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When your band mates screw up.

#41
My band takes all its mistakes in stride. I tried playing Tuesday's Gone one night on my fretless and overshot a glissando move. The singer forgot some words and the guitarist and drummer had a glitch or so each. After the gig, we jokingly went around admitting our mistakes and had a laugh about it. Everything was cool after that, but it shows that everyone listens and knows what needs to be fixed.
 
#45
barbarbass said:
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?
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Thank you so much, man! :) We did "One Of These Days", "Young Lust", "Hey You" and "Comfortably Numb". Here are other short video clips from the same concert (November '04):

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Link Removed (:D For this one, I joined the original Roger Waters live video with our version because of the (sort of) coincidence. You'll notice it. And it was unintentional!)
 
#46
I used to play in a band that we charged $5.00 for live screw up's. Seriously, and if you showed up late to practice $10.00 (no shows also $10.00). It didn't happen much after we started using the money for equipment (had close to $500.00 in one year) Dicipline and dedication young ones.
 
#47
Long Story...
...believe it or not, my guitarist doesn't know how to set up his amp anymore.he used to use a Boss GT-8 processor, until it got stolen, then he went to an elaborate pedal setup that my drummer helped him make out. When we were recently in the studio our producer said that his distortion sucked (Boss Metalzone) and set up his head distortion channel for him (Peavy 5150). So when we got back from the studio I showed him how to setup his rigg so he could use his amp distortion and run his effects through the loop so they could be shut off. BIG MISTAKE, now he comes to me at every show wanting me to help set up his rig.

Guitarists, gotta love:mad:
 
#49
:D:DIm in a band with four other school mates (were all 16) and sometimes in practices it really hacks me off when, for instance, our singer is talking bowt his new song, telling our drummer and me how he wants the rhythm to be and sitting behind us is bloody Logan (one of our guitar players) with the master volume on his Fender Valveking at 6 (which is bloody loud in the small room we practice in) trying to play really high riffs and solos over the top of us.

Really hacks me off but hey thats life its hard not to play an instrament when youre holding it!
But i think that discipline in practices' ie not playing when someone else is talking or tuning via tuner mic, is someting that is very important to establish in a band right at the beginning! :bassist: :D

Thats my 5 cents worth!!
 
#50
Im in a band, i play bass and sing, and i constantly have to deal with these 2 guitards that feel like every time we stop and i tell them to take it from the top, its solo partytime. The only was i can get them to stop is if i just jam and let them have a solo battle. it makes me want to kick somethin.
 
#51
I'm in a couple of jazz combos and large group at my college, and we always have problems with one of our guitarists.


We have two, instead of having a piano..

anyway, every day at practice, the instructor has to tell this one guitarist to stop playing between songs. Of course hes turned all the way up. The worst part is hes playing a hollowbody epiphone, so even witht he volume down you can sort of hear yourself quietly to practice a lick or something.

Also, in jazz charts he drops the form, plays 12 bars instead of 16, or 32.... It gets very frustrating for me since i have put in the effort to get the charts memorized, and he can't even read the music and follow it. Luckily the drummer and I are used to it, so we can usually cover it up and end together.

We have the same problem with our mandolin player. He is very good musically, but as far as playing when he shouldn't, or being too loud...its just crazy. I honestly walked out on tuesday because i've had enough of this stuff.

Oh, and changing things last minute right before a gig. I mean, most people can handle this, but when you don't have a grasp on the song in the first place, changing things and then forgetting them in the song just doesn't cut it.

Meh, at least i'm transferring.
 
#52
I've done plenty....but....since we're mostly slam'in drummers I want in on it....We recently did some shows in So. Dokota, at the last show while loading up the bus in the dark, our drummer left his cymbal cases somewhere near the bus? This was discovered the next night while setting-up....in Minn.
 
#53
We're beginning to get hacked off with our singer in a rock covers band I play with.

He's always going on about how he's been a semi-pro for the last 40 years but he can never remember what he's meant to be singing and coming in at the wrong point during/before/after a solo/middle 8 It wouldn't be quite so bad but he has one of those bigass music stands right in front of him
 
#54
hbarcat said:
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.
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Sorry but I found that funny.
I know someone playing guitar while you're trying to talk is very annoying, I had a wanky guitar player who did exactly that, you'd have to shout him 4 or 5 times even though he knew you were calling him.

But that, just sounds funny. I think its the "apparently can't help himself" bit - just like he HAS to do it and it makes him buzz. Awesome
 
#55
NWF Bassist said:
Long Story...
...believe it or not, my guitarist doesn't know how to set up his amp anymore.he used to use a Boss GT-8 processor, until it got stolen, then he went to an elaborate pedal setup that my drummer helped him make out. When we were recently in the studio our producer said that his distortion sucked (Boss Metalzone) and set up his head distortion channel for him (Peavy 5150). So when we got back from the studio I showed him how to setup his rigg so he could use his amp distortion and run his effects through the loop so they could be shut off. BIG MISTAKE, now he comes to me at every show wanting me to help set up his rig.

Guitarists, gotta love:mad:
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"Teach a man to fish..."
 
#56
cutthroatmolloy said:
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.
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Maybe my drummer would be more careful if it were himself getting hit!

Its a running joke in our band...The bassist needs body armour. And a foxhole!

Never fails...I get hit by "friendly fire" at least once a gig. It just, like, you know...happens. Not every time, but never less than once, and sometimes three or more. Depends on whether he's been drinkin', and what he's been drinkin'.

One night, he threw sticks on purpose, but not at me. We had a regionally-well-known country singer come up on stage with us. Without permission. He was *extremely* drunk. He was screwing up our show, and our drummer began throwing sticks at the guy, trying to get him to shut up. I took the guy's elbow and said to him, "Get off the stage before B.J. quits using his sticks and starts using his fists on you." Singer begins to argue with me. "BOY, I mean RIGHT NOW!!! MOVE YOUR A##"

That was that. :smug:

Cherie :bassist:
 
#57
I typically don't say anything. Everybody screws up at some point.

There have been a few instances when it was ridiculous though. The band I was in we kicked out the drummer because he couldn't keep a beat.
The lead singer would drink too much and lose his place during songs.
The lead guitarist on a few occasions would also drink a little too much and think that he was a virtuoso. He would turn up his amp drown everybody out, play lead through the entire song and in the process would piss off the audience and the band.
 
#58
We're a very friendly and cooperative band. If someone screws up a song it's never that big a deal, and we can laugh about it after the gig. We do stay pretty sober, and if something happens it won't be due to drink.

Now, in certain towns our drummer likes to have a toke with his old pals, and we can always tell. He normally has great time, but on those occasions tempos will be noticeably (to us) slower than usual. When we point it out afterwards he's always surprised. "Yeah? Really?".

We've learned to cover for each other, too. Our guitarist insists on using an old Ibanez Time Machine analog delay, which for some undetermined reason will cut out completely at random times. If that happens the drummer and I just keep on pushing while he re-cables on the fly. Same thing if he breaks a string and has to change guitars.

Our singer will sometimes get too caught up in communicating with the audience, and come in on the wrong beat. We're sufficiently tight to just shoot each other a glance and turn the beat around within the bar to accommodate him. Most listeners never even notice. The worst thing that's happened was one night when he was really into it, shaking his head to and fro until he lost his sense of balance and came an ignominious cropper, nearly bringing the guitar stack down. But our rapport with the audience is folksy and intimate rather than showy, and we managed to turn it into something funny.

When I joined this band I certainly hit my share of bum notes before learning the arrangements by heart. The guys were very gracious about it, and would take the time to go through songs with me at the hotel after the gig. I've only had an equipment problem once, years ago, when one of the long retaining screws had dropped out of my amp chassis unnoticed, and my signal kept cutting out because of the vibrations. An easy fix, but as we all know, if the bottom goes the gig is shot.
 
#59
It annoys me when guitarists constantly moan about not being able to hear themselves and keep turning themselves up and up so all you can hear is guitar.

I've experienced this in every band i've ever been in, bar 1, and it really infuriates me. Guitarists seem to have a problem understanding the concept of a band mix(both onstage and through the PA), and that everyone else also needs to be able to hear themselves and be heard too.
 
#60
Purple Haze said:
It annoys me when guitarists constantly moan about not being able to hear themselves and keep turning themselves up and up so all you can hear is guitar.

I've experienced this in every band i've ever been in, bar 1, and it really infuriates me. Guitarists seem to have a problem understanding the concept of a band mix(both onstage and through the PA), and that everyone else also needs to be able to hear themselves and be heard too.
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Yea. I had to yell at the guitarists last night because the rhythm and lead were fighting for who had lead volume and it sounded like crap.
 

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