You're Fired!

[Oren Hudson]

Sorry guys - I won't be able to participate.

I do the firing.

[Richard Prowse]

Originally Posted by Oren Hudson

Sorry guys - I won't be able to participate.

I do the firing.

Oren, my confident friend, no one's too important to be fired. Why even Ken got fired from TalkBass.

[Dave Martin]

Sure, I've been fired. My favorite was the artist's manager/husband called me in to the office and said, "We're making a change in the organization; you're the change."

[Oren Hudson]

Originally Posted by Dave Martin

Sure, I've been fired. My favorite was the artist's manager/husband called me in to the office and said, "We're making a change in the organization; you're the change."

Hey cousin Dave. Remember to let me know when you're back in the Carolinas. I think you said March. Enjoyed our chat a few weeks ago.

To keep on topic, my request is pursuant to you're not being fired!

[Richard Prowse]

Thanks, brothers Dave and Oren, for those touching stories.
I've been fired many times.
Here's one story.
A trio I was playing in scored a regular gig at an up market Italian restaurant. We decided to add a sax player to the lineup. The sax player spent most of the night chatting up the customers and, near the end of the gig, disappeared upstairs with the management. When we turned up for the gig a week later, the sax player had already set up his own duo and was doing the gig.
No one actually said,
"You're fired."
but we got the message and went home without a fuss.
Ah, Italian food is overrated! It's just stuff mixed with tomato and garlic.

[Oren Hudson]

Originally Posted by Richard Prowse

Thanks, brothers Dave and Oren, for those touching stories.
I've been fired many times.
Here's one story.
A trio I was playing in scored a regular gig at an up market Italian restaurant. We decided to add a sax player to the lineup. The sax player spent most of the night chatting up the customers and, near the end of the gig, disappeared upstairs with the management. When we turned up for the gig a week later, the sax player had already set up his own duo and was doing the gig.
No one actually said,
"You're fired."
but we got the message and went home without a fuss.
Ah, Italian food is overrated! It's just stuff mixed with tomato and garlic.

Musicians can be so devious, can't they?

[Richard Prowse]

In more recent times I got fired from a gypsy jazz band, but I've told you that story already.

[Dave Martin]

Originally Posted by Oren Hudson

Hey cousin Dave. Remember to let me know when you're back in the Carolinas. I think you said March. Enjoyed our chat a few weeks ago.

To keep on topic, my request is pursuant to you're not being fired!

Hey, Oren - we go to Sanford, NC on Monday the 8th for a show that opens Wednesday the 10th at the Temple Theater there. We'll be there Thursday-Sunday for 3 weeks. To keep this an appropriate comment for this board, I'll be playing my Juzek. And to keep this on topic, if I don't show up for the run, I'll be fired...

[Oren Hudson]

Originally Posted by Dave Martin

Hey, Oren - we go to Sanford, NC on Monday the 8th for a show that opens Wednesday the 10th at the Temple Theater there. We'll be there Thursday-Sunday for 3 weeks. To keep this an appropriate comment for this board, I'll be playing my Juzek. And to keep this on topic, if I don't show up for the run, I'll be fired...

Hey cousin Dave. If you don't get fired, let me know if ya'll get close to Charlotte.

[Dave Martin]

Originally Posted by Oren Hudson

Hey cousin Dave. If you don't get fired, let me know if ya'll get close to Charlotte.

I'll do it, but it looks like (based on google maps) we won't get any closer than Sanford on the drive...

[Oren Hudson]

Originally Posted by Richard Prowse

Oren, my confident friend, no one's too important to be fired. Why even Ken got fired from TalkBass.

Sorry my most honored friend. I did some studying on the subject and I did manage to recall the one time that this fired business may apply. At age 12, I'd had my first bass guitar for probably 3 weeks when one of my uncles told me that he knew of a teenage band that was looking for a bass player. So he took me to the house where they practiced. I had no amp, so I plugged into one of the guitar players channels on his Silvertone. I was pretty excited to actually hear the bass. Problem is, I sorta knew Wipe Out and maybe a line or two of Louie Louie and that was about it. So after the first break, my uncle told me that they didn't want me - so we left. Oh well.

On the other hand, a couple of years later, the band that I had started participated in a Battle of the Bands, a popular thing then, along with several other area bands, including the one that didn't want me in their band a couple of years earlier. Wanna guess which band won and which band didn't even place?

Submitted with most humbleness.

Side note 2 = I'm guessing that the biggest reason for the firing situation for me is that 75% of the bands that I've played in have been founded or co-founded by me.