When your band mates screw up.

[durarl]

I didn't mean for this to be a band bashing thread. It seems like everybody here has some real pent up frustration. With that being said, my drummer does a couple of other lousy things. He always drops his sticks, but the big problem is the fact that he is literally half deaf, so he drums extra hard to hear himself. I do give him credit, even though he has a very hard time hearing our singer, he manages to keep up with any changes that we might encounter throughout the song. If we miss a verse, he is always in the right spot.

 

[cutthroatmolloy]

speaking of drummers dropping sticks. ours, on the rare occasion that he does drop one, sometimes almost gets hit in the face with it. ive seen him do it a couple of times in practice, and i start laughing so hard i start messing up.
to his credit, i dont think hes ever done it live, and he almost always keeps the beat going good and proper while he finds it.

 

[hbarcat]

Our rhythm guitarist always brings his laptop to rehearsal and patches it into the PA so we can spot check certain cover tunes if we need to, but he seems to think it's to be used to provide sound clips for his amusement whenever we're not actually playing a song (such as when the drummer and I are talking about the timing of a cue or when the lead guitarist is describing the chord voicings he's improvising). We're trying to communicate and all of a sudden there's "Kung Fu Fighting" or "Monster Mash" or "Every Rose Has its Thorn" blasting out of the PA for no ******* reason. I've told him to knock it off, but he apparently can't help himself.

 

[hbarcat]

My friend's band has a recurring problem with their guitar player in that he sometimes spazzes out in front of a crowd. He's always nervous and just stands in the corner looking at his feet (never making eye contact with the audience) while playing very conservatively so as not to make a mistake, and if he does make a mistake he sometimes loses control of himself. I've seen him throw a temper tantrum and hurl his guitar across the stage and walk off. I also saw him once play a set and at the end he took the microphone away from the singer and made an anouncement to the audience that he was apologizing on behalf of the band for such a bad performance (because he screwed up a few notes on one of the solos). :scowl:

I thought the rest of the band was going to murder him on the spot.

 

[OtterOnBass]

I was watching one of my bandmates from the audience when it happened. It was college night at church, where the college group puts together the evening service to talk about what they've been doing. The singer/guitarist was wearing a headset mic. He usually doesn't. He dropped his pick, bent over and dropped the S-bomb.

Is there an s-bomb? At church there is.

 

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

I never lose sight of the fact that it I'm not mistake-free, so most of the times I smile when it happens to any of my bandmates, but Link Removed really pissed me off. I couldn't believe it. It was the beginning of the first tune of the concert (and it was a big and special gig for us). Look at it this way: His first chord of the night was a BIG dump. I only told him my feelings the next day since I think that complaining at a gig isn't a good idea, but I really wanted to make him wear his guitar as a necktie.

 

[chaosMK]

Where does this mistake take place? I didnt hear anything too bad. Also, as it's titled Mistake-71, do you have 70 other videos with mistakes?

 

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

Where does this mistake take place? I didnt hear anything too bad. Also, as it's titled Mistake-71, do you have 70 other videos with mistakes?

He, he... no, man. It's just a number that PutFile adds to the original filenames.

The tune moves between Bm and A. The first chord that the guitarist should play is a B5, but instead he played an A5 while the keyboardist plays a B minor. Not that both chords collide horribly, but that feels like throwing a bucket of cold water on all of us who know (and like) the tune.

 

[51m0n]

Guitard arranged a gig, arranged a good price.

We play the gig.

Its rammed, I mean people dancing on tables total groove carnage.
Absolute blinder, the bar made a tonne of cash. Great! Everyone is super happy.

Turns out he forgot to pick up the cash, by the time he went back to sort it out the management had forgotten - it took him weeks - and refused to pay (understandably IMO)

I left the band shortly after!

 

[skb5string]

I was watching one of my bandmates from the audience when it happened. It was college night at church, where the college group puts together the evening service to talk about what they've been doing. The singer/guitarist was wearing a headset mic. He usually doesn't. He dropped his pick, bent over and dropped the S-bomb.

Is there an s-bomb? At church there is.

LOL!!! I play at church all the time so this is cracking me up, LOL. I'm sure it was not funny at the time (or might have been) Nice.

 

[Chebass88]

I was playing a professional theater gig in Philadelphia. Even though I was 19, I didn't drive yet. There was a rehearsal on the afternoon of the first day, before the show that night. My dad picked me up, and took me out to dinner, to celebrate how I was now a real professional musician.

On the way back from dinner, he miscalculated the distance to the theater, and dropped me off 2 blocks away. I hung out by the back door, and decided to smoke a cigarette (I figured my dad had gone home to NJ directly). He did not know that I smoked. So there I am, being cool, having a cigarette by the back stage entrance, and who pulls up through the alley next to the theater? That's right, my Dad. He only said "drop the cigarette, we'll talk about this when you get home".

Having my dad catch me smoke was disasterous. I messed up so bad that I mis-tuned 2 of the 4 strings on the bass (my dad had let me borrow his 1964 Fender Jazz, which made everything worse), and didn't realize it was mistuned (all the way through sound check) until the opening number, where I quickly tuned it correctly.

 

[Rattlehead]

I hate drummers/bands that play too loud. How can you tell if you sound good if you're so damned loud you can't hear anything?

The drummer I've played with mostly is so loud you HAVE to wear earplugs.


In a similar vein:
Bands who don't bother/care to EQ themselves so you can hear everything. Especially bad when some members are not open to try new things - like when a guitarist decides on "their sound" and won't change, even though that "sound" was decided upon while playing alone, even though this is usually WAY different from what would sound good with all the other instruments at the same time.
It's especially bad as a bass player - if someone is invading some of your frequency range, you have to sort of EQ AROUND them. Just great.

 

[steve66]

...my drummer left his rug at home,

Your drummer should always bring a hat. or glue that rug down.

I would never bring a rug to a gig. They are heavy and take up room in the van. Have your drummer fashion some heavy duty twisted wire. 3-5/16" works fine (Guide wires used on garage doors. found at home depot) to the legs of his bass drum to the legs of the drum seat. That bass drum isnt going anywhere anymore. Its a great anchoring system. Create the length needed, fold over the end to create a loop and use metal wire ties. Use metal hiking clamps to attach. Folds right up and fits in a gig bag

 

[Incognitus]

I hate drummers/bands that play too loud. How can you tell if you sound good if you're so damned loud you can't hear anything?

The drummer I've played with mostly is so loud you HAVE to wear earplugs.


In a similar vein:
Bands who don't bother/care to EQ themselves so you can hear everything. Especially bad when some members are not open to try new things - like when a guitarist decides on "their sound" and won't change, even though that "sound" was decided upon while playing alone, even though this is usually WAY different from what would sound good with all the other instruments at the same time.
It's especially bad as a bass player - if someone is invading some of your frequency range, you have to sort of EQ AROUND them. Just great.

Yes I really dislike this. I am blessed with a wonderful band that actually cares about this. Of course my guitarist (yup guitarist not guitard) is a sound engineer so he wants it to sound it's best. It's nice that others take acoustics and eq accordingly. Really makes it easier on me as well to not have to EQ around them.

 

[BradleyT]

My guitar player also sings in our band. He has a bit of stage fright and to combat it, he used to get completely hammered before shows. He'd end up trying to tell stupid jokes to the audience and stuff between songs... it was awful, and embarrassing. He's a total scatter-brain as well, so he'll be looking right at you while your talking and then when you're in mid sentence, he'll just start f'ing around on his guitar loud as hell over your voice. Impossible to keep his attention.

It's also pretty tough when band-mates don't practice their parts on their own, outside of practice. I get so frustrated when they come to practice and are still struggling with things we worked out at the last practice.

 

[Modo74]

2. noodling really loud bs on the guitar at practice when people are trying to communicate vocally, shows lack of respect to your bandmates

+1

This is a stabbing offence.

 

[Yngwie 4String]

One time my guitarist decided to randomly do an exteneded guitar solo, for like 7 minutes or so. I kicked hime out. That crap makes me nuts.

 

[manwiththedogs]

Mistakes happen and are usually no big deal.
A few things do bug me tho...

Guitarist stopping in the middle of a song to tune/ mess with effects settings.

Guitarist running a GR-33 through a 1000 watt poweramp in a small bar at absolutely crushing volume levels.

Guitarist singing along (badly out of key) during songs.

Guitarist ragging on bandmates for mistakes they make - thru the mike, during a set.

Guitarist not following the agreed upon set list. Starting songs he wants to play, when he wants to play them - again, during gigs.

Bear in mind, this is the same guy doing this, night after night...lol...the second we find a replacement, his a** is gone

 

[Baryonyx]

Drummers dropping beats, people playing out of key, keryboard players with ridiculously bad patches on their sounds, it's all fun fun fun in the world of live music!

 

[barbarbass]

I never lose sight of the fact that it I'm not mistake-free, so most of the times I smile when it happens to any of my bandmates, but Link Removed really pissed me off. I couldn't believe it. It was the beginning of the first tune of the concert (and it was a big and special gig for us). Look at it this way: His first chord of the night was a BIG dump. I only told him my feelings the next day since I think that complaining at a gig isn't a good idea, but I really wanted to make him wear his guitar as a necktie.

Yeah, I hear the mistake, but overall you guys should be proud of yourselves. You (and your band) are incredible. That is one of the best cover versions of an obscure Floyd song I've ever heard.

Do you do other Floyd stuff? Where can I hear some of your other files?