So my new band is instrumentally awesome and super fun to play with, but we need a singer so I'm doing some auditions.
Auditions involve me driving for 45 mins in each direction spending an hour setting up and an hour tearing down.
5 auditions booked of the people I've spoken who haven't been shit.
2 have shown up and been professional though neither has completely blown us away vocally.
1 has postponed (fair enough)
1 has confirmed and then canceled with two hours notice meaning a session has been wasted (though we had enough notice to not turn up)
1 postponed then booked another session then yesterday just didn't turn up and stopped responding to phone calls, text messages and emails. Result 5 hours of my life completely wasted to no advantage whatsoever.
Why are a vast percentage of musicians such total dicks?
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Really good singers tend to know they are really good singers as well. So they either have their own thing going or at least expect a situation where there are instant rewards. If you are a starter upper band then you might have to 'make do' with someone who is competent and can turn up - your dream singer maybe out there somewhere but you may not be his/ her dream band. And, as with any band member, technical prowess is only one element of what anyone brings to a band.
So, crack on with those singing lessons...
The other big factor is that to be good at fronting a band they need a big ego - sometimes that clashes with be reliable.
I've been through 3 singers this year in one band and I'm still looking!
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Our singer is an exception because he's on class A painkillers and well chilled as a result. Sometimes too chilled.
You're totally right - for good singers.
But for the type of people that we're talking about in this thread - no shows, talk a good game and can't deliver I'm thinking about the "singers" that think they can do it. I've audition a LOT of kareoke singers over the years that think they can front a band and say all the right things. Hopefully I've got better at filtering most of them out but it only really shows when you're in the same room and then more so when you're onstage.
Huge part of the reason that vocalists should get lessons. Forces you to sing along to a piano or a guitar, and makes you feel so much more naked when doing it. You can hear every little mistake you're making, and you're much more able to be objective about your own singing.