at the time.

[Neil Diamond Dave]

I think I remember playing, "You Think You're Tough" too, as one of our first songs. I remember, "Wanted Man", "Modern Day Cowboy", and maybe "Shake Me" - Where our guitarist threw his new Ibanez around his shoulder like in the video (and then flat into the floor, if I remember).

I'm sure we were an awful sight.

[SterileEyes1]

Sterile Eyes! We were as bad as our name suggests, but I’ve played with the drummer on and off ever since. I think the first song we ever jammed was “Blackened” when we were 15. We always played really tight together and still do, but that doesn’t mean our band was good back then!

[DemonFilth2001]

Sterile Eyes! We were as bad as our name suggests, but I’ve played with the drummer on and off ever since. I think the first song we ever jammed was “Blackened” when we were 15. We always played really tight together and still do, but that doesn’t mean our band was good back then!

I'm still great friends with the drummer. Other guitarist is one of my best friends (he knows the Apple Pie guy).

Other guit guy also ended up in a band that recorded 3 albums.

[Mojo]

I think the first song my "band" ever played together was "Seek and Destroy," and neither I nor the other guitarist bothered learning the solo, so we basically just had a laughably long chorus there.

[DonJuanDeMarco]

Songs? I don't think we made it that far! My high school jam sessions went like this...
Me singing and playing guitar.
The drummer pretending he knew the song.
The bass player staring at my fingers. And if you get lost, just go to "E".

Can anyone relate?

[MetalSludgeCEO]

What was the first song you guys learned and thought…damn, we’re good (but probably weren’t)?

Probably 16. We thought we were fucking great. I sang and played rhythm on…You Think You’re Tough! The bassist even sang Juan’s part.

All our friends thought it was awesome. Wish I had a tape.

Was probably horrible.

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This is exactly what is wrong when your friends or family are the judges...

Be it in sports, music, dance, comedy, etc...

I can't tell you how many times someone has contacted me online to tell me about their talented son's band, and 99% are 100% pure garbage.

Every once in a while 1 slips thru that has promise.

Same applies to anything in life... and with that, my question is the following...

"Who in the F#@k is telling Tommy Lee's wife Brittany Furlan that she iss funny?"

She's not... in fact, her stand-up is beyond horrible.

If you need any proof, click on ANY of her clips on her IG!

> https://www.instagram.com/brittanyfurlan/

$tEvil

[GreatWhiteSnake]

UFO's Too Hot To Handle of course...

[Aerosmith87]

Our first handful of songs were Strutter, Catch Scratch Fever, Shout it Out Loud, an original, and Surrender. Basically a classic rock radio playlist and it was pretty uninspiring sounding!

[Mister Freeze]

You guys were pretty ambitious. From my experience, every high school band started with "House of the Rising Sun," "Wild Thing," "Blister in the Sun" and "Knocking on Heaven's Door".

But yeah, everyone wanted to play Metallica riffs and if you were halfway decent you moved on to them relatively quickly, beginning with "For Whom The Bell Tolls."

[kytepunches]

It was punk mostly .i was in grade 10 in a 3 piece band and we all sang , depending on who knew the song best. The first ones I remember learning to sing and play bass were. The Dead Kennedys - California Uberallis and Holiday In Cambodia. I also got to sing a pile of Ramones stuff . I quit after high school because I liked getting paid money for my work. The other two are still working musicians. We were a passable punk covers band for the mid 80’s.

[VinnieVincentsVag]

Probably Motley or JP tune.

[SchenkerFan]

I have no clue what the first song was we attempted. I do remember we tried to learn We're Not Gonna Take It. We were terrible and never got furthur than a few rehearsals.

[Hellsinkey]

I was about 15 and singing, the first songs were:
Black Sabbath- Paranoid
Iron Maiden-- Running Free
Rainbow-- All Night Long

[woblinweebles]

We killed playing this AC/DC song in my high school band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAF5bz8mjls

[whammybar]

Into the Sun by Grand Funk. We played every Friday in the school auditorium. I see 7th graders now and can't believe we did that, we felt like grownups. We knew about thirty songs, mostly Grand Funk and Sabbath. I had a big Sears amp, a Teisco guitar, and a Japanese fuzz box.... a Goya or something like that.

[Bono Nettencourt]

Sterile Eyes! We were as bad as our name suggests, but I’ve played with the drummer on and off ever since. I think the first song we ever jammed was “Blackened” when we were 15. We always played really tight together and still do, but that doesn’t mean our band was good back then!

I'm still great friends with the drummer. Other guitarist is one of my best friends (he knows the Apple Pie guy).

The White Trash guy?

[Cindy Buzzedimisa]

I remember the boys in high school that thought they were going to be rock stars. There were quite a few where I lived. None of them made it and I wonder if that ever bothers them. I know one that is still trying to this day and its just sad and has been for decades.

[bill_kir]

Malibu Beach Nightmare, i'm sure it didn't sound as good as I remember it sounding

[steviedoes]

What was the first song you guys learned and thought…damn, we’re good (but probably weren’t)?

Probably 16. We thought we were fucking great. I sang and played rhythm on…You Think You’re Tough! The bassist even sang Juan’s part.

All our friends thought it was awesome. Wish I had a tape.

Was probably horrible.

We mixed originals with covers - Blink 182 songs "All The Small Things", "Dammit", Stroke 9 "Vacuum Bag", Third Eye Blind "Never Let You Go", "Semi-Charmed Life", Marvelous 3 "You're So Yesterday", "Grant Park". The last gig we played was a graduation party in 2003. Other than the fact the bass player couldn't play (last show, we're soundchecking playing "You're So Yesterday" and I'm telling the bass player the chords, he goes "I know" and I say "Well then why aren't you playing them?"), the drummer was co lead vocalist couldn't sing (he did the originals, I, the guitarist, sang the covers because I could memorize the lyrics) I guess we were ok. Certainly not as good as we thought we were.

[Tommy]

You guys were pretty ambitious. From my experience, every high school band started with "House of the Rising Sun," "Wild Thing," "Blister in the Sun" and "Knocking on Heaven's Door".

But yeah, everyone wanted to play Metallica riffs and if you were halfway decent you moved on to them relatively quickly, beginning with "For Whom The Bell Tolls."

Yep, that was our one and only Metallica song. We also played Plush and Alive.

[MetalSludgeCEO]

Early X-iter set list consisted of the following... and I wanna say we didn't know enough songs to do 3 sets, or even with 2 full sets with all different songs, so we repeated some songs twice in the 1st and 2nd set. Lol

I not only sang, but played rhythm on half the set.

The Cars "Just What I needed"
Judas Priest "Breakin' The Law", "Livin' After Midnight", "Love Bites", and maybe "Another Thing Comin'" too.
Fastway "Say What You Will"
Motley Crue "Piece of Your Action" and at least 2-3 other Crue songs... maybe "Looks That Kill", "Red Hot" and I think "Starry Eyes" too!
Helix "Heavy Metal Love"
Iron Maiden "22 Acacia Avenue"
The B-52's "Planet Claire" (no vocals, instrumental jam only)

Lots of Motley Crue and Judas Priest in all of the sets!

Also... we had some originals too! There are demos of all of these.

X-iter "Love Ride"
X-iter "Teaser"
X-iter "Hot To Trot Girls"
X-iter "Kiss The Girl Goodbye" (yes... this morphed into "I Hate Kissing You Goodbye" believe it or not)

Later on we added other stuff...

Here are some actual tickets, from our shows..,. it was $3 to get in. Haha

This top ticket says Sat. Jan. 25th, and that is from 1986... the first shows I played were in the previous spring, like April 1985.

> https://www.facebook.com/mike.schneider ... xvgLpgmAVl

In the next band, Talon the guys were better musicians and we added some of the following...

David Lee Roth "Yankee Rose" & "Shy Boy"
Van Halen "You Really Got Me" and "Aint' Talkin' Bout Love"
The Baby's "Midnight Rendevouz"
Dokken "Into The Fire"

We also had an original called 'Blast Action" that we demo'd in 1986.

$tEvil

[diablomozart]

back then i was a part of a myriad of atrocoties when we thought we sounded good...we didn't but we had fun...the most memorable? i had a friend who was basically a disciple of neil peart...and he really was a phenomenal drummer, if he was playing rush...we were jamming and somebody said "magic carpet ride"...i played an approximation at best (that's being generous, i never cared for the dead) and then he kicks in with this complicated ass half time beat...it sounds horrifying but it was actually hilarious...it also proved to me that, as great as neil peart might be, he wouldn't be the right drummer for the grateful dead lol...d.m.

[Tommy]

back then i was a part of a myriad of atrocoties when we thought we sounded good...we didn't but we had fun...the most memorable? i had a friend who was basically a disciple of neil peart...and he really was a phenomenal drummer, if he was playing rush...we were jamming and somebody said "magic carpet ride"...i played an approximation at best (that's being generous, i never cared for the dead) and then he kicks in with this complicated ass half time beat...it sounds horrifying but it was actually hilarious...it also proved to me that, as great as neil peart might be, he wouldn't be the right drummer for the grateful dead lol...d.m.

Not to be that guy, but...Steppenwolf.

[mullet_head]

Breed from Nirvana.

We played a bunch of Nirvana stuff. It wasn't that hard to learn.

I see 7th graders now

You are into them too? NICE!

[aznsquirt]

I have an obscure one, but it was RHCP - Warped. The first time we ever sounded "tight".

[MotleyKaos]

Bernstein's "De profundis, part 2"

[diablomozart]

back then i was a part of a myriad of atrocoties when we thought we sounded good...we didn't but we had fun...the most memorable? i had a friend who was basically a disciple of neil peart...and he really was a phenomenal drummer, if he was playing rush...we were jamming and somebody said "magic carpet ride"...i played an approximation at best (that's being generous, i never cared for the dead) and then he kicks in with this complicated ass half time beat...it sounds horrifying but it was actually hilarious...it also proved to me that, as great as neil peart might be, he wouldn't be the right drummer for the grateful dead lol...d.m.

Not to be that guy, but...Steppenwolf.

not really familiar with them...i suppose a trip to youtube is in order...d.m.

[Tommy]

back then i was a part of a myriad of atrocoties when we thought we sounded good...we didn't but we had fun...the most memorable? i had a friend who was basically a disciple of neil peart...and he really was a phenomenal drummer, if he was playing rush...we were jamming and somebody said "magic carpet ride"...i played an approximation at best (that's being generous, i never cared for the dead) and then he kicks in with this complicated ass half time beat...it sounds horrifying but it was actually hilarious...it also proved to me that, as great as neil peart might be, he wouldn't be the right drummer for the grateful dead lol...d.m.

Not to be that guy, but...Steppenwolf.

not really familiar with them...i suppose a trip to youtube is in order...d.m.

All I know is the song mentioned and Born To Be Wild.