Originally Posted By: Planobilly
No drugs or drinking on the job.


Amen to that. I had a relatively new guitar player in a band. He knew the rules. I looked over at him during a song and he was sneaking a drink from the beer someone handed him. I walked over and fired him DURING the song.

I just smiled at him and said "You can finish the night if you want to but you won't be paid. You're fired for drinking during a gig." He started to talk back but I just walked away from him and we finished the night without a guitar player. He called me a dozen times the next day apologizing but he did not get a second chance.

Some things require that kind of rigidity. Alcohol on a job is at the top of the list, just above drugs. On one of his dozen phone calls I told him "We play 4 nights a week. That leaves you 3 nights to go drinking." And that he should stop calling because he was wasting his time and I had to get to rehearsal so the new guitar player could learn arrangements.

Rules be rules!

Last edited by eddie1261; 04/23/21 03:57 PM.