Complain about musicians here :O

[dideah]

Im feeling annoyed with alot of people today and I want you to share stories with me about bad musicians to make me feel better
( all a joke but please tell us some stories )
thanks tb !!!

[xxfaux_punkxx]

Okay...


Well my guitarist bought me an amp last august when I joined the band. Acoustic b100, that was on sale. At the time of the purchase I informed him that I wouldn't be able to pay him back for a while and he told me not to worry about it. I was still very very nervous about accepting the amp, but finally decided to go for it since I needed it. Anyway few months go by and I ask him about paying him back for it...

"nah man don't worry about it."

few more months go by, "well if you insist." so I gave him a bill for it.

Only owe 80$ on the rest, but haven't been able to pay him off in full yet. Now it's come to the point where I want to quit the band, but since I still owe him money so I'm kinda stuck.

Wouldn't be so bad if I'd never offered to pay him back. Then I could just leave the amp and be on my way. Instead I don't want to be out the money and the amp, so I'm kinda toughening it out until I can pay him back.

doubt that helps, but it's whatever.

[Hotrodmick]

I'm in a fairly well known band in my area that I play guitar in. I wanted to play bass, so I started another band to play bass in. When I play bass in my regular band , they all like how I play, so I figuer I'm not too bad. I'm excited and off I go to set it up. A freind of mine is a pretty good singer and a decent guitar player. So I talk him in to the new band. He brings this drummer to the band and we get another friend of mine to play lead.
Now the rest of the story:
The drummer is a hack, he can't keep a steady bet and plays the cymbals more then the drums. Made it hard for me to keep the bet. My wife is the gig manager for the other band and she got us a gig. The sound guy told the drummer to tone it down but the drummer yells back, "if it's too loud you're to old" (he's 50). We had another gig and at sound check another sound guy told him to bring the volume down, you got it" if it's too loud you're too old". I got mad and said something about it. 2 weeks later the drummer and singer got some guy off of CL to play bass. Yep they told me I was no longer in thier band. Showed the true colors of the one friend and pissed off my other friend. ( they lied to him about me).

Oh well, I still play bass in my first band once in a while and looking for something to get me through.

[martinmcfly]

Well, me and a girl singer from a band I just quit and a drummer from my last job are starting a Band and we audition this guitar player. He's pretty good but doesn't want to join. I talk to him while he's loading up his equipment and he asks me if I want to start a band with him and some other drummer. I say sure since I got time to be in two bands.......You know. I could go on for pages about both bands. Let me just say, why does there always seem to be so much soap opera type drama with bands and musicians? Probably because they are all quirky and a strange breed. Bassist's seem to be the most down to earth when compared to guitarists and drummers. Keyboardists don't seem too bad though. How many times in all the bands I've been in have I ended up sitting around at practice and listen to band members argue. It even happens at gigs, before, during, and after. lol!

[Russell L]

I'm tired of mediocrity:

Practice a tune until we get through it once. They think we've learned it at that point. Heh, heh, until the gig comes and they can't remember it right.

Having to show a guitarist how to play a m7b5 (never mind trying to explain it).

Drummer who can't play an intro in 4-1/2 time (7/8). Nor does he know what it means when I explain it. Ok, so everybody doesn't understand theory, but hey, he can't keep a steady tempo either. And he's too loud.

Songs with wrong chords, and the explanation is, "Oh, I was just wanting to do a general rendition of it."

Other instruments with too much bottom end. When asked if they could roll off some of it they wanna know why.

Sometimes I just wanna run away.

[Martin89]

Musicians who are fake.

[Russell L]

Players who are arrogant because they think they are hot stuff.

[Waffles and Scotch]

Players that dumb down songs so they don't have to create/practice difficult parts

[pklima]

Musicians... what do they have against playing music normal people like?

[Russell L]

Players who pose pretty, as if to show how perfectly technically they can play, but come across as having no soul, no matter how perfect their performance was.

[Codger]

Jazz drummers who won't play time. They'll do it if you tell them it is either that or pack up and go home, but they'll hate you for it. They would much rather splatter the tune with a cacophony of rolllllll-boom/crashes and incessant off-rhythm snare drum popping, regardless of context. They want to play Tony Williams at his Miles-ish (good luck with that) when the tune calls for Idris Muhammad.

Whew. Boy that felt good.

[CALopes]

Bass players (and musicians in general) who can't play in time or even in tune but, if you are lucky, you'll get to fill one of their gigs since they their agenda full!!!

[ricbass440]

I was playing a show and needed to borrow my guitarist's p bass as an extra. (one of the songs was in c# tuning, and I'm too lazy to tune my bass during a show.) as at the time I did not have a second one. He told me it was no problem. There were no strings on it when he brought it...

[EricssonB]

Originally Posted by Codger

They want to play Tony Williams at his Miles-ish (good luck with that) when the tune calls for Idris Muhammad.

Whew. Boy that felt good.

Hahaha.

[mattbass6945]

when my drummer says, "no, it's cool.....i'll figure that part out later. i'll learn it, let's just get through it." then later five mins later, "cool, so we got that song down." uhhh.....we?

[NOAH_FX]

Singers who should just stick to singing, but feel that because the rest of us have intruments they should play guitar... Than just flat out doing it wrong, and refusing to stop because it's "Their" Song and only they truly know how it goes....

[Martin89]

Capo/Chord Chart Discrepancies...
When a guitarist has to hold/play the bass to "show" you what he wants instead of just saying the rhythm, playing it on his guitar etc. It's not like your first 4 strings are tuned exactly the same way...

[azureblue]

Musicians that play only one type of shuffle
So called funk / soul players that play ahead of the beat
Musicians that can't swing
Rock players that think they can play blues, mostly because they have memorized some Stevie Page Hendrix Solo from Leave my Little Stormy Red House Girl Alone.
Jazz drummers that can't decide what they are going to play in a tune, so they just play with no feel, and play three rhythm patterns, none of which fit the groove of the tune. I don't mind a 'four on the floor" drummer, but, drummers, if you're not going to lay down a FOTF, at least pay attention to what the bass player is laying down.
Music school jazz players that play jazz as if every tune was be bop - fast and hard.
Guitar players that solo through three sets of changes and never say anything, musically. Just minutes of incessant, pointless wanking.
Keyboard players that think that God consults them.

[Russell L]

Originally Posted by Codger

Jazz drummers who won't play time. They'll do it if you tell them it is either that or pack up and go home, but they'll hate you for it. They would much rather splatter the tune with a cacophony of rolllllll-boom/crashes and incessant off-rhythm snare drum popping, regardless of context. They want to play Tony Williams at his Miles-ish (good luck with that) when the tune calls for Idris Muhammad.

Whew. Boy that felt good.

+1. Somebody had to say it.

[knumbskull]

is it me or is TB full of "complaint" threads these days?

here's a handy list to save you time.

tick as many of the options below as you like about the musician(s) you wish to complain about:

- does not know musical theory
- knows too much musical theory
- plays too loud
- won't let me play as loud as I'd like
- insists I play 4th notes on the root
- complains when I play 4th notes on the root
- is constantly stoned/drunk in practice
- won't let me get stoned/drunk in practice
- is obsessed with karaoke
- won't come with me to karaoke and complains when i talk about it
- is a woman
- stole my girlfriend
- is a woman and stole my girlfriend
- is my girlfriend and left me, now i sleep on the couch
- stole my couch
- won't tell me what key the song is in
- can't figure out what key my song is in
- doesn't know what a key is
- won't tell me what a key is
- won't let me use my fretless
- won't let me use anything but my fretless
- burned my fretless
- listens to Dokken
- used to play in Dokken and never shuts up about it
- I am in Dokken and I hate these guys
- books us gigs in old people's homes
- is in an old people's home
- steals all the chicks when we play old people's homes
- is aggressive
- is passive
- is passive aggressive
- is FINE, everything's just FINE as long as YOU'RE happy. OKAY?

and so on