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Try to top this : Singer leaves between sets, without a word

#24
yamaha said:
Says he'll be there in 5 minutes. 25 minutes later, we're ready to cancel set 3,
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This is the worst part, to me. I hate liars. If he was having some kind of serious issue, he should have just been up front. I really can't stand people who can't be up front. He left you guys high and dry without any apology, and then couldn't own up to the fact that he was bailing on you, either. Very selfish and passive aggressive at the same time.
 
#27
Low Tone said:
Vince McMahon said it first and would have bodyslammed his @$$ through a table.

Seriously though.
If this nutsack has big enough grapefruits to actually show up at the next practice, I'd tell him to turn around and head back out the way he came in.
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I would hope D-Bag has fired himself. If D-Bag did show up for a next and final gathering....it would as him if he had any testicles, because what he did was nutless. I would then smack him in said nutsack, and kick his @$$ out the door.

We did have a singer leave with about 5-6 songs left in a night once. He claimed his voice just gave out. I think he gave into the small brain and was having carnal relations with some chick, not his wife, in the parking lot. He was easily replaced with a former bandmate who just happened to be there. He was also replaced the next week.
 
#29
Always have at least a whole set of instrumentals on stand by.
Classic Rock.... Wipe Out, Walk Don't Run, Rawhide, or even take vocal songs and make them instrumentals such as Walkin The Dog and Route 66 or any 12 bar blues. Then don't tell the singer you have them. But in all honesty you should have more than one singer in the band.
 
#30
The whole part about lying doesn't really bug me, only because I lie constantly and have about zero morals. But that's still pretty low, like really low. Like sucker punching a girl.

You and the band would be extremely naive to give this guy another chance. If I were you I wouldn't even think about it, he'd be gone. But I'm not you, but it's just a suggestion. What if he walked out again?

When you walk out of work, do you come back? (You work 9-5, you walk out at 2) it's the same situation.
 
#31
Keyboard player gets drunk and drives car into lake, narrowly missing a very fortunate bicyclist.

Somewhere between the car and the shore line, he lost his pants. He had to talk to the police dripping wet wearing his boxers while they watched the rest of the car sink.

Band breaks up.

What do I win?
 
#32
Of course the guy is fired. The more interesting question is whether you have heard from him since. What is his take? If he expects anything other than an immediate parting of ways, he is (perhaps subconsciously) running some kind of power play against you guys. You have to get rid of him immediately.
 
#34
I was once scheduled to play a show with my band. We were a 4 piece. 2 guitars, 1 bass, & drums. One guitarist and myself covered the majority of vocal duties, while the other guitarist sang one song. So, we show up at the gig. No guitarist/vocalist in sight. We give him a call, he's not coming. His girlfriend and him had taken some muchrooms and were unable to drive. So I pulled off my songs, and the other guitarist and I tried our best to pull off the rest of them. Wasnt really that bad of a set, but we fired the no show guitarist and subsequentially broke up the band.
 
#35
I can hardly even believe that level of unprofesssionalism. In my current band I played a gig 12 hours after my mother died, and our guitarist played a gig the same day his first child was born. Either of these would have been a lot more justified reasons for bailing on a gig, but in our band it was never really up for dispute. We had gigs on the books and it was way too short notice to get subs. We had made commitments and we showed up and saw it through.

And then the fact that the singer was there for the start of the gig and bailed in the middle. I mean, jeez, you made the effort to be there, man-up and finish the show, at least.

+1 to others here on firing the jack*ss singer and making sure word gets out to other bands. If he left because he was suddenly violently ill or something I could see it, but just cause he was having a bad night? Dude needs to get over himself, seriously. You're better off without him.
 
#36
I was jamming with some guys in Michigan years ago and a guy we were trying out left in the middle of a song. Syd Barrett after Pink Floyd left the stage in the middle of a song never to come back and I tried out for a band and in the middle of the audition I got bored and started packing up and left.
 
#37
I would put up with that for about as long as it took me to click on the quote button. That guy needs to go. No excuses. There are plenty of singers you can find. I want to punch him in the mouth after hearing that, and I don't condone violence. It wasn't just him that he let down, it was all of you. The actions of one are not excusable when those actions effect others in a negative way.
 
#40
matrok said:
Not acceptable. Professionalism first, benefits later. If she can't wait, there will be another one.
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I wasn't saying it would be acceptable, but would make the pill a bit easier to (ahem) swallow.

As for my, and my bands situations, we all still got back to playing.

This singer is a d-bag for bailing without any word whatsoever, and I think the OP should just fire him with no word whatsoever. Just start trying out other singers. Show the old singer the same courtesy he showed you.
 

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