Giving the ultimatum

[ma4rk]

You Sir, are a true gentleman. The world needs more people like you.

well the thing is, i know what its like to be on their side. maybe not with this particular issue, but issues are issues and need to be worked out. some times people have to split off and go down different paths.[/QUOTE]

Well it could have gone down worse, good to know there's still some level headed people out there that don't lower themselves to a childish tit-for-tat

 

[remainthesame]

well the thing is, i know what its like to be on their side. maybe not with this particular issue, but issues are issues and need to be worked out. some times people have to split off and go down different paths.

Well it could have gone down worse, good to know there's still some level headed people out there that don't lower themselves to a childish tit-for-tat[/QUOTE]

its funny you mention that. because a few months back we kicked out a guitarist who flipped out and went into a childish fury. he cleared the bands hard drive, and broke our $800 monitors. and still to this day claims that he "quit" lol

 

[claytitan]

You lucked out. Sounds like a band going nowhere to me. 7 strings is ridiculous enough. Nothing sounds worse that two instrument competing for the same root note.
Maybe if you used a nice fat tone and he eq'd out the low end it would work. Somehow I don't think that is what he has in mind.

 

[powerdimer]

So you've essentially left the band because the guitarist wanted to get a new guitar that just so happens to have a lower string? Am i the only one that finds this completely insane?

Sean

No, you're not. Why should the bass player veto the guitar for the guitarist?

Now, if a guitar or a piano or any other instruments cluttered the bass frequencies, I would quit too, but that's not the point. You can make a mush with one guitarstring, if you want to.

But really, you can't know a priori that he will clutter the low frequencies. That's what EQ is for. (That's what pianos/organs/guitars etc all have to do in a band setting)

 

[Shedua511]

I have been twice in a band situation with some "sharing my frequencies", both time I was playing the Stick and the other guy was playing bass.
With the first band I could not make it work, I felt completely out of place...
With the second band it was great: we communicated and found ways to arrange the songs so that we would either stay out of each others way or reinforce each other.
Probably it worked better the second time because it was a much better musician and the music was better too
If you felt uneasy and were not enjoyoing yourself, I think you did the right thing (and acted like a gentleman on top of that).

 

[1954bassman]

We don't know how this particular guy is gonna use this guitar or how the band will sound. That's a fact. Somehow it's just assumed it will sound bad, but i am not willingly to make that assumption. I think a metal band would actually sound really heavy with an 8 string guitar, and that's why they exist in the first place. It really COULD work, but we'll never know i suppose.

This thought came to my mind as well, at least somewhat. When I first read the post, I thought "I wonder if this is a Metal band". Eight string guitars exist to play Metal is probably exactly correct. And since there is no need for a bass guitar or bassist in a Metal band(?), thanks to bottom-dwelling guitar players, why not give them an eight string guitar?