Thanks Paul good to hear from you!
Klugmo, yea we are very comfortable with each other.
Our drummer and I go back to our first band in junior high together. Our singer was a yr younger and we wouldnt let him in the band way back then. We didnt think he looked cool enough. I recruited Andy our bassist 18 yrs ago. Our band doesnt play as much as we once did. Weve done 6 gigs this year and wont do any others unless of course someone wants to pay well for our services. As far as that goes we are all on the same page.
NO PAY NO PLAY!
Its interesting to me when I sit in with other guys, all the inside band drama that goes on. One guy doesnt want to play this song, one doesnt want to play that song. If you dont want to play a song why is it on your songlist? DUH! This is really funny when you have a band that only has 40-50 songs on thier list, guys you cnat drop one the night of a gig, work this all out in advance. As far as my band goes at one time we had around 700 songs we could choose from. And yea sometimes we have trainwrecks, but when we do we dont get mad we just crack up and move on to the next thing. With these four guys weve never really had song issues. It was always simple if someone didnt want to do a particular song then we just didnt worry about it.
Lets see the other night, we did have some PA issues for a bit. Our singer knocked over one of the drummers cymbal stands with unpluggged the overhead mic. One of the gals that has followed our band for years got my GF a little upset when she came over and said I see you wore your leather for me and rubbed my leg right in front of my GF. The people that ran the place came up and said cut the smoke machine off, another time we were too loud then we were too quiet. and on and on and on
But in the end we had a really fun night. We love playing together and put most bands to shame that Ive seen in my area. Maybe thats cocky but its the truth. A few weeks ago a friend of the band had a birthday party. At the party was a guy who took my place on guitar for a couple of years. He said man I used to watch you guys and then got asked to play in the band. He said do you remember coming to my house and helping me thru learning songs. He said the rest of the guys didnt give a sh*t, just said weve got a gig in a couple of weeks. I had forgotten all that, but he said I came over 4 or 5 times and showed him the ropes. I never knew how he felt about me til then. He also commented that no matter how much fun we made it look that in the end we always approached it as a business, because if you are in a band and expect to be paid for your services, then you are indeed a business. Of course we are just a hard rock cover band and we play all the crap that at some point everyone says Im not playing, but in the end if a guy or gal gives 5 dollars at the door and spends money at the bar all night then its our job as entertainers to give them what they want. We were paid $1000 sat night to play for 4 hours and got our bar tabs paid for, what did you do sat night?
Anyway I get a kick out of our pictures and love to show my guys off.
Klugmo, yea we are very comfortable with each other.
Our drummer and I go back to our first band in junior high together. Our singer was a yr younger and we wouldnt let him in the band way back then. We didnt think he looked cool enough. I recruited Andy our bassist 18 yrs ago. Our band doesnt play as much as we once did. Weve done 6 gigs this year and wont do any others unless of course someone wants to pay well for our services. As far as that goes we are all on the same page.
NO PAY NO PLAY!
Its interesting to me when I sit in with other guys, all the inside band drama that goes on. One guy doesnt want to play this song, one doesnt want to play that song. If you dont want to play a song why is it on your songlist? DUH! This is really funny when you have a band that only has 40-50 songs on thier list, guys you cnat drop one the night of a gig, work this all out in advance. As far as my band goes at one time we had around 700 songs we could choose from. And yea sometimes we have trainwrecks, but when we do we dont get mad we just crack up and move on to the next thing. With these four guys weve never really had song issues. It was always simple if someone didnt want to do a particular song then we just didnt worry about it.
Lets see the other night, we did have some PA issues for a bit. Our singer knocked over one of the drummers cymbal stands with unpluggged the overhead mic. One of the gals that has followed our band for years got my GF a little upset when she came over and said I see you wore your leather for me and rubbed my leg right in front of my GF. The people that ran the place came up and said cut the smoke machine off, another time we were too loud then we were too quiet. and on and on and on
But in the end we had a really fun night. We love playing together and put most bands to shame that Ive seen in my area. Maybe thats cocky but its the truth. A few weeks ago a friend of the band had a birthday party. At the party was a guy who took my place on guitar for a couple of years. He said man I used to watch you guys and then got asked to play in the band. He said do you remember coming to my house and helping me thru learning songs. He said the rest of the guys didnt give a sh*t, just said weve got a gig in a couple of weeks. I had forgotten all that, but he said I came over 4 or 5 times and showed him the ropes. I never knew how he felt about me til then. He also commented that no matter how much fun we made it look that in the end we always approached it as a business, because if you are in a band and expect to be paid for your services, then you are indeed a business. Of course we are just a hard rock cover band and we play all the crap that at some point everyone says Im not playing, but in the end if a guy or gal gives 5 dollars at the door and spends money at the bar all night then its our job as entertainers to give them what they want. We were paid $1000 sat night to play for 4 hours and got our bar tabs paid for, what did you do sat night?
Anyway I get a kick out of our pictures and love to show my guys off.
"A winks as good as nod to a blind man"
