Got the gig!

[SuperFortress]

F'in bass players, man.

[Bish]

Yikes.

You sort of feel all by yourself don't you?

Give it some time...you'll see the trends continue or it will get better. You'll know what to do either way.

Good luck, my friend.

[inthpktplayer]

Ruh Roh

[slinglander]

Finally ready and he says ok I am good what is the 1st song?

Lead singer starts getting mad asking why he did not bring the set list she sent out 2 days ago, he then starts complaining about playing the 2nd set list 1st this time etc etc. Also a few intro's I am playing I do not hear any Bass? I look over and he is flipping pages in his sheet music book then finally comes in in the middle of 1st verse?

I am hoping it was just a bad night for him but I get the feeling I am going to lose patience with that pretty quickly. Lead singer is fantastic 2 guiatr players are decent but we did have some start stop problems which I chalk up to lack of familiarity but I seem much more concerned about them and fixing them than anyone else does, which is a bad sign.

Sounds like every band I've played with! I call it normal....but not good.

[inthpktplayer]

Sounds like every band I've played with! I call it normal....but not good.

I have a hard time putting up with that for too long.

[MDK]

F'in bass players, man.

LOL Does always seem like Bass players eh? LOL

Yikes.

You sort of feel all by yourself don't you?

Give it some time...you'll see the trends continue or it will get better. You'll know what to do either way.

Good luck, my friend.

Thanks Bud, Yeah I am trying to stay positive. I have not played with a band in 6 months or so because of this kind of thing but I am going to try to stick it out because I seem to get lazy with my own playing if I am not playing with anyone regardless of how good the situation is.

Ruh Roh

You read my mind

Sounds like every band I've played with! I call it normal....but not good.

Unfortunately me too, I know we are just weekend warriors and not going on tour but I just do not get how people seem to have no concern about looking like jackasses. Man atleast start and stop together.. Ughh

I have a hard time putting up with that for too long.

So do I, I have left the same band 3 times and now this band is going down the same road.

[rickthedrummer]

MDK! Didn't you say in the OP that this was a well known band? I would talk to someone in the band that you feel like you can talk to and ask them what the hell happened.

[drummer5359]

Auditioned for a well known band in the area last night and got the gig which is surprising because out of the 30 or so songs we only played 6 of the 20 songs they sent me to work on. They have really good female singer and she loves Heart so some of those are tricky to say the least but I love all those songs.

After we played for 2+ hrs we chatted for awhile..they are playing a gig sat. And really do not want to hire another fill in. Not sure I'll be 100% ready but I should be able to get by so I accepted. After I accepted they said they also do the backing band for an Elvis impersonator on New Year's Eve three sets. All new material for me. We start rehearsing with him next week. Funny how you go from playing nothing just to to CDs in your basement to suddenly full out again. Time to get a 2nd kit now.. : )

Congrats! That is very cool.