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Mercenary Snobs Club
- Thread starter ChrisB2
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I think you got this all wrong. First,a musician that only joins working bands and shuns start ups is what I call a SERIOUS musician with PROFESSIONAL attitude (key word: professional, as in, works for living). Second, most of these guys HAVE slogged it out with start-up bands and all the start-up hassles. In fact, they have done it enough times in their early years that they haved vowed to themselves never to do it again. However, as long as you have paying gigs, this musican will dedicate himself to you and will even show up for rehearsals prepared.
Now in my opinion, the mercenary snob is a cockymusician that won't dedicate himself to just one working band, but floats in and out of many bands. He has no loyalty to anyone other than the highest paid gig. He will never commit to a rehearsal, because he wants to keep his night open, but he will swear to you that he knows all the songs on your playlist. He then shows up at the gig not knowing any of your songs, and will proceed to wing it through the entire night. Still, everybody still thinks he's great because he really good at faking his way through an entire gig, because that it what he has done his entire career.
That is when you realize that while everyone will use him as a sub, nobody actually wants him in their band full time.
I really hate to bail on this thread so close to show time, but I got a better paying thread next week. Anyone here want to cover me in this one?
In all truth, I know only one player, a drummer, who considers himself a mercenary. He won't rehearse. Period. Says a rehearsal is just a gig he isn't getting paid for. Even has a stage name that he is addressed by. Few of his musical consorts even know his real name. That, my friends, is a mercenary. And he IS very good on stage. Off stage he is a big pill to swallow but very entertaining.
I get the feeling that some of you aren't taking this project seriously. If you can't commit to making the thread, and doing your part to promote and get the thread established, sorry but you're out. Now c'mon, get out there and bring in some friends to the thread, sell some tickets, write some posts... get moving!
Who's getting the t-shirts made??
Who's getting the t-shirts made??
Yeah....... ChrisB2...... We need to talk.
Me and the other posters, well. We've been talking, and we've decided that we're going to take this thread in a different direction. Sorry it didn't work out man.......
BTW, do you mind if we keep practicing in your moms garage until we find a new OP with a PA and a practice space?
This is me in a nutshell. I've been doing this too long to drive to someone's house or a warehouse somewhere only to stand around and wait on the guys who didn't do their homework (and there is ALWAYS AT LEAST ONE). I do fill-in stuff a lot. And, of course, they always ask me if I can "get together for a little while" sometime before the show. The answer is always no. It will always be no. I'm really nice about it. I show up ready. And I always thank both the band and the highest ranking person at the club I can find for the gig. I just don't ever rehearse. The only exception to this rule is if one member of the band wants to come to MY house, we can sit for a half-hour or so and go through a few charts (that HE brought) and discuss a few arrangements. But that's rare. But it must work out somehow. I get more calls than I want.
Posts like this is why I'm glad a recently closed thread isn't true. (Something about a "mature" forum......)
I love this place, just as it is.
They look bad? If someone is going take a dive on a gig, far better that it's you than me!
You'll be starting from scratch, then where will you be? Nowhere without a good OP, that's where. Oh, you'll try to get something going, thinking that just because you're all a bunch of mercenary snobs that you can throw up a start-up thread "just like that" and get all kinds of action from it... but you'll flop, just like you always do. Then you'll come crawling back to the MS basement... crawling I tell ya... on yer hands and knees... begging to get back in the best damned start-up thread since the "Chicks at Gigs" scene hit back in '07... begging I tell ya.
And I'll take you back. Yeah, I'll take you back. You know why? Cause after you bust your balls tryin..., floppin'... failin'... after you pay your dues, you'll be able to spit nails, kid. Like the guy says, you're gonna eat lightning and you're gonna crap thunder. You're gonna become a very dangerous poster. And after I take you back, and once we get established, we're gonna make this the best damned thread EVER. EVER I tell ya!
Who's with me?
WHO'S WITH ME???
Iiiiii don't know, man. I've been trying to keep as many dates open as possible for a call to do the Esteban thread. Can I get back to you?
+1
I guess now would be a good time to let all of the posters know that we're expecting you to come to this thread and write three rehearsal posts in this thread every week. Specifically, we will be writing rehearsal posts about songs like Margaritaville, Johnny B. Goode, Folsom Prison Blues, Sweet Home Alabama, and a myriad of other standards and easily faked 12 bar tunes that any musician who's actually posted to a few threads in their lifetime should be able to easily post about without the need of rehearsal posts. But we still expect you to type three rehearsal posts a week.
Additionally, I should also mention that this thread has label interest.
Maybe.....after I've seen the set list. Then I reserve the right to eject anything I don't like while claiming we all have to be on the same page, essentially my page, otherwise this'll never work.
