Aus_rock_god
November 29th, 2005, 02:55 AM
It was a cold August afternoon, the afternoon of our fist gig. We were all looking forward to it, and eagerly anticipating our debut. We had worked had all year, but we were ready. But one question loomed:
"Where the [Mod Edit: Veiled Profanity] is our drummer?????"
We had four hours to go before we were due to go on stage, when my phone rang. It was our drummer, Cory:
"Dude, it's Cory."
"Yeah mate, where are ya."
"Errrm, I can't actually make it tonight."
"What the [Mod Edit: Veiled Profanity]???? Why???"
"It's kinda my birthday, and my parents want to take me out for dinner." (he's a wog).
The rest of the convo was basically me pulling my hair out and calling him every name I could think of.
With 20 minutes to go, we had given up on playing, when one of the bands that was playing that night pointed out that they brought their back-up drummer, and that he'd play anything.
We shrugged our collective sholders and asked him if he wanted to play some originals.
So, with 10 minutes to go before our set, we had found a replacement. We didn't really care at that stage that he hadn't have even heard our stuff before, we just wanted to play and didn't care if we sounded *****.
But what was suprising, was that this guy, who had never heard any of our material before, managed to play every song PERFECTLY. Actually, better than our current drummer. So half an hour later, we fired our old drummer, and hired our current one.
True story.
"Where the [Mod Edit: Veiled Profanity] is our drummer?????"
We had four hours to go before we were due to go on stage, when my phone rang. It was our drummer, Cory:
"Dude, it's Cory."
"Yeah mate, where are ya."
"Errrm, I can't actually make it tonight."
"What the [Mod Edit: Veiled Profanity]???? Why???"
"It's kinda my birthday, and my parents want to take me out for dinner." (he's a wog).
The rest of the convo was basically me pulling my hair out and calling him every name I could think of.
With 20 minutes to go, we had given up on playing, when one of the bands that was playing that night pointed out that they brought their back-up drummer, and that he'd play anything.
We shrugged our collective sholders and asked him if he wanted to play some originals.
So, with 10 minutes to go before our set, we had found a replacement. We didn't really care at that stage that he hadn't have even heard our stuff before, we just wanted to play and didn't care if we sounded *****.
But what was suprising, was that this guy, who had never heard any of our material before, managed to play every song PERFECTLY. Actually, better than our current drummer. So half an hour later, we fired our old drummer, and hired our current one.
True story.