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  • Played a gig today, oh lord...

    Well, I guess you all remember my last report on how last weeks gig went. This week we were playing a rather large indoor festival and we rehearsed long enough to get us ready to do this. The bill had seven bands and we were third on the bill.

    As I said in my last report, this would probably be the last gig we were gonna play with Ade "Dark One" as our bassplayer. When I picked up our drummer Josh "Caveman" and Ade at the meeting point, Ade was all smiles fresh as a daisy and ready to let it rip. His enthusiasm was mirrored by the others and we were ready to have our revenge on last week's disastrous' performance.

    Ade's mother came by all the way from Dublin to see her son's band perform and we all joked that since she gave birth to "Dark one" she would be the "Dark mom" and basically had a good time. When it was time for us to perform, we were firing on all cilinders with a good sound system providing us the stable base we didn't have last week, me and Jack T pulled off our twin leads and played enthusiastically, knowing that we were kicking some serious ass.

    Afterwards we were told that we can do several dates in southren Europe: Spain, Italy and Greece in the springtime of 2009. We were elated but our high was about to come crashing down.

    Because Ade and members of the Band Serpent steel began to hit the bottle extremely hard and they began to behave really badly, interrupting performances of bands who played later on the bill. Fearing that his drunken rampage would jeopardise our place on the tour, Pascal "Beastings" called us all together and said that indeed this was the last time we played with Ade as our bassplayer, he's on a self destruction corse and is taking us all with him.

    The last I saw of Ade this night was when he emerged hobbling from the men's room with the puke still clinging to his mouth, white as a sheet and completely wide eyed before running towards our buddies from Serpent steel to have another round of free drinks with them. Josh told me that he and Ade would ride along with a bus from another band, basically giving me permission to leave the scene before things got even uglier.

    I kinda feel sorry for the dumb fuck but he did it to himself, we played a KILLER gig but it was thwarted by his misbehavior because of excessive drinking.

    So as it stands now, Slavantas is on the lookout for a new bassplayer, and from what I understood, there's actually a lot of guys who want to take Ade's place, I'll keep you guys informed.

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    So the dude with dyed black hair and a bass that weighs a metric tonne is gone? Quick transition. Sounds like my friend's band. He and his drummer are possibly gonna fire their guitar/singer dude. Then my friend is gonna fire the drummer because he always hits on my buddy's girlfriend. Then he's gonna write new music because he's sick of their current setlist. Wow...
    "Dear Dr. Bill,
    I work with a woman who is about 5 feet tall and weighs close to 450 pounds and has more facial hair than ZZ Top." - Jack The Riffer

    "OK, we can both have Ben..joint custody. I'll have him on the weekends. We could go out in my Cobra and give people the finger..weather permitting of course.." -Bill Z. Bub

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    • #3
      The aftermath: Warning, bass abuse ahead

      I just got off the phone with Beastings, our singer and he filled me in on the gory details of what happened after I left.

      Ade went from being a happy drunk to a "Let-me-tell-you-something" drunk not so long after my departure and started to try to pick a fight with seemingly everybody. He got his fight alright... with the organiser of the festival. There was considerable effort and manpower needed to tear them apart. Ade then proceeded to smash the windows of the guy's car with his bass before deciding to smash up his bass too, from what Beastings told me, the instrument ended up in four pieces.

      I can only imagine the considerable negotiating that Beastings had to pull off from keeping the organiser to remove us from the upcoming tour I mentioned earlier.

      The uncertain ending of this story was that Ade was still there at the venue at four in the morning locked outside in the rain, getting his amp soaked and pounding on the door pleading to have another beer.

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      • #4
        So sad.......sounds like you will be much better off without Ade!

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        • #5
          dude!!!!!! that sucks....did you guys lose the tour? has he been fired yet????? what a fucker....
          GEAR:

          some guitars...WITH STRINGS!!!! most of them have those sticks like on guitar hero....AWESOME!!!!

          some amps...they have some glowing bottle like things in them...i think my amps do that modelling thing....COOL, huh?!?!?!

          and finally....

          i have those little plastic "chips" used to hit the strings...WHOA!!!!

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          • #6
            can't say I'm surprised!!

            although much as I've had a chuckle over this guys behaviour, he is clearly very troubled.....you don't live in a country with easy access to guns do you??

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Blazer View Post
              The aftermath: before deciding to smash up his bass too, from what Beastings told me, the instrument ended up in four pieces.
              So his bass now is four pieces each weighing 250 kilos?

              Man that is rough. He sounds like more trouble than he's worth.
              "Dear Dr. Bill,
              I work with a woman who is about 5 feet tall and weighs close to 450 pounds and has more facial hair than ZZ Top." - Jack The Riffer

              "OK, we can both have Ben..joint custody. I'll have him on the weekends. We could go out in my Cobra and give people the finger..weather permitting of course.." -Bill Z. Bub

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Ben... View Post
                So his bass now is four pieces each weighing 250 kilos?

                Man that is rough. He sounds like more trouble than he's worth.
                His Gretsch bass isn't really that heavy though, why would you think it's that heavy?




                So sad though that he smashed it, it was such a good sounding instrument.

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                • #9
                  Oh, from that picture you posted it looked like a Les Paul bass (Could only see the top half of the body, it looked straight black and not sparkly). The few LP basses I've played weighed a lot.

                  Gretches are very nice to play. I've played a couple. The local music store carries them. They used to have one of those in that exact colour used for about $550 but it sold before I could try it.
                  "Dear Dr. Bill,
                  I work with a woman who is about 5 feet tall and weighs close to 450 pounds and has more facial hair than ZZ Top." - Jack The Riffer

                  "OK, we can both have Ben..joint custody. I'll have him on the weekends. We could go out in my Cobra and give people the finger..weather permitting of course.." -Bill Z. Bub

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                  • #10
                    As bad as it may be for business, I do have to award him "style points" for smashing the festival organizer's car with a bass.
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                    "Artists should be free to spend their days mastering their craft so that working people can toil away in a more beautiful world."
                    - Ken M

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                    • #11
                      Wow. That sounds like a bad scene.

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                      • #12
                        Yeah, imagine how bad the dude would've acted if his mom hadn't been there. She must be so proud.

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                        • #13
                          Does he know he is gettin the boot yet?
                          "I would have banned you for taking part in hijacking and derailing a thread when you could have started your own thread about your own topic." - Unknown

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                          • #14
                            He'd be a great roadie.
                            So I woke up,rolled over and who was lying next to me? Only Bonnie Langford!

                            I nearly broke her back

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                            • #15
                              Didn't Metallica kick out Dave Mustaine for being too "metal"? I hope you guys didn't make a similar mistake.

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