Well, there goes my band.. We were supposed to have a gig tonight at a place called Bourbon Street. We were the headlining band like we've been the last few times we've played there. Well, first I'll fill you in a little bit on our drummer, Billy. Basically, he's twenty years old and still has a bed time. His mom controls him completely whether he wants to admit it or not. His mom, tries to control the band, and thinks because she brings the tip jar, that she's important. (/rolls eyes) That's about as much detail that I'm going to go into about that for now. But anyway, we were checking out the other two bands that were going to be playing with us, and noticed that on one of their myspace's they said they were going on at the time we were supposed to go on. We got kind of confused and wondered if anything had been changed to where we're not headlining. Well, we do some fishing around and come to find out that Billy sent an email on myspace to J-rock(J-Rock and Patty The Radio Girl are the ones hosting the shows on wednesday nights) saying we wanted to be switched to the second spot instead of headlining(last) because of early work schedules. We found it in the sent box on the mail page. We also found that it was sent on September 11th. I do remember a couple of weeks ago, at practice one day, Billy mentioning that he thought we should play earlier but me James and Mike all strongly objected and said that we wanted to headline. So we change the myspace password and the myspace email's password so Billy can't get ahold of the new one to make sure he doesn't do this shit again. Anyway, we try calling Billy like a hundred times and he wouldn't answer. Finally he shut his phone off and it went straight to the voicemail. I guess that means he knew what it was about. I mean, seriously though.. Why the hell didn't he tell us? DId he think we somehow weren't going to find out? I mean, obviously we're going to start asking questions when we realize we aren't headlining anymore. So not only did he not get our agreement to change it and changed it behind our backs, he didn't even bother to tell us afterwards! But anywya, we try calling his house instead of his cell and his psychotic beast of a mother answers the phone and is her normal nosey self asking "what is it about?" "is it about a gig?" IT'S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS JUST FUCKING PUT BILLY ON THE PHONE. He wasn't home anyway though because he had practice with his other band, which in a way initiated this whole feud. But I'm not going to go into that right now. Anyway, she says if it's important we can talk to his dad, so Mike talks to big Bill(Billy's dad) and asked about the email and all that and he said HE wrote it, not Billy. Well what the fuck!? You're not in the band, why the hell do you have our bands myspace login information!? Jesus Christ, I guess your parents control you much more than we thought.. Mike and Bill get into an argument and all that, which ends up in Mike cursing out Bill for one reason or another, Cathy(his crazy mother) hangs up on Mike three times(I don't know about you but I think hanging up on someone loses the effect after you call them back.. lol but whatever), and him telling her to fuck off. I wasn't lsitening to that conversation but that's what Mike said. James sent J-Rock a really apologetic email stating that we had to cancel. This is what it said, copy/pasted from the sentbox, nothing changed: "Hey, I hate to have to send this mail but we have to cancel our show today (09/26/07). One of our members sent you a email requesting a earlier time slot, instead of headlining, without telling or asking the rest of the band, which we just now found out about. We dont care what spot we play, thats not the reason why we are canceling, we have to get our problems solved before we can play another show, becuase similar things have happend before. Sorry for this late notice and I hope you can understand. -Muddy Creek " To which J-Rock replied: "I cannot replace the you at this point, you are CANCELLING at last minute like this after requesting different time slots. If you do not show tonight you'll never play Bourbon Street again" So even though we were very sincere and apologetic for it, he was pissed. Mike also messaged him to see if he can get anything out about what happened: "hey j-rock, I was just wondering when we're going on tomorrow? I noticed another band is going on at 11? I thought we were headlining, but I'm just making sure? rock on, mike " And he replied:
"You guys were scheduled for second like you requested. Originally it was headlining, and you made me change everything around to accomodate you. The other bands were not happy but they complied.. Now you CANCEL at the last minute and expect me to find a band to replace you???? Like I said in the last letter, if you don't show tonight, you won't play Bourbon Street again, and I don't think you can blame me" After that, one of them Mike or James I don't know who sent it, but one of them said "We cannot play tonight becuase we do not have a drummer. Sorry. "
And then J-rock said "It's cool, I'll just get the other bands to play longer" Which doesn't make any sense to me. First he was all pissed off and now it's totally cool? I'm thinking it was Patty who wrote that one and not J-Rock, because they share a myspace. I replied saying thank you and that we were sorry about what happened and to tell the other two bands the same. I personally sent a message to the other two bands(from my own myspace, not the band's) apologizing, explaining what happened and wishing them good luck at the show. So, now we're not playing tonight, we don't have a drummer, and I don't know if we'll ever get to play at Bourbon Street again because of this, even under a different name. I mean, I guess I kind of can't blame J-Rock for being pissed but on the other hand, It's not like he's paying us. We'd get maybe $20 each from the percentage of the cover charge we get. But I don't know, whatever.. But now we have to cancel not only tonight, but October 12th at Alex's Place, and NEW YEARS EVE also at Alex's Place. Now, that's pretty much just handing it over to C-4(Billy's other band) since he's been booking them left and right and we haven't had a gig other than this in a month. When Billy first joined C-4, the agreement was that it would be one gig a month and that it wouldn't interfere with Muddy Creek. Well it's been more than one gig a month, they booked themselves for Halloween without telling us, so we couldn't play Halloween night, but then they also scheduled for the weekend before! So we couldn't play ANYTHING for halloween because of C-4. The last 5 or 6 gigs we've tried to schedule we couldn't because C-4 was playing somewhere and we needed Billy. That New Years Eve gig was going to be pretty good pay, too. But now we have to cancel it. I'm sick of Billy doing things like this because similar things have happened before. But this one is just drawing the line. I'm sick of it, Mike's sick of it and James is sick of it. Billy can kiss my ass, now. He needs to grow a pair of balls and stop being such a bitch. |