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Got the phone call from the drummer this evening. More like "let go" instead of fired. The conversation went something like..
"We appreciate how professionally you came in and learned our entire catalog in less than a month and filled in for all of these October gigs but we're going to continue in another direction. I hope we can depart on good terms.. "
Okay, it's all good, thanks for the opportunity. No sweat..
"Now I might be stretching my luck but do you think you can sub in December?"
I'll get back to you about that
I'll be busy, of course
The band had plenty of gigs, plenty of egos, and plenty of drama. I posted about our first gig in my other thread. At the next gig, one of the members opened up to me about drama that ensued with their singer, whom they had found at a Karaoke bar. At one point nobody in the band got along with the singer, who wanted to sue another member of the band, which made sense because you could smell the animosity between the members as the next few gigs rolled by. Singer was very unprofessional, didn't interact with anyone or have any expression on their face, even played mobile game apps while singing! They seem like they didn't want to be anywhere and called me an "amateur" because I got a stamp from the doorman.
The drummer couldn't keep a beat to save his life. No swing. During the phone conversation he told me he had a dream in which his and another band were playing the same gig and the other drummer told him he sucked as a drummer.
I was going to take until the next weekend to figure out if all the drama/travel was worth slaughtering songs at crowded bars in crack city but now that's one more thing I don't have to mull over. I was really just filling the void with this band after the last one literally died but I'm past mourning now no longer need a "musical booty call"
"We appreciate how professionally you came in and learned our entire catalog in less than a month and filled in for all of these October gigs but we're going to continue in another direction. I hope we can depart on good terms.. "
Okay, it's all good, thanks for the opportunity. No sweat..
"Now I might be stretching my luck but do you think you can sub in December?"
I'll get back to you about that
I'll be busy, of course
The band had plenty of gigs, plenty of egos, and plenty of drama. I posted about our first gig in my other thread. At the next gig, one of the members opened up to me about drama that ensued with their singer, whom they had found at a Karaoke bar. At one point nobody in the band got along with the singer, who wanted to sue another member of the band, which made sense because you could smell the animosity between the members as the next few gigs rolled by. Singer was very unprofessional, didn't interact with anyone or have any expression on their face, even played mobile game apps while singing! They seem like they didn't want to be anywhere and called me an "amateur" because I got a stamp from the doorman.
The drummer couldn't keep a beat to save his life. No swing. During the phone conversation he told me he had a dream in which his and another band were playing the same gig and the other drummer told him he sucked as a drummer.
I was going to take until the next weekend to figure out if all the drama/travel was worth slaughtering songs at crowded bars in crack city but now that's one more thing I don't have to mull over. I was really just filling the void with this band after the last one literally died but I'm past mourning now no longer need a "musical booty call"
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