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You're Fired!
Okay, we've all seen The Apprentice - that show where the guy with the ultimate comb over utters the famous words,
"You're fired!" as he pokes his finger at the screen. This thread is about being fired from bands - believe it or not that's happened to me a few times. No true, it has! So, fellow bass players, have any of you ever been fired from a band? Let's hear your story. |
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i once tried to play in a bluegrass band.
i was very proud because i just bought a 39er kay. they praticed once a week. i started playing with them in september. then in october my main gig-season started. i could not come to the rehearsal for three months. then i january i got an email, they wrote they don´t want me anymore. |
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...a band run by one of my brothers. I asked for a solo at a concert.
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Sorry guys - I won't be able to participate.
I do the firing. |
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Oren, my confident friend, no one's too important to be fired. Why even Ken got fired from TalkBass.
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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."
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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. |
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To keep on topic, my request is pursuant to you're not being fired! |
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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. Last edited by Richard Prowse; 03-02-2010 at 03:52 PM. Reason: Italian food is overrated. |
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In more recent times I got fired from a gypsy jazz band, but I've told you that story already.
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Was that the one with Gypsy Rose Lee and The Rosetones? If I remember correctly, Gypsy was wandering around the upper region of the lower half and stumbled (literally) into the only pub in town. A rough looking place called The Do Drop In. This was were a long standing relationship was about to begin with Axel Rose, Hank Lansing, Stepin Wolf and Gypsy. I think that you got involved two or three years down the road from that point. Is this the correct story? If so, I do remember some of it. |
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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...
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I'll do it, but it looks like (based on google maps) we won't get any closer than Sanford on the drive...
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