Originally Posted By: musiclover
Has anyone been let go though, the other side of the coin?


Yep! I was once told that I am too much of a perfectionist and the rest of the guys didn't care about things being THAT close to spec, so they let me go and went without a keyboard player. Right after that the kid phenom guitar player I brought in left and moved to Nashville. 2 weeks later the singer quit to go play in another band with his brother.

TWO YEARS LATER they have finally resurfaced with a bunch of local scrub players. I saw their demo video and watched with glee as they sucked badly on every song.

Parenthetically I ask, WHY do bands put singing LAST? I would SO rather recruit 4 people who can sing and then teach them instruments if they were not instrument players. There was a band here who did that and the were 18 months in the making but when they finally came out of the basement and started playing, man, the singing was incredible. I see band after band where everybody has a mic but nobody but the lead singer really sings, and harmony is non existent. And the excuse is always "The music we play doesn't really require harmony".

PS I would likely have left that band that fired me on my own soon after they fired me anyway. Music is to be revered and respected.

EDIT TO ADD:

Shockingly, it was NOT because of my brusque personality. As aggressive and borderline abusive as I got during rehearsals, they all understood that it was all aiming to make that band the best band it could be. A band, like a man, has to know it's limitations (props to Dirty Harry Callahan for that line). The drummer, who thought he was great and wanted to be musical director, was an awful drummer and will always be in bad bands because he stats songs too fast and then speeds up. I turned on a click track a few times and he was gone by the end of 8 bars.

Last edited by eddie1261; 06/26/21 04:01 AM.