For me it's finding and connecting musically with the right people. I think I depend on being creative in the moment(which fails sometimes) with someone, and not having some kind of premade content or idea.
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What's your biggest frustration?
- Thread starter samrock5000
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I had a friend (notice the past-tense) who thought he'd run the group I was in.
He ever volunteered us to a gig that I didn't not get an invite to. I was never told or asked if I wanted to play it - he just assumed that I would go with the flow. I didn't since I something smelled bad here.
Later I found out that was to get paid $200.00 for himself, and no-one else.
I felt exonerated for packing my toys and going home. He was deceitful and a bald-faced liar.
He still glares at me when we see each other (this town's small!). I just iggy him. He needed a bass player to round out the group and he even lost two vocalists and a keyboard player in the deal.
So - frustration-wise to me, it's people who are less than honest and have an attitude.
I'd rather sit in my bedroom playing to CDs than be anywhere near that guy.
He ever volunteered us to a gig that I didn't not get an invite to. I was never told or asked if I wanted to play it - he just assumed that I would go with the flow. I didn't since I something smelled bad here.
Later I found out that was to get paid $200.00 for himself, and no-one else.
I felt exonerated for packing my toys and going home. He was deceitful and a bald-faced liar.
He still glares at me when we see each other (this town's small!). I just iggy him. He needed a bass player to round out the group and he even lost two vocalists and a keyboard player in the deal.
So - frustration-wise to me, it's people who are less than honest and have an attitude.
I'd rather sit in my bedroom playing to CDs than be anywhere near that guy.
And bass players, as a class, are soooo much better than them.
Jeez, I hate that term. It's demeaning, and I think it should be ****'ed out when it turns up.
Playing in a band w/old & dear friends who want to do Godawful *nu-kuntry* 
I'd rather lick a dog's *** until it bleeds.
I'd rather lick a dog's *** until it bleeds.
I'm right there with you, brother! My biggest issue is I'm always finding cats who profess to be pros but yet always have an excuse why they have not learned songs or play them correctly! Never prepared! Also they have a lack of experience in alternate genres! I.E. Latin music! NO ONE in my area has any Latin music experience!
This sounds shockingly similar to my own frustration. I play in an Improv rock band. My biggest frustration is one person in particular who has problems with the Improv regime. He's constantly trying to write songs and introduce them to the band, and thats pretty much the countercontruct to what I want to do with the band.
Ha! welcome to my world too! Last argument went like this....Him...."I listened to it for five days straight" Me....well, it's wrong! I handed him a sheet with the correct chords (I got from a pro player friend of mine). He looked at it and said, "Oh sh**, I think you're right"!I hate that. I love when you play the original recording and they still argue.
You d@mn right I'm right! I have perfect pitch! I always know when you're playing wrong chords! :scowl: If you can't figure it out by ear.....buy the d@mn sheet music! Why play it wrong?? But no, he's a "Pro"!
Unprofessionalism in all it's forms. Don't get me wrong, I'm all down to go out, get drunk, have fun, goof off, etc... and have fun playing music (it's called playing for a reason). But if you want to be professional at something, and make it your career, especially in an all-original band, you have to start by acting professional.
never EVER being satisfied with my gear... I just don't feel as though I've found the "one" yet, you know?
Gotta say my biggest frustration is having just one single note in the middle of a bass run I'm trying to copy totally elude me for days. I'll search and search for it, even listen to the run on different speakers in the hope that their different nonlinearities will help divulge the answer. I'll even listen to it a few times in the truck while I'm driving around to clients, thinking of where that one note might be on the fretboard, relative to the known ones. Sometimes I'll overcomplicate the search when I know the run was done on a synth, which doesn't impose dexterity limitations, and I'll needlessly add to the possibilities.
And then when I finally do get it, it turns out to be something like a simple fifth that required absolutely ZERO left-hand gymnastics, and I'll ask myself how I could possibly have failed to hear that.
Gah.
And then when I finally do get it, it turns out to be something like a simple fifth that required absolutely ZERO left-hand gymnastics, and I'll ask myself how I could possibly have failed to hear that.
Gah.
Inconsistency. Some days I think I've reached a decent level of proficiency, other days it sounds like my hands are made of stone.
