My last band (you can call it that?), our bassist was a dickhead that knew nothing about music, didn't like the same music that everyone else liked, and booked too many shows. Quit after 2 months and 10 shows. Ass.
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Keep in mind, "baggage" is what inspires some people to make great music. I would never bag on a musician for being troubled in such a way.
WAt shows, he would make his wife load all of his gear in while he stood around and talked.
...the Harper's Ferry show, where a strange european guy in front of me reached back and grabbed my junk in his cupped hand. WTF? But I was 2 feet from Tymon, so I wasn't about to give up my spot.![]()
I love that Adam D. is so freaking hilarious on stage! I read an interview where Howard or Joel was saying Adam basically does whatever he can so he doesn't have to play guitar as much, haha.
Anyways, I don't have any personal experiences but I can name a band that isn't very good, but could be better. The instrumental of BMtH's new album is pretty good but Oli Sykes is a stupid emo, douchebag. His lyrics are a crock of crap and he sounds like has laryngitis most of the time.
Also, the singer from Emmure gets on my nerves a lot. I'm not into metalcore type stuff as much any more, but they still have some songs I like. That guy is full of so much angst it's ridiculous. His lyrics don't seem to vent all his pent up angst...
It was actually my teacher at school, we had a band where he was pretty much overseeing every little thing we had going.
He would turn down the gain on the amp almost completely citing there is no need for that amount and complaining of "noise"... yeah we pretty much had dreams of him drowning and stuff...
I don't know anything about their lyrics, but as a person, Oli is a piece of shit. A few years ago he decided to throw a chair at someone I knew. She hadn't said anything or provoked it in anyway. He just decided to be a dick to her.Note I'm not really BMTH fan, what have you got against the lyrics? I thought they were a massive step up from his previous efforts. To be fair the band as a whole are hated for the sake of being hated. Mostly due to the fan base they acquired in their earlier days.
There's absolutely nothing emo about them either..
I'm shocked no one else has commented on the following:
Regarding band situations: I am that guy that others hate. *laugh*
And, by that guy, I mean that I don't want to waste my practice time with people learning their parts, but instead want to put together the individual parts people have been working on in their own time.
I want to present and be presented with new material, so that we can take it home to discuss next time.
I want to play, and then sit down after the playing part of the rehearsal, and while we're drinking a beer or tea listen to the recording/tape/whatever of what we just played together, and see what each member needs to work on.
I want people to be able to criticize each other (yes, including me), and for people to be open to taking criticism constructively. That's why there's a tape, so I don't have to listen to, say, a drummer telling us that we got a chord progression wrong or hit wrong notes.
I've got to say, I've been lucky in that I've mostly been in groups where there was a good selection process, eliminating potential problems and divas/divos right off the bat. If we can't find a member which gels, we can keep looking....
^ think of how many good bands have fallen due to lsd...