Gassy drummer, smells bad.

[JimmyM]

Sheesh...you sound like my wife!

 

[Wasnex]

The past couple of gigs our drummer has been REALLY stinking up the place. I mean, eye watering, cloying, stinking punch to the throat that I'm sure our audience can smell. We play at mid sized bars, so it's not like the audience is that far away. I tend to stand close to the drummer, so occasionally our singer gives me the stink eye, like it's my fault. It's not.

The drummer is a nice guy. I don't know him well enough to say "Dude. No." What to do? Get a fan?

I used to work with a guitar player that loved to drop the bomb. It definitely impacted the audience on occasion. One night he stopped a conga line dead in it tracks . After the stench dissipated a bit, couple of ladies from the conga line come up to the front of the stage and glared at us . Of course he thought it was funny. I told him it was so vile that I almost puked. He thought that was funny too. I told him if he makes me puke, it's going on him . He didn't think that was funny, especially when I made it clear I was serious .

Turns out he was lactose intolerant.

 

[Hypercaffium]

You don't understand. It's part of the sound.

 

[ashtray]

Sheesh...you sound like my wife!

*insert audible fart joke here*

 

[baileyboy]

In all seriousness, he may have undiagnosed Crohn's or Celiac disease, or some other gastric disorder. As an example, is he drinking beer at the gigs? If he is Celiac he can not drink beer because malt and barley have gluten (wheat). That would explain the gas.

 

[JW56789]

That's bad, but imagine being cooped up with a similar guy blowing for a six-week swing on a tour bus. Never could talk him into riding down in the cargo bins . . . . . .

There's No Bidness Like Show Bidness.

 

[SOUTH PAW]

From the drummers lessons learned gig report.

Here I sit broken-hearted, tried to drum but only farted.
As I stood above my throne, I soon discovered, I was all alone.
Then I thought as to why this was, eureka I said, and that's what it was

 

[Nashrakh]

I thought this was about a shopping addict who had no money left for soap. I feel cheated.

 

[Axstar]

Swap out his dry food for wet. Don't feed him scraps from the table.

 

[whero]

Tell him next time he does it you're marking your territory by peeing on his kit. While he's playing it.

 

[charlie monroe]

This is the perfect time to introduce some of our newer members to one of the funniest threads I can recall reading here on TB.

Farting during a show

 

[RichardW]

Uhm, nobody has suggested firing the drummer?

 

[Winslow]

Uhm, nobody has suggested firing the drummer?

Or, if the concentration of gas is high enough, flick a lighter and literally fire the drummer!

 

[Susqmike]

The past couple of gigs our drummer has been REALLY stinking up the place. I mean, eye watering, cloying, stinking punch to the throat that I'm sure our audience can smell. We play at mid sized bars, so it's not like the audience is that far away. I tend to stand close to the drummer, so occasionally our singer gives me the stink eye, like it's my fault. It's not.

The drummer is a nice guy. I don't know him well enough to say "Dude. No." What to do? Get a fan?

I'd spray him with Lysol between songs.

 

[BurtMacklinFBI]

How exactly is this different from every other drummer?

 

[Hypercaffium]

 

[Winslow]

Which of the royals let one go here? You be the judge!

 

[fourstr00]

Eat a double plate of bar tater tots and fight back.

/Did that to a drummer once

 

[Spidey2112]

My favorite is to ask my bandmates if they smell popcorn...

... as in most throwing sports, timing of the release is essential.

 

[Spidey2112]

Which of the royals let one go here? You be the judge!

Definitely, Prince Philip... and from the looks of it, he would make an excellent musician...

... not just anyone can keep that straight of a face, after dropping a brown note.