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overdrum.


I've had my share of bassists that disappear from the practice room only to be found later with a half a bag of chips and some salsa...but even worse...thou shalt not...overdrum.

I used to be in a band with this kid who actually played guitar for the band, but was also a decent drummer. Every single time we'd stop for a break during practice, he'd get on our drummer's kit and just GO OFF with super annoying punk beats. Literally would not stop. Ever.

I could kill him still.

they get all excited and over stimulated too quick

Tom Dalton wrote:overdrum.


I've had my share of bassists that disappear from the practice room only to be found later with a half a bag of chips and some salsa...but even worse...thou shalt not...overdrum.

Someone should have told Thomas Pridgen this before he ruined "The Bedlam in Goliath"

bigchiefbc wrote:
Someone should have told Thomas Pridgen this before he ruined "The Bedlam in Goliath"

>mfw Thomas Pridgen didn't ruin that album.

I think one of the most annoying things ever is trying to tune your guitar or dial in the right tone on an amp or something whilst your drummer won't shut the fuck up.

I hate how it takes them 10 hrs to set up.
How many freaking times do you need to move the cymbals .0001 of an inch.

They usually have bitchy controlling girlfriends too.

MM

my drummer's a chick, and she rules. and she also doesn't over play, or under play, or play while i'm getting sounds.

actually, most of the time my lead singer dude's obnoxiously playing with an oscillating fuzz when i'm trying to do important things.

I've never had problems with drummers, except for one that was too loud and violent for a 5'x6' band room. Our bassist at the moment is just terrible. He tells rambling pointless stories, and if you try start playing a song while he's telling one he'll walk up to the mike so you can hear the rest of it. Then he brings, sets up, and tunes 5 instruments (bass, mandolin, lapsteel w/stand, uke, baritone guitar) every time we practice, but only plays the bass. He also refuses to use an electric tuner so it takes somewhere in the neighborhood of an hour for him to set up. One time it took him twenty minutes to tune his bass

metalmariachi wrote:I hate how it takes them 10 hrs to set up.
How many freaking times do you need to move the cymbals .0001 of an inch.

They usually have bitchy controlling girlfriends too.

MM

My drumming philosophy: less gear = more better

Tom Dalton wrote:overdrum.

yeah, and then there's the Nigel Tufnel type solo guitarists that You can't get back from the grand piano

My buddy is in rootsy blues rock band, semi regular gigging. Most of the songs call for Charlie Watts style straight ahead beats but his old drummer would go wild with fills anywhere and everywhere he could, to the point that it threw off everyone else including the drunk 40 year old ladies trying to dance. They gave him his walking papers.

Thou shalt not guitar solo.

ifeellikeatourist wrote:I think one of the most annoying things ever is trying to tune your guitar or dial in the right tone on an amp or something whilst your drummer won't shut the fuck up.

I used to fuck with the rest of my band by doing really quiet snare rolls while they were tuning, so that you couldn't tell if I was playing or that all the tones from the guitars were vibrating the snare.

smile_man wrote:Thou shalt not guitar solo.

The ever-soloing guitarist is a close second to the incessant drummer. Guitarists can sometimes be just as bad when it comes to not shutting the fuck up when the rest of the band stops playing.

Sometimes it's even a problem while the band's playing. I knew a guy a few years ago whose guitarist basically just solo'd on his randy rhoads throughout every song. He thought that was called playing lead, but I don't know if he ever held out anything longer than an 8th note. Cool for a metal band, I guess, but this was in an indie rock band. He just didn't get it.

sjtele wrote:My buddy is in rootsy blues rock band, semi regular gigging. Most of the songs call for Charlie Watts style straight ahead beats but his old drummer would go wild with fills anywhere and everywhere he could, to the point that it threw off everyone else including the drunk 40 year old ladies trying to dance. They gave him his walking papers.

I just might have found the guy from Youtube
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItZyaOlrb7E[/youtube]