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05-24-2010, 03:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Kraków, Polska | | | Weirdest reason for quitting a band
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What's the strangest true reason you've ever quit a band, or anyone ever gave for quitting your band? I quit one because it was playing too many government-subsidized gigs for various cultural festivals etc. Just did one Sunday, playing the last one Wednesday... usually they pay well but require a lot of travel and draw small crowds. If it wasn't for those I'd be happy with this band, but... well, our rulers (both national and European Union) attempts to support the arts and culture have made it not worth it. I'd rather stick to playing commercial covers they don't find worthy of support, haha.
So, that's pretty uncommon, but I'm sure a lot of y'all have much weirder stories.
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05-24-2010, 03:20 PM
|  | Now 10% Less Offensive! | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Anchorage, Alaska | | | That's pretty odd. Not sure what you even mean by it. Is it an anti-American thing? Or an anti-government thing? Or what?
Anyway, when I was a teenager I was going to be the lead singer of this band we put together to play at highschool dances and proms. One of the songs the guys wanted to do had the word "damn" in the lyrics. I didn't want to sing it because I was afraid that singing the word "damn" would make the folks at my church mad at me...so I quit the band.
Maybe not really "weird" but I certainly dumb.
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05-24-2010, 03:24 PM
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Originally Posted by totallyfrozen That's pretty odd. Not sure what you even mean by it. Is it an anti-American thing? Or an anti-government thing? Or what? | Nah, just an anti "drive five hours each way to play in front of 30 people" thing. I'd rather get the same money for playing something more commercial in front of 200 people a few miles from my house instead.
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05-24-2010, 03:26 PM
| | | | Why would it be an anti american thing if the dude is polish? |
05-24-2010, 03:30 PM
| | | | I quit my last band because they, esp the guitarist, were republican wingnuts. It would be ok but he never stopped talking about it. He even endorsed republican candidates between songs at gigs. Didn't work for me. |
05-24-2010, 03:33 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: KCMO | | | I quit to join a Fraternity. Then, only to create a band with them....after 16+ years we're still a band.
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05-24-2010, 03:42 PM
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Originally Posted by totallyfrozen Anyway, when I was a teenager I was going to be the lead singer of this band we put together to play at highschool dances and proms. One of the songs the guys wanted to do had the word "damn" in the lyrics. I didn't want to sing it because I was afraid that singing the word "damn" would make the folks at my church mad at me...so I quit the band.
Maybe not really "weird" but I certainly dumb. | We had a lead singer quit because we insisted on playing "Hey Joe". He wouldn't sing it because the song is about shooting a woman. That's OK, we had someone else sing it. He still quit because he didn't want to be associated with a band that would perform "that type" of music.
What can I say?  We're a blues band... |
05-24-2010, 03:42 PM
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Originally Posted by SH69 Why would it be an anti american thing if the dude is polish? | It wasn't an anti-American thing. He already said that.
Anyway, yeah I can see your point. I wouldn't be cool with the political campaigning thing at gigs either.
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05-24-2010, 05:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: PM me for this ;) | | | I was sick of being in a band that had the aspirations & ego of being bigger then metalica, but had the talent and skills of a dead person. 5 years from now I know they'll still be touring the local bar scene. Its just not worth the time commitment for a metal band that sucks and is not going anywhere.
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05-24-2010, 05:52 PM
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Originally Posted by scottbass We had a lead singer quit because we insisted on playing "Hey Joe". He wouldn't sing it because the song is about shooting a woman. That's OK, we had someone else sing it. He still quit because he didn't want to be associated with a band that would perform "that type" of music.
What can I say? We're a blues band... | He wouldn't last in Bluegrass. There are too many songs about guys killing their girlfriends....... Pretty Polly, Knoxville Girl, etc., etc. |
05-24-2010, 05:58 PM
|  | LICENSED TO KILL - any song I play! | | | | | I didn't quit. We disbanded and the others reformed without me!
OUCH! That was about 25 years ago. I'm over it now. Kinda. Well almost...
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05-24-2010, 06:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Providence RI | | | because we all went to different colleges, yay for only being in one band so far |
06-22-2010, 12:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Manchester, UK | | | I got bored, simple as, spending a your first year playin bass in a band that practiced once a week and actually did ball all in those practices, so i quit, joined what is now my main band, never looked back, even though i was offered a dean bass to rejoin that band |
06-22-2010, 10:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: NYC metro area | | My buddy was a singer in a small-town cover band. He told me he quit because ugly swingers started following the band to every show and dancing extra dirty to every song.
How bad*** is that! "I quit my band because my fans disgusted me." 
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06-23-2010, 07:24 AM
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Endorsing artist: Carvin, Micheal Kelly Guitars | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Austin, Tx. | | | Jondog, I would still be in that band...LOL. We disbanded one time because the IRS was taking everybody's houses & cars. Another time long ago in Hawaii I got hired by a band to play guitar & sing back up. They already had a bassist & lead singer, but I needed a job so I took it. Somewhere along the line they decided I should sing lead on a few songs(I was a much stronger singer than the lead guy). That was the kiss of death. when I would sing my three or four songs everybody would dance. When he started singing again everybody sat down or left. They told me one day they were breaking up & reformed the next. I got another gig with my own band. |
06-23-2010, 07:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Graham Monette I was sick of being in a band that had the aspirations & ego of being bigger then metalica, but had the talent and skills of a dead person. 5 years from now I know they'll still be touring the local bar scene. Its just not worth the time commitment for a metal band that sucks and is not going anywhere. | This exactly happened to me, only they kicked me out of the band, because I wasn't feeling the music. I might add that the drummer had to use a metronome to be able to play.
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06-23-2010, 09:40 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Upland, CA. | | I was once fired from a band that used rehearsals as opportunities to go on cocaine and crack benders with their buddies. At practices, I (being the only sober one) would say things like "are we going to practice today" while they're partying in the practice space and getting hammered. They asked me one Wednesday afternoon to come get my stuff because the other three guys mutually decided I wasn't a "good fit"...in hindsight, I guess I really wasn't. 
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06-23-2010, 10:12 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Auburn, CA | | | I quit a band because I did not want to see the guitarist, a very young and very talented guy, kill himself on vicodin. He almost did too, a few months after I quit.
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06-23-2010, 10:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Des Moines | | | I quit a christian band because I became an atheist. |
06-23-2010, 12:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: San Diego, CA | | | Once quit a punk band because the guitarist didn't have gear, despite the fact he pushed out the old guitarist to get the spot. I guess thats pretty punk rock in its own way. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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