I realize that there's not much I can do but I just needed to vent.
We open for this band every few weeks or so when they need an opening band. They're very good and they play almost every weekend. I always use the other guy's drums because we go on first. When we finish our set, I usually leave about 45 minutes later after the other band comes on stage. The only thing I have to bring are my sticks. His drums are real flat and the only adjustment I make is ask him if I can angle one tom a bit and he's very helpful - "Whatever makes you comfortable", he says.
Last wk we were opening for them and got a call that the drummer had a wreck or something and couldn't bring his drums and could they use mine. Since I've used his probably about 6-7 times I said no problem. Pain in the butt to stay until 2AM but I would sacrifice.
I play 3 up 2 down. He takes off one of the toms, and we spend like 5 minutes making the other 2 flat. No problem. However, he proceeds to 'tune' them (2 rack toms). After the show I check them out and they sound like timbales. Isn't that kind of an unwritten rule is you don't tune another guy's drums? So, I retune them - not that big of a deal and try and ignore the deep stick dents in the heads - probably about 4 dents.
The worst part is I set up my drums for practice and I notice at least 2 of my Paiste sigs are dented. I have never cracked or dented a cymbal - I just don't play that hard. You can see about 2-3 dents on the edges where a stick hit them very hard - kida like a mini sounde edge hi-hat bottom.
All of our guys have a good relationship with this band but this just sux. I couldn't really say "No" as the request happened on the day of a show. And now the next time I see the guy it's gonna be like, "Hey dude - you dented my cymbals".
At every other gig when someone HAS to use my drums I make them bring their cymbals and snare. SInce he didn't have his, wasn't sure that was an option and I really didn't want to cancel a show not even knowing this would happen in the first place.
We open for this band every few weeks or so when they need an opening band. They're very good and they play almost every weekend. I always use the other guy's drums because we go on first. When we finish our set, I usually leave about 45 minutes later after the other band comes on stage. The only thing I have to bring are my sticks. His drums are real flat and the only adjustment I make is ask him if I can angle one tom a bit and he's very helpful - "Whatever makes you comfortable", he says.
Last wk we were opening for them and got a call that the drummer had a wreck or something and couldn't bring his drums and could they use mine. Since I've used his probably about 6-7 times I said no problem. Pain in the butt to stay until 2AM but I would sacrifice.
I play 3 up 2 down. He takes off one of the toms, and we spend like 5 minutes making the other 2 flat. No problem. However, he proceeds to 'tune' them (2 rack toms). After the show I check them out and they sound like timbales. Isn't that kind of an unwritten rule is you don't tune another guy's drums? So, I retune them - not that big of a deal and try and ignore the deep stick dents in the heads - probably about 4 dents.
The worst part is I set up my drums for practice and I notice at least 2 of my Paiste sigs are dented. I have never cracked or dented a cymbal - I just don't play that hard. You can see about 2-3 dents on the edges where a stick hit them very hard - kida like a mini sounde edge hi-hat bottom.
All of our guys have a good relationship with this band but this just sux. I couldn't really say "No" as the request happened on the day of a show. And now the next time I see the guy it's gonna be like, "Hey dude - you dented my cymbals".
At every other gig when someone HAS to use my drums I make them bring their cymbals and snare. SInce he didn't have his, wasn't sure that was an option and I really didn't want to cancel a show not even knowing this would happen in the first place.