I'm writting this because, quite frankley I am pissed. my band has been together for about 4 years. The first two and a half years were spent writing music and rehearsing. We played a few shows here and there with other original bands and opened for a few cover bands. In the local sence there are few places that will hire a all original band. So we got tired of playing barb-b-ques, and we put together a whole night of covers and originals. Then we started to get bookings all over a 3 hundred mile radius. We get to play nice big clubs and get paid for it, and thousands of people get to hear our songs and buy them. People and club owners really like us and within a year we have got featured on an half hour Fox TV show, been all over the newspapers and may have a small label interested in us. During the all this going on we supported all the bands around us trying to get recording contracts, playing with them, getting them shows, recording demos for them and always mentioning them when ever we got any specail attention, all the local bands support each other. We want us all to make it, there is some great music around here. But all in all we are all dirt poor and stuggling with families and life. So lets get to the point, last night we played a gig with a new soundman, he was runing sound for this one band, they will only play for a hour, all originals, and they will only accept headlining gigs. so they were pretty limited to were they could play and they refused to learn any other songs. This soundman had spent a lot of money on this band.(sound gear,lighting effects,lasers ,fog, all kinds of ****) Due to the lack of shows he was going to loss all his stuff, they would do a show every couple of months and pay him $50 a night and he couldn't do it any more. He knew we needed a steady soundguy and we play ten shows a month and pay $150 a night.
So when the other band took a break, he told them he couldn't do anymore the work wasn't steady enough. Now this other band does not get along well with others, they think they are better than the rest of us because we play cover songs and have sold out, they don't get along with any of the local bands, it is really sad, they're not bad but there nothing to write home about. But they are pretty nasty and led by the iron fisted managers, the bands wives, and they are out of control. Like I was saying we were playing this gig with the new soundman. (In a club that just kicked out this other band for breaking contract, they played for one hour and exspected to be paid for the whole night, they caused a sence and were thrown out.) While we were playing the gig they came and slashed the soundmans tires, I mean really what is that! This is one of there trademark things and I am friends with the bass player and he implied to me that this would happen, pretty good friend huh? We have done alot for this band as far as gigs and promotion, and this little attack on there exsoundman, left my band screwed, we couldn't even get our equipment home. Pretty funny huh? We just can't believe this, we are all suppost to be friends! Very angry indeed! Sorry for the spelling.