If I was restricted to 1's and 5's i'd be out like a flash...... i want to be able to do something interesting.
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If I was restricted to 1's and 5's i'd be out like a flash...... i want to be able to do something interesting.
This!
Yeah. If you're already planning on leaving, you can't be completely blind to why they might want to fire you. I suspect there's a few omitted details here.
Probably.
The only time I've been 'fired' it happened just before I told them I was quitting. I was dragging my feet because they weren't bad guys and I didn't hate the music or anything... but there were a few things that were taking away the joy for me. When the email came, I was not surprised at all as my feelings were known to everyone, I was very open about it. But it did slightly annoy me that I wasn't the one to write that email first
... it's silly but I'm human.So yeah, I get the OP feeling a bit meh (although I'd have got over it before typing that post)... but I'd be surprised if he needed to be told any reasons.
In my case, although I did wish them best of luck... I derived a little bit of joy from seeing the band implode a few months afterwards while I was starting to have a lot of fun with the band who became eventually my main band and I am still playing with. That was 7 years ago! I hope they've been at some of the festivals we've played and recognised me.
Who is bitter?
Hah... been there.
Band life is like having another 4 (or 8 in some bands I've been!) girlfriends sometimes, and they include some that you should have never dated in the first place but your judgement got clouded by... something.
I didn't realise you were so young and that you had just joined.
It's not a fun thing to happen, but... it won't be the last. People are difficult, and in music people invest a lot of their emotions and sometimes that brings the best in them, but other times it brings the worst. Sometimes you need to walk away even when you know you are right, because if you fight every unfair situation you will be unhappy too long.
I'd try to get my share of what you guys just won together... but if it becomes tough, just walk away and let them be the bad guys. Chances are they're not going to enjoy their 'success' very much at all and you can be away from the bickering, with a smile on your face, playing with a better band.
One of the best lessons I learnt in my early days was to not be afraid of walking away. I never stay in bands that are problematic. Yes, every band has their issues from time to time (refer to my first paragraph) I don't mean that, I mean bands that just don't work. Sometimes people stay out of inertia, or thinking they will not find another band they like, or a million other excuses. But life's too short and we work pretty hard at this, so get out there and try bands, meet people, and don't stop until you're happy.
Best of luck!
Just don't wait for your luck to show up, get out there and find her.
He's removed his first post wrecking the entire post. What was the original question? I get the gist from the fragments people have quoted.
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Maybe they hired him back so he could finally quit.
What was the question and the answer?
Man, I was about to make some popcorn.
Iz closedd a new TB meme?
What I should do with the stuff from the comp, did you read the thread at all?What was the question and the answer?
Man, I was about to make some popcorn.
Iz closedd a new TB meme?
i'd recommend just about any mexican beer!
i got kicked out of a band in 1975. i didn't like the band so much, but, like you, i really didn't like getting kicked out/fired. since then: many bands, some very successful, some just filler. over the years i slowly developed a taste for mexican beer. it takes away the sting of that disappointment so many years ago.
but it has to be mexican beer. craft beers suck.
good luck!
My favorite beer is Carta Blanca, which is extremely difficult to find. Great beer, though.
i agree: great beer. and i'm with you: it's not always available. fortunately, i can go with any brew from mexico!
My favorite Mexican beer is Tecate. I got hooked on it one sweaty Sunday in July when knocking in some low voltage electrical at the house we were building. There was a team of about 6-8 drywallers who only spoke Spanish, which I don't speak a lick of, also working at the house that day. At the end of the day they asked me "Cervesa? Cervesa?" and I still didn't get it. Then they brought out a case of Tecate. We sat around for an hour drinking beer and shooting the bull even though we couldn't speak each other's languages. Fun memory.
In the 30s and 40s, big bands with 20 to 25 members were working and making a living. But, there wasn't much else to do. We had radio, but that was it. The recordings available were only a scratchy ghost of what you heard live.
In the 50s, the size of bands began to shrink. There was a bit more competition from other entertainment venues, but not a lot. In the late 50s, along comes rock and roll. It really put the music "industry" in a tizzy because they didn't know exactly how to deal with it, but the kids were eating it up. Now, a fairly new influence is getting better, the juke box. It allowed people to hear familiar tunes on demand. This is about the time the boomers were becoming teens and there were so many of them, their purchasing power had a big influence on what music was offered to the public.
Things were rocking along fine and there were plenty of venues to play both on the weekends and weekdays. But, there is a cold storm on the horizon. The recording industry was learning a lot and the technology was getting better. As the 70s arrived, so did Disco and the age of the DJ was born. Venues found it was less expensive and more reliable to use recorded music instead of live bands. Now what was a New York novelty was spreading nationwide and being used in other genres. Disco is probably the single most killer of live music. Many venues quit having live bands altogether. And it got worse as time went on. Now, it seems all there is the high end where some musicians are getting excellent gigs, even among the A and B ranks, not always enough to make it a sole source of income. At the other end of the spectrum are the dive bars where the rest of us are trying to make enough to support our hobby.
Yes, there still are mega concerts where famous bands put on their shows, but this is mostly corporate controlled. The musicians have no input on artistic content. They play what they are told, dress how they are told, put on the show that is scripted for them. The musicians are on the lowest rung of this ladder.
So all we can do is keep on showing up at the dive bars and hoping we get a better gig until the last closes it doors and opens tomorrow with a DJ and Karoke on Wednesday night.
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