Here I am on Sunday at my parent's house doin laundry and watchin Todd Sucherman's Methods & Mechanics (For Useful Musical Drumming) DVD. And all of a sudden, I get a phone call on my cell. It's the guitarist of the cover band I play in and he tells me that he and the bass player won't be available to play tonight at a local open mic night because they are to busy with work and getting up early the next morning. Now believe me I understand. This is just a hobby to them.
One phenom guitarist friend of mine, who would like to be a working musician, recently told me he has to get up at four in the morning to get to his job at five and this was after he got off the stage at 11pm.
Now the first situation was an open mic night, the second was an actual gig. We all know which is more important: the gig. But the open mic night was going to be the last night we were going to be playing with a beautiful female lead singer who is heading off to Canada for work in her environmental field. You know hug a tree, blow up a bulldozer kind of thing (only kidding).
All I'm just sayin is, it would've been nice to do this with all of the spotlight on her so we could give her a proper goodbye send off. Thats all I'm sayin.
Plus I need to find more dedicated musicians to play with.
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