Woodinblack Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 2 hours ago, Monkey Steve said: The never quite letting it lie, bringing it back up again every few weeks to see if they can get their own way after all. <Sigh> Or with song choices. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Steve Posted May 31, 2018 Share Posted May 31, 2018 21 hours ago, Woodinblack said: <Sigh> Or with song choices. Exactly!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheddatom Posted May 31, 2018 Share Posted May 31, 2018 Negativity on a gig night. beaching about various gripes with the band is fine, do it at rehearsal or a meeting, don't do it while I'm out trying to have a good time and DEFINITELY not while we're on stage you massive grumpy "£$£&%^*%&^ 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoRhino Posted June 10, 2018 Share Posted June 10, 2018 The need for some people to gaffer tape every single cable or lead to the floor. Rips my knitting. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BreadBin Posted June 10, 2018 Share Posted June 10, 2018 9 minutes ago, NoRhino said: The need for some people to gaffer tape every single cable or lead to the floor. Rips my knitting. Health and safety, innit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoRhino Posted June 10, 2018 Share Posted June 10, 2018 2 hours ago, BreadBin said: Health and safety, innit. The Roadies Manual needs an update. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casapete Posted June 10, 2018 Share Posted June 10, 2018 2 hours ago, NoRhino said: The Roadies Manual needs an update. Call any of our crew 'roadies' and you'd get said manual shoved somewhere I couldn't possibly mention here 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoRhino Posted June 10, 2018 Share Posted June 10, 2018 4 hours ago, casapete said: Call any of our crew 'roadies' and you'd get said manual shoved somewhere I couldn't possibly mention here 😂 So there really is a manual? I knew it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrunoBass Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 On 09/04/2018 at 10:38, Quilly said: Being treated as 'the help' because you 'only' play bass. Wow. If anyone in my band treated me as ‘the help’ they’d be on Join My Band looking for a new ‘helper’... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinny Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 Cymbals. I'd quite like them all thrown into the fires of Mount Doom if someone can kindly arrange it. It's like being punched in the eye twice a second. HATE THEM!!! OK, they can keep the little jumpy Smash-bot ones, but the rest of them can just go suck a fat one. Aaand...breathe.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BreadBin Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 1 hour ago, BrunoBass said: Wow. If anyone in my band treated me as ‘the help’ they’d be on Join My Band looking for a new ‘helper’... I once discussed joining a band with someone - their precise requirements were that I play exactly the lines they told me to and also drive him and the singer to and from gigs as neither of them drove. That was a tough gig to turn down! 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quilly Posted June 13, 2018 Share Posted June 13, 2018 15 hours ago, BreadBin said: I once discussed joining a band with someone - their precise requirements were that I play exactly the lines they told me to and also drive him and the singer to and from gigs as neither of them drove. That was a tough gig to turn down! I was in a band like that before...I think I was bassist # 5 or 6...I wonder why the left of them quit? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quilly Posted June 13, 2018 Share Posted June 13, 2018 On 31/05/2018 at 15:52, cheddatom said: Negativity on a gig night. beaching about various gripes with the band is fine, do it at rehearsal or a meeting, don't do it while I'm out trying to have a good time and DEFINITELY not while we're on stage you massive grumpy "£$£&%^*%&^ I'm a great believer in making the best of a bad gig and just doing your best (you know 'those gigs' that you didn't really rehearse enough for an you know its bombing 1/2 way through the set). I make as many mistakes as the next guy so I don't like to point out other peoples faults. Still we should learn from bad gigs, poor song choices and being unprepared, Otherwise the band never gets better and you make the same mistakes gig after gig....Now that's really annoying. (this should never be discussed on the night of the gig though) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Steve Posted June 13, 2018 Share Posted June 13, 2018 25 minutes ago, Quilly said: I'm a great believer in making the best of a bad gig and just doing your best (you know 'those gigs' that you didn't really rehearse enough for an you know its bombing 1/2 way through the set). I make as many mistakes as the next guy so I don't like to point out other peoples faults. Still we should learn from bad gigs, poor song choices and being unprepared, Otherwise the band never gets better and you make the same mistakes gig after gig....Now that's really annoying. (this should never be discussed on the night of the gig though) Oh, the one band member who is never to blame, not even for the mistakes that he knows he made, he's always got a detailed explanation of why that was in fact the fault of somebody else in the band 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldbass Posted June 13, 2018 Share Posted June 13, 2018 I'll put up with most things, but the spectre of having to deal with the guitarists Roland onboard key change gizmo nearly had me done. He can flick a switch on his guitar and the key changes?? It happened the other night...he's suddenly in D, we're all in E...could have walked there and then. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Posted June 13, 2018 Share Posted June 13, 2018 Those of you putting up with all this shiit I salute you. You're a better man than I Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluewine Posted June 13, 2018 Share Posted June 13, 2018 On 31/05/2018 at 09:52, cheddatom said: Negativity on a gig night. beaching about various gripes with the band is fine, do it at rehearsal or a meeting, don't do it while I'm out trying to have a good time and DEFINITELY not while we're on stage you massive grumpy "£$£&%^*%&^ Agreed, It's suppose to be about fun. There's no reason to bring a negative vibe to a gig. Blue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluewine Posted June 13, 2018 Share Posted June 13, 2018 I get a little annoyed when a band member leaves right after a gig leaving an hour and a half of tear down to the rest of the band. Blue 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Posted June 13, 2018 Share Posted June 13, 2018 27 minutes ago, Bluewine said: I get a little annoyed when a band member leaves right after a gig leaving an hour and a half of tear down to the rest of the band. Blue That's actually a thing ??? wow 😮 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluewine Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 (edited) 11 hours ago, Les said: That's actually a thing ??? wow 😮 Hi Les It might be rare, but I've heard from other guys here on BC that have seen guys that do it. It's BS, tear down is part of the gig. And IMO part of what your getting paid for. Blue Edited June 14, 2018 by Bluewine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quilly Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 Nobody taking responsibility for the Vocal PA (or knowing how to use the desk). Every gig I play there seems to be issues with faulty Mikes, faulty leads, too much reverb, not enough reverb, tinny vocals, muffled vocals, boomy vocals, feedback, monitors not working etc etc etc. Drives me effing nuts. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thepurpleblob Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 2 hours ago, Quilly said: Nobody taking responsibility for the Vocal PA (or knowing how to use the desk). Every gig I play there seems to be issues with faulty Mikes, faulty leads, too much reverb, not enough reverb, tinny vocals, muffled vocals, boomy vocals, feedback, monitors not working etc etc etc. Drives me effing nuts. I've been the "sound guy" in a couple of bands (I've also played in) mostly by default. Although I essentially don't know what I'm doing I've got to the "I can get by" stage more by luck than judgement. However, it's completely stresses me out. Other band members have always been consistently irritating. "Yes, I know it's bloody feeding back. Now go away and let me fix it!!!". I'm never doing it again 😂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quilly Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 2 hours ago, thepurpleblob said: I've been the "sound guy" in a couple of bands (I've also played in) mostly by default. Although I essentially don't know what I'm doing I've got to the "I can get by" stage more by luck than judgement. However, it's completely stresses me out. Other band members have always been consistently irritating. "Yes, I know it's bloody feeding back. Now go away and let me fix it!!!". I'm never doing it again 😂 Setting up bass gear = 5 minutes, No problems. Trying to figure out a sound desk = 1 hr of stress 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurksalot Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 (edited) 7 hours ago, Quilly said: Setting up bass gear = 5 minutes, No problems. Trying to figure out a sound desk = 1 hr of stress Take that responsibility ! i joined up with a new formed band and after the first gig we had terrible PA sound issues , so when I asked who knew how to run it they all shrugged the shoulders and said the PA came from a previous band split and a different guy used to run it 😂 So took all the kit , hired a hall for a couple of hours and played with all the kit and worked a simple solution with desk , amps and speakers , sound checks take a 2 minute blast of roadhouse blues 👍 In the land of the blind , the one eyed man is king 😉 Edited June 14, 2018 by lurksalot 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EliasMooseblaster Posted June 15, 2018 Share Posted June 15, 2018 11 hours ago, lurksalot said: In the land of the blind , the one eyed man is king 😉 Ain't that the truth! There are a lot of musicians in my office, and they'd been putting on a few regular music nights long before I started in the job. After getting to know people I was invited to come and play at one of these nights. I arrived while they were setting up in a nearby pub, and they seemed to be having some difficulty getting the PA to play nicely. I don't know how they got the impression that I might know what I was doing...I think a few of them had checked out Cherry White online, been impressed, and somehow put two and two together to get five, with the non-sequituur that I must therefore know how to operate a 16-channel mixing desk. Working it out was a mixed blessing - on the plus side, I got a decent sound out of it all, and the gig went well. On the downside, they now expect me to function as sound engineer at all subsequent nights. As the saying goes, in the land of the needy, the man too polite to say "no" is at risk of becoming the band's b**ch. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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