We've now outdone Spinal Tap - bloody drummers

SexyGreyFox · 24 Jul 2006 at 20:10

I've been with the band for six years and in that time we've had six drummers.
One was nuts, one died (RIP Paul), one gave us one minute notice to go with a band who can't get gigs now, one had woman trouble, one had an ego that was larger than Dave Lee Roths and the new drummer has just given his notice in because another band has offered more money and he is having money problems

Before I joined, the band was together for eight years and they went through six drummers.

If anybody out there in the Staffordshire area knows any good rock drummers then get in touch.

Dave · 24 Jul 2006 at 20:29

Talking to one

I'd take it up straight away if it wasn't for 1) university and 2) lack of transportation.

SexyGreyFox · 24 Jul 2006 at 20:40

I was thinking of you also

starscream · 24 Jul 2006 at 20:44

Drummers are always problems

Good luck with finding a new one. They are few and far between for a talented and reliable one. I would try posting cards in music/drum shops in and around the area with your website/mp3's on.

Dave · 24 Jul 2006 at 21:57

starscream said:
Drummers are always problems

Cheeky

I know a drum teacher around here through my stepdad (who is a music teacher - Will Appleby - you may have heard of him in the Staffs/Derbyshire area) who should be coming round in the next couple of days to sort out the 2006-2007 lessons/schools, so I'll ask him if he's interested in ditching teaching and rocking out instead :cool:

locutus12 · 24 Jul 2006 at 22:01

dmpoole said:
I've been with the band for six years and in that time we've had six drummers.
One was nuts, one died (RIP Paul), one gave us one minute notice to go with a band who can't get gigs now, one had woman trouble, one had an ego that was larger than Dave Lee Roths and the new drummer has just given his notice in because another band has offered more money and he is having money problems
Before I joined, the band was together for eight years and they went through six drummers.

If anybody out there in the Staffordshire area knows any good rock drummers then get in touch.

what i want to know is how the bloody hell did you find 6 drummers in 6 years ?! there like gold dust here in cov

SexyGreyFox · 24 Jul 2006 at 22:04

Dave said:
so I'll ask him if he's interested in ditching teaching and rocking out instead

Not enough money for him

locutus12 said:
what i want to know is how the bloody hell did you find 6 drummers in 6 years ?! there like gold dust here in cov

And all six were/are brilliant.
Its going to be very hard to replace Paul.

cleanbluesky · 24 Jul 2006 at 22:10

Try a percussionist next time...

SexyGreyFox · 24 Jul 2006 at 22:17

cleanbluesky said:
Try a percussionist next time...

We tried one two years ago and he's now at university doing a percussion degree or something.
He was bloody useless but could play a mean xylophone.

Munkyman · 24 Jul 2006 at 23:27

locutus12 said:
what i want to know is how the bloody hell did you find 6 drummers in 6 years ?! there like gold dust here in cov

are we? cool

seriously though, everyone i know wants me to teach them how to play. i didn't realise we were so thin on the ground

SexyGreyFox · 24 Jul 2006 at 23:33

Munkyman said:
are we? cool

seriously though, everyone i know wants me to teach them how to play. i didn't realise we were so thin on the ground

Plenty of drummers - not many good ones.

Munkyman · 24 Jul 2006 at 23:37

dmpoole said:
Plenty of drummers - not many good ones.

ahhh....fair enough. hope i'm one of the good ones

starscream · 25 Jul 2006 at 00:22

Won't complain

Reliable

Keeps time

Won't nag you into lugging all their kit round

William · 25 Jul 2006 at 01:03

Handful of good drummers here in Derby/Burton but thats a bit out of your way.

And most of them are a pain in the arse.

SexyGreyFox · 25 Jul 2006 at 07:09

starscream said:
Won't complain

Reliable

Keeps time

Won't nag you into lugging all their kit round

been there, done that, got the t-shirt.

QABoy · 25 Jul 2006 at 08:31

You're joking, Paul is leaving you already? Mind you, you did say that as soon as he was playing with you somebody would poach him. He is one of the best local drummers I've seen. maybe you can take Tim back on because I've heard he's doing nothing

See you thursday.

SexyGreyFox · 9 Aug 2006 at 22:57

Auditioned a drummer tonight and he was excellent. We had a good talk after and he seems as though he's on the same wavelength as us. Fingers crossed.

NokkonWud · 9 Aug 2006 at 23:21

dmpoole said:
Auditioned a drummer tonight and he was excellent. We had a good talk after and he seems as though he's on the same wavelength as us. Fingers crossed.

Good luck with him, hope it all works out.
I only know 1 drummer around here, but loads of guitarists etc... so that must prove how thin on the ground they are...

raz0rr · 10 Aug 2006 at 01:11

NokkonWud said:
Good luck with him, hope it all works out.
I only know 1 drummer around here, but loads of guitarists etc... so that must prove how thin on the ground they are...

There seem to be an endless supply of 'drummers' at my school, a good few dozen, at least.
The thing is, most of them are useless!

I only know 3 drummers that are worth a damn (myself being one :/)
So, they are in short supply.

SexyGreyFox · 10 Aug 2006 at 18:47

Over the last two weeks I collected about 30 phone numbers of drummers.
I even paid for a subscription to the very useful Musicians In Your City http://www.musicians-in-your-city.co.uk/
Over the weekend I rang all 30 and about 20 were already taken or had stopped playing.
Eight of the remainder went quiet when I told them how much money they would be on. A five piece band in the Stoke area gets around £200 so the wages would be £40 which is not enough for some people. All of them asked if we were going to try and get on the next few steps of the ladder playing bigger and better paid gigs all over the country but we've all 'been there and done that' in other bands because its false economy eg driving 4 hours to get to a gig, get £100 in your pocket and then a 4 hour drive back and work in the morning. I've got nothing against anybody who wants to do that but we don't want it anymore at our age.
Once these drummers heard that we wanted to stay local at a local price they weren't interested.
That leaves two drummers - one that is already with a working band and one who is free and thinks exactly how we think. He's done the false economy gigging too. There two more but one hasn't got a drumkit and the other is 16 and wants to make it big. Sorry mate we're ready for retirement.