Wow. And I thought I was screwed simply because I was in Nebraska!
Our band has been through 3 drummers. The first was a psychotic that tried to kill me at almost every practice.
The second was a drunk fuck who always showed up wasted.
One gig we played with him, we had to use all of our gig money to pay off his bar tab.:zombie: Less to say, he was fired after that.
Now we have a drummer that can play his ass off, but we lost our bassist along the way!
Its been over a year and still no bassists. Either no one here can keep up, or they can't get their shit together. Thanks to our old drummer the drunk, we have a rule that no one drinks at all before a gig. In the rare case that we find someone who's "pretty good," as soon as they hear that, they want nothing to do with us.
At this point we've just fuck it and play shows without a bassist. Its not the same, but we do what we can to make up for it.