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New Dilemma

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Hey blue
I feel your pain, but what I see here is I think you want someone to convince you to do one or the other and that way if it's wrong it won't be your fault. My best advice is this,
we make choices based on information we have at the time, if at some point down the road we find it was a mistake, it was the right choice at the time you made it!
Dude pick one and move on!
 
Maybe you'll get lucky. The bass player they went with could get hit by a bus and they'll come back to you for the gig. You can then take the gig, wait until the next day, quit the gig (beating them to the punch) and all will be right as rain in your world for a few hours!

I like where your heads at;

2 wrongs always make a right.

blue
 
Hardly Blue, I would expect a cover-band audition to involve quite a bit more than 3 songs and an open jam for an hour.. more like 10 songs in an audition or more likely a full 3 hour gig. If you choose to take offense at that, that's your choice man. It's no a dig on you but rather the band you were working with.. and it's what you presented to this public forum.

How was I to know, how would I know?I'm and originals rock guy.

I don't know F about cover bands
 
Sorry to be so blunt, but it's pathetic to hear someone your age complaining like this. Folks our age are supposed to set an example for all those high-schoolers you keep taking a dig a

I love the forum, watch out for future threads. I plan on being a lot harder on these high school kids than you older cats.

The future of all this stuff is in their hands, not mine or yours.

I feel for them, and I love all of them that are serious about this.

They don't have it as easy as I did in the 60s and 70s. We had a lot of stuff handed to us at the right time and things were a lot clearer.

Remember, I had Janis Joplin and Aretha Franklin, not Taylor Swift and Katie Perry.

So watch out you will see more knock outs than jabs
 
I love the forum, watch out for future threads. I plan on being a lot harder on these high school kids than you older cats.

The future of all this stuff is in their hands, not mine or yours.

I feel for them, and I love all of them that are serious about this.

They don't have it as easy as I did in the 60s and 70s. We had a lot of stuff handed to us at the right time and things were a lot clearer.

Remember, I had Janis Joplin and Aretha Franklin, not Taylor Swift and Katie Perry.

So watch out you will see more knock outs than jabs

And the Monkees and the Partridge Family....

You're a weird kid, Blue.
 
What I have drawn from most of you is, it's ok to offer a deal and then take it back.

Doesn't suprise me.

blue

:eek:

It's better accept or make an offer and take it back immediately then waste other peoples time.

Also, you were majorly screwing your Originals band over if you didn't tell them upfront that you'd be playing in other gigging bands. That's pretty poor professionalism in my opinion.
 
You are too fun to be real......

For the sake of TB, I fired up the A.S.S. (Advanced Simulation System) to see what would come out of it. I haven't put it to much use since the Qintar era of TB, but it was powerful enough for it to deduce that bc=tQ. For those who aren't old school TB OT, you can do a search. A supporting membership and access to the lobby is helpful.


So after firing up the A.S.S. lots of Bluewhine came out. And based on data processed through the A.S.S., I have discovered the true identity of Bluewhine.

He's not a 58 year old. No 58 year old spells as poorly as he does. Especially someone who claims to have a degree. The writing style of not knowing the differences between there, their, they're and to, too, and your, you're and many others are indicative of the texting style of a teenager or junior high kid.

Also as a 58 year old, he really doesn't know much about the music from his era. Much of it is very generic, and details tend to be incorrect, which the A.S.S. has verified through it's vast databases.

Also his old man complaints are too typical. Most old guys complain about their wives, mortgages, kids, jobs, golf game, kids on their lawn, inability to maintain an erection, etc. moreso than being tired all the time. If you've never been there, what you know of being old is getting tired and not hip to the scene. Typical teenage stereotype of getting old.

The A.S.S. has come up with a list of suspects as to what Bluewhine's true identity is.

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Stay tuned.
 
Oh dearie lord... this is now HOF material...

Jive, one of the things I admire most about you is your subtlety and how successfully you manage to totally conceal it. :D

By the way, it's good to see that you've managed to get your old A.S.S. back into action and once again doing useful work for the bass playing community.
 
Well that will teach me to post before reading all the other posts
so blue
The problem here is as old as music itself, no one wants to be the dumpie we all want to be the dumper.
Move on DUDE!

I will, I just hope I have learned a lesson here.

More important than who dumps who first, I'm not a cover band kind of guy. It's great for some, it's just not my scene.

What good is playing out more, what good is the money if it doesn't work for you. If you can't get into it, it's just not worth it.
 
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There really is no point here.I just wish i would have been the one that bailed first.
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I understand that on an emotional level, but on a practical level, the way it worked out is much better.

You say these are good musicians (I think you said that?). It's likely they have other musical interests and some of them may have more interesting side projects at some point. You didn't bail, and your response was cool, so you're probably in their mind as someone good to work with. Not likely, though, had you been the one to bail. Nothing gained by that.
 
I understand that on an emotional level, but on a practical level, the way it worked out is much better.

You say these are good musicians (I think you said that?). It's likely they have other musical interests and some of them may have more interesting side projects at some point. You didn't bail, and your response was cool, so you're probably in their mind as someone good to work with. Not likely, though, had you been the one to bail. Nothing gained by that.

Good point, and the leader of the cover band shoots pro video for bands and we might use him.
 
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