Genuine alt/undergound any musicians,all levels

(the ''requeired field'' REALLY getting in the way of this. So please don't take the needed instruments at all seriously here.)

Any level, any intrument (guitar, synth, bass, ethnic, percus/drums anything) wanted.
male/female, any age over 20yrs till auld and croakin it.
Pick up what you want to play at any given moment till it gels. It's up to us, and not other folk who copy other folk.
No metal, no indie, no pop, no sound-a-likeys, no college-sounding, forget what teacher taight you.
Be unafraid to sound total sh*t at fearlessly learning to sound like ourselves till we are GOOD at it.
Focus on rock n roll/garage-punk energy dance grooves and a heavfty psychedelic edge (NOT imitating 1960s)
AVOID sounding like existing bands, or club scenes.
No gigs till we can party our own thing fully. What we put in, is what we get out (It REALLY is alternative underground! NOT a sceney generic band).
Number of members? Doesn't matter, so long as we develop a core group, and happy to have co-operative satelite members for whatever is needed.
focus to on learning how to have fun, and no assholes trying to be stars. No sucking up to scenes, no chasing ''recording deals''.. NO NO NO! Keep it pure keep it real, they'll all come to us.
Al;though we won't be copying anyone else already famous or established etc, we can use infuences to learn how to get where we need to be till we nail itin practice and it becomes ours.
Inlfuences on my part?
13th Floor Elevators (66-70)
The Fall (79-87, and mainly their rockabilly and garage-punk stuff)
The Doors
Hendrix (not expecting anyone to be a guitar hero as it is NOT a guitar lead project. It is GROOVE based)
The Sonics
The Trashmen
The Novas
Hasil Adkins
The Cramps (Mainly their four-to-the-floor stuff)
The Slits
Butthole Surfers (pre-MTV stuff)
Bongwater
Shockabilly,
Ween
Beck
Planet Gong
Hawkwind (Space Ritual era till Warriors On The Edge Of Time era)
Dukes Of The Stratosphere (actually is XTC with a different name)
Nck Cave/Birthday Party
Foetus (the rockabilly/garage punk stuff)
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
60s R&B/soul/funk/new orleans (not the pop sh*t)
50s rockabilly (not the pop sh*t)
60s/70s ska/rocksteady (not those techniques teacher taught you!)
African r&b/funk/psychedelia
Punk
Garage-punk
posy punk
80s alternative (NOT metal, NOT indie, NOT sub-pop etc)
Sex Gang Children (Sebastian EP era)
Alien Sex Fiend (Boneskaker baby era and their technoid stuff)
Acid Techno (Stay Up Forever/Smitten records, Liberator Crew, D.A.V.E. The Drummer, Geezer)
Eat Static (ex drumemr of Ozric tentacles techno set)
System & (Gong's guitarist Steve Hillage and wife's techno act)
Edinburgh's Sponge (80s psychedelic/space rock act)
Sex Pistols/Stranglers/Dead Kennedy's (good solid rock n roll. With the Kennedy's doing good hard texas rockabilly style)
The Meteors (first album era only)
The Monks (mad sixties punk band predating velvet Underground)
Nina Hagen (nunsexmunkrock)
The Slits
Siouxsie/Creatures
PTV/PTV3/Throbbing Gristle

NO need to stick to one instrument. pick up what you want when you want till it gels.

I play Double bass (slap too), 6-sdtring bass, bass, rhythm guitar,.
Also, since it WILL be remembering rock n roll is MEANT to be dance music (unlike boring old fart rock), worth adding i do polyrhythmioc percussion which doesn't have to sound african. So can workshop anyone to learn four interchangable parts so no one will be put off when yoiu do your own thing. And is ideal really if all of us learn this BEFORE picking an instrument up ideally. (IF ONLY!)

One theme will be to pick a GOOD dance groove, then rip it to shreads and tyear it apart and trip it out till it becomes ours, and NOT hurry to make it sound finished. take timne till it sounds REALLY like us.
Have a few free rehearsal spaces, and one which we can party at weekends with friends to get a REAL vibe together and SEE they CAN actually dance to it, no matter how weird and wonderful it gets.
Avoid sounding like a college band, avoid sounding like ''rock/metal'', or ''indie'' as those are someone elses tired old thing.
Primitive, groovin, trippy (No 60s pastiches)

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