2 posts in a day! wohoo! I'm on faiiiyaah!!
Nope. Actually the internet connection at my office sucks so my posts were delayed.
Aaanywaay,
My guitarist is a super opportunistic person. He'd go basically ANYWHERE to find EOs or some people in charge for an event, introduce our band and then ask them for chances to play at their events. He has loads of contacts and knows crapload of important people. well, in our local music scene. Apparently he has connection at a 5-star hotel where he previously worked at, and we were informed that they were looking for a band to play at their cafe regularly and in short, we were invited for audition last saturday.
Another fiasco? I would say yes. But then lemme tell you the awesome things first.
The stage -- super cool. We were kind of in an elevated stage in front of a verrryyy busy area at dog-eating place where hundreds of people pass by every hour. Very public area. Very good exposure.
The engineer -- super nice guy. He catered every needs we have and he actually gave a damn on how we sounded so he tried his best to figure out the best sound for us since we were gonna play acoustically. He brought lots of stuff from their storage, no holding back. Whatever we asked, he provided. Damn nice. Oh! He was one of the 'judge' too.
Free food -- duh!
Awesome gears -- yeah. All fender amps, LP percussions.
Mind blowing vocalists -- just got to know them on that day. The guy's voice is Tom Welling-ish with a hint of Daughtry, and he's kinda cute :3
The girl's good looking too. She's a GOOD singer. Really. My guitarist said that Her bf's the best bassist in da hood. Damn I didn't talk to him that night. ugh. Bad timing.
But guess what, another slap in the face for lack of preparation and half assery. That would suffice to explain everything. when we were doing our sound check, our bassist turned up but he just stood somewhere because there was another fella playing with the bass. Our bassist waited there and then he told us he wanted to go to the store next door. Couple of minutes later, he texted : "you guys go ahead, I'll join you halfway" so we thought fine. Cuz we were informed that the hotel owner will show up at 9pm anyway. But then douchebag didn't show up till we went home. Later on that night i heard that he went out with his gf. FUUUUUUUU. In the end, me and the guy voc gotta cover for him. So we messed up. The chords and everything. *sigh*
Oh yeah. 1 important lesson : when you're trying to give a 5-star impression, WATCH YOUR ATTITUDE. Seriously I can't stress enough how important this is. My guitarist was acting like a 5-star ass that night while we were supposed to play awesomely and impress everybody so we'd be called to play again. Seriously. I wanted to kick his crotch and land a nice hard jab on his cheeks soooooo badly but then I felt bad for his wife and kid. It wasn't that he played badly, but he was HITTING on one of the hotel worker in front of EVERYBODY. PLUS, when we were loading stuff back to the storage room, he didn't participate! He just smoked around and hit on that girl!! That senior engineer's face turned black because he was loading the stuff with us while damn guitarist wave his ass around trying to act cool.
The hotel owner didn't show up. He was playing tennis with the governor I heard. So the engineer told us that he'd 'give us a call' again which I thought would be highly unlikely.
Oh! one more thing! When we play a bunch of guys came and guitarist bravely asked them if they have any request. The rest of us were looking at him like "WTH?!" and of course, the guy asked us to play any song from this one band we didn't know. When we played some songs, we made mistakes. Wrong lyrics and stuff and those bunch of guys were laughing at us. At one point, one of them called the waiter, pointed at us, and then the waiter went in to tell whatever he heard to the senior engineer, and the next thing we know, we were told to take a break. After the break, the engineer said it's a wrap cuz the hotel owner didn't show up. But his wife and kid did and she was criticizing us. She wondered why we stopped in the middle of the song and stuff. Well what she heard was our sound-check..
So that's how it ended. We scolded our guitarist on our way home which turned out to be useless anyway.
This is all I have now, and they are the only peeps i can play together with these days.. I don't know what to do anymore..
Another fiasco? I would say yes. But then lemme tell you the awesome things first.
The stage -- super cool. We were kind of in an elevated stage in front of a verrryyy busy area at dog-eating place where hundreds of people pass by every hour. Very public area. Very good exposure.
The engineer -- super nice guy. He catered every needs we have and he actually gave a damn on how we sounded so he tried his best to figure out the best sound for us since we were gonna play acoustically. He brought lots of stuff from their storage, no holding back. Whatever we asked, he provided. Damn nice. Oh! He was one of the 'judge' too.
Free food -- duh!
Awesome gears -- yeah. All fender amps, LP percussions.
Mind blowing vocalists -- just got to know them on that day. The guy's voice is Tom Welling-ish with a hint of Daughtry, and he's kinda cute :3
The girl's good looking too. She's a GOOD singer. Really. My guitarist said that Her bf's the best bassist in da hood. Damn I didn't talk to him that night. ugh. Bad timing.
But guess what, another slap in the face for lack of preparation and half assery. That would suffice to explain everything. when we were doing our sound check, our bassist turned up but he just stood somewhere because there was another fella playing with the bass. Our bassist waited there and then he told us he wanted to go to the store next door. Couple of minutes later, he texted : "you guys go ahead, I'll join you halfway" so we thought fine. Cuz we were informed that the hotel owner will show up at 9pm anyway. But then douchebag didn't show up till we went home. Later on that night i heard that he went out with his gf. FUUUUUUUU. In the end, me and the guy voc gotta cover for him. So we messed up. The chords and everything. *sigh*
Oh yeah. 1 important lesson : when you're trying to give a 5-star impression, WATCH YOUR ATTITUDE. Seriously I can't stress enough how important this is. My guitarist was acting like a 5-star ass that night while we were supposed to play awesomely and impress everybody so we'd be called to play again. Seriously. I wanted to kick his crotch and land a nice hard jab on his cheeks soooooo badly but then I felt bad for his wife and kid. It wasn't that he played badly, but he was HITTING on one of the hotel worker in front of EVERYBODY. PLUS, when we were loading stuff back to the storage room, he didn't participate! He just smoked around and hit on that girl!! That senior engineer's face turned black because he was loading the stuff with us while damn guitarist wave his ass around trying to act cool.
The hotel owner didn't show up. He was playing tennis with the governor I heard. So the engineer told us that he'd 'give us a call' again which I thought would be highly unlikely.
Oh! one more thing! When we play a bunch of guys came and guitarist bravely asked them if they have any request. The rest of us were looking at him like "WTH?!" and of course, the guy asked us to play any song from this one band we didn't know. When we played some songs, we made mistakes. Wrong lyrics and stuff and those bunch of guys were laughing at us. At one point, one of them called the waiter, pointed at us, and then the waiter went in to tell whatever he heard to the senior engineer, and the next thing we know, we were told to take a break. After the break, the engineer said it's a wrap cuz the hotel owner didn't show up. But his wife and kid did and she was criticizing us. She wondered why we stopped in the middle of the song and stuff. Well what she heard was our sound-check..
So that's how it ended. We scolded our guitarist on our way home which turned out to be useless anyway.
This is all I have now, and they are the only peeps i can play together with these days.. I don't know what to do anymore..
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