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the backwards 'R' in 'Korn' makes it even worse. It's the first letter of the Russian alphabet, you klowns.

The band I'm in is called "Sharpening the Purple Hippo." Naturally, there's a story behind the name, similar to "Lynryd Skynyrd." We get some funny looks from people, but it is memorable.

Really enjoy all these stories, folks. My band had another musical adventure at an open mic last night. It was the first time there with our new vocalist, and we had 3-4 songs teed up and ready to go with her singing. We nailed the first three, and the sound guy said "play a couple more." We...

Our drummer says there are three kinds of mistakes: The ones only you notice; The ones only your bandmates notice; The ones EVERYONE notices.

My band played its first actual gig a couple weeks ago. On the second song, something didn't sound right as soon as I started playing. I played the same line again and it still sounded like crap. Then I realized I was playing the chorus part during the verse! Afterwards, I said "sorry about...

Not a Big fan of rosewood, but that is a very nice looking instrument. Enjoy it!

I don't think this is a "sucky band" video, but it is a sucky "band video." I placed the camera in front of the sound engineer because I didn't want it unattended at our table. Unfortunately, the people at the table right in front of the sound engineer never shut the hell up. The particularly...

i have one. Once I learned to play half a beat ahead to account for the fact that the signal has to slow down around the corner, it worked just great.

Drummer who feels the need to practice fills between songs at rehearsal when other band members are trying to talk about how to play the song. Almost impossible to carry on a conversation.

UPDATE: here's how rehearsal went last night. The original trio showed up at 6:00 PM, an hour ahead of our regular start time. While we were tuning up, the new vocalist shows up. She had missed the last two rehearsals because her mom had some health issues out of state. I asked here "how is your...

No. No. No.

Absolutely agree. In my experience, the way to get buy-in is to involve everyone in the creation of the vision statement. It sounds like there was input from the other band members, and nothing in the document should have come as a surprise. I can also see where something like this would be...

Got together with the others in the original trio tonight, and we're in agreement on managing rehearsal time better. We'll make that point clear to the new folks, and they can get on board or get out.

Heard back from the guitar player - he feels exactly the same as I did at last rehearsal. The three of us will meet an hour early on Friday to run through our set list for the April 2 gig as a trio. When the others arrive at 7:00, we're going to point out that we don't have much time and need to...

Well, we're not pros (obviously). We have a one-hour set at a spring ski festival on April 2. The keyboard player isn't available for that date, which is actually a blessing. We've got two rehearsal nights to get the new female vocalist up to speed on as many songs in our set list as she can...