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I've proposed a band meeting on Friday to decide on the future. We have a good thing going and as a business, our product is good. It only has one shortfall and that's her planning. My aim is to keep going without the current singer. I sing, as does he (he currently does about 30% of the setlist) so we could make up the shortfall even if our dep wasn't wanting more work.
A genuinely think a good gig on Saturday could sway him!
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
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Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
I've been fed up with the lead guitarist for some time - someone suggests a song, he decides what chords we play. No discussion. He's right, no one else can be. I don't know anyone else on the planet willing to tell Wayne and Merrill Osmond how to play Crazy Horses, but he is. ("Stop playing G#, it's a G!" Erm no it's not, it's an F#, which is what I was playing.)
So on Wednesday, the drummer got the first song wrong. The singer got the second song wrong. The other guitarist launched into the third song playing something else, literally - we were supposed to be playing C'mon Everybody and he started playing Something Else. Then they added in two songs that I thought we'd dropped. So I hadn't practised them and not surprisingly butchered them. Then he decided that the chords I was playing on another song were wrong, even though I've been playing them (and the bassist has been using them too) for the last six months. Then he decided that I was out of tune, so I switched to the tuner and I was fine. He wasn't though.
The bassist has had a problem with a particular song that the other guitarist and the singer really like, but I don't. Now the drummer isn't sure of it either. So the other guitarist decided that the answer is that I was playing the wrong chords on that one, too.
Now, I know I'm probably shit, but only two weeks ago the bassist talked me out of leaving cos I'm rapidly starting to hate the other fucker.
So when I got home there was an email saying they'd fired me.
Don't be surprised if you see all my kit in the classifieds after Christmas.
Ta for that, but especially for 'gimboids' - never heard that one before, loving it! :-D
We had a gig last night. The singer arrived late as ever! This allowed us to briefly discuss the situation.
We've managed to convince her to fulfil her comittments with us on the New Years gig but we've had to do a negotiating with the company that's booked us. Panic over! I was slightly worried about directly asking if the band organiser/other guitarist if he was serious about jacking it in so I didn't mention it. It's OK, you can call me cowardly!
Anyway, he's taken some more 2015 bookings and seemed a lot more positive about the whole thing. Phew! That followed by a good gig on Friday and normality has resumed. We have another 2 gigs this week, one of which is with the dep so will see how she does on her first live outing. Nothing is set in stone for the future but we've got a good thing so we need to keep it going!
I think we're going to explore working with some other singers for future events (instead of taking on the dep full time).