steantval

You have sort of answered your own question there. Your only option with 9 songs as others have suggested is to do support slots. If your songs average 5 minutes long, you still only have 45 minutes of material, I couldn’t foresee any venue just booking you as the only band as it would not fill the evening.

If you are wishing to gig, it sounds to me like you could be wasting time and effort with this band. A drummer without symbols beggars belief. Four months rehearsing just 9 songs. In our area you would have zero chance of getting a gig with only 9 songs, unless it was a support slot to another band. Does the band have a PA? I cannot answer your question as what you should do, I would personally walk and hopefully find some other musicians with gigging experience to work with, life is too short. Sorry if this sounds a bit harsh, but reality sometimes has to kick in.

Get a vocalist in and start learning a whole new set, if you get on well with the guys you are currently playing with.

Ronnie Wood or possibly Roy Wood.

n/a for me, I don’t slap, not much call for it in classic rock.

I must I agree with her about avoiding playing open strings, I do my best to avoid playing them if there is an alternative fretted position.

If they had a person on the decks, it would have been Pork Scratching.

It’s good we all have different tastes, otherwise it would be a dull world, but I thought this outfit were dreadful.

Our new guitarist is about 64 and he is still one of the best players in our area, we were privileged to get him on board.

Stop, the Joe Bonamassa version, a lot. The next new song to go into our set, nailed it and ready to rehearse it Thursday evening👍

If it’s active, you will also run the battery down a lot quicker.

Debatable singing talent, can’t believe JH has him as one of the vocalists on his upcoming tour.👎

Night off gigging last night, so went out to see Groove Cartell playing at the Brewery Tap. Excellent set of funk and soul, bass player top class and excellent tone through MarkBass rig and Warwick 5 string.

Rehearsals twice a week, is that both with the vocalist or one or none. Did the rest of the band give a valid reason why the vocalist was not there at your audition?

IMO they are taking the p*ss getting musicians auditioning for a band and the vocalist can’t be ars*d to attend.

Our vocalist for a laugh started singing Fly Me To The Moon Our guitarist asks the audience - will someone buy him a f*cking ticket.

The hinges would look better if they weren’t painted over.

I think I’ll stick with my covers band.

Really like the bass line on Disco Inferno by The Trammps, if I knew how to embed the YouTube video on here I would.

That covers band Enigma have changed their name to The Bletchley Circle, now doing all original stuff, but not many people can work it out.

Good luck with it, lucky you only have to learn just one song for it.

Victor Wotten playing with The Edge, should be interesting.

Just put Walking in the Shadow of the Blues in our set, cracking song.

What !! better than Frampton, can’t agree on that one.

I was probably two Russians 😀😀