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OLDER MEN is my new band AND SONGS ARE UP.

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 8:13 pm
by daseb
so this is basically what I do now. For fans of Jehu, Unwound, Tar, Universal Order of Armageddon I guess? Those are the bands we directly ripped off. Especially Unwound in the last song, yeesh. Also we booted out our bass player for not being an older man, and now I play bass in the song 'weatherman' and definitely lifted a bass part from 'switch is down' by UOA.

http://olderxmen.bandcamp.com/album/some-songs

Re: OLDER MEN is my new band.

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 8:31 pm
by kbit
This is fucking rad.

Re: OLDER MEN is my new band.

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 8:32 pm
by skullservant
Bought your album a few weeks ago, great stuff man

Re: OLDER MEN is my new band.

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 8:36 pm
by Iommic Pope
Definitely rad.
Gonna pick up a copy when I not on mobile later.
"Middle aged post hardcore" :lol:
Nice.

Re: OLDER MEN is my new band.

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 9:00 pm
by fever606
Oh this is right up my alley... definitely will toss you some ducats when I'm off vacation and have proper computer access again...

Re: OLDER MEN is my new band.

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 9:20 pm
by daseb
oh hell thanks guys! The recordings are free, we don't mind if you don't pay for them, it's just a demo :)

Re: OLDER MEN is my new band.

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 9:37 pm
by Faldoe
Rad, energetic stuff! Great tones all around. I like it. Makes me want to freak out

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Re: OLDER MEN is my new band.

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 11:32 pm
by D.o.S.
There's some punk kids in this town who have been in a band called Older Men for a couple of years now.

many "I love Older Men" jokes were made. Also I don't think they did anything of note so your secret is safe with me.

Re: OLDER MEN is my new band.

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 12:15 am
by daseb
D.o.S. wrote:There's some punk kids in this town who have been in a band called Older Men for a couple of years now.

many "I love Older Men" jokes were made. Also I don't think they did anything of note so your secret is safe with me.
I will straight up fight them.

Also the joke is every time someone likes the facebook it pops up with 'such and such likes older men'. Never stops being funny. Also we have a lot of randoms with their junk out in their photo liking us.

Re: OLDER MEN is my new band.

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 10:38 am
by goosekevin
this rules

Re: OLDER MEN is my new band.

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 11:15 am
by D.o.S.
Also like you namedropped Tar instead of Shellac you nerd.

digging regardless, but just know: I'm onto you. :excellent:

Re: OLDER MEN is my new band.

Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 2:09 pm
by jrmy
If I like it, does that mean I'm old?

Because I do.

But then, I am.

Nice job, man! :rock: :rock: :rock:

Re: OLDER MEN is my new band.

Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 7:39 am
by daseb
thanks heaps guys!
D.o.S. wrote:Also like you namedropped Tar instead of Shellac you nerd.

digging regardless, but just know: I'm onto you. :excellent:
try and find the riff from 'welk'. It's in the first couple of songs. Figure it out and I'll send you a free shirt if we ever make some.

Re: OLDER MEN is my new band.

Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 8:53 am
by goroth
Dase that is fucking awesome. I love it a lot.

Re: OLDER MEN is my new band.

Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2015 4:20 am
by daseb
Bump. Spent all weekend in our practice space recording six new songs. Since the last stuff we've become a three piece, I've started playing bass full time after briefly trying to do a q and not u and realising there's no way we could dance that well. Doing vocals in a couple days, then I go overseas for about a month, then our drummer's babby is due. So in that time we're hoping to mix it, get all the art done and then have a digital release and hopefully a 7" sometime before my babby shows up in march next year (but like, pressing plant, lol). I'll bump this thread again when there's something to listen to but right now I'm excited so here's some photos of the recording if you care about that kinda shit:
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bass setup for drum tracking.

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tracking drums sucks, pt.1

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tracking drums sucks, pt. 2

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tracking drums sucks, pt. 3

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day two, six bass tracks in an hour and a bit, eat it.

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albini style mic techniques

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chris was stoked because he finally got to use his $500 big muff on a recording

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offsets

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hey I've got an idea let's use way more shit than we ever do live on the guitars

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and while we're at it we'll chuck a bunch of noise we can never do live in it too. Unwound did! Then they got like three extra band members!

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drum tracks done, time to do the taxes.

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speakers by 'whatever was cheapest on ebay'

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I didn't use the precision but I put it in the shot because I still kinda feel like a traitor for using a jazz bass.
There's some videos on facebook (oldermenband, holy shit we get the most amazing likes with that name) and my instagram (@dasebeard) if you really care but yeah, I'm hella excited about it. Will update again when there's actually something to listen to.