JustJames
Platinum Member
...and he wasn't even behind the couch.
My garage band has been emerging from the garage and into blinding light of parties.
At the same time, our (now previous) lead guitarist announced that he had too much going on in the rest of his world to allow him to carry on playing with us. That led me on the hunt for a lead guitarist. When band members' social networks failed to turn up a candidate, I turned to Gumtree and Bandmix (Tinder for musicians).
We're a bunch of enthusiastic amateurs, so I didn't see any point in having auditions that were bigger than Ben Hur, so I kept it limited to two guitarists. As it happened, they were both really good, but very different in their approach.
One guy had a very trick Fender Strat that is clever enough to mimic different tunings, and different types of guitars, and about a square meter of pedal array.
The other guy had a Squier Strat and an inexpensive Les Paul copy that he had spent some time and effort in setting up right, and used his amplifier (Vox VT) to manage tone.
They both played really nicely, but in the end I went with the guy with the simpler rig, largely because I was concerned that the guy with the awesome rig might get side tracked with rig set up rather than playing.
Moral to the story: If you try out for a band and don't get the gig, realise that having to tell you "no thanks" may be a shitty thing for the person to have to tell you.
My garage band has been emerging from the garage and into blinding light of parties.
At the same time, our (now previous) lead guitarist announced that he had too much going on in the rest of his world to allow him to carry on playing with us. That led me on the hunt for a lead guitarist. When band members' social networks failed to turn up a candidate, I turned to Gumtree and Bandmix (Tinder for musicians).
We're a bunch of enthusiastic amateurs, so I didn't see any point in having auditions that were bigger than Ben Hur, so I kept it limited to two guitarists. As it happened, they were both really good, but very different in their approach.
One guy had a very trick Fender Strat that is clever enough to mimic different tunings, and different types of guitars, and about a square meter of pedal array.
The other guy had a Squier Strat and an inexpensive Les Paul copy that he had spent some time and effort in setting up right, and used his amplifier (Vox VT) to manage tone.
They both played really nicely, but in the end I went with the guy with the simpler rig, largely because I was concerned that the guy with the awesome rig might get side tracked with rig set up rather than playing.
Moral to the story: If you try out for a band and don't get the gig, realise that having to tell you "no thanks" may be a shitty thing for the person to have to tell you.