The most annoying guy in any band is the one who won't turn down, solos too long, can't play in anything but "guitar" keys without a capo, and doesn't know any music theory.

Singers often have a problem with something called LSD, and no, I'm not talking about acid, I am talking about the difficult to cure sickness known as Lead Singers Disease...

I don't really have an issue with particular players of different instruments, because they all will tick me off at some point, but what I have an issue is the fact that I am the oldest member in the group, I tell them things from experience, but they pay no mind to it because they at times think "I'm just some old guy who doesn't know what he's talking about." When in reality, I was picking strings before they were even old enough to pick their nose. So as strange as some of the stuff I tell them may sound, like "I just unplugged from the tuner, so if anyone is out of tune, its not me.", they just tell me,"Well I tuned and locked my Floyd Rose last week, so its in tune..." And when I try to explain that guitars can go out of tune due to contraction and expansion due to temperature and humidity changes, they just continue to say how they tuned up and locked it last week...

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FYI I do turn down (reluctantly, it's the rhythm guitarist who won't turn down at all which forces me to play loud whether I like it or not), shorten my solos (sometimes I'm even the one to suggest it), can play in different keys without a capo (I just hate it when they want to change the key of a song five times, just pick one!) and I know music theory well enough to have an intelligent conversation with anyone else who does. I just hate trying to explain to the keyboard player why the song is both major and minor because it's blues and that's the way it is. Or having to try and convince the keyboard player to try something different, like adding or subtracting a couple of measures, if it's not exactly the way the song is written down. Hence the theory police comment.



I know, that's really annoying. So is when there's any feedback the first suspect is always the electric guitar player. Most of the time it's not me, but I'm the first one everyone looks at.

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I gotta go with the general consesus that the singer is generally a pain in the $@!.

The possible exception being when the singer is also the rythm guitarist, bass player, or drummer.

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For me it is the singer when the rest of the band is playing the song right and they totally butcher the timing of it and then try to save face by forcing everyone else into matching their pace and it sounds awful.

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anyone in Fallout Boy.

In the praise band I participate in, I'm really torn between one of the singers and the lead acoustic guitarist. The singer hates my guts and ridicules me quite often (a real shame too, she's a lovely young lady), and the acoustic lead only knows how to strum chords and goes about the entire time thinking he's the most experienced musician in the band. He's been playing guitar for maybe a year on nothing but strumming chords. No scales, no fingerstyle, just strumming chords.

Ah well. Beggars can't be choosers, and it could be much, much worse. I guess I shouldn't complain.

I have a lead guitar player, who is also the lead singer, and loves to hear himself sing. I was in the middle of song (the band was playing), when without warning, he walked over to my amp and began turning all the adjustment knobs (including volume) to HIS liking. I really got angry on that one (and it started to become a regular habit for him).

Just last week.....we were practicing when he kept telling me to turn myself down (I wasn't playing loud-just enough to keep up with every one else). Again, he wanted to hear himself, which WAS loud. So.....I turned down the volume knob on my guitar to number 1. And played that way for two or three songs (of course I could hear nothing coming out of my guitar). After a while, he noticed things weren't right (no rhythm guitar). Finally he realized that he couldn't hear me (I couldn't hear myself either). I had become a mime guitar. He told me to turn my guitar up. I refused and played the next two songs like that. Finally..........after I thought he got the point, I put my guitar back to a normal level. He didn't bother me the rest of the night.

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Guitarists. They annoy me all the time. You cant have 5 seconds inbetween instruments on a soundcheck without the guitarist playing something.

Just kidding thats one of my own faults that i know annoys everyone else in the band. Particularly the soundlady. I'm working on stamping it out.
Syeklops, glad you got something together mate. I remember the trouble you were having with people last year. Welldone that man.

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Yep......the band is together. Five so far. Lead, Rhythm Bass, Harmonica, and Drummer. We've already played at a party and have some more gigs lined up. Heard we might get a keyboard player.

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hehe, niki, the guitarists must be fingering their guitars all the way...

syeklops, have fun with the keyborder

cheers

The other electric guitarist in my band does that, and I do too, just as bad. It's annoys my Dad, who's a bass player, and it annoys the lead singer/acoustic guitarist as well. Sometimes we're so involved in what we're playing that he has to wave and shout to get us to be quiet. Then we both stop immediately and look up like a couple of deer in the headlights.
Luckily, that look makes him start laughing so he doesn't stay mad for long.

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ive had problems with drummers...idk why but they get on my nerve. in my opinion, they have the easiest ob in the band.

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The one who thinks he owns everybody, calls all the shots, never listens to anybodys ideas and eventually lead the band to breakup because they can't deal with it anymore....

...been through that twice

The praise band I participate in has had a similar problem. Except the new (at the time) youth pastor had expelled the "band leader" from the whole deal. The same guy he expelled has shapened up quite a bit now and fronts another Christian band that tours around the area.

Whats disturbing is that the youth pastor now does the same thing the old band leader used to do, and nobody has a problem with it. Isn't it strange how those things work out?