Corey Y wrote:Well, the drummer emailed me to cancel tomorrow. Apparently if he's really honest with himself, he's tired of playing drums and wants to be a guitarist.
Level with me guys...is someone playing a fucking prank on me? Shit is getting ridiculous.
I am sorry to hear that man. That is totally lame. Where do you live that people are so super flaky? If you lived around here, I would sub for you until you found someone solid. If it makes you feel any better, it's better to find out now that someone is lame, than a month or two down the road where you have a lot more invested. I had a few false starts before I found John and Tony. I was just going to fill in till they found someone in Tacoma, as I live about 45 minutes north in Seattle. Well, they still haven't found anyone else yet. I am glad too, because I had started to play drums again for the first time in a several year break a few months before I got together with Flux.
I started jamming with a guitarist what had really cool equipment. ECG guitars, not just one, Orange cab, Plush and Hovercraft heads.. blah, blah, blah. He liked stuff like Electric Wizard, Yob, so on and so forth. We jammed a couple times. It sounded pretty cool, mostly to be playing drums again. He said he wanted to find a bass player. A few practices later he brought over his bass player that he knew from some prior contact. The bass player said he was into DOOM, but more the technical, odd time sig, "mind-blowing" stuff. Ya know? Sort of like death metal. Hrrrrrm....
Anyway, that didn't last too long after that. One or both would flake out on a preset practice and not show. And we had jumped, a little early, on a rehearsal space. Right from the get-go, I was having to be on them about rent and shit I shouldn't have to do as another adult. We discovered we wanted different things and went our own ways. I had heard that Tony was looking for a drummer on TalkBass. I offered, a few times. They cycled through some 30 watt bulbs. Then we got together.
Point is, it took a while, but in the end, it was worth it. Hang in there man.