Recent content by pato1357

I used to be in a band with one of my best friends. One day him and another one of the band members decided I wasn't in their vision of the future and kicked me out. Me and my friend had a HUGE fight and I didn't talk to him for about 2 months and when I did it was always awkward and we never...

This exact thing happened to me. At no point did they tell me whatever their problem was they just decided to go behind my back. When I found out about the ad we had a gig about a week away, I didn't tell anyone I knew and went to the gig. I was very charming to them all and they were all...

I had a past band put an ad on an online forum looking for a new bassist and I found it by accident ome day. They hadn't said anything to me about it or that they thought my playing wasn't up to standard, they were to scared to confront me so they did it behind my back. We had a gig the next...

Yeah man once you join an already established band, no matter how chummy you get, you will always be on the outside. I got kicked out of my old band because I didn't click with a couple of the members so even though I was in there for over a year I was still 'the new guy' and expendable...

Ooops Sorry guys, we play orginals and we are all about 20 years old. We live in Melbourne in Australia and we play alt rock in a 4 piece band. And in my old band we managed to play gigs consistently for a couple of years so there isn't a shortage of gigs I just don't know where to find them.

Hey guys, I recently joined a new band and seeing as I am the only one who has had any gigging experience the management of gigs was given to me. The only problem is that in my old band I didn't have anything to do with the booking of gigs, the BL would just tell me where to turn up and I...

Yeah I had this problem. My old band had a bank account where we would put all our money we made at gigs and our band leader was the only one with access.. I ended up quitting the band on not very nice terms and wasn't on talking terms with anyone. I didn't end up chasing the money as I...

I used to be in a band where we put all of our money we made from shows into a bank account for the band that only our BL had access too. I wasn't a huge fan of this and would have preferred to pocket the money and pay for anything we need from our own personal expenses. I ended up quitting the...

A few years ago when I was about 18 the band I was in managed to get countless gigs and we were shocked to find how easy it was to get a gig when we had heard such bad things. The thing was we would always play in front a big crowd but the crowd was entirely made up of people we had invited...

Go for it man, you can easily make at least 1 more original in that time and practice a cover or two. Pick up the practice to a few times a week and you are golden.

Hey guys! I bought an Behringer Ultrabass BX1200 about 3 years ago to play some gigs with. So one day I am in my room playing when my dad walks in and steps straight onto the lead snapping the lead inside of the input (a similar thing happened to the other input). By this time the old...

The singer isn't that bad. What you need to do is tell him first that you don't think he is pulling his weight. Tell him that you know he can do better and offer some suggestions as to what you think is the problem. If he still doesn't pick up his game or simply can't then you...

Hey guys just got home from the gig then.. I pulled them aside and I called them out on it.. I loosely said (excuse the language) "I saw your f***ing ad you posted online for a new bassist, next time say it too my face! I quit!" and just walked out before they could say anything.. The best...

Hey guys thanks for all the advice, I have decided to play the gig because alot of my friends will be in the crowd and I don't want to let them down plus I want to play just this one last gig.. I'm tossing up whether to break it to them on stage just before we play so they feel really guilty...

Thanks guys you have all really cheered me up :) I have a gig tomorrow night which is our last one before guitarist goes to England and I doubt that they will say anything to me about it so I'll bring it up and see how it goes.. And if anyone is interested I'll post what happens tomorrow night...