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... But something finally went wrong.
I had to miss practice today because the bandmates scheduled for about an hour before I get off work and it takes about 45 minutes to get to the practice space from work, but that's no biggy, I wasn't expected. Practice went okay, apparently, but the drummer just didn't seem to mentally "be there." After they finished up at about 5:30 (I hadn't even left work yet, had to work late) the other guitarist who also does vocals gets a call from the drummer while he was driving home, who informs him that he's leaving the band simply because of his personal interests. This is understandable since he is a rock drummer and he sort of ended up getting into the band because we needed a drummer, all the drummers we were finding sucked, and he was friends with the other guitarist. At the time his old band had just broken up, so he started filling in and was having a good time and then joined full-time. Well, recently he'd been trying to find a new project to do something more in his style (rock / folk) and the members of his old band are all moving back to the Seattle area so he decided he was going to part ways with us. I fully understand and support his decision, but it still kind of saddens me to see this happen since he was a great drummer and a great friend.
The part that sucks is that I really just was starting to believe that we were really getting tight as a band and finally being able to perform up to a level that I was very comfortable at. I know, you guys are probably getting a good chuckle, but we're finally performing material that we all enjoy and everyone in the band was on the same page. We finally had a bass player that was practicing a lot and contributing to a song-writing level and everyone's stage presence / movement was finally starting to get up to speed. Some of you may remember that I started that thread a month or so back about getting the vocalist who also played guitar to be a powerful frontman; well he started doing all the things that I suggested and also doing some other stuff and we were really starting to get a lot of positive comments about our performances. On top of that we had a small hype building up with each show we performed...
Now we are sort of set back and unable to do any further live shows. The search has already started and we've all mutually agreed that it'd be a good time to go into "writing mode" and see if we can come up with more material for the next album we're going to release.
Luckily, our old drummer said he'd fill in for the one show that we had scheduled, but I have to bow out of all the other show offers / shows in the works that we had on our plate.
I don't really know why I posted this.. Just kind of venting, I guess. Its stressful when someone that you've spent 3 years of your life jamming with bows out. What is more frustrating is that I really want to gig more, and unfortunately this is the only band I'm playing in that is regularly gigging out. I'm gonna call in and leave a message on my Bosses phone that I'll be in late to work. Time to go back to sleep for a couple hours. Cheers.
I had to miss practice today because the bandmates scheduled for about an hour before I get off work and it takes about 45 minutes to get to the practice space from work, but that's no biggy, I wasn't expected. Practice went okay, apparently, but the drummer just didn't seem to mentally "be there." After they finished up at about 5:30 (I hadn't even left work yet, had to work late) the other guitarist who also does vocals gets a call from the drummer while he was driving home, who informs him that he's leaving the band simply because of his personal interests. This is understandable since he is a rock drummer and he sort of ended up getting into the band because we needed a drummer, all the drummers we were finding sucked, and he was friends with the other guitarist. At the time his old band had just broken up, so he started filling in and was having a good time and then joined full-time. Well, recently he'd been trying to find a new project to do something more in his style (rock / folk) and the members of his old band are all moving back to the Seattle area so he decided he was going to part ways with us. I fully understand and support his decision, but it still kind of saddens me to see this happen since he was a great drummer and a great friend.
The part that sucks is that I really just was starting to believe that we were really getting tight as a band and finally being able to perform up to a level that I was very comfortable at. I know, you guys are probably getting a good chuckle, but we're finally performing material that we all enjoy and everyone in the band was on the same page. We finally had a bass player that was practicing a lot and contributing to a song-writing level and everyone's stage presence / movement was finally starting to get up to speed. Some of you may remember that I started that thread a month or so back about getting the vocalist who also played guitar to be a powerful frontman; well he started doing all the things that I suggested and also doing some other stuff and we were really starting to get a lot of positive comments about our performances. On top of that we had a small hype building up with each show we performed...
Now we are sort of set back and unable to do any further live shows. The search has already started and we've all mutually agreed that it'd be a good time to go into "writing mode" and see if we can come up with more material for the next album we're going to release.
Luckily, our old drummer said he'd fill in for the one show that we had scheduled, but I have to bow out of all the other show offers / shows in the works that we had on our plate.
I don't really know why I posted this.. Just kind of venting, I guess. Its stressful when someone that you've spent 3 years of your life jamming with bows out. What is more frustrating is that I really want to gig more, and unfortunately this is the only band I'm playing in that is regularly gigging out. I'm gonna call in and leave a message on my Bosses phone that I'll be in late to work. Time to go back to sleep for a couple hours. Cheers.
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