That is the WORST! Nobody asked you Yoko!
Note to all of you. If you bring yor S/O to a gig or rehearsal and they offer their unsolicited opinions your whole band is bad mouthing you behind your back. Period.
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Bandmate pet peeves
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That is the WORST! Nobody asked you Yoko!
Note to all of you. If you bring yor S/O to a gig or rehearsal and they offer their unsolicited opinions your whole band is bad mouthing you behind your back. Period.
I sometimes wonder what other band members' pet peeves are about bass players.
I got fired from a band once. The BL was very respectful and talked to me face to face, but he was a little vague…something about the vibe wasn't right. He said it was mostly coming from the drummer. It took me a while to figure out that I wasn't focusing on locking in with drummer. I can understand now that this would be less than ideal --especially for a band that was trying to be groove oriented. Since then, I've worked on understanding the drummers role, the grooves they play and being in sync with them at all times.
I got fired from a band once. The BL was very respectful and talked to me face to face, but he was a little vague…something about the vibe wasn't right. He said it was mostly coming from the drummer. It took me a while to figure out that I wasn't focusing on locking in with drummer. I can understand now that this would be less than ideal --especially for a band that was trying to be groove oriented. Since then, I've worked on understanding the drummers role, the grooves they play and being in sync with them at all times.
Engine207
Losing faith in humanity...one call at a time.
Im very familiar with masturbatory guitarists. Mine will noodle during tune up, between songs, while discussing a beginning/ending...whenever. He's very good, but we all just roll our eyes. Same dude...always thinks the chords and progressions he came up with are the "right way" of covering a given tune, until we cue up the original and show him he's wrong. Then he says the composer "should" have done it that way.
But we still love him.
But we still love him.
I know it's petty, but I've never played with a guitar player who was willing to install a Hipshot drop tuner. When the inevitable drop D tune rolls around, we all have to wait until they tune down successfully (sometimes at full volume). Why does it seem to only be bass players that use them?
In my experience most guitarist are actually wary of modding and working on their own guitar. They aren't aware of stuff like hipshot tuners, pay techs even for string changes and generally treat their instrument as an enigmatic device they do not completely understand. For example the last guy I played with loved his PRS and would never change a thing on it because however PRS made it was the right way and anything different would be ruining the guitar. I bet if PRS made strings and recommended only to use official PRS strings, they would be the only thing he would use.
You don't really believe that, do you? You must hang out with some really lame guitarists.
Honestly yeah that's been my experience and why I've never cared for guitarists much. They won't even install strap locks because they don't want to modify the original guitar and risk "cracking the wood" with the peg screws.
For one gig I took my bass neck off and carried everything in my suitcase. Lost the nut and had to make a new one quick out of a piece of polystyrene. They thought I was some mad witch-doctor when I reassembled it after the flight and it played fine.
Re: time, I have two thoughts. First, when it comes down to it, there's a lot of waiting that's beyond our control in a gigging band. Sometimes I think that pent up frustration gets directed at whomever is most often tardy in the group. Second, on time is on time and fair is fair; don't show up too early and don't expect me to be there extra early because it makes you feel better.
Believe it or not, smartphones have made it way easier to re-schedule too. I'm showing my grumpy old fart status here, but it bugs me when folks reschedule just cause they can.
Huh, I never thought about that. I can't tell you the number of times I've been expected to vamp with the drummer while the guitar army settles back into E.
Believe it or not, smartphones have made it way easier to re-schedule too. I'm showing my grumpy old fart status here, but it bugs me when folks reschedule just cause they can.
Huh, I never thought about that. I can't tell you the number of times I've been expected to vamp with the drummer while the guitar army settles back into E.
Well...I love playing and entertaining....but am not comfortable hanging and socializing in a noisy bar....and after the gig am tired and want to get home....Doesn't mean I don't want to play
That's not what I said, or at least wanted to say. They say they want to play and then when they get there can't wait to go home. It still doesn't make any sense. They want gigs and then when the gigs come they don't like that either. After the gig is over it makes sense to want to go home. I guess it's the way that no matter what happens.....bitch about it.
