Stupid Tricks

5andFretless · #1 06-13-2008, 07:24 AM

It is summer. We play nearly every weekend from now until Labor Day, and we have for the last 3 years.

Last Saturday night the singer drops her microphone on the stage monitor. Before the sound guy can react the feed back takes out the horn on one of the PA pods. Things like that happen...

So the drummer and I go over to the local mom and pop to pick up the pod last night (they fixed it) and run into our guitar player. He asks what we are up to and we tell him that we are picking up the PA pod that good cooked last Saturday night. He says "why the rush, we aren't playing for a couple of weeks." The drummer and I just look at each other. Finally the drummers says "We are playing this Saturday night."

The guy had forgotten the gig, and we had all talked about it last Saturday night because no one had been there, it was an early gig (8 to 11), and we were all busy this week so no one could go scope the place out. If not for the chance meeting he would not have shown up.

New item on the gig check list - Call the guitar player the night before and remind him.

And I thought the singer was scatter brained

f'nar f'nar · #2 06-13-2008, 08:24 AM

I thought this would be about a guitarist ****ing up a guitar flip. You failed to deliver what your Thread Title promised, I'm sad.

But seriously, my guitarist is the more un-punctual person I have ever met. Infuriating.

Fenderjazz6823 · #3 06-13-2008, 08:54 AM

My Guitarst Show Up late to pratice Not becouse of work but falling a sleep he shows up late
with no Case on any of his guitars (78 Les Paul Custom , Fender Strat USA , Fender Tele USA ) I have had to call him to make sure his would show for pratice but with my time in bands it seams like the better they are the more forgetful they are if he wasnt as good as he is i'd ditch him

topper · #4 06-13-2008, 08:58 AM

I had a lead singer/guitar player who, if I needed him at a gig at 8:00 I'd tell him to be there at 7:00. He'd show up at 8:30 with his gear, but only one pick, which he would drop into the crowd by the end of the third song.

scottbass · #5 06-13-2008, 09:17 AM

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Originally Posted by topper

I had a lead singer/guitar player who, if I needed him at a gig at 8:00 I'd tell him to be there at 7:00. He'd show up at 8:30 with his gear, but only one pick, which he would drop into the crowd by the end of the third song.

I once had the drummer's wife tell me the same thing: If you want him there at 8:00, tell him you start playing at 7:00.

kesslari · #6 06-13-2008, 09:22 AM

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I once had the drummer's wife tell me the same thing: If you want him there at 8:00, tell him you start playing at 7:00.

Been there myself, with a singer...

I think the all time best for me was a reggae drummer I worked with.
We'd had a steady monthly gig at a restaurant for about 5 mos.
One day he doesn't show up.
He went to the wrong restaurant, in a completely different town - a place we'd never played before.
The keyboard player wound up putting a drum patch on part of his synth and playing drums with his left hand...

5andFretless · #7 06-13-2008, 10:08 AM

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Originally Posted by f'nar f'nar

I thought this would be about a guitarist ****ing up a guitar flip. You failed to deliver what your Thread Title promised, I'm sad.

If that is what you are looking for, check back Monday. I just sent out the set list for tomorrow night to the band, and the guitar player's response was "I bought a new neck and pick ups for my Strat. I hope I can get it all back together and working before tomorrow night. If not, can I borrow Dave's Gibson, even though it sucks?"

No reply from Dave yet, but it should be an interesting email.

rokkitt · #8 06-13-2008, 10:12 AM

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Originally Posted by topper

I had a lead singer/guitar player who, if I needed him at a gig at 8:00 I'd tell him to be there at 7:00. He'd show up at 8:30 with his gear, but only one pick, which he would drop into the crowd by the end of the third song.

thats funny! the "only one pick" part

duh!

ErebusBass · #9 06-16-2008, 10:27 AM

If it weren't for me, my band would never practice, and nobody would know where or when we were gonna be jamming.
Just got sick of "So who called Jeremy?"
*black silent faces*
"So nobody called Jeremy..."

whitedk57 · #10 06-17-2008, 09:37 AM

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Originally Posted by f'nar f'nar

I thought this would be about a guitarist ****ing up a guitar flip. You failed to deliver what your Thread Title promised, I'm sad.

The thread title makes as much sense as this...

Quote:

This lawn supervisor was out on a sprinkler maintenance job, and he started working on a Findlay sprinkler head with a Langstrom seven-inch gangly wrench. Just then this little apprentice leaned over and said, 'You can't work on a Findlay sprinkler head with a Langstrom seven-inch wrench.' Well, this infuriated the supervisor, so he went and got Volume 14 of the Kinsley manual, and he reads to him and says, 'The Langstrom seven-inch wrench can be used with the Findlay sprocket.' Just then the little apprentice leaned over and says, 'It says sprocket, not socket!