Under_The_Mayo
Master of Quanculations
So I'm just posting here to rant, and maybe other musicians want to vent their stories.
I'm been working on a project (one of my songs is in the excellent Consider The Following podcast), and it took me 5 years to do it. Now I have a live band to play my songs in concert.
TONIGHT is my CD Release show downtown. We've been promoting it like crazy. And the guys I hired to learn my music have been practicing with me since the summer. They've become friends and I'm having the time of my life.
But my lead guitarist is a huge drama queen, and certainly bi-polar. Every time we play a show (we've had two, and 2 club auditions) he throws a fit about something and starts calling the club's equipment a piece of shit or complaining about something. And last night, at the club sound check (they built a custom stage for us with elevator lifts and lighting effects!) he got mad about something and just walked out. He refused to say why he was mad, and just said he'd be at the show tonight at 5 for soundcheck.
I have no idea if he's actually going to be there, so I'm spending hours making alternative sequence tracks mixing in my album recorded lead guitar parts with the synthesizer tracks, so our songs don't sound naked without him. It's a huge pain in the ass, and I'm nervous as hell going into tonight.
Anyways that's my story.
I'm been working on a project (one of my songs is in the excellent Consider The Following podcast), and it took me 5 years to do it. Now I have a live band to play my songs in concert.
TONIGHT is my CD Release show downtown. We've been promoting it like crazy. And the guys I hired to learn my music have been practicing with me since the summer. They've become friends and I'm having the time of my life.
But my lead guitarist is a huge drama queen, and certainly bi-polar. Every time we play a show (we've had two, and 2 club auditions) he throws a fit about something and starts calling the club's equipment a piece of shit or complaining about something. And last night, at the club sound check (they built a custom stage for us with elevator lifts and lighting effects!) he got mad about something and just walked out. He refused to say why he was mad, and just said he'd be at the show tonight at 5 for soundcheck.
I have no idea if he's actually going to be there, so I'm spending hours making alternative sequence tracks mixing in my album recorded lead guitar parts with the synthesizer tracks, so our songs don't sound naked without him. It's a huge pain in the ass, and I'm nervous as hell going into tonight.
Anyways that's my story.