Spike Vincent Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 [quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1335537547' post='1632852'] don't you check it anyway? [/quote] It's bad luck to tune up before a gig. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discreet Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 [quote name='Spike Vincent' timestamp='1335544539' post='1633001'] It's bad luck to tune up before a gig. [/quote] Going by the attitude of some of my bandmates, it's also unlucky to rehearse and to learn songs properly before a gig! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vax2002 Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Guitarist : "Would it work if we stripped it back to basics" ..... If thats code for learning the song instead of trying to guess it, then the answer is yes... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcnach Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 [quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1335539485' post='1632896'] no need, if the guitard had his way nobody would hear it anyway [/quote] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merlin Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 is that a new bass,oh youve had it for years,funny never seen it befor.......guitard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discreet Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 (edited) [quote name='vax2002' timestamp='1335545389' post='1633018'] Guitarist: "Would it work if we stripped it back to basics" ...If thats code for learning the song instead of trying to guess it, then the answer is yes... [/quote] It's code for, 'I'm wasting everyone's time and should emigrate to Australia.' Edited April 27, 2012 by discreet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4 Strings Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 Got one yesterday. Green Onions as 2nd half opener before the singers come out, done it before but just checked with our relatively new youngster guitarist that he had the guitar parts ok (the off beat 'chang' in the first versey bit, the riff that tracks the bass and the gist of the staccato solo etc); 'yeah, its just generic blues, its easy'. I made him sit and listen to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dnarocks Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 [quote name='Oopsdabassist' timestamp='1317980051' post='1396828'] Arrrgh!! we had several calls last week to do that as an encore, only I knew it, so sadly the email I sent my band this week said exaclty that!! Oh the shame! [/quote] f*** Bryan Adams!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dnarocks Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 When you say to the guys in the band - do you think the bass sounds ok out there? and the reply is is.... no cares what the bass sounds like, ---guitards!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merlin Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 girl singer a few years back, quote...as Im the singer and front person I should get half the gig monies..end quote..she left soon after. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EssentialTension Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 (edited) [quote name='merlin' timestamp='1335605382' post='1633577'] girl singer a few years back, quote...as Im the singer and front person I should get half the gig monies..end quote..she left soon after. [/quote] The answer to that is: 'OK, you're the band leader, so you can do all the organising, getting gigs, pay for rehearsals etc., and we'll just charge you for our time. These are our hourly rates, if you don't like them get someone else.' Edited April 28, 2012 by EssentialTension Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discreet Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 [quote name='merlin' timestamp='1335605382' post='1633577'] girl singer a few years back, quote...as Im the singer and front person I should get half the gig monies..end quote..she left soon after. [/quote] Not American by any chance, was she? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barneyg42 Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 Me" it was really nice to get the fretless out for a few songs" Keys"oh you had your fretless, I didn't think you would bring it as there's not much room to stand it on the stage" Me, thinking and muttering under my breath"that was one of the two basses next to where you stand and that I changed over between songs in front of you" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merlin Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 all this lady did was sing,did not even own her own mic..did absolutly nothing else..and was a right pain....not American,why have you worked with one like this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discreet Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 [quote name='merlin' timestamp='1335614894' post='1633722'] ...not American, why have you worked with one like this? [/quote] Ha ha - no, but the current mrs discreet is a yank and shows a similar level of control-freakery and expectation of entitlement. As do many of 'em, I've found. American bass players excepted, of course... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oopsdabassist Posted April 28, 2012 Share Posted April 28, 2012 God help you WHEN she reads that comment then!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoonBassAlpha Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 Great rehearsal = bad gig. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discreet Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 [quote name='MoonBassAlpha' timestamp='1335876669' post='1637354'] Great rehearsal = bad gig. [/quote] And vice-versa. Superstition of course, but it's happened so many times I'm beginning to think there's something in it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pistonbroke Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 Bought my first 5 string back in 88, took it to rehearsal,s for it,s first outing and the lead singer (female not american) said would,nt it be better to have bought another 4 string? so it would sound more like a bass??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaypup Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 [quote name='MoonBassAlpha' timestamp='1335876669' post='1637354'] Great rehearsal = bad gig. [/quote] [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1335877110' post='1637360'] And vice-versa. Superstition of course, but it's happened so many times I'm beginning to think there's something in it... [/quote] Yep, same here. I think a couple of cock-ups in the last rehearsal before a gig focuses you a little bit more than a perfect rehearsal does. IME + IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basstech Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 "Let's do sex on fire!" .....,someone shoot me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merlin Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 ha ha its your round... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazhowe Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 "I just turned the PA back up to its normal setting after the sound check anyway" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_5 Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 Drummer at last night's rehearsal - "I could do it, but I'd have to unlearn (sic) everything that I do, then learn that" - dafuq? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judo Chop Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 "F*** off I'm not f****** s***, you can both f*** off!" Our old drummer after we broke the news to him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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