Members TrancedelicBlues Posted March 5, 2006 Members Share Posted March 5, 2006 I know a drummer who's in his 50s, getting a little long in the tooth, and drinks waaaay too much. He doesn't work hardly at all--he lives off his girlfriend mainly. He says he lives for drumming, and that that's all that really matters to him. The first and only time I tried to jam with him, within two minutes he was reaching over and flicking my guitar pickup switch saying he could get a tone he liked better. Well, whatever. Considering he didn't really know what "jam" meant anyway (he asked me if I would confine myself to songs he knew like "Mr. Bojangles" which I do admit has a spiffy drum part) our musical association terminated fairly quickly. But I must say, he had a bit of luck recently. He was invited to audition for a country/classic rock band that he said was paying decent money. It sounded right up his alley. Well, $250 a week would be decent money for this guy as long as he keeps his girlfriend. He hasn't had a paying drumming gig in years, so this would in fact be a godsend to him. I guess he felt like he needed to improve his chances, because he really hit on a novel way to shoot himself in the foot. He had a barbecue for the bandleader. He had prepared a tape to drum along with, and that was his idea of how to audition for the guy. I don't know how common that is, but I do know he didn't help himself when he claimed he had written a song that was getting country radio airplay. And there it was, right on the tape: "Redneck Yacht Club." I guess he figured the bandleader never heard of Google. It's pretty easy to check something like that these days. What is the matter with some people?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fastplant Posted March 5, 2006 Members Share Posted March 5, 2006 We have a name for people like this; crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members becomingfinal Posted March 5, 2006 Members Share Posted March 5, 2006 can you post a picture of this guy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Eye_Of_The_Liger Posted March 5, 2006 Members Share Posted March 5, 2006 Originally posted by TrancedelicBlues "Redneck Yacht Club." Hey... HE STOLE MY {censored}ING SONG!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mr. Botch Posted March 5, 2006 Members Share Posted March 5, 2006 The reason this world keeps filling up with assholes like this is that society in general keeps tolerating them. I don't see any solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BlueStrat Posted March 5, 2006 Members Share Posted March 5, 2006 Originally posted by becomingfinal can you post a picture of this guy? Is this him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TrancedelicBlues Posted March 5, 2006 Author Members Share Posted March 5, 2006 Originally posted by BlueStrat Is this him? The resemblance is actually pretty damned uncanny!! :eek: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members THBv2.0 Posted March 5, 2006 Members Share Posted March 5, 2006 Originally posted by BlueStrat Is this him? No, Pat. That's you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BlueStrat Posted March 5, 2006 Members Share Posted March 5, 2006 Originally posted by THBv2.0 No, Pat. That's you! Ooops, my mistake...I drove home form a gig last night that was 3-1/2 hours away, so I got in late! Fortunately, it was over by 9:00, so that helped... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members roabre999 Posted March 5, 2006 Members Share Posted March 5, 2006 Yeah theres a guy in our local town who claimed to be in a band called Kick Axe. About 15 years ago I met him. Another guitarist I was playing with phoned me and had hooked up with him. Told me he was from Kick Axe so I was expecting a long haird young guy and instead got this older guy. There was no internet back then and we looked at thier albums and there was no pic or mention of him so we called bull{censored} but he stuck to his story. last year his band was playing (not kcik axe another local band) and the DJ went on about how he was in kick axe and the song playing during a break was written by him. now that we have the internet I asked the band if he was ever in it or was full of {censored}. They told me the original bass player who is still with them is the only bass player they ever had. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Blackwatch Posted March 5, 2006 Members Share Posted March 5, 2006 I had a guy call me up saying that he'd seen my website, liked my music, and really wanted to play with me. He was a bass player and he sounded like a nice guy but the real kicker is: he said he used to play bass for Taj Mahall. He said he knew him from Kwaii and he also hung around with Crosby and Nash. And he said he'd toured with Taj. I have friends that live on Kwaii that know those guys too so I didn't think it was that big a deal, so I say sure come on over and let's jam and see if anything 'clicks'. So he comes over and first off he weighs about 300 lbs. but he's got decent gear. Once he's plugged in I play some straight blues in E to warm us up. He does OK but something's wrong somewhere cause he'll hit these horrible clunkers every now and then.Next I play this Taj kinda sounding blues, but still the blues mind you, and he's just lost, and although I keep trying to play things any bass player should know, he's lost. And through the whole thing he's telling me stories of all the fun he and Taj and Bonnie Rait, and jackson Brown etc...all had on Kwaii. and it's aparant this guys has never played professionally in his life. I think he MET Taj Mahall on Kwaii and his dream world took over....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fastplant Posted March 5, 2006 Members Share Posted March 5, 2006 I have a buddy like this too. He would find bands that weren't super popular, but were good and he'd say that he was in the band. He'd go as far as to say that he wrote their songs, and that he wrote them about people we knew. One day I had enough and called him on it in front of a bunch of people, the band he was talking about was actually in town to play a show and I convinced everyone to buy tickets to see our friend on stage. He later convinced everyone not to buy tickets and held onto his story. Oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members squealie Posted March 5, 2006 Members Share Posted March 5, 2006 I've met a ziillion people like this...and that's the extent of my stories about them. I don't hang out for more than 2 seconds with those morons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Knottyhed Posted March 6, 2006 Members Share Posted March 6, 2006 I used to be in aerosmith... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members renier Posted March 6, 2006 Members Share Posted March 6, 2006 Originally posted by Knottyhed I used to be in aerosmith... bull{censored}. i never hired you. but i started this new band, called Foo fighters. you wanna play? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Knottyhed Posted March 6, 2006 Members Share Posted March 6, 2006 Originally posted by renier bull{censored}. i never hired you. but i started this new band, called Foo fighters. you wanna play? I would, but i'm too busy counting the royalties on all those Beatles songs I wrote... you ever heard of the Beatles? By the way "Foo Fighters" is a really dumb band name - you'll never get anywhere with a band name like that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members El Glom-o Posted March 6, 2006 Members Share Posted March 6, 2006 I'm Popeye! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted March 6, 2006 Moderators Share Posted March 6, 2006 I used to know a guy in the 80's that considered himself a roadie. A roadie in his mind was something that was the pinnacle of anyone's aspirations. I was in my 20's and he was in his 40's. He lived at home with his mom. He looked like a biker with tats, bald with long hair in a tail, leather and sleeveless denim... and a very soft freindly voice. He'd hang out at local gigs and help load in and out and try to act cool. He'd never gone out on the road but had a million road stories. People on the scene just tolorated him because he was harmless. And he lied... he really lied. His biggest: He introduced John to YokoHe went down with Lynard Skynard and survived When he told these stories he'd be faced with a lot of, "Come on dude, you know that's not true. Stop BS'ing". But he would would stick by his guns and swear that what he was saying was the truth. He never admitted his tall tales were lies and kept spinning them 'till the end. He eventually died of a heat attack and is sort of a local legend in his own way. Names have been withheld to protect the lying SOB. We'll miss you dude, RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members way2fat Posted March 6, 2006 Members Share Posted March 6, 2006 Yeah. We've got a local legend who played with the Grateful Dead. a friend of mine was on their sound crew after he got back from Viet Nam and knows some of the band members. They've never heard of our legendary figure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Damon Holland Posted March 7, 2006 Members Share Posted March 7, 2006 What about when your talking to a band after a show and they start telling you how big they are in Europe! Yep, fixing to start a tour there this summer..... coincedentally with Aerosmith! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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