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created on 09/16/2006  |  http://fubar.com/first-blog/b2761

More band trouble

Well this may be a long post but I need to get some stuff off my chest here. For the past 3 years mt band has been together we have had some major issues that we have overcome. There was the weird uncle who said he could beat me at drums. ^ months ago I finally had enough and laid down the sticks. In front of 3 impartial judges we both did a 3 minute "solo" at a music store on the same drum set. In front of his nephew (the bass player) I kicked his arse all over the place. I beat him in every category from speed to improvisation to originality to groove. I got top marks from the judges HE hand picked. In a possible of score of 50 points I scored 49 points while he scored a lousy 10. At stake if he won I would leave the band, give him my Westburys and he would be the new drummer. If I won he was to shut his mouth, leave the band alone and never talk smack behind my back. Well I won and he had to look like crap and admit that he could not beat me. Needless to say many of you may find the whole competition thing to be a pissing contest but he was ruining the band and it had to be done for me and the band. Now the band could continue with our progression. Now back in August after the Tomato Festival battle of the bands Our singer pulled me aside and told me he knocked his girlfriend up. Now needless to say she was a witch from the word go and I asked him if we were done. I swear if he were 10 minutes late getting home she would call him and scream him out to no end. She had put so much pressure on him because to her music was not important and was just a way for him to show his huge ego to the world. To be honest he is the shyest guy you ever seen. He as a front man is rather boring but he can sing and plays a great guitar. He is only 24 and now saddled with a kid and a woman that does support him or his dreams. In other words it is her way or the highway. So when I asked him if the band was done he said no way but we may have to take some time off. Well we took from August of last year until September of this year off. Literally 13 months. I got a request from Jacob to play the Pumpkin Festival at his school to help raise funds for the school. I called the band and we all agreed to do this, we had 2 months to practice. So we had plenty of time but we needed a guitar player. I found one. We needed a place to practice and Ryan (the singer) had a 2 car garage out in the country at his house. So everything fell into place. Well one night Ryan's girl Sue found out that he was smoking and all hell broke loose. She threw stuff at him, punched him and everything. In other words she assaulted him. He had bruises all over his face and arms. He goes to leave the scene and she pushed him back into the house. He pushed her out of the way and the damn Leamington cops arrest him despite the lack of evidence of any assault for domestic battery. So he spends the night in jail and she walks away with nothing. Well when she sees her meal ticket is gone and has to raise this child on her own she begs him to come back. Now every damn time we go to practice she yells, screams and fights with him. So we get no practice time in. I swear since September 1 we have had 4 hours of practice time in. She also doesn't want him to play any bars because he may hit on the women there. Okay so why have a band if you can only play the festivals that pay (3 in our area) and turn down possible making 150 per night under the table steadily? We have until October 28th to get this show going and I refuse to sound like crap. We have had no practice with Andrew the guitar player I found because we can't get any practice time in. She says that we can practice there as there is no room here and don't even ask about the bass player! She says she has no problem with him being in the band but we need to get some paying gigs. But we can't play the bars here because she is a nut job. Ryan wants to tell her to hit the road but then again his son will be raise by some psycho. So here it is 6:00 am and I can't sleep at all from all this pressure. Sure we have 4 practice days left and can maybe pull this off but will we suck because of this psycho who speaks with a forked tongue? So for the first time since I have played drums I may be forced to cancel a gig, If I do the school will suffer as there will be no entertainment for the Festival for at least an hour and people will leave. We are already featured on the poster! I never had to cancel a gig in my life. I don't want to start now. Any ideas on what to do?
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