Rough gigs

koneguitarist

I have only ever had to sack one bassist, but loads of drummers, scariest was this Neanderthal we had who took a dislike to Keyboard player. Started kicking him in middle of pub, all 5 of us sat around during a rehearsel and I had to deal with it.

Said what the ****is going on and he replied it's me or him, which was quite scary, he was ex army, a prop forward  and hard as nails. So I sacked him on the spot and he just stared at me, whilst band mates were finding the bottom of their pint glasses very interesting and being extremely quiet. 

He eventually got up and walked out, it was only when we saw his car go past window that they all said we were right behind you taff! Like shit! 

Every band has a leader and he has to deal with the situation however difficult that may be, 

I have sacked mates which is very hard to do, but not as scary! 

thomasross20

Well done to you and many LOLs at your band mates hiding!! 

FarleyUK

Had a bit of an incident at the last gig.....

We're playing Sweet Child O'Mine to close the set, crowd are going nuts..... up comes the big guitar solo.... going into it, I nail it....feeling good..... here comes the fast widdly bit..... aaaaaaand the guitar is completely out of tune suddenly.

What the hell???

Turns out the bass player / singer, in his excitement, hit my tuning pegs with his arm, knocking the top three strings way out of tune. Needless to say, very embarrassing - spent the second half of the solo trying to find notes that were in the right key!

thomasross20

Moe_Zambeek

FarleyUK said:

Had a bit of an incident at the last gig.....

We're playing Sweet Child O'Mine to close the set, crowd are going nuts..... up comes the big guitar solo.... going into it, I nail it....feeling good..... here comes the fast widdly bit..... aaaaaaand the guitar is completely out of tune suddenly.

What the hell???

Turns out the bass player / singer, in his excitement, hit my tuning pegs with his arm, knocking the top three strings way out of tune. Needless to say, very embarrassing - spent the second half of the solo trying to find notes that were in the right key!

You've found the USP for G-Force / Min-E-tune! 

Mid-solo singer collision? Hit the tune button on Gforce and in 5 seconds you're back in the game!

ICBM

FarleyUK said:

Had a bit of an incident at the last gig.....

We're playing Sweet Child O'Mine to close the set, crowd are going nuts..... up comes the big guitar solo.... going into it, I nail it....feeling good..... here comes the fast widdly bit..... aaaaaaand the guitar is completely out of tune suddenly.

What the hell???

Turns out the bass player / singer, in his excitement, hit my tuning pegs with his arm, knocking the top three strings way out of tune. Needless to say, very embarrassing - spent the second half of the solo trying to find notes that were in the right key!

If that was with a Gibson you're quite lucky the headstock stayed on.

slacker

Did a Christmas scratch band gig which went ok but had a scare. 

Due to the very low volume I couldnt get a decent overdrive sound cos the amp was barely on. SO I had a brainwave and set up the AC4 on full for overdrive for two songs. Amp sounded amazing, best overdrive ever until a bar from the end of the first song. Yes you guessed it, amp cut out. I had to goose the preamp on the clean amp for the second song, sounded less than good. 

Dont use a Vox full on unless you have a spare. 

Anyway amp fired up later so it must have got sulky or have a cut out. 

thomasross20

2 days after putting our ad up, we've got 5 drummers interested!!

One guy is a retired session pro who's toured the world and played with top acts. 

The others are also "up there"!

Crikey!

ElectroDan

thomasross20 said:

2 days after putting our ad up, we've got 5 drummers interested!!

One guy is a retired session pro who's toured the world and played with top acts. 

The others are also "up there"!

Crikey!

If you build it, they will come!
)

thomasross20

Lol!!

Auditions in January... fingers crossed !

thomasross20

I think we just got two more - 6 drummers!!

John_P

6 is enough that maybe one will find the rehearsal room on the right day ;-)

Apologies for stating the obvious, but I'd filter out the time waster with the usual questions before trying them -  transport, gear, experience, happy to do the number of gigs/fee you plan  etc   

PolarityMan

thomasross20 said:

I think we just got two more - 6 drummers!!

You could try for a slipknot tribute act.

thomasross20

We're filtering a few out based on txtspk and attitude and what we can hear based on online clips.

thomasross20

Bassist thinks as soon as we get a decent drummer we cancel all auditions after that. I think we honour them as people have taken time to learnt the tunes. What is your opinion? 

I'm dying to do Paradise City (lol) but it's not happening so if I see a great drummer during audition that I think is into that and wants to do rock, I might splinter. I'm like a beast in a cage, man!

stickyfiddle

Definitely honour them. You never know - the last guy on the list might be the best. And you want a plan B if the first guy doesn't work out.

vasselmeyer

Try them all. You might need a dep at some point.

Also, record the auditions and listen back. Sometime stuff jumps out at you that you don't hear the first time around.

thomasross20

Cheers guys, appreciated

thomasross20

OMG. 

Had two drummers in last night. First guy, same age as me, tatooed, G N' R fan. Drums were fantastic, spot on. 

Second guy was the session drummer who'd played with big names and did big band stuff. Didn't fit in and the drums weren't as good as the first guy, or at least not suited to the style! 

FarleyUK

Had a rough one last night.... Playing in a new venue, large crowd, was really looking forward to it..... ......and 3 hour before the gig, I slice the entire layer of skin off the top of my left index finger knuckle. Yes, my fretting hand. There was a patch of skin 2mm deep, 1cm wide and 2 cm tall that had been sliced off! 

2 hours later in the hospital, I have 8 butterfly stitches, a crap-ton of glue and lots of bandage tape on my finger, meaning I literally cannot bend it. The show had to go on however, and I somehow managed to stumble through.... Not fun though!!