[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='441468' date='Mar 22 2009, 01:47 AM']Our drummer has a 70s Slingerland drum kit, its huge, and he reckons it's worth over a grand. He never lets anyone he doesn't know pretty damn well using it. We have a gig in Cardiff. The promoter wants us to lend our kit and bass rig to the other local band who he has added to the bill ahead of us 3 days before the gig. We told him no, due to drummer, and the fact I am borrowing the part of the bass rig from my housemate (we share gear fairly freely).
Gig day: Because me and guitarist Bunjy were working drummer and van driver go to rehearsal space to get the stuff, collect me from work and head out. Bunjy and singer are driving there seperately. We get there, find the room nis up 2 flights of narrow stairs, I have 2 cabs the size of fridge freezers, lug them, amps and cases up the stairs. The local band have already set their kit up on stage, our drummer is all 'can I move it back to fit my drums on?', they say
'no', so he decides to set up in front of stage, he has a carpet with where all the drums go marked out to make it easy.
That's when he realises he has forgotten his whole kit. He then has to beg to borrow the other band's kit, which wans't nearly loud enough, and we looked like a right bunch of idiotss. And the promoter refused to pay us the agreed fee, after we'd given money to other band for using their kit, so we ended up losing bunches of cash.[/quote]
Sods law does work amazingly.