Counter Productive
I back up what the other review says. As someone who made a living out of the band scene in the late 80s and is now toying with the idea of getting back into it. I would say that after using jmb for a couple of years now. It is the pits and more likely to demotavate your goals then , then add fuel to your ambition.
Whats worse this morning when I clicked on a muscians clasfied , then got pelted , with third party ads. The kind you normally see on only the worst type of sites with poor control .
Even if you get to shift through the actual clasfied sections themselves , Most the aspirational muscians most of who are amuter appeart to full of themselves about needing a shed load of requirments . Most ads will discriminte against people who can't drive . I can drive so it makes no dice to me. But I appreciate there are many younger muscians or those on a lower budget who can not afford to run a car or get driving lessons .
But what makes these want to be recruiters who can not wield this type of power in their day job (or as often the case may be ) , sound like jokes is that they care more about their stipulations then hering someone try out . Least we forget that non of the Beatles could drive ,when the band was starting out.
Another reason why sites like this are depressing , is that the collbarative effort of being in a band no longer exists . To the extent that it did pre net age.
In short join my band is full of delusional people who will probably not make more then a few crumbs from the music business. Who have not even got out the starting block but are happy to give orders like a winer . As there is no foroum the problamatic nature of the site can not be discussed amonst others on the site , neither can muscians get feed back from others .
It seems the types of bands and people that advertise on it have a very narrow set of influences and are only looking for others to adhere to this rigid specfication . Most ads read like somone is offering a paid job . But obviously they are not so why anyone would bother to reach out to these types is a mystery to me.
You can also not upload your sound clips to this site and in the past I wrote free ads which got more promotion then fetured which you pay for .
In general the site runs in a very outdated way as if it was operational in 1995 not 2025 .
It seems the site has worse and more intrusive ads day by day. But the people who run it do nothing in relation to investing, in the modernsation of the site .