You Know You're In A Lame Band When------

[m3t4lhed]

you are in a lame band when you keep covering keep on rocking in the free world

 

[BigOleBoogie]

...the drummer has the Muppet "Animal" hanging on his kit wearing a feather boa.

I use a pick during Sweet Child O Mine by choice....after reading this thread I will stop

You cover "walking on sunshine"......


all of these things are currently happening in the band I play in now.

It's 1:18pm on a Saturday....not to early to start drinking.

 

[samick]

you know you're in a lame band when....

you have to pay your groupies

 

[shostkontrabass]

You know you're in a lame band when one of your band mates suggests Chameleon and the rest get excited about it.

The Herbie Hancock Chameleon? I've definitely played that song enough for the next 50 years...

 

[invader3k]

You consider yourselves busy if you gig more than once every three months.

 

[VanzKantDanz]

You're in an Asia cover band.

 

[laboitenoire]

When you've been together for two years, but it's only you and the guitarist (the case with my band - we can't hold on to drummers or singers).

Your drummer uses aluminum sticks on a junior set with a splash cymbal.

You have to stop rehearsing because the batteries in the keyboard died and you don't have the adapter to plug it in...

You keep on getting new gear, but still don't have gigs to pay for it (the case of my guitarist).

When you and twenty other guys are all working on a cover of "Come Together."

^ Apparently this was the case with my school's jazz program for a while. They had four bands, each with twenty guys, all playing "Come Together."

The only women who care about what happens to the band are your mothers.

 

[Jimbob Jones]

Halfway through a guitar solo in a practice (or even worse, a gig), the guitard stops and says: "hey, wait a minute...what key are we in again?"

or:

Halfway through a guitar solo in a practice (or even worse, a gig), the guitard stops and says: "hey, wait a minute...what's a key again?"

 

[GreyBeard]

When the KB plays shuffle (6/8) and the drummer playes in straight 4 and everybody else thinks it sounds just fine.

 

[Bass-kid]

... When you cant play music

 

[Bass Pleasures]

Louie Louie is in the set list.

Guilty.

 

[rutty24]

you know your in a lame band when halfway through his solo the g****r player stops playing and starts beat boxing. i actually had to push him off stage. the chicks at the front were not happy!! and neither was his stratocaster

 

[dcr]

You know you're in a lame band when...

...you work up a segue between Mustang Sally and Brown Eyed Girl (and back again).

Hey, that actually sounds pretty cool (but so did "Louie, Louie").

This coming from a guy that's done "Sweet Home Alabama" into "Werewolves of London" and back, especially around Hallowe'en.




dcr

 

[JonathanD]

you tell people not to come because your embarrassed by how bad it is.
Jonathan

 

[netbot]

you're in a lame band when...

your band is on stage, ready to start a gig while your guitard player is under the shower because his girlfriend told him to do so...

 

[joeydavidson]

You Know You're In A Lame Band When------

your biggest fan is deaf

when people only applaud when you leave the stage

when people quickly change the subject when you ask them if they enjoyed the gig

 

[Stuggi]

You know you're in a lame band when one of your band mates suggests Chameleon and the rest get excited about it.

My current band do the theme from Chameleon by Herbie as Intro and Outro.

 

[Jeff Martinez]

You cover "walking on sunshine"......

Ironically, I am currently arranging a dance/metal cover of this one.

When the KB plays shuffle (6/8) and the drummer playes in straight 4 and everybody else thinks it sounds just fine.

It can work. I was in a band that wrote a song that was in 5/4 and 4/4 at the same time. The song was written around the bassline, which was in 5/4 (I write a lot in the meter), but the g'tard programmed the drum machine in 4/4, and he played in a combination of the two. It all actually worked. It would biuld tension and at the end of each verse, the tension would release.

 

[BellBottomBlues]

When the KB plays shuffle (6/8) and the drummer playes in straight 4 and everybody else thinks it sounds just fine.

Its called Syncopation.

I've had a song where the drums were in 4/4 bass in 5/4 and guitar in 3/4. Sounded pretty good.

You know you're in a lame band when:
The guitarist has a loaded pedal board filled with cheap boss pedals and he still sounds like ****
Your bandmates decide to take the money made from gigs and spend it all at Burger King.
All your friends seem to detest your band mates
A good portion of society seems to detest your band mates


That should do it...

Oh yeah... if you do beatles or stones covers...

 

[peaveyuser]

I use a pick during Sweet Child O Mine by choice....after reading this thread I will stop

pfffft follower giving into peer pressure, I use both on that song and frankly I like the sound better with a pick when playing it.