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jack
Platinum Member
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 Posted - 11/30/2008 : 18:55:45
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Originally posted by FRANZONI
Jack.... yes his drums are his own but since he doesn't look after his gear he is 'borrowing' off a kit we use in our rehearshal studio belonging to the singer at the moment he is using the floor tom as the legs fell of his one and some cymbals as well as he cracked some of his own 'el crapo' ones....we normally set some money aside out of the gigs to fix and buy new gear and our next purchase is a new van,but at the moment i'm apprehensive of sinking any more money into the band as already i have put in well over a two grand in the last few years..the rig is owned by me and the singer...we normally pay our own way on our personal gear..the drummer in your band is extremely direspectful to treat a lend of equipment that he doesn't own like that.... ...i look at us a semi-pro outfit but the mentality of a couple of indivuals doesn't reflect this,i'm unwilling to move on as i have put a lot of hard work in along with the singer to get this to where it is.... i know plenty of good drummers and bass players who would be glad of a gig as it's getting tight out there at the moment..... and he even told me to 'take a few weeks out and chill' last night after the gig...the only positive thing was the bass player came off the fence and pulled him up on his timekeeping on slower numbers..... the singer has a serious problem with him standing around talking and not wrapping his gear.....i left his drums in the middle of the pub a few gigs ago and put the rest of the gear away and was going to drive off in the van only the other two stopped me....
What I'm in isn't really a band, I mean thats just the easiest way to explain it. A band to me would have a set practice schedule, routine at practice, and perhaps some gigs to prepare for...If I wanted a band, I wouldn't be with these guys, because there are some basic fundamentals of music that they just don't get...
For example, 2 years ago, I just tuned MY guitar with a tuner, then someone was out of tune, it could not be not me since I just unplugged from a tuner, but I was told,"Well I tuned my guitar last week.", when I mentioned that someone was out of tune and I just tuned my guitar to a tuner. We had this back and forth exchange for about 2 minutes about how someone was out of tune, and I knew it wasn't me, but they claimed it wasn't them since they tuned last week...so finally I just said to hell with it, and tuned to his guitar. Then for about the next month or 2, our tuning pretty much changed every week cause I would just tune to whatever key his guitar was in...Supposedly no one could remember the different riffs we would come up with from week to week, but I remembered the riffs fingering exactly, but when your tuning changes from week to week  ...now the guy has a guitar with a Floyd Rose, so the tuning is a bit more stable, but I haven't seen this guy plug into a tuner for months and he confesses he doesn't play much now other than when we have "practice", but I can't hear if he's in tune or not cause he keeps his mids at zero, so once the drums and bass, plus my guitar, kick in, he might as well be playing air guitar. Why do I play with these guys then? We have all been friends for years, and we don't get to hang out as much due to them having either a wife and kids or some clingy girlfriend, and my being busy with school work, so this is just their excuse to get out of the house and my excuse to not study  |
Edited by - jack on 11/30/2008 18:57:48 |
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Dr. Bob
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Posted - 12/01/2008 : 13:32:03
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Hi Jack
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Why do I play with these guys then? We have all been friends for years, and we don't get to hang out as much due to them having either a wife and kids or some clingy girlfriend, and my being busy with school work, so this is just their excuse to get out of the house and my excuse to not study
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Drunken Drummers with big feet.......
