OK, it's a slow thread day so here goes...........
There are no drummers in Seattle, or Washington for that matter. Ok, maybe there are a FEW, I've played with a couple of the very best in these parts but unless you're shelling out dough good luck with that.
The rag-tag, un-talented, low-lifes that have auditioned for my band never cease to amaze me, and when you do come across the rare talented ones, you can't rely on them to show up or actually learn a song.
I'm not talking about cover musicians here, I know all the "cover guys" will chime in saying "That's the only way to get paying gigs". Whatever, I could teach or do session work and make more money than I can playing Mustang Sally in some dive bar for the five hundredth time. My day job pays me WAAAAY better than even the pretty sucessful tribute band I played in. Playing covers doesn't inspire me in the least, aren't ther any talented drummers that feel the same way? Do they not have passion for creating music? My brother believes, and I'm starting to agree with him, that from a drummers point of view, they aren't necessarily writing the songs anyway so there is little difference to them between playing covers and playing originals.
It's gotten to the point where I'm starting to feel like I'm in Spinal Tap going on our seventh drummer. Not because they choked on there own vomit or went up in a ball of spontanious human combustion, it's because only a handful of elite guys up here can actually play well and want to do it. And below that there is another group of good players that can play, but they just want to jam on blues because there's no "work" involved in that.
Can't take it anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
