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In my seemingly never-ending quest to find some like-headed musicians to form a band, I answered a craigslist ad. The guy(whom shall be henceforth known as Tom, a guitarist might I add) said his influences were Zeppelin, Floyd, Incubus, Deftones, Marley, Doors etc. I was genuinely excited from hearing the first two. I fire him off an e-mail and blah blah blah let's jam on tuesday. I show up and he was a really friendly guy and such so I'm thinking, "This looks promising." Apparently he works in radio and he has a pretty decent sound set up. I brought my fretless because he said he wanted to do something experimental, glissando anyone? He said, "Play something." so I pull out a blues riff in G#, 4/4 time. Easy right? He start playing in some ambiguous key in some ambiguous time. I'm there tapping my foot now just playing root notes to try and get him back in time. Nope, just keeps 'soloing' away rather repetitively i.e. 4 of his beats then bends the 8ve to a ninth and back. That ended and I just thought, "Okay, he probably doesn't know the blues scale, whatevs." He starts playing a 4 chord little tune. I try and follow along but I couldn't figure out the one chord so I ask him "What's that third chord?" he says "It's an F minor, the chord progression is just X Y F and Z."(where X Y and Z are chords I don't remember). It certainly wasn't an Fm. Then I realized he wasn't in standard tuning. I have to just try and follow along then. I play some nice riffs that he likes. It's all just root notes with a scale run into the next chord being unfamiliar with all his songs. He tells me to play another riff so I play a 5/4 tool-esque riff in D (surprize!) I've been working on. Again, he can't follow what I'm doing. He's off in another distant crazy land playing in the same key and playing the same kind of solo. I gave up on my riff again. He pulls out an african kind of drum and starts hitting away on that so I follow what he's playing. He apparently ignores what I was playing and says "Play something, I'll follow you." I play some II V I progression with varying triplets and 16ths. He, again, can't find my time. This jam went on for another 30 mins and I made up an excuse to leave.
He wanted to put my name on the band website and stuff and so far the band was me and him. I said, "Wait until we have a band." I don't think I'll be going back there. Pity because he was a nice guy but, well, not what I'm looking for.
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