MontanaMax

re: Those here who play out (live music), what advice would you offer for booking?

Posted by MontanaMax on 2/12/25 at 8:13 pm

The hardest part is getting your name out there. Start small and keep at it. The gigs will come.
We started out doing restaurants, coffee shops, and damn hotel bars. Sizing down the band as we had to.

re: Those here who play out (live music), what advice would you offer for booking?

Posted by MontanaMax on 2/12/25 at 7:56 pm

Put together a solid press kit through email (let em know style covers/originals timeframes) and blast email the shite out of places. Follow up with phone calls. Don’t let the gate keepers get ya down. They will absolutely be jerks at times. Just be relentless about it and prove em wrong once you finally get the gig.
You’ll get turned down more than you’ll get the gig, at first.

re: I can’t stand Smashing Pumpkins change my mind.

Posted by MontanaMax on 12/9/24 at 3:28 pm

I love the pumpkins and have no interest in changing your mind. I will say that I’ve seen them twice and both times billy corgan came off as a whiny pretentious dork. I mean, I’m pretty sure that’s well known but…

re: Don't Mess With My Toot Toot

Posted by MontanaMax on 11/12/24 at 7:33 am

There are family videos from back in the 80’s of me dancing to this song. I guess I was slightly obsessed with it as a small child. Hadn’t heard it for years and when my grandmother died, I had to drive her car back home to get some stuff, 3 hours away, and found this CD in her console.

re: Food addiction is it real?

Posted by MontanaMax on 11/2/24 at 10:56 am

Absolutely. Also, you don’t have to be OBESE to be addicted to food.

re: Bluetooth speaker recommendation?

Posted by MontanaMax on 10/25/24 at 8:58 am

I have 2 altec Lansing hydrablasts. Only like $85 and sound great, so much so that I’m surprised they are under $120 or so.
They can connect/sync up and the kiddos love the flashing lights that sync with the music.

re: Songwriters-what's your process?

Posted by MontanaMax on 10/22/24 at 10:45 am

My band is more of a roots rock style band but that is pretty fluid. I have songs that are country/bluesy rock/folk/singer songwriter/ etc.
I never really write with a specific style in mind. I do add the progression, then take what I have to the band and we flesh it out as it needs to go.

ETA: all that to say, the vocal melody will and feel of the lyrics will give me the style

re: Songwriters-what's your process?

Posted by MontanaMax on 10/22/24 at 9:46 am

Well damn boys, I wanna hear some original tunes and lyrics. Hell, I’ll try and put some music to your lyrics if you’d like. I do that for a buddy of mine a good bit. He and I were play different styles so he likes hearing my interpretation.

re: Songwriters-what's your process?

Posted by MontanaMax on 10/22/24 at 8:25 am

I never thought I would be a songwriter (thought I may be too dumb for that). But, I always played some kind of instrument. Started with guitar, then harmonica and piano. A buddy kind of forced me into a songwriters group and next thing I know, I have a bit of a knack for it.
I’ve always been in bands and my current band does mostly originals that I’ve written. Hell, I’ve even had a couple make the radio (I’ve written some absolute stinkers, though). It’s really fun and I’m similar in that I love stringing lyrics/phrases together and putting music/melody to them.
Keep it up! You’re putting stuff into the world that did not exist before you. As I tell my bandmate, “there is no such thing as a bad lyric. Just a miss-used lyric”

re: Songwriters-what's your process?

Posted by MontanaMax on 10/21/24 at 6:20 pm

For me it varies. There are times where a line/phrase pops into my head (that’s often because I have been listening to something different than normal). Other times I just sit with a guitar or at the piano and play through progressions and hum a vocal melody to it. Eventually, the lyrics come.

When I get in a rut, I listen to music that I normally don’t.

re: Hawk Tuah girl repping Ole Miss

Posted by MontanaMax on 9/22/24 at 5:49 pm

shite, that’s our first loss of the season.

SEC Rant

re: Which items are you stockpiling due to future unrest?

Posted by MontanaMax on 9/19/24 at 9:40 pm

My crazy doomsday prepper cousin has sent me everything off of the 4patriots site at least 6 different times now. So I guess I can use that dumb shite.

re: What items should be banned from purchase with food stamps?

Posted by MontanaMax on 9/19/24 at 9:38 pm

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re: playing the guitar

Posted by MontanaMax on 5/30/24 at 4:43 pm

It’s been said but, if you don’t want to commit to taking lessons, I’d pick some a scale to learn in a certain key. Think country if that’s what you enjoy playing. Find a song you enjoy and the key it’s in and find some runs with a scale for it.

If that’s a little too much, maybe learn to walk up and down into chords.

These are ways I learned and still learn. Just have fun with it and start a molly hatchet cover band in a year or so.

re: Rate the hoe professions

Posted by MontanaMax on 5/30/24 at 4:29 pm

My dental hygienist is hot as all hell but I’m pretty sure she is the worst dental hygienist on the planet. I’ve tried to go to another but….damn she’s hot.

re: La House committee advances bill to ban consumable THC products

Posted by MontanaMax on 5/14/24 at 7:06 pm

This man has for sure been pegged by a hooker while on a business trip before

re: Do you care what others think about you?

Posted by MontanaMax on 5/4/24 at 4:38 pm

Absolutely not. My life’s motto is “frick em”.

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re: My Name's John Lee Pettimore

Posted by MontanaMax on 2/29/24 at 7:40 am

My band does this song and be damned if folks don’t lose their minds every time we play it. It’s quite fun to play with a full band.

re: Charles Wesley Godwin

Posted by MontanaMax on 1/25/24 at 10:48 pm

We got tickets today to see him in may in Little Rock. First time I saw him was at growlers in Memphis and there were maybe 15 folks there. He played it about 10 months later and it was packed to the gills. Both shows were equally bad arse.