Funny gig last night

[Medford Bassman]

So, my band played a local show in our hometown last night. We normally don't play local becasue quite frankly, pay is very low. However, we've played this show the past two years and they like us and the organizers are good people.

We fired a drummer 18 months ago. Last summer at this gig, the fired drummer showed up, stayed for the entire show, got stupid drunk and was thanking me and the guitar player for firing him because "it opened musical doors for him" The sacastic tone was our first clue. Note * he wasn't doing much musically, which we knew, but he decided to brag anyway. We didn't bust him on it and just told him that we're happy for him. It really was a drag listening to him.

Well, last night, he shows up again. Stays the entire four hours, get drunk once again. As the night went on, he felt more and more inclined to give us sound mixing tips. It should be noted, he used to run sound in the band and we got sick of all the complaints we heard about his "professional sound mixing". We tried to ignore him. He begs our new drummer to play a few songs. The rest of the band emphatically said no. So after the show, he still hangs around as we're packing up. He tells our new drummer he's good but too good for us and the sound was horrible. I find out later our new drummer knows him well and just was trying to be nice but does not care for him. Then drunk guy approaches 2 female friends of the drummer, stands well within their personal space and begins to brag about his new band and how they are booked everywhere. (Truth-they are booked at two small time gigs). He continnues to brag on and on. One of the women is about 18 and drunk guy starts telling her how beautiful she is. She gets this nauseated look on her face. She was getting creeped out by this old, out of shape drunk. She walks away.
Finally, drunk former drummer leaves and the other women declares to us, "My, he's full of himself".

Nice too see we made a good decision 18 months ago. Yikes.

[St Drogo]

Sooo, why'd you kick him out again?

[Slax]

Wow.

Who still mills over a band they've been fired from over a year ago?

[Medford Bassman]

a narcissistic psycho who suffers from an inferiority complex

[Queg]

Ouch. How awkward.

If this story was a movie:
Single White Drummer
Fatal Percussion

[Medford Bassman]

Originally Posted by Queg

Ouch. How awkward.

If this story was a movie:
Single White Drummer
Fatal Percussion

Now that's funny!

[gus1894]

Aww. but you want him back, don't you? HA! Wow, what a treat.

We had this drummer in an old band who quit and then the next day told us that he was in a bad mood and changed his mind. Hmmm.

[shadowtippy]

Originally Posted by gus1894

Aww. but you want him back, don't you? HA! Wow, what a treat.

We had this drummer in an old band who quit and then the next day told us that he was in a bad mood and changed his mind. Hmmm.

A good reply could have been something like: Having you quit put us in a good mood. You're still gone.

[Beginner Bass]

Sounds like you were right 18 months ago, and still are.

[Govier966]

good thing you fired him!

[dave64o]

"Glad to hear things are going so well for you, too, because things have been *fantastic* for us over the last year and a half."

[caeman]

Oh, my, that is so sad. Well, in a way, it goes to show just much he loves you guys even still, that he would go through all the effort to get drunk and make a general idiot of himself. I mean, such levels of display take true dedication and practice.

You should be honored!

[okcrum]

Ha! In a similar vein, we had a fired drummer show up 4 days later at the gig, maintaining that he was running the band. He set up on the dance floor and tried to drown us (guitar, bass, replacement drums) out until the bouncer finally kicked him out. All of us plus the club owner had already talked to him, but he was hell bent on making an @$$ of himself. Craziest part was, his tone of voice was flat and unemotional through it all, like a serial killer or untreated bipolar.

Never seen anything like it in 40-some years...

[Medford Bassman]

Thanks to everyone who posted. you all really made me laugh and cheer up!

Thanks again

[Serial Junkie]

Oh man, I had a keyboardist with a similar attachment problem. He quit and came back 3 times in 2 weeks after throwing a series of hissy fits over a period of 6 months and we finally told him he wasn't welcome back (note: he wanted a piano/organ solo every song, he wanted to "shine", and we said no thus causing hissy fits... And he had a volume issue). Haha so a couple months later I go see his open mic set to support him as a friend and the entire night he is trying to convince me to let him back to do the big gig we had booked, haha I repeated our musical differences in a friendly manner just so he knew it just wasn't happening and he kept going saying he'd do anything, he's "grown" musically. So I asked him if he would be ok not playing left hand chords and playing the accents we need on the upper register all night and his response was perfect: "of course I could do that....that would be easy....if it makes the music work then I'd be stupid not to, but people do like piano solos so I'd have to have a couple of those during the set too." Fail.

[KeithAlanK]

Really?
People actually like piano solos?

Yeah, Fail.

[Plays_For_Dog]

Why are musicians so damn flakey and emotional? Drummers are especially wierd...