Have You Ever Been Kicked Out of A Band?...

I've only been in one "band", and I just got sick of it, so I fired myself... Of course, it was my band... Funny, I recently got asked to try out for a band, and I explained that being in a band really sucks 90% of the time, the pay sucks, and we would have to stay up past my bedtime...
 
Never kicked out. Once auditioned for a bunch of douches who never called me back, but that was definitely for the best.
 
FenderPusher said:
Never kicked out. Once auditioned for a bunch of douches who never called me back, but that was definitely for the best.
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Ever audition for bands in the philly burbs? Reminded me of a funny story:

Just as my last band was nailing down a set list and ready to book some gigs, our bass player quit. The auditions for a replacement were soul crushingly dreadful. My favorite was the guy who showed up with his groupie-slutted out girlfriend and both of them were zoned out, big time, looked like homeless junkies. When he took off his jean jacket to play, it was painfully clear he was a straight-up heroin junkie by the look of his arms. He could barley put words together & his playing was equally effected. The girlfriend was more coherent & she sat on a pool table that was across the room, making suggestive gestures at him the whole time. He murdered a couple songs then put his bass down. He went over to her & they started basically getting it on.....while we were standing there waiting to finish this mess. We kicked them out & helped him carry his shit out to make sure they didn't hit anyone's car on their way.
 
k4df4l said:
Ever audition for bands in the philly burbs? Reminded me of a funny story:

Just as my last band was nailing down a set list and ready to book some gigs, our bass player quit. The auditions for a replacement were soul crushingly dreadful. My favorite was the guy who showed up with his groupie-slutted out girlfriend and both of them were zoned out, big time, looked like homeless junkies. When he took off his jean jacket to play, it was painfully clear he was a straight-up heroin junkie by the look of his arms. He could barley put words together & his playing was equally effected. The girlfriend was more coherent & she sat on a pool table that was across the room, making suggestive gestures at him the whole time. He murdered a couple songs then put his bass down. He went over to her & they started basically getting it on.....while we were standing there waiting to finish this mess. We kicked them out & helped him carry his shit out to make sure they didn't hit anyone's car on their way.
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I've cleaned up since then... second chance?
 
Can't recall that I have. I have quit many of them and on one or two occasions, was not asked back for projects. These weren't bands but just projects I was asked to sit in on.
 
After a while you start to ponder these things and one of note came to mind. Auditioned for a band who was playing the military circuit on Oahu (military circuit pays the best next to steady hotel gigs). Chick singer (hot) said I got the gig, the following day the bass player calls and said the guitar player who just quit the band changed their mind and was not moving to the states so they could continue playing :facepalm:

Fired without a rehearsal or gig..... :hd:
 
I don't remember ever being fired from a band.

I've gotten turned down for a band before though.

I used to play with a bass player in college whose brother was a great guitarist. I tried out as singer of their band. They gave me a cassette with some original music and a few lyric sheets they had typed out. I came up with a melody and practiced and thought I had a pretty good song going on.

So, the 'audition' came around. I went to their house and we jammed some covers for an hour or so, then we did the originals. I thought it went great. We probably ended up playing for 3-4 hours. When I talked to the bass player a couple of days later, he told me that I'd put the lyrics to the wrong songs and the band decided that I wasn't going to work out. :shrug:
 
I was fired from a trio I'd already quit earlier this year :facepalm:

NYE gig I told the fat tramp of a singer not to talk to me for the rest of the night or I would walk off stage and hindenburg the whole gig.

i then told fat tramp of a singer's boyfriend that he better not call me back for any more gigs once he'd paid up the dough.

About 5 weeks later :shrug: I got a text from him saying they'd decided between themselves that it wasn't working out with me but he'd pass me on to a friend who was looking for a guitar player.
 
Kinda. I joined one band as a mandolin player but then began playing more and more guitar when the regular guitarist was away (at their request I should add). Then he came back and they decided they didn't really need mando any more. So I reckon that constitutes being fired. I'm not sure but some of them may have felt upstaged. :wink: Krashpad gotta be Krashpad.

In another band I was in the other guys decided they were gonna move to the big city to be rock stars, and that was that for me because I actually had a decent day job, so that was sorta mutual rather than being fired. But then it took them like a year before they actually moved, despite having my replacement and doing gigs with him locally, so that kinda felt like being fired even if it technically wasn't.

No big whup in either case.
 
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