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"lets play at Silver mt., Idaho, with FISHBONE, put our equipment in a Gondola up the mountain, play at 9:00 in the morning to families while they stare at us all weird and some eighties guy does sound, while after the show the promoter says don't feel bad Van Halen's first show didn't go that good either"

"Lets play an early all ages show at a weird eighties coke bar on a sunday while the other band we play with shoots a video there" Oh yeah and the bar owners will not show up so we will play outside in the parking lot to some drunk homeless people while I break a guitar string and have to use the other guy's purple Jackson guitar while there friend is filming us "just in case we want to buy the footage" from him and have our own video (wow I would still love to see his footage)

"Lets leave on tour tomorrow in our '79 econoline that is on fire right now in a grocery store parking lot"

"Lets get a flat tire in Nebraska and take turns trying to fix the flat tire that we can't get the lug nuts off of becuase we are to dumb to figure out it has reverse threading"

"Let's form."

aldofarian wrote:"Hey, Let's write something with a different tuning"

This is the worst idea in your band? In my last band, I played a whole step down while the guitarist was tuned in standard.

"Let's haul our equipment to the show in a pickup truck without a topper. Also, make sure our singer forgets to close the tailgate properly. That way, all our gear will spill out all across the busiest road in our city. This will ensure that everything is completely destroyed -- save, of course, for the floor tom, which will be stolen by a homeless man. Deal?"

"Hey, Let's get a female singer in to add some melody"

It's all coming back now. This is why I moved to Belgium.

"Getting the keyboardist to wear leather trousers is going to be even better than me dressed in drag screaming at the audience!"

"Since we all play multiple instruments, let's switch instruments with every song."

"I'm sure that the drummer knows how to check the oil on the new used $600 van, which hasn't been looked over by a mechanic or driven any great distance prior to tour."

"Sure, I'll play in a band with my boyfriend. Whom I also live with."

"Why don't you bring your Moog to practice?"

Adam I wrote:Not going with the totally nice bass player who was into the music and completely got the influences, because the rest of the band considered his bass playing to be vaguely sloppy.

Not going with the other totally nice bass player who was into the music and completely got the influences, because the rest of the band didn't like his hair or beard or bass.

Going with the bass player who was a complete and utter cock, but who was also an excellent player of the bass.

Not only have I experienced this situation, I was once asked for my opinion by a band concerning an identical situation, counselled the correct advice, and watched this advice be ignored and the band fall apart because of it.

BANDS AUDITIONING POTENTIAL MEMBERS: Choose the person who you like the most. Choose the person who you think you could most easily spend a year stuck on a desert island with. Great people who can at least hold it together can become better musicians. Wankers are wankers are wankers.

johnnyshape wrote:BANDS AUDITIONING POTENTIAL MEMBERS: Choose the person who you like the most. Choose the person who you think you could most easily spend a year stuck on a desert island with. Great people who can at least hold it together can become better musicians. Wankers are wankers are wankers.

Only thing that matters.

Play with your friends.

When I was the drummer for a band:

Let's drive down to the LA area to play one all ages show in Fullerton at a cafe/arcade where they don't charge at the door. Halfway to the show, the singer tells us we aren't getting paid. I went from begrudging to pissed off. Thirteen hours of driving for a short set outdoors at a crappy club with a crappy PA playing to a bunch of teenagers who are mainly there because it's a free show close to their home. We made the singer pay for all the gas.

I have so many more. I think I blocked them out like a trauma victim.

There's the "let's play this show at a place we know sucks with 6 other bands to help out our touring friends." To me, it would make more sense to not add to the clusterfuck and help out our friends by promoting their show for them in our town, since they don't live here.

Let's play in Drop D. Nine times out of ten, it just results in lazier song writing.

More to come, I'm sure.

Ben