Some things never change
February 16th, 2009I have a good friend and former band mate who is now continuing his music career in Nashville. Nashville is known as a hot spot for live music, and Rand and I have worked with many bands from there. You’d think it would be taken pretty seriously there. Following is a recap of my friends first headlining gig on 2/7/09.
“…The band supplying the back line kit forgets some important piece which delays the start from 9 until 9:45! Then the second band decides to play an extended 16 song set. The soundman is indifferent to the long set time. Our manager complains about the hour and a half set and gets the soundman to give the old ‘last songs guys’ line after a very reasonable one hour set. They say ‘ok this is our last tune,’ and then run two songs together. Ok… Producer Keith Folleese (sp?) came out to see us and couldn’t hang for the late start so he went home. At this point my artist did not even want to play. The guitar player and I told him even if there was only two people there we were going to play. So we did and it was not good. Horrible sound, blown monitors, etc. Here comes the best part…The second band’s singer got into a fist fight with his own drummer over us getting paid. Yup, the club had a great night and wanted to share the door with us all and the second band was trying to keep it hush. The drummer exposed the singer who decided to punish him. All over a hundred dollars. We did not expect anything, and he knew it…”
That is a sad but good story to share. Thanks Joel. Better luck next time, my friend.