theslumlord wrote:If you don't think that anything might happen to your equipment if you loaned it out, I have three words for you: G.G. Allen.
There's nothing like a mic that smells like colon.

Ha! My old band once played a show in West Virginia the night after a GG Allen show. The soundguy mentioned he was short one mic and believed it was still up GG's ass....and not a 57...he was missing a 58!!

It makes one really think twice before touching lips to another microphone ever, let me tell you!

my band lends anybody anything they want to use

since we travel on airplanes more often these days, we also borrow, out of necessity

which isn't always the greatest for the drummers. but we usually have a snare and cymbals, so it's not that bad.

i do remember one time our drummer lent a cymbal to the drummer for caustic resin. they started playing, and the guy started just bashing the shit out of it, directly on the edge of the cymbal. michael walked onstage and took the cymbal off the stand.

but that's not rock star behavior. that's just caustic resin. he was genuinely surprised that anyone would have a problem with the perpendicular cymbal whacking technique.

tmidgett wrote:perpendicular cymbal whacking technique.

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Well it looks like i have a new one as of tonight. Strapping Young Lad played the venue i work the door at tonight. This is a fairly huge tour, 4 bands about 35 people involved buses etc. But somehow out of the 35 people touring with them they couldn't find 4 people to help them take down their ridiculous rig.... so I and the Booker had to do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You'd think in a band where the majority of the members are about 300 pounds, they'd want to help out... shead a few.... To top the whole thing off the head of the road crew was a total twat to us... Good times

atlantic wrote:The worst rockstar bullshit i have run into in my years of playing was when my old band opened for Idlewild. First of all they were miffed that the venues maz cap was 250 (dudes... noone in Canada gives a fuck agbout you). The entire night untill they went on stage they sat in their bus like fucking rockstars. The entire night they didnt say a word to us... no thanks for playing... NOTHING. Granted their roadies were nothing short of amazing they told us that we were the best local band that had opened for them on the tour so far and chatted us up real good like. Now i dont care how big a band is but it would be nice to thank the openers for playing... fuck the only reason anyone showed up to that show was because they had a local opener with a good draw ( not to toot my own horn)... At the indie record store i work at we have yet to ever sell a single Idlewild disc.

They are sitting on the inside of their bus and are not talking to you!!??

Fagginaszio! Porco Dio!! This is so unnaccpetable to hear!

And they no say Grazie to you??!!

In Italia, this is no happen, no way, without Idle and Wild getting some concrete shoes!

solum wrote:

atlantic wrote:The worst rockstar bullshit i have run into in my years of playing was when my old band opened for Idlewild. First of all they were miffed that the venues maz cap was 250 (dudes... noone in Canada gives a fuck agbout you). The entire night untill they went on stage they sat in their bus like fucking rockstars. The entire night they didnt say a word to us... no thanks for playing... NOTHING. Granted their roadies were nothing short of amazing they told us that we were the best local band that had opened for them on the tour so far and chatted us up real good like. Now i dont care how big a band is but it would be nice to thank the openers for playing... fuck the only reason anyone showed up to that show was because they had a local opener with a good draw ( not to toot my own horn)... At the indie record store i work at we have yet to ever sell a single Idlewild disc.

They are sitting on the inside of their bus and are not talking to you!!??

Fagginaszio! Porco Dio!! This is so unnaccpetable to hear!

And they no say Grazie to you??!!

In Italia, this is no happen, no way, without Idle and Wild getting some concrete shoes!

in defense of idlewild, whom i know not, it's unfortunate but not necessarily asshole behavior to not talk to anyone. i can understand, being deep in a tour, wanting to pretend like you are at home for as long as possible before getting on stage.

maybe they're dicks. but i am just saying. i am sure i have done this same thing. but maybe i am a dick also.

tmidgett wrote:
maybe they're dicks. but i am just saying. i am sure i have done this same thing. but maybe i am a dick also.

Having encountered them a couple of times, I can say with a fair degree of certainty that they are dicks.

I think we have a clear winner so far:

during sound check the other band had an amp break and asked seeley to borrow one. they would only do it for all of the bands drink tickets.

That blows my mind.

spoot wrote:I think we have a clear winner so far:

during sound check the other band had an amp break and asked seeley to borrow one. they would only do it for all of the bands drink tickets.

That blows my mind.

i don't know that i'd call that a *clear* winner. other than their amp having broken, which is obviously nobody's fault, the only setback the band borrowing the amp suffered is that they had to actually pay for any drinks they had that night.

the guy crying to get slots switched (against what the venue had advertised!) caused several people who had driven into the city to miss our set entirely. the band's singer/songwriter had driven in from missourri to play this show. his parents had pre-ordered tickets, and drove in about an hour from st charles on a sunday night, just in time to catch our last 2 songs only. several people missed our set entirely.

i'd say that being a little baby and throwing weight around (i.e. "i'm promoting my album on a big-name record label, you guys have NOTHING!") in order to fuck over any number of people, personally i'd say that's way worse than giving someone a chance to use and/or break your amp so long as they get you drunk.

i can say without question that every guy in the band would've given up our drink tickets if that somehow would've allowed us to play in the time slot that was ours up until an hour before the show started.

maybe it's because it adversely affected me or something. but i'd say that a guy that makes a big effort and goes out of his way to fuck people over for his own gain is way worse than a guy that will only do you a favor if he gets compensated for his risk.

I think it could be a tie.

As I see it: Every one has a mental construction of how we should interact with on another, of what is demanded of certain individuals under certain circumstance. Both these dick heads unapologetically lay waste to your mental construct, and in doing so insult the very way you chose to live your life.