beatdat
Senior Member
I'd just give him one of these:
Along with the old "Sure thing, mate".
I'd just give him one of these:
We had some woman who was a stage beyond sh*tfaced who asked us if one of us would take her to the toilet.
.......yeah, nah!
The good thing for us drummers is we're usually at the back of the stage so they have to get through sings and strings to get near us.
I've just thought of another one...
At a more recent gig (with my now ex band btw) the drummer for the headline act who kindly let me use his kit asked "can I use your snare, mine sounds like shit"? To which I replied "well sorry mate I've just got it and don't really like people using my snare". He was quite offended at this so announced that I wasn't allowed to use his kit at all. I said fine, I'll just sit at the bar and get drunk. After intense negotiations my band basically threatened to sack me if I didn't let him use my snare, kick pedal throne sticks and moon gel (apparently as a "peace offering"). So I acquiesced and let him use it, snare came off stage horribly detuned, snare wires choked to death and blood and sweat on the drum head (they were a punk band). Anyway, lesson learned lol
I had a similar experience where we were playing on a 6-foot riser with a hanging trellis over it. A girl who had obviously been overserved at the bar climbed all the way up the trellis (fair play, I wouldn't have tried it) and shouted (over the mellow tones of a country song) "here! play some oasis nowwwww!!!" to which we obliged by playing wonderwall (or whatever), she then got down but within 20-30 seconds of us starting this she climbed all the way back up and screamed "NOOO, NOT THAT F***IN ONE!!!"...
Had an older guy ask to come up on stage while we were setting up so he could "show me some things". When I told him no, he got really belligerent...
Had an older guy ask to come up on stage while we were setting up so he could "show me some things". When I told him no, he got really belligerent and told me about how he was making money on the drums before I was in diapers.
Then he opened his wallet to show all the cash he had & he said, "See that? ALL from making music!!"
I said, "Well, I guess you'll be tipping us youngsters pretty well tonight then huh?"
He just walked off giving me the finger.
I never saw him again after that and this place was his regular watering hole.