Depressing things your bandmates say.

[Spike Vincent]

[quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1335537547' post='1632852']
don't you check it anyway?
[/quote]



It's bad luck to tune up before a gig.

[discreet]

[quote name='Spike Vincent' timestamp='1335544539' post='1633001']
It's bad luck to tune up before a gig.
[/quote]

Going by the attitude of some of my bandmates, it's also unlucky to rehearse and to learn songs properly before a gig!

[vax2002]

Guitarist : "Would it work if we stripped it back to basics"
..... If thats code for learning the song instead of trying to guess it, then the answer is yes...

[mcnach]

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1335539485' post='1632896']
no need, if the guitard had his way nobody would hear it anyway
[/quote]

[merlin]

is that a new bass,oh youve had it for years,funny never seen it befor.......guitard.

[discreet]

[quote name='vax2002' timestamp='1335545389' post='1633018']
Guitarist: "Would it work if we stripped it back to basics"
...If thats code for learning the song instead of trying to guess it, then the answer is yes...
[/quote]

It's code for, 'I'm wasting everyone's time and should emigrate to Australia.'

Edited April 27, 2012 by discreet

[4 Strings]

Got one yesterday. Green Onions as 2nd half opener before the singers come out, done it before but just checked with our relatively new youngster guitarist that he had the guitar parts ok (the off beat 'chang' in the first versey bit, the riff that tracks the bass and the gist of the staccato solo etc); 'yeah, its just generic blues, its easy'.

I made him sit and listen to it.

[dnarocks]

[quote name='Oopsdabassist' timestamp='1317980051' post='1396828']
Arrrgh!! we had several calls last week to do that as an encore, only I knew it, so sadly the email I sent my band this week said exaclty that!! Oh the shame!
[/quote]

f*** Bryan Adams!!

[dnarocks]

When you say to the guys in the band - do you think the bass sounds ok out there? and the reply is is.... no cares what the bass sounds like, ---guitards!!!

[merlin]

girl singer a few years back, quote...as Im the singer and front person I should get half the gig monies..end quote..she left soon after.

[EssentialTension]

[quote name='merlin' timestamp='1335605382' post='1633577']
girl singer a few years back, quote...as Im the singer and front person I should get half the gig monies..end quote..she left soon after.
[/quote]
The answer to that is: 'OK, you're the band leader, so you can do all the organising, getting gigs, pay for rehearsals etc., and we'll just charge you for our time. These are our hourly rates, if you don't like them get someone else.'

Edited April 28, 2012 by EssentialTension

[discreet]

[quote name='merlin' timestamp='1335605382' post='1633577']
girl singer a few years back, quote...as Im the singer and front person I should get half the gig monies..end quote..she left soon after.
[/quote]

Not American by any chance, was she?

[barneyg42]

Me" it was really nice to get the fretless out for a few songs"
Keys"oh you had your fretless, I didn't think you would bring it as there's not much room to stand it on the stage"
Me, thinking and muttering under my breath"that was one of the two basses next to where you stand and that I changed over between songs in front of you"

[merlin]

all this lady did was sing,did not even own her own mic..did absolutly nothing else..and was a right pain....not American,why have you worked with one like this?

[discreet]

[quote name='merlin' timestamp='1335614894' post='1633722']
...not American, why have you worked with one like this?
[/quote]

Ha ha - no, but the current mrs discreet is a yank and shows a similar level of control-freakery and expectation of entitlement. As do many of 'em, I've found. American bass players excepted, of course...

[Oopsdabassist]

God help you WHEN she reads that comment then!!

[MoonBassAlpha]

Great rehearsal = bad gig.

[discreet]

[quote name='MoonBassAlpha' timestamp='1335876669' post='1637354']
Great rehearsal = bad gig.
[/quote]

And vice-versa. Superstition of course, but it's happened so many times I'm beginning to think there's something in it...

[pistonbroke]

Bought my first 5 string back in 88, took it to rehearsal,s for it,s first outing and the lead singer (female not american) said would,nt it be better to have bought another 4 string? so it would sound more like a bass???

[chaypup]

[quote name='MoonBassAlpha' timestamp='1335876669' post='1637354']
Great rehearsal = bad gig.
[/quote]

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1335877110' post='1637360']
And vice-versa. Superstition of course, but it's happened so many times I'm beginning to think there's something in it...
[/quote]

Yep, same here. I think a couple of cock-ups in the last rehearsal before a gig focuses you a little bit more than a perfect rehearsal does. IME + IMO.

[basstech]

"Let's do sex on fire!"
.....,someone shoot me

[merlin]

ha ha its your round...

[gazhowe]

"I just turned the PA back up to its normal setting after the sound check anyway"

[paul_5]

Drummer at last night's rehearsal - "I could do it, but I'd have to unlearn (sic) everything that I do, then learn that" - dafuq?

[Judo Chop]

"F*** off I'm not f****** s***, you can both f*** off!"

Our old drummer after we broke the news to him.