Travelling to gigs. How do you get there ?

[discreet]

2 minutes ago, JapanAxe said:

You only got 5p because I had no copper coins.

You miserable bugger. I'm glad I played all those bum notes, now.

[JapanAxe]

Just now, discreet said:

You miserable bugger. I'm glad I played all those bum notes, now.

I thought you were a Les Dawson tribute act.

[discreet]

1 minute ago, JapanAxe said:

I thought you were a Les Dawson tribute act.

Les Dawson the well-known accordion player??

[dmccombe7]

13 minutes ago, discreet said:

Sorry, but I've spent way too much time driving drummers and their drums around. Extremely irritating, especially when they don't even keep their drums at the place where they live! It's like they deliberately do it on purpose just to be annoying!

And then, when they extract the urine by moaning, being totally ungrateful, not ever offering any contribution to petrol costs and then, on top of all that REFUSE TO BLOODY PLAY IN TIME, it makes me feel like chucking it all in, buying an accordion and playing it outside Sainsbury's. 

So there's no ill feeling there at all then ? 

[dmccombe7]

6 minutes ago, discreet said:

You miserable bugger. I'm glad I played all those bum notes, now.

Was there a choice .............

 

[itsmedunc]

16 minutes ago, discreet said:

Sorry, but I've spent way too much time driving drummers and their drums around. Extremely irritating, especially when they don't even keep their drums at the place where they live! It's like they deliberately do it on purpose just to be annoying!

And then, when they extract the urine by moaning, being totally ungrateful, not ever offering any contribution to petrol costs and then, on top of all that REFUSE TO BLOODY PLAY IN TIME, it makes me feel like chucking it all in, buying an accordion and playing it outside Sainsbury's. 

Our drummer, has been a pro but now semi pro, he always pays his own way, generous, drives himself and his kit everywhere, doesn't expect a lift or hand , helpful with setup and plays in time! He is a definite keeper! You can all fek off, you are NOT having him. He's all mine mine mine! 

[discreet]

4 minutes ago, dmccombe7 said:

So there's no ill feeling there at all then ? 

Yes, well... it so happened that the drummers in question were annoying, anti-social idiots whose drumming skills were questionable. Had they been pleasant, considerate people with a great sense of rhythm, things may have been very different.

[stingrayPete1977]

As ever it depends on the geographical area,  the cheapest taxi there and back to the nearest music venue would be around £70 from my house.

[discreet]

1 hour ago, itsmedunc said:

Our drummer, has been a pro but now semi pro, he always pays his own way, generous, drives himself and his kit everywhere, doesn't expect a lift or hand , helpful with setup and plays in time! He is a definite keeper! You can all fek off, you are NOT having him. He's all mine mine mine! 

Worry not - I have one of those too, thank God - only the second I've found in 44 years. I didn't appreciate the first one, I thought all drummers were that good. Imagine my disappointment over the next four decades as the awful truth dawned..! 

[HengistPod]

Someone said their singer turns up early and sets up the lights and PA. I nearly fell off my seat.

Surely it's the bass player's job to design and print posters, put ads up on Facebook, drive the van, own and set up the lights and PA, buy a wireless system so he can do a bit of a soundcheck from out front, keep an eye on the time for starting and finishing, and then organise the breaking down and packing of everything afterwards?

Singers are supposed to turn up and spend half an hour extending their mic stand.

[discreet]

11 minutes ago, HengistPod said:

Singers are supposed to turn up and spend half an hour extending their mic stand.

More like thirty seconds before the first number starts, staggering drunk. Male singers can be even worse. 

[FinnDave]

31 minutes ago, discreet said:

More like thirty seconds before the first number starts, staggering drunk. Male singers can be even worse. 

Yep, that's happened to bands I've been in. Often more like 10 minutes after than 30 seconds before the first number starts, too.

[Japhet]

54 minutes ago, HengistPod said:

Someone said their singer turns up early and sets up the lights and PA. I nearly fell off my seat.

Surely it's the bass player's job to design and print posters, put ads up on Facebook, drive the van, own and set up the lights and PA, buy a wireless system so he can do a bit of a soundcheck from out front, keep an eye on the time for starting and finishing, and then organise the breaking down and packing of everything afterwards?

Singers are supposed to turn up and spend half an hour extending their mic stand.

Never a truer word spoken.

[Marc S]

3 hours ago, itsmedunc said:

Everybody in the band has a car. Two members have stopped drinking. This helps me immensely. Not only can I now get bladdered but I get a lift with the PA too! Only took 40 years to get this far!

Blimey itsmedunc.... Can I dep for you?

I'm in several bands, so it varies, depending on which band / where the venue is etc
But generally, most of us drive, and we try to share lifts whenever possible....

[spike]

We all use our own cars and our two female singers transport and set up the PA between them.

[Happy Jack]

3 minutes ago, spike said:

We all use our own cars and our two female singers 

I'm thinking that this could have been phrased better.

Maybe not.

[discreet]

2 minutes ago, spike said:

...our two female singers transport and set up the PA between them.

Woah! That I'd like to see! And then go home.

[itsmedunc]

1 hour ago, HengistPod said:

Someone said their singer turns up early and sets up the lights and PA. I nearly fell off my seat.

Surely it's the bass player's job to design and print posters, put ads up on Facebook, drive the van, own and set up the lights and PA, buy a wireless system so he can do a bit of a soundcheck from out front, keep an eye on the time for starting and finishing, and then organise the breaking down and packing of everything afterwards?

Singers are supposed to turn up and spend half an hour extending their mic stand.

Are you me? 

[itsmedunc]

5 minutes ago, spike said:

We all use our own cars and our two female singers transport and set up the PA between them.

What a sight to behold! 

[spike]

14 minutes ago, discreet said:

Woah! That I'd like to see! And then go home.

I still end up doing all the adjustments to give them time to send their essential text messages and check their Facebook accounts

[discreet]

2 minutes ago, spike said:

I still end up doing all the adjustments to give them time to send their essential text messages and check their Facebook accounts

That's a relief. The whole scenario was becoming almost unbelievable.

[skidder652003]

1 hour ago, HengistPod said:

Someone said their singer turns up early and sets up the lights and PA. I nearly fell off my seat.

Surely it's the bass player's job to design and print posters, put ads up on Facebook, drive the van, own and set up the lights and PA, buy a wireless system so he can do a bit of a soundcheck from out front, keep an eye on the time for starting and finishing, and then organise the breaking down and packing of everything afterwards?

Singers are supposed to turn up and spend half an hour extending their mic stand.

dont forget actually collecting the cash/arguing with the landlord at the end of the gig as well!

[thepurpleblob]

The drummer has a big van (tail lift and everything!). He and the other two guys travel in that. I take my own car and gear. I'm an antisocial b*****d 

[Twigman]

Normally by plane

[lurksalot]

In the last band my neighbour was singer , guitarist , sound and lights . 

Bonus was, he didn't drink when gigging , so I brought the big van home and he drove it. Some quality booze fests when I played with that crew , though it was a bit tetchy for a few weeks when I left the band. 

I drive to all the gigs now , and since the one gig I had a few scoops at recently left me busting for a p1ss halfway through the second set , I am happy to drive now