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Im guilty of being a diva sometimes, but I just like things right, people to be on time, professional and know what they are doing.
The one that stands out is in my old band though, with the drummer. We were playing at quite a prestigious venue in my area, who had a sound engineer (a luxury in these parts). During sound check, the engineer asked the drummer to dampen his snare, as it was hitting about 100dB, and was far too loud indoors. The drummer had a tantrum and said "Well that's MY sound, so tough".
I should also point out the engineer is also a pro-level drummer.
The engineer explained that if he kept it that loud, it would mean everything else needs to be raised to stupidly loud levels to compensate, and it would negatively impact the gig. Still the drummer didn't relent.
As you'd expect, the gig kept hitting about 110dB and not many people stayed. However, the REAL dick-move moment came when the drummer kicked the stage monitor over as it was feeding back - and damaged it in the process. At the end of the gig, he was screaming at the engineer that he didn't know what he was doing, his mate does a better job etc.
I basically had to tell him to calm the f*** down and stand between him and the engineer.
Needless to say, I soon told him I'm not putting up with shit like that and left the band..... to form a new one with the sound engineer
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Yep, I had one of those.
My experience of drummers was that if they could also play guitar, keys etc, they were pretty darn clever, however if they only played drums, just pure neanderthal (ie they simply liked hitting things).
LOL-Wiz of the day....
In the past I’ve had to stop band mates loading furniture and house lights into the van. It costs gigs and is just not the thing. Drinking before performing? No thanks.
But I’ve finally joined a band that take drugs during the break……prescription drugs!
He wound up the wedding party during the gig by actually passing a comment over the mic that the table in the corner were doing drugs in the toilets, he thought it was hilarious.
It was clearly heard by the whole room and didn't go down well, both with the wedding party and the staff at the hotel. At the end of the gig he decided rather than walk across the room where we played to get to our changing room, he would just walk through the bar area (to avoid the wedding guests), which the bar manager took acceptation to and confronted him. Then all hell broke loose.
He ended up fighting half of the staff and punters that were just there for a meal in the hotel (Not wedding guests). The Police were called and they took him away. We got packed up asap and had to drive round to look for him. The hotel was in the middle of a few towns so we weren't sure which Police Station he was taken to. We did eventually find him and were told he would be in for the night. We had to ring his poor wife to tell her what had happened.
Inevitably we had to refund the wedding party our full fee and we were banned indefinitely from the hotel.