Worst excuses you've ever heard from fellow bandmates....

[ForgotenWarrior6]

So far I got...

"My dog has separation anxiety so I can't come out and practice"

"My family has the Christmas decorations plugged in so we can't practice because we might blow a fuse"

"I don't need to validate my reasons for cancelling practice."

"I can't play Monday shows because I'm a light sleeper"

All from the same guy too...


Would love to hear some of the stupid shit your guys' band mates have said.

 

[Ola Englund]

"I don't need to validate my reasons for cancelling practice."

Haha this one was the best!



I have:

" I was so wasted yesterday I can't make it to practice tomorrow " (2day recovery?)

" I forgot to bring my cables to work today so I can't rehearse "

" Sorry I need to attend my girlfriends soccer-game"

Can't think of any more at the moment but I guess almost 50% of all rehearsals during the years has been cancelled due to some silly reason.

 

[Harry Hughes]

"Been busy with heaps of homework". A bass player.
In reality, it was just because his girlfriend would go to his house after school everyday and he wouldn't get either school work, nor bass practice done).
I cracked the shits at him and told him I'd be mighty pissed off if he didn't have his shit together in a week. You better believe he decided to actually his shit together for the following.

Me : Dude, maybe you should try practicing to a click
Drummer : Nah, as long as all the instruments are in time, who cares?
I kinda facepalm in my own head. To make matters even better, the guy wasn't even in time with us anyway.

This was year 12 music class by the way.

While not an excuse as such, the other guitarist in our year 12 music class band would always turn his volume down during rehearsals because he was self conscious about his playing.
We would yell at him to turn it back up, and somehow halfway through a song he had it turned down again.
I have never ever heard of a guitarist doing that before that guy.
Fortunately, for the actual performance exam at the end of the year he didn't do that.

 

[Bekanor]

Our old bass player bailed on a great out of area opportunity to see Dillenger Escape Plan instead.

Insulting to be passed over for that rubbish to say the least.


He also had a pretty large array of lame, though non-confrontational excuses for missing regular rehearsals.

By "non-confrontational" I mean things like "I'm having dinner with friends" and stuff like that which you can't really confront someone about without being a dick. In making concessions for his social life we added the clause that he would need to practice at home. He didn't, after 12 months he could still barely remember the songs, let alone play them anywhere near competently. To make matters worse, every time we played live he would always have his amp turned up louder than the guitars, way louder. We basically had a standing order with the regular FOH guys to drop him out of the mix because no matter how many times we told him that he needed to turn his shit down because we are a death metal band not the fucking chili peppers he would not comply.

So the next time some doucheroo is making a backbone/glue/concrete analogy about bass players, you can spit in their face for me.

 

[Harry Hughes]

Our old bass player bailed on a great out of area opportunity to see Dillenger Escape Plan instead.

Insulting to be passed over for that rubbish to say the least.

That sucks man.
While I realize it was definitely pissing on your band and was definitely not a fair thing to do, TDEP do put on an absolutely insane show every time (they certainly did when I saw them live) and while you may not like the music, the band is highly respected for their instrumental prowess, so I can kinda see where he was coming from.

 

[DeclanWhite]

ive had one's such as

'my horse is sick'
'we cant practice at my house cos my dad is tired and wants to sleep' < this one happened again when we were recording.. like fuck you man, we're trying to make music, sleep another time.
'my gf broke up with me' <get over it, stop being a little bitch.
'my parents wont give me a lift' <some parents i swear to god.

those are all from the same guy. he also took all the band earnings into an account for some reason? but that band is dead now thank god. he still owes me 300$ from 2 years ago though.
what a fuck ..

 

[DeclanWhite]

That sucks man.
While I realize it was definitely pissing on your band and was definitely not a fair thing to do, TDEP do put on an absolutely insane show every time (they certainly did when I saw them live) and while you may not like the music, the band is highly respected for their instrumental prowess, so I can kinda see where he was coming from.

yeah i'd ditch to see them too lol

 

[Sinister Mephisto]

"I'm already pretty drunk dude"

 

[Lodge]

This was about 2 years ago, and happened at least once a week, hence the reason we are no longer a band:

Other guitar player: "My bad for not showing up or calling man, I was playing some WoW."

Drummer: "Oh man, I'm just so fucked up over this girl right now. I was on Myspace trying to talk to her (of course the girl is a chubby, 16-year-old emo whore). I spent about 45 minutes behind the kit today, so we should be straight for next week."

 

[Mago]

we once played a gig with a friend on bass. because our bassplayer didnt have time on the date of the gig.
so we wanted to rehearsal with the dude and he doesn't show up.
The thing was:
He did party the day before, went home with some chick in her flat, woke up the next morning (still drunk) and got home, went to bed & didn't wake up in time because he lost his cellphone at the chicks place and didnt have an alarm
he also couldnt phone us because of his lost phone...but I think he woke up too late anway. was quite pissed at first, but he appologised and was even more motivated then us to rehearsal afterwards. the gig was tits, even if both me and him were wasted^^

 

[Bekanor]

That sucks man.
While I realize it was definitely pissing on your band and was definitely not a fair thing to do, TDEP do put on an absolutely insane show every time (they certainly did when I saw them live) and while you may not like the music, the band is highly respected for their instrumental prowess, so I can kinda see where he was coming from.

People have tried to sell DEP to me on a few occasions, I don't know if it was just poor choice of selling point on the part of the person or what but I've never heard anything by them that wasn't highly irritating.

It's not even like Portal where its irritating the first couple of times and then fascinating for some reason you can't quite put your finger on. Sorry to be so negative but there's something about their music that just bugs the shit out of me, which is weird because there's so much of what makes up their sound in stuff that I listen to and love but I literally cannot be in the same room as a stereo playing DEP for some reason.

Oh and sorry for the OT, just wanted to explain so people don't think I'm being a hater or whatever the parlance for being a retarded contrarian is these days.

 

[jangoux]

my old drummer gave so many absurd excuses we always joke a UFO or something fell down on his street.

I think the worst was when he came "I came late and with my finger hurt because the buss stopped 5 meters from the side of the road, and when i got out of it, a motorcycle was speeding through those remaining 5 meters between the bus and the sideways. It hit the tip of my finger and now I can't hold a drumstick".

I swear to God this is true. We were all facepalmed when he told us that and we made him rehearse anyways. After a couple songs, he was playing just fine. There's also the time he said his girlfriend had an asthma crisis, but later we discovered she didn't want us to come to his place and practice.

 

[GarethSE]

I get the exact same thing Nik. I feel I'd enjoy them more if their music actually differentiated a bit from song to song. Mostly just sounds like nothing but stacatto stabs of a couple of chords played really really fast. I'm sure anyone could come and say BUT HURR WITH REPEATED LISTENING IT BECOMES MORE blaha blahsjksghdfgdfhgsdflsdjk nobody fucking cares >:{
No disrespect to any DEP fans. Really can't get what all the buzz is about either way/

Anyway, on topic:
In my old band we frequently found ourselves arranging shows around when our Drummer was raiding on WoW. I shit you fucking not.

I have been known to skip practices though, as unhappy as I am to say it. But this period was when I was still at College, and going to that place made me feel goddamn sick.
You'd go there and want to create but the moment you set foot in the music block you're expected only to tick boxes and not to express yourself.
Now THAT'S a legitimate reason not to show up for practice.

 

[Soundlurker]

"I can't come to rehearsal because we're installing blinds in my new apartment."

 

[Harry Hughes]

People have tried to sell DEP to me on a few occasions, I don't know if it was just poor choice of selling point on the part of the person or what but I've never heard anything by them that wasn't highly irritating.

It's not even like Portal where its irritating the first couple of times and then fascinating for some reason you can't quite put your finger on. Sorry to be so negative but there's something about their music that just bugs the shit out of me, which is weird because there's so much of what makes up their sound in stuff that I listen to and love but I literally cannot be in the same room as a stereo playing DEP for some reason.

Oh and sorry for the OT, just wanted to explain so people don't think I'm being a hater or whatever the parlance for being a retarded contrarian is these days.

Fair enough.
I can understand though, since mathcore is definitely not a type of music that appeals to everyone.
I remember when I first heard TDEP, I hated it. Listened again, hated it.
Took me a while for it to grow on me and too appreciate it. Some bands are just like that.

 

[MarcusGHedwig]

Don't worry Nic, I've disliked DEP from the first moment I heard 'em, and still do (though the song "Setting Fire to Sleeping Giants" I kinda liked at least, because it was actually, ya know, a song, rather than spastic dissonant noise, no thanks)

 

[Randyisgod15]

When Marcus and I were practicing for the Apex Predator project, our drummer would bail on a regular basis.

The lamest excuse was "My little (he was in a fraternity) is smoking weed for the first time today I have to smoke with him".
I'm usually all in favor of this, but when used as a blatant excuse for ditching practice it's just sad.

The most irritating is when we left him voicemails and facebook messages stating that we have practice at a specified date and time and it was made clear we would be by at this time to pick up him and his kit. We call the day of, no answer. We call bullshit and swing 'round to his dorm anyway. We clearly see the light to his room is on, and we call again to no avail. I think Marcus actually went in and knocked on his door too.
He calls hours later saying he just woke up (like 10-11pm) and he's been super busy and hasn't checked his phone or facebook in days.
Funny part is that I brought up the fact that he had posted shit on facebook multiple times during that time period, and Marcus went on a vicious tirade of profanities whilst having dinner at our roommate's granparents house

 

[Bekanor]

I get the exact same thing Nik. I feel I'd enjoy them more if their music actually differentiated a bit from song to song. Mostly just sounds like nothing but stacatto stabs of a couple of chords played really really fast. I'm sure anyone could come and say BUT HURR WITH REPEATED LISTENING IT BECOMES MORE blaha blahsjksghdfgdfhgsdflsdjk nobody fucking cares >:{
No disrespect to any DEP fans. Really can't get what all the buzz is about either way/

I suppose I can see why people like them, chaotic pacing and heavy use of dissonance being staples of so many of Metal's subgenres, but to me it sounds like listening to a crystal meth addict speed reading The Shadow Over Innsmouth.

Don't worry Nic, I've disliked DEP from the first moment I heard 'em, and still do (though the song "Setting Fire to Sleeping Giants" I kinda liked at least, because it was actually, ya know, a song, rather than spastic dissonant noise, no thanks)

It just seems overtly complicated for the sake of being so, and that's coming from a Dream Theater fan.

 

[Harry Hughes]

This was about 2 years ago, and happened at least once a week, hence the reason we are no longer a band:

Other guitar player: "My bad for not showing up or calling man, I was playing some WoW."

Drummer: "Oh man, I'm just so fucked up over this girl right now. I was on Myspace trying to talk to her (of course the girl is a chubby, 16-year-old emo whore). I spent about 45 minutes behind the kit today, so we should be straight for next week."

God, I fucking hate WoW. I will never play that game, ever.
Turns so many people into lazy sacks of shit.
A friend of mine often neglects good personal hygiene and eating properly to play that shit like 12+ hours a day.
Would I be right in that your drummer was some super skinny fuck?
It always seems teen emo girls are more interested in malnourished boys than guys that actually eat.
They seem to sense I eat 3000+ calories a day, so they stay away from me

 

[Skinny Viking]

a drummer we worked with who was diabetic:

"I need to stop for like 10 minutes, I gotta take my insulin"

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