so recently there was a local coffee house at the american legion in my town. a few things made me pretty P.O'd with this coffee house. my band was asked to play(no pay) 2nd to last (last being a terrible metal band but we're not snobs so of course we said yes [side note, we filled the whole room with people standing and dancing to our music and then when the metal band started the had 10 people])
a few days later the kid who was organizing this whole thing gets a hold of me and asks me if i could bring my PA. I said sure. He told me to be there an hour early to set up.
I got there an hour early and had to wait a half hour for him to show up. i'm still pretty chipper by this point. I set up then i start tuning my bass because im always paranoid about tuning even though we wouldnt actually be playing for a few hours. Then the kid runs up to me and starts yelling for me to do my job.
apparently him asking me to bring my PA actually meant run my event for me. I had to round up all the bands tell them when they were going do the EQ and mic balance for each band each song. im pretty fricken stressed right now.
so even though im pissed, everythings still going well. im running a coffee house while the organizer is collecting money at the door.
then my band played and we were tight and entertaining and it was a really good time.
NOW ITS METAL TIME.
so we finish our set and 85% of the crowd leaves. the metal band starts setting up. they took forever. i get their levels and then i sit in the back and listen to see if anything needs to be changed.
about the 2nd or 3rd song in the rhythm guitarist (who never plays a chord he only solos over the lead guitar and vocals; i dont know why hes considered their rhythm player) he jacks the volume up on his huge half stack. the vocals are being completely covered so i get up to fix them.
im at the mixing board adjusting and heres the real killer;
the guitarist walks over to me, starts whipping his 3 foot hair at my face and is screaming at me to "stop f***ing with my band"
OH IM SO SORRY THAT I TRIED TO MAKE YOU GUYS NOT SUCK!
thats my rant. thanks for reading
a few days later the kid who was organizing this whole thing gets a hold of me and asks me if i could bring my PA. I said sure. He told me to be there an hour early to set up.
I got there an hour early and had to wait a half hour for him to show up. i'm still pretty chipper by this point. I set up then i start tuning my bass because im always paranoid about tuning even though we wouldnt actually be playing for a few hours. Then the kid runs up to me and starts yelling for me to do my job.
apparently him asking me to bring my PA actually meant run my event for me. I had to round up all the bands tell them when they were going do the EQ and mic balance for each band each song. im pretty fricken stressed right now.
so even though im pissed, everythings still going well. im running a coffee house while the organizer is collecting money at the door.
then my band played and we were tight and entertaining and it was a really good time.
NOW ITS METAL TIME.
so we finish our set and 85% of the crowd leaves. the metal band starts setting up. they took forever. i get their levels and then i sit in the back and listen to see if anything needs to be changed.
about the 2nd or 3rd song in the rhythm guitarist (who never plays a chord he only solos over the lead guitar and vocals; i dont know why hes considered their rhythm player) he jacks the volume up on his huge half stack. the vocals are being completely covered so i get up to fix them.
im at the mixing board adjusting and heres the real killer;
the guitarist walks over to me, starts whipping his 3 foot hair at my face and is screaming at me to "stop f***ing with my band"
OH IM SO SORRY THAT I TRIED TO MAKE YOU GUYS NOT SUCK!
thats my rant. thanks for reading
If you're around long enough, you'll experience something like this regardless of genre!
