bass players with serious time issues
Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 4:42 pmso what's w bass players and their hinky time issues???
i played a gig this past tues w Mere Mortals (bluegrass). several bands on the card, we're first up. we spend some time w the "sound engineer" (cough, cough, ahem) getting our two condensor mics dialed in to sound passable.
two of us on each mic....gtr/vcls and fiddle/vcls on one.....banjo, and (me on) mandolin on the other. i'm plugging my dobro (w an old surface mount DeArmond pickup) into my ROLAND 60 and have a 57 on the amp.
we're waiting on our bassplayer who never does shows up. no show, no call. so, i end up borrowing an electric bass from the gal who's playing in the next band.
not wanting to screw w her 4x10 cab and 600 watt SWR head i opted to plug into my cube...it worked out fine. anyway. mike the bassplayer never shows and i never do get to play mando or dobro for our two hr set.
we're worried about him cos it's not like him to not show and not call. what happened? we learn that he was confused w the days. no, he didn't think the gig fell on a different day.....he explained that he thought tuesday was in fact MONDAY and that our gig wasn't til the next day. wow.
and last night P-JAZZ is playing a 3 pc. 5-8 winery gig. drums, bass, and me on gtr/vibes. this is the 4th time we're playing there...always the same time frame.
i get in around 45 min before the gig.....drummer is there and all set up. i'm ready to go 30 min before we're sched and now we're waiting on the bassplayer. and 5:00 comes....and he doesn't. so monte and i start playing just gtr and drums thinking he's gonna show any minute. we decide to give him a call after 45 minutes of that. "hey, bill.....is evertything ok? where are ya, man?" 'oh, i'm just three blocks away, i'll see ya in a few".
he shows around 5:50 and is surprised to see/hear us playing as he wheels his amp in. "hey, we start at six, don't we????"... "NO, LIKE EVERY OTHER TIME WE'VE PLAYED HERE...WE START AT 5:00".
as if that wasn't bad enough.....after a cpl of minutes he tells us "oh, hey....i just set us up a calendar on GOOGLE so we can all keep track of each other's gigs and availability". damn! i told him he needs to get himself a paper calendar...and check it from time to time. that's what i use and i always manage to get the days and times correct!
old school, baby. old school!
i played a gig this past tues w Mere Mortals (bluegrass). several bands on the card, we're first up. we spend some time w the "sound engineer" (cough, cough, ahem) getting our two condensor mics dialed in to sound passable.
two of us on each mic....gtr/vcls and fiddle/vcls on one.....banjo, and (me on) mandolin on the other. i'm plugging my dobro (w an old surface mount DeArmond pickup) into my ROLAND 60 and have a 57 on the amp.
we're waiting on our bassplayer who never does shows up. no show, no call. so, i end up borrowing an electric bass from the gal who's playing in the next band.
not wanting to screw w her 4x10 cab and 600 watt SWR head i opted to plug into my cube...it worked out fine. anyway. mike the bassplayer never shows and i never do get to play mando or dobro for our two hr set.
we're worried about him cos it's not like him to not show and not call. what happened? we learn that he was confused w the days. no, he didn't think the gig fell on a different day.....he explained that he thought tuesday was in fact MONDAY and that our gig wasn't til the next day. wow.
and last night P-JAZZ is playing a 3 pc. 5-8 winery gig. drums, bass, and me on gtr/vibes. this is the 4th time we're playing there...always the same time frame.
i get in around 45 min before the gig.....drummer is there and all set up. i'm ready to go 30 min before we're sched and now we're waiting on the bassplayer. and 5:00 comes....and he doesn't. so monte and i start playing just gtr and drums thinking he's gonna show any minute. we decide to give him a call after 45 minutes of that. "hey, bill.....is evertything ok? where are ya, man?" 'oh, i'm just three blocks away, i'll see ya in a few".
he shows around 5:50 and is surprised to see/hear us playing as he wheels his amp in. "hey, we start at six, don't we????"... "NO, LIKE EVERY OTHER TIME WE'VE PLAYED HERE...WE START AT 5:00".
as if that wasn't bad enough.....after a cpl of minutes he tells us "oh, hey....i just set us up a calendar on GOOGLE so we can all keep track of each other's gigs and availability". damn! i told him he needs to get himself a paper calendar...and check it from time to time. that's what i use and i always manage to get the days and times correct!
old school, baby. old school!
