discreet Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 (edited) [quote name='Blademan_98' timestamp='1329645577' post='1545133'] "I can't make it because I am busy"... [/quote] WTF?? What would a drummer be busy doing that's more important than drumming? Edit: Learning to spell. Ha, ha, ha! Edited February 19, 2012 by discreet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blademan_98 Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1329645711' post='1545140'] WTF?? What would a drummer be busy doing that's more important than drumming? Edit: Learning to spell. Ha, ha, ha! [/quote] This particular drummer actually had friends....... I know, shocking! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solo4652 Posted January 3, 2016 Author Share Posted January 3, 2016 (edited) Just re-opening this thread with a few more excuses that are all true, and have all happened to me recently: The bassist has gone to the wrong Flying Horse pub We were due to use the basement of the rehearsal building, but there are frogs there We were due to use the first floor of the rehearsal building, but it's haunted The drummer has run out of bottled oxygen The drummer's just messaged me saying "I can't be bothered" The two guitarists are punching each other in the car park The bassist has broken three ribs playing sport. Again. The guitarist says he can't find his picks Edited January 3, 2016 by solo4652 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTUK Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 Only one of those is remotely reasonable.... I'd kick them out if they came out with crap like that.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cameronj279 Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 [quote name='jackers' timestamp='1329251127' post='1539672'] the most annoying one I've ever had is: "Me and my friend smoked too much weed earlier, and now I'm too high to drive." f*cking drummers....haha. [/quote] Was once in a band where the guitarists excuse was that he was trying to find someone to get weed. This was a band where I was 2/3 hours on a bus just to get there and only said this half an hour after rehearsal started. Incredible guitarist but unreliable as an old Alfa Romeo. In my current band we once had a rehearsal where the drummer was unbelievably tired (hungover is more like it) so we just rehearsed our songs in different genres minus drums. Turns out our tunes sound quite good reggae. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rushbo Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 [quote name='solo4652' timestamp='1451840165' post='2943885'] Just re-opening this thread with a few more excuses that are all true, and have all happened to me recently: The bassist has gone to the wrong Flying Horse pub We were due to use the basement of the rehearsal building, but there are frogs there We were due to use the first floor of the rehearsal building, but it's haunted The drummer has run out of bottled oxygen The drummer's just messaged me saying "I can't be bothered" The two guitarists are punching each other in the car park The bassist has broken three ribs playing sport. Again. The guitarist says he can't find his picks [/quote] You win the Internet. These are all priceless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 None, if we rehearse 6 times a year it would surprise me. Blue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sprocketflup Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 bottled oxygen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahpook Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 [quote name='sprocketflup' timestamp='1451865062' post='2944224'] bottled oxygen? [/quote] Maybe he got too high ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyTravis Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 "Don't know where I parked my car" "Can't be arsed" - sacked "I've lost my voice" - sacked, rehearsal on a Monday, spent all weekend at gigs wasted (and showing off about this on Facebook) imagine if I'd spent all week punching walls... "I've got a date..." - ridiculous Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solo4652 Posted January 4, 2016 Author Share Posted January 4, 2016 Bottled oxygen; I played a few times with a drummer who, sadly, wasn't very well with some sort of lung problem. He used bottled oxygen supplied via a nose tube. He had to increase the oxygen flow rate for faster songs. "Oh, hang on, I don't think we can do that song - I don't have enough oxygen left". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sprocketflup Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 That's incredible. I sadly lost my dad in April last year to a rather awkward lung disease, he had the bottles of oxygen too. As he was lying in hospital nearing the end there were complications with the set up, and it just so happened that one of the top dogs of the hospital who was also the specialist for the disease was in the room. She told the nurse "If its causing problems just whip it off." Upon seeing our incredulous gazes, explained further and it turns out it was only there for comfort, it wasn't actually helping as such at all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimR Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 I was at my gran's 80th birthday party. This was the singers excuse on the Monday when he'd completely failed to turn up to his first (and only) gig. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTUK Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 Mostly rehearsal's are so hard to arrange - and everyone knows that - so everyone accpets they are required. No one wastes anyones time arranging something that is not considered essential, Rehearsal are a PITA that sometimes need to be done..so you do them as you understand this. I'm not sure some of the examples are serious, albeit funny, but I'd lose my sense of humour being jerked around like that... and that person wouldn't get asked/be required again. I recently travelled almost an hour to a rehearsal/audition and the guy said get there early as I'm making chilli... Now that was appreciated as travelled straight from work, but once the chilli was served after about 5-6 songs or so, we sat around talking and drinking wine. Now this was quite a good bonding session in itself, but for me, there is work to be done so I wasn't in a hurry to spend a night doing that on a regular basis. If rehearsal is required and scheduled, make it work so you don't have to do it again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solo4652 Posted January 4, 2016 Author Share Posted January 4, 2016 (edited) Every single one of these happened to me in the past 12 months. I'm the bassist who went to the wrong Flying Horse, and I'm the bassist who regularly injures myself trying to compete with sailors who are 40 years younger than me. I'm the person who has been responsible for organising rehearsals in my last three bands. I volunteer to do it because I have the time - I'm retired. It's a thankless task. My current band is no different, and I'm exasperated by all the effort that's needed to get the same 4 people into a room once a week having all practised the same version of the same songs in keys that everybody agreed the previous week. Edited January 4, 2016 by solo4652 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 [quote name='AndyTravis' timestamp='1451865594' post='2944229'] "Don't know where I parked my car" "Can't be arsed" - sacked "I've lost my voice" - sacked, rehearsal on a Monday, spent all weekend at gigs wasted (and showing off about this on Facebook) imagine if I'd spent all week punching walls... "I've got a date..." - ridiculous [/quote] A date, funny. Lol I tell every woman interested in me. Fine as long as you know your always going to be number 2 in my life. Music and my band will always be number 1. Blue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seashell Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 There are some corkers here, but the frogs in the rehearsal room is my favourite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chriswareham Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 Singer: "Can't rehearse today, as I've accidentally erased the cassette with the drum machine data on it". Guitarist: "I can't record today, as I've got an audition for another band". (The recording had been booked for weeks). Best one was the singer who turned up to rehearsal, but after his mobile rang he disappeared. As in his parents phoning us up days later to see if we knew where he was type of disappeared. Turns out the call at the rehearsal was from his wife who had just discovered the emails between him and his ex-girlfriend making it clear they were having an affair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rushbo Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 "I can't make rehearsal as I've just walked straight through a glass door" "I can't make rehearsal as I've had an allergic reaction to my aftershave" Both from the same drummer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauzero Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 [quote name='seashell' timestamp='1451945391' post='2944967'] There are some corkers here, but the frogs in the rehearsal room is my favourite. [/quote] We couldn't rehearse for a week or so because our lockup, in the basement of Robannas in Birmingham, was flooded. No frogs though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Dean Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Supposed to have a final dress rehearsal before gigging , I made it clear this was my only week off in the year so if no one could make it ill go on holiday , everyone put themselves out & the singer doesn't turn up , get a text 4 hours after week packed up saying they had tummy trouble & was only just getting better , Our guitarist had seen him walking down the road 3 hours earlier , I could see he had been on FB until the early hours . what would you do ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcnach Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 [quote name='Kevin Dean' timestamp='1452006450' post='2945413'] Supposed to have a final dress rehearsal before gigging , I made it clear this was my only week off in the year so if no one could make it ill go on holiday , everyone put themselves out & the singer doesn't turn up , get a text 4 hours after week packed up saying they had tummy trouble & was only just getting better , Our guitarist had seen him walking down the road 3 hours earlier , I could see he had been on FB until the early hours . what would you do ? [/quote] go fishing with him... as bait Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogerstodge Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 [quote name='rushbo' timestamp='1451947583' post='2944989'] "I can't make rehearsal as I've just walked straight through a glass door" "I can't make rehearsal as I've had an allergic reaction to my aftershave" Both from the same drummer. [/quote]ha ha ha!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimR Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 (edited) [quote name='Kevin Dean' timestamp='1452006450' post='2945413'] Supposed to have a final dress rehearsal before gigging , I made it clear this was my only week off in the year so if no one could make it ill go on holiday , everyone put themselves out & the singer doesn't turn up , get a text 4 hours after week packed up saying they had tummy trouble & was only just getting better , Our guitarist had seen him walking down the road 3 hours earlier , I could see he had been on FB until the early hours . what would you do ? [/quote] This kind of thing used to happen to me a lot. Especially when finding gigs. I'd get a gig based on people's diaries only to be told that they'd forgotten to tell me they were going away on that particular date. Now I tend to be a bit more assertive when it comes to my availability. The band is no longer my first concern when booking holidays (it never is for anyone else). Edit: we have a gig in 3 weeks. Our singer bailed on Monday's new year refresher rehearsal on Monday morning. May be gigging having not played together for a couple of months now. Edited January 6, 2016 by TimR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SICbass Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 [quote name='chriswareham' timestamp='1451945483' post='2944971'] Singer: "Can't rehearse today, as I've accidentally erased the cassette with the drum machine data on it". Guitarist: "I can't record today, as I've got an audition for another band". (The recording had been booked for weeks). Best one was the singer who turned up to rehearsal, but after his mobile rang he disappeared. As in his parents phoning us up days later to see if we knew where he was type of disappeared. Turns out the call at the rehearsal was from his wife who had just discovered the emails between him and his ex-girlfriend making it clear they were having an affair. [/quote] Ouch! We had something sort of similar happen at a gig. We did the usual soundcheck finishing around 5ish. Then the guests were arriving (it was a corporate gig) and we were due to play around 9. Everyone heads off and we meet back up at 8, fine. Come 8.30, still no singer....8.45 I'm getting seriously nervous.... 8.55 he shows up and we just get changed and rush on stage. In the break, he explains that he met up with his ex to bring back their daughter who he'd been minding all day. They get into a row and she calls the police, claiming he attacked her. They arrive, arrest him and want to lock him up. They only relented when the daughter confirmed that he had neither threatened nor attacked her mum. It was pure luck that he made it back when he did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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