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For those of you who know me , you know I have been in a band the last year with a bass player who wa just plain terrible. It has been a major struggle just to stay in the band whiel this guy would tear up every show at one point or another.
Well just recently , we got another guitrist to replace my brother. It was agreed by the whole band that this guy had to be able to work with me and if not then he wasnt' in. Me and my brother played tunes the way they were recorded and didn't stray too much from that.
Well this guy after only haveing one practice with us told the singer and bass player he was ready to do a show and that he knew all the material so they let him play against my and the drummers concerns. He totaly messed up a lot of stuff ,had no clue about other stuff and we had another show a week later. I happen to be on vacation that week, so I called the guys and told them what needed to be addressed,they told this guy they though he was fine and that I was the only one with problems bla bla bla, the drummer also was away that week and he too has some problems with this clown.
Anyway the next gig comes up and he is hacking up the first song, playing parts he was told not to, not playing what he should, and again, these guys tell him he was great , that I have a problem.
The singer sends me an E-mail saying that I'm a whiner and scared to tell the guy what he is dong wrong, I've told the jerk a million times and he isn't listening. And now all the stuff the singer and bass player said htey didn't like at first, all the sudden seems to be fine with them and It;s all my problem.
After being stabbed in the back like that, I just quit, I'm tired of them not knowing their ass from a hole in the ground as far as what sounds good and what is terrible! I'm also tired of being a laughing stock on stage. The fdrummer is on my side and now they are just out voting him on everything 3-1 and he is ready to quit real soon. [img]/images/graemlins/rant.gif[/img]
Anyway my dilema is this, the drummer wants me to finish the next 6 gigs with them cause a while back when I quit over the bass player I said I would not leave him hanging like that. That was when ther was no other guitarist and I wasn't being backstabed by 3 other people in the band.
It's become hostile now and the only reason I went back is cause the singer and drummer asked me to please reconsider and try to get along with the bass player, the the little but hole singer leaves me out to dry over the new guy who has been in the band 6 weeks and still can't play Paranoid!
Ifeel bad leaving the drumer in that situation, but what would you guys do?
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