You Know You Should Quit the Band When

[StyleOverShow]

After 40 years of playing in bands, I've seen too much, too often and still haven't learned.

I knew that I should have quit a metal cover band that I spent the last 3 months with, when I learned on the 2nd rehearsal that the former bass played was stabbed by the current guitarist.

Turns out: 1. Metal can become as boring as Classic Rock, just louder; 2. the guitarist is a "mean drunk", now peacefully sedated with legal weed (CA perk); he stabbed the guy with a plastic cake knife and let the public defender plea bargain for him.

You know you should quit the band when...your story here.

-richard

[Vynns]

...You ask the singer for his lyrics, because you're going to sing backup, and he says "Meh, I never really wrote them down, I make them up on the spot and sing something different everytime". This after having performed with this guy multiple times.

[millsbass5]

A plastic cake knife,eh??That's worse than having "your heart carved out with a spoon".

QUOTE FROM SHERIFF OF NOTTINGHAM: IN THE ROBINHOOD FLICK FROM KEVIN COSNER.

[Sartori]

When the drummer doesn't like you, or bass guitar in general. And he can't play because he's too lazy to practice. And nobody else sees this as a problem.

[SoonerMatt]

When the singer/guitarists says "Well I'm going to sing/play it anyway, because it's MY band!"

[Thundar]

When youre the ONLY one in the band that can play "Sweet Home Alabama" correctly.

[capnsandwich]

Everyone in the band is 10+ years older than you and treat you that way. Maybe that's why they're still stuck in 1985.

[narcopolo]

when someone in your band has taken the time to learn "sweet home alabama"

[Yours fretfully]

Originally Posted by Vynns

...You ask the singer for his lyrics, because you're going to sing backup, and he says "Meh, I never really wrote them down, I make them up on the spot and sing something different everytime". This after having performed with this guy multiple times.

I get your point, but man I'd like to be able to do that. I speak french and english both fairly well, but I don't seem to master any of them (either that or I'm a really bad poet). Writing a single song is a lot of effort, let alone improvising it on the spot...
It all depends on the quality of the lyrics of course

Back on topic, I quit a band when their old bassist came back and they had me play rhythm guitar instead of bass That guy was really good and I was just learning, but still, I would have rather wanted to hear "we don't need you anymore"

[StuRichardson]

when your band always wants to play fall out boy songs

[NWB]

...the rhythm guitarist reaches over and turns your amp down.

My response in that situation of course, "well if you don't want to hear the bass, you don't need a bass player!" and promply left.

Sorry, no plastic cake knifes were handy.

[bandl]

When all they want to do is rock ballads from the 80's.

[Jactap]

...when the rest of the band needs a smoke break every 15 minutes and you don't smoke

[TheHegemon]

...when your bandmates start selling their equipment to buy booze and drugs.

Didn't take me long for that one.

[millsbass5]

Originally Posted by NWB

...the rhythm guitarist reaches over and turns your amp down.

My response in that situation of course, "well if you don't want to hear the bass, you don't need a bass player!" and promply left.

Sorry, no plastic cake knifes were handy.

I punched our guitarist for doing that.I swear,wired his jaw shut.If you are a bandmate of mine?Don't believe me?Try me.I have NO PROBLEM obliging you.Ask,keep your di**beaters off my volume knob!

My saying????Do unto others...........

[The Owl]

1) When your bandmates start selling YOUR equipment to buy booze and drugs.

2) 3 words: BACKSTREET BOYS COVERS!

[Arpeggiator]

when you say to the guitarist play me a D# and he says what fret is that... great guitarist but working with him is pain becuase he has no theory knowlege, and also them expecting you to know the song that him and the other guitarist wrote the night before without showing it to me....

[NoobOnRoad]

When you guitarist say that Pop punk is the best music ever.... :P

[bluewine]

You might want to consider quitting if your single and the band isn't getting you any poon at all.

Seriously you might want to quit if that seems to be a trend,

[Tommy Preston]

When you can almost get an UNWANTED contact high from the drummer after he gets back on stage after the break.