Guitar player confuses practice days

A J

A J

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Last night, I walked into the guitar player's house carrying a load of gear ready for practice. As usual, his four big dogs swarmed me and we began the obligatory pre-practice wrestling match. Guitar player walks in and says "What are you doing here, dummy? We practice tomorrow, not today!" After a bit of back-and-forth, I sat down on the couch and said "We'll know for sure in about 5 minutes if Mike (the bassist) walks through the door." Right one cue.. 5 minutes later, Mike comes walking through the door! :)

The bassist and I immediately ganged up on the poor guitar player, hazing and harassing him. Pretty funny. Band practice is a lot like being back in middle school. :)
 
Our band is constantly changing rehearsal days due to our hectic summertime schedules. This hasn't happened yet, but if I just showed up at our guitar player's house (which is 40 min away and our primary rehearsal space) and it wasn't a rehearsal day, we'd just work on new stuff in his backlog!
 
Humans will adhere to predetermined schedules.....when it is important to them...so.
 
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bkmaynes said:
Our band is constantly changing rehearsal days due to our hectic summertime schedules. This hasn't happened yet, but if I just showed up at our guitar player's house (which is 40 min away and our primary rehearsal space) and it wasn't a rehearsal day, we'd just work on new stuff in his backlog!
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During the initial confusion, I offered up that we can simply re-schedule if he's not ready to practice. He's a trooper and was fine with changing his plans.
 
My friends in middle school were much more mature than my current bandmates.
 
A J said:
Last night, I walked into the guitar player's house carrying a load of gear ready for practice. As usual, his four big dogs swarmed me and we began the obligatory pre-practice wrestling match. Guitar player walks in and says "What are you doing here, dummy? We practice tomorrow, not today!" After a bit of back-and-forth, I sat down on the couch and said "We'll know for sure in about 5 minutes if Mike (the bassist) walks through the door." Right one cue.. 5 minutes later, Mike comes walking through the door! :)

The bassist and I immediately ganged up on the poor guitar player, hazing and harassing him. Pretty funny. Band practice is a lot like being back in middle school. :)
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Sounds like a great group of friends.

Hope you are treasuring it.

If you are, then the band is a success regardless of sales...money becomes gravy.

rich luscious nourishing drool-worthy gravy...<<insert Homer Drool here>>
 
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Otto said:
Sounds like a great group of friends.

Hope you are treasuring it.

If you are, then the band is a success regardless of sales...money becomes gravy.

rich luscious nourishing drool-worthy gravy...<<insert Homer Drool here>>
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They're great guys. Unfortunately, both have serious medical issues. Oh well. We're enjoying it while we can.

I jammed with a 4-piece outfit this afternoon. We played for 3 hours. It wasn't the same. It was basically 2 guitar players trying to out-lead one another. Yeah... It was OK, but the bassist and I were pretty much support elements for two guitar guys clamoring to do leads. Just about every song was blues-rock stuff. We weren't "serving the song". That's fine and dandy for a jam session, but not for gigging.

After the jam session, both guitar players wanted a commitment. I'm not ready to give up my current band and a hundred other things I got swirling around in my life to be a "drum machine" for lead guitar guys. I was far more polite than what I just communicated to you.

In a nutshell.... I'm happy to jam with you guys maybe once a month or so. That's about it.
 
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