choking the cymbal after a 2-hour Brasso-with-lint-free-rags-and-toothbrush-for-the-grooves polishing job...
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choking the cymbal after a 2-hour Brasso-with-lint-free-rags-and-toothbrush-for-the-grooves polishing job...
choking the cymbal after a 2-hour Brasso-with-lint-free-rags-and-toothbrush-for-the-grooves polishing job...
The delay problem was resolved when my shoe flew across the stage and smacked the monitor man in the side of the head....lol
Here's two more.....
1. Having the bass player give you one tempo and then while clicking the tempo to start the song, the singer turns around and gives you another...AT TWICE THE SPEED!
2. Having to share a kit on a gig...you use their kit and the bass drum pedal feels like it would take THE HULK to play it.
1. Stupid producers. " Play bum te shot" Are you trying to verbalize drums.... Badly and your not a musician.
2. Accidentaly popping yourself in the knuckle with the sticks.
3. Salesman at music stores who don't know dick and then try convince you that yamaha stage custom is made out of maple......
4. Having to lose track of the girl you just had a great conversation with cuz you have to play the next set...... She leaves and you didn't get the number.
5. Finding out just before the set starts that your hardware is missing a nut, washer, tension rod etc... and there is no time to fix it....
_Anyone who is extremist hardcore about ONE particular style of music [usually THEIR preferred style, of course] to the exclusion of all others...for ex.: the "Jazz SS/Police; "Rockheads;" "Pop Johnny/Janey's;" "Bubble-Gummers"...u know, the ones that rag ALL DAY LONG about "the other 'inferior' style[s]" & talk incessantly about the superiority of THEIR style...or about how "jazz is lame/no balls"...or how "so & so" can't really swing...LAME...& BEAT [as in, "dead horse"]...then u play them back the rehearsal tape & point out all those little notes of theirs that didn't cut it in the swing or "pocket" ;=) ...
_Rickety, wobbly stages or risers - u know, where all your schtuff's movin' around [like that tom/ride/crash] while youre tryin' to play it...
_Losing that new easy-torque drum key [& having to use that "beat-up threaded" old spare one that you'll NEVER lose]...
_"NICKING" or GOUGING YOUR DRUM SHELL FINISH [img]eek.gif[/img] ...
Ah yes, dropping the proverbial cym stand wingnut down in that sea of pedals/stand/throne & tom legs...u whip outcher lil flashlight but STILL can't find it...only to finally find it at the end of the night after u COMPLETELY tear down, & it's like, "Hey - i just KNOW that i looked in that spot!" or, u find it 1/2way across the stage or room...[Murphy's Law - something will NEVER land in the direction that it appears to be falling]...IF u find it AT ALL...
Louie & Uno- LOL [Uno: that qualifies for a
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5 - [ESP when said individual is blocking your view of that "chickie wif da buns of steele in dat mini" [img]wink.gif[/img] ]
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ November 26, 2003 01:41 PM: Message edited by: FuseU1 ]</font>
Singers who come in at the wrong point - too late, too early ... too annoying.
A trombone player who recently questioned me in front of an entire big band about my reading... "No wonder it sounds so loud - he's playing a bunch of stuff that isnt even here" ... like set ups for your brass figures you IMBECILE!
People hitting cymbals with anything - harmonicas, guitar headstocks or ANYTHING that isn't MY stick in MY hand.
How about I hit your Les Paul with my boom stand?
Solution to ALL the above? Dr Dave prescribes a 2B in the face- works every time
Their face that is... not your own... that would be silly :-p
DF - those were great - esp "he's playing a bunch of stuff that isnt even here" ... like set ups for your brass figures you IMBECILE! - LOL
...[Yeah - just give that gtrst some METAL stix to play their gtr strings with [in wintertime [img]wink.gif[/img] ]...their playing might just cause "sparks to fly"...
..._that butt-wad that always grabs your cowbell & sticks to play it during any given tune at any given time to show every1 that he/she's "quite the multi-instrumentalist" [pounding out 1/4's on it]...
_Certain peeps who ask to sit in:
"I've always wanted to be on stage"...
"I've always wanted to be a drummer"...
"I was a drummer in High school jazz/stage band"...
"I play a little bit" [just started 2 months ago, playing along to Britny & *simple pop/rock/eMpTyV band here*]...
"My cousin's grandfather's uncle's brother's girlfriend's boyfriend's girlfriend's boyfriend's boyfriend's friend was a musician"...
"I toured with Aerosmith & AC/DC once" [actually had a girl once tell me this at a rock club gig I had [img]eek.gif[/img] ...
"I met Peter Criss once"...
"Hi, I'm Rikki Rokkett; can i sit in?" [img]tongue.gif[/img]
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ November 26, 2003 02:31 PM: Message edited by: FuseU1 ]</font>
That's THE girl, Fuse! Does she make it to your gigs too? I thought she got around [img]tongue.gif[/img] (help me Rhonda, help help me Rhonda Round-Heels!)
How about egomaniacs? That doesn't necessarily mean someone who brags on himself. Someone who keeps everyone waiting because he's running late, couldn't find his cord or is typically needing a ride is practicing a form of egomania too. To align yourself with such a loser is a recipe for your own failure.
Unfortunately I speak from experience and a lot of these pet peeves mentioned here reminded me of someone. This guitarist always needed chauffeuring to and from practice and gigs, would repeatedly ignore half a dozen figures I'd play to set him up to come into certain tunes (not unlike your trombonist, Dr. D.) He'd dance around waving his arms like he was conducting His Band, was always full of shit, Xanax, Crown Royal, beer ("I really can't play till I have a good buzz") and enough doobage to keep Harlem on the nod for a week. He liked to hit my cymbals with his hands and the headstock of his Fender. It was okay for him to make a mistake but not for you to make one; he was the master of the dirty look. He was a gifted player but only the first fifteen minutes of the night. Early on in his 'career' he discovered bands would put up with that kind of behavior and, not surprisingly, surrounded himself with sycophants telling him how great he was. Years ago the pros in town twigged to this real quick and have nothing to do with him; amateurs thought they'd found a superstar on whose coattails they'd ride to stardom.
Note I speak of him in past tense. [img]wink.gif[/img]
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ November 26, 2003 03:06 PM: Message edited by: Five Eight ]</font>
All of these are pet peeves of a younger, lighter, unwise drummer. Some you may relate to, some are painfully all my own:
1) Warped sticks <s>old Zildjian sticks</s>
2) Extremely cheap drum thrones that WILL impale
you. (Cheap upholstered plywood w/pencil thin
pot metal seat post)
3) Guitarist's drunken brother and/or friend
who serves no useful purpose sleeping or
puking in your house during practice
sessions.
4) Guitarists who on the first night of a jam
session, delay things a couple hours because
their bong pipe is involved in a series of
small fires.
5) When I hear, "But man, Skynyrd rocks!!!"
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