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#42
this was more of an oddity, but it set major alarm bells ringing:

on the band's web page, the singer was listed as doing vocals, guitar, keys, bass, programming etc. i met up with them, it turned out the singer couldn't play a note on any instrument... he just bossed the others around.
 
#45
Tre' Cool from Green Day once said in a interview when the interviewer ask him for advice for kids looking to start in music and get into bands and I quote "never join a band just because they have a van and a PA..." and I agree as there are many more important factors early on to consider then those.
 
#46
No lie ,,, I auditioned for a band once and when I showed up at the guys house they were decked out in Ziggy Stardust mode. I'm talking the pink hair, lip stick, sparkle boots and glitter.. They told me I had to come up with a stage name . I said , "um , I'll have to think about that, what are your stage names"?

"Star and Lover" .......
I tried so hard not to bust out laughing
So at the end of the audition I said "I thought of a name, it's Tuesdays. Cause I'm gone with the wind, see ya"
 
#47
I like...
"Lush melodic harmonies over complex world driven polyrhythms"

In Chicago, there's a area called Wicker Park. Many moons ago used to be the ghetto, now all the tatted up plate in the earlobe pincushion music dreamers live there.

None of them can play. That's the kind of goofy stuff you hear from them.

There's a "Tre" something in Greenday? Is that the Mike Dint bass player who has a "signature bass" now?
 
#52
qervo said:
No lie ,,, I auditioned for a band once and when I showed up at the guys house they were decked out in Ziggy Stardust mode. I'm talking the pink hair, lip stick, sparkle boots and glitter.. They told me I had to come up with a stage name . I said , "um , I'll have to think about that, what are your stage names"?

"Star and Lover" .......
I tried so hard not to bust out laughing
So at the end of the audition I said "I thought of a name, it's Tuesdays. Cause I'm gone with the wind, see ya"
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In the early eighties in south Florida I went to an audition. As soon as I got to the door the singer said; "You have a beard?" "You have to get rid of that so that you can wear makeup!" I didn't even unload my gear. I politely declined to even audition.
 
#59
Oh I've got stories. I could write a book of all the craziness I encountered . Like the time a man approached me and said " hey my wife thinks you're hot, would you mind if she peed on you"?

"Umm, let me think about it"
Make mad dash to the band van...
 

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