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More whining from me!

Stinsok

Stinsok

Dec 16, 2002
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We played Friday and things were good for the most part. The last set, our drummer was acting looney. Before the start of t he last set someone gives our singer $20.00 for an acoustic request. He does it before the rest of the band goes up. During that song the drummer says to me, "Dude, this is the way we ought to do all our last sets...Just let Jimmy sing while we tear down. We'd be through by the end of the set." He was serious.

Once the whole band started there were periods in high energy songs he would seemingly fall out of the song. He complained that there weren't many people in the club--- we should just quit, play slow stuff, why waste energy? "Man, we've been playing 4 hours!" We had to tell him that it doesn't matter that it's nearly 2 in the morning and there aren't many people there...we were contracted to WORK!
 
#3
Stinsok said:
We played Friday and things were good for the most part. The last set, our drummer was acting looney. Before the start of t he last set someone gives our singer $20.00 for an acoustic request. He does it before the rest of the band goes up. During that song the drummer says to me, "Dude, this is the way we ought to do all our last sets...Just let Jimmy sing while we tear down. We'd be through by the end of the set." He was serious.

Once the whole band started there were periods in high energy songs he would seemingly fall out of the song. He complained that there weren't many people in the club--- we should just quit, play slow stuff, why waste energy? "Man, we've been playing 4 hours!" We had to tell him that it doesn't matter that it's nearly 2 in the morning and there aren't many people there...we were contracted to WORK!
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four hours is a long time to swing your arms and operate your legs,and i can see where some guys might fade a little.....and i can see it being a tad disheartening to play a high energy set only to have someone offer a band member extra money to play solo the next....
 
#8
Marko5657 said:
Your post reads like this was a first-time thing for him.

He may have just not been feeling well, maybe something emotional causing him to have an off night.

Unless it were a regular thing, I’d be supportive and encouraging to get him through the night.

:)
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It's been building. Not wanting to practice, at other gigs he is slow to get to the stage when it's time to start or come back from breaks, etc. He complains about getting paid. In our area, a small band playing in small clubs is not going to make 1500.00 a night like he wants.
 

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