The guitar player from my band came over today and we were doing a little freestyle jamming (beer drinking) and having some laughs in my basement. We kept the volume low enough to here each other say "Go to C" or "I need a beer" or what-have-you, when suddenly my neighbor whom I rarely see is pounding on my window screaming "you're driving me nuts!". Then he stormed off and slammed his door. We immediately stopped our little jam session and I walked over to apologize. He answered his door and I could tell right away he was quite intoxicated. I said "I'm sorry, were we making too much noise?" He says "Yeah! All day long it's boom boom boom! I can't even watch TV!" (It wasnt all day. It was about an hour) So, I say "Well, my wife is watching TV in the same house as me and trust me, she'd let me know if I'm being too loud." He responds with "If you want to make so much edit noise why don't you move to the country? I'll be d*mned if I'm gonna spend my retirement listening to this crap!" I say "I'm sorry. Tell you what, how about I give you my phone number and if we're being too loud give me a call and I'll try to quiet down. But, I'm in a band so this is gonna happen now and then. It's only 5pm. We never play for more than an hour or two and never passed 7pm." At this point he goes into an incoherent babble about how I should just move out to the country and stop being a menace, etc. I respond with "Well, I tried. Next time, call the police and let them sort it out."
Like I said, we were playing pretty quietly. I was playing through a 2x10 cab, guitar player was playing through a 1x12. We could still hear ourselves talking and laughing. And, we were in my basement while my wife was watching TV right above us. She's not shy about telling me she can't hear the TV over us and she said it was fine.
Damn neighbors! Now I'll be nervous about playing at all. And we have rehearsal with the full band tomorrow! The way I see it, we were not playing loud, I apologized immediately and offered a solution to the problem (my phone number) and he continued to be unreasonable. My guitar player even said I was much more patient and courteous than he would have been.
How to proceed? We do not have an alternative place to rehearse. Our drummer plays with Hotrods to keep volume down and we only use one PA speaker for vocals while we practice. I don't want to make enemies with my neighbor. What to do???
Like I said, we were playing pretty quietly. I was playing through a 2x10 cab, guitar player was playing through a 1x12. We could still hear ourselves talking and laughing. And, we were in my basement while my wife was watching TV right above us. She's not shy about telling me she can't hear the TV over us and she said it was fine.
Damn neighbors! Now I'll be nervous about playing at all. And we have rehearsal with the full band tomorrow! The way I see it, we were not playing loud, I apologized immediately and offered a solution to the problem (my phone number) and he continued to be unreasonable. My guitar player even said I was much more patient and courteous than he would have been.
How to proceed? We do not have an alternative place to rehearse. Our drummer plays with Hotrods to keep volume down and we only use one PA speaker for vocals while we practice. I don't want to make enemies with my neighbor. What to do???
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