When you catch your singer boning your girlfriend. "It's not what you think!"
Ah, high school, how I miss thee.
Ah, high school, how I miss thee.
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You know it's time to leave the band when......
- Thread starter FPFbass
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It's time to bail when the drummer doesn't accept it when you use the words 'my band' in a sentence.
Two specifics that have happened to me:
1. Join a chick fronted synth metal band. Goes great, even through lineup changes. Guitarist has to leave but we have him prerecorded. After being convinced that all prospective guitarists are ******** that are plotting against her god given vision, Singer decides to play keytar in place of the guitarist with the guitar relegated to backing tracks. Singer does not understand the concept of musical keys and starts writing cracked out video game music that sounds random. Singer gets offended when it is suggested we find guitarist and wants to write music that will make people want to roller skate. Drummer leaves. Bassist tries to stick it out hoping for a return to normalcy and gets told he is the worst person alive for wanting a guitarist in what used to be a rock band and is kicked out. (as a side note, knowing that the drummer was planning on leaving and not tattling to the singer is tantamount to backstabbery apparently.)
2. Join a great promising band that has several songs written and is about to play out. At second gig, band explodes due to tension and becomes three piece. 8 months go by with intermittent practices and no real song writing. No hard feelings, just time to bail.
Yep.
1. Join a chick fronted synth metal band. Goes great, even through lineup changes. Guitarist has to leave but we have him prerecorded. After being convinced that all prospective guitarists are ******** that are plotting against her god given vision, Singer decides to play keytar in place of the guitarist with the guitar relegated to backing tracks. Singer does not understand the concept of musical keys and starts writing cracked out video game music that sounds random. Singer gets offended when it is suggested we find guitarist and wants to write music that will make people want to roller skate. Drummer leaves. Bassist tries to stick it out hoping for a return to normalcy and gets told he is the worst person alive for wanting a guitarist in what used to be a rock band and is kicked out. (as a side note, knowing that the drummer was planning on leaving and not tattling to the singer is tantamount to backstabbery apparently.)
2. Join a great promising band that has several songs written and is about to play out. At second gig, band explodes due to tension and becomes three piece. 8 months go by with intermittent practices and no real song writing. No hard feelings, just time to bail.
Yep.
When you wake up one day to find the lead singers hoo-hoo in your mouth...
yeah..thats a sign...
never happened to me..just say'in
yeah..thats a sign...
never happened to me..just say'in
That is REALLY weird...but truth is stranger than fiction, right? A Rush tribute band I could understand...but Tesla??? TESLA??? What did they do, like 2 albums??
Good story Nick!
--When you join, they try to make you sign a contract making their band the only one you can be in, ever.
--They treat their friends that show up to hang out and light up with more respect than you, a member of the band with musical abilities.
--The band decides the perfect practice schedule is calling randomly during the week and saying "get here now", even though I had a job and no car at the time.
--You show up and they screwed with your fine tuned amp settings and moved it all around forcing you to re-adjust your levels
--"Practice" consists of 30 minutes of sitting around and occasionally trying a song, and 4 hours of sitting in the drummers living room smoking pot and talking about how "we're gonna make it big"
--Then, when you finally have enough and leave, they leave you lengthy messages on your voicemail about how you sucked anyways, and you never did anything for the band, though you were the one that was constantly interviewing potential singers, and got them gigs.
--They treat their friends that show up to hang out and light up with more respect than you, a member of the band with musical abilities.
--The band decides the perfect practice schedule is calling randomly during the week and saying "get here now", even though I had a job and no car at the time.
--You show up and they screwed with your fine tuned amp settings and moved it all around forcing you to re-adjust your levels
--"Practice" consists of 30 minutes of sitting around and occasionally trying a song, and 4 hours of sitting in the drummers living room smoking pot and talking about how "we're gonna make it big"
--Then, when you finally have enough and leave, they leave you lengthy messages on your voicemail about how you sucked anyways, and you never did anything for the band, though you were the one that was constantly interviewing potential singers, and got them gigs.
slowburnaz
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When no one really cares or shows any initiative but you, and then gets upset when nothing ever happens.
Like "when's practice?" or "we need to play a show!"
Book it yourself... jeez.
Like "when's practice?" or "we need to play a show!"
Book it yourself... jeez.
+10000000000
or if your looking to join a band and they describe their sound as _____core. run.
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