I Am NOT: Fred, Fried, Fired or Am

but who cares?
Although, I've NEVER had to quit any band; I always get FIRED!
You know that phone call; "Uh, Tom uh the band had a meeting, uh"
"Hey, let me make this easy for ya. If I'm not fired, I QUIT!"
I've been on the road; but I'm BACK!
(I know, who cares!)

T
 

i care...

Thanks all.
A little more embroidery to finish up and maybe I can get to some music!
 
T

"Do you remember when you started this band and you brought us all together? That was great. We're all very glad to be in your band. Here's the thing. We'd like to continue being your band, but without you."
 
We actually did this.
Then had the temerity to ask if we could still use his gear.
He let us use it, which really made us feel bad.

Again, The Coffee House has brightened my day!
"Do you remember when you started this band and you brought us all together? That was great. We're all very glad to be in your band. Here's the thing. We'd like to continue being your band, but without you."
my personal favorite!
 
T
gawd I hate running an embroidery machine!

I've been a party to that same conversation more than a few times.... and on the receiving end a number of those times.
 
The last time it came, (+/- 25yrs ago) I was playing in a house band and had been in the band for 2.5 years.... the call came on a Monday evening....since we had just had this conversation with another band member and no one would "man up" at the meeting.  After I got "my" call, I contemplated the decision to quit or to beg as others had done. Tuesday after work, I stopped by the club, entered in my usual way (through the bathroom window) opened the door and removed all my gear from the stage and the sound rack.  I didn't call them  or inform them.... I figured that they would find out and have enough time to make a plan from Wed evening (normal rehearsal) to Friday at 9pm.  I figured they could dig up enough songs for the singer to cover the entire show by himself..... we had 3 singers originally, but one had already quit some time back.
 
the call was not unexpected since there had been the classic signs of a band in serious trouble for quite some time. More then the normal grumbling about other band members, one of the 3 singers and a second keyboard player as well quit out of the blue, people missing rehearsals, and then half the band wanting to fire the other guitar player then backing off when confronted when he asked "So.... what's this all about?"
 
Oh yeah, after I removed my gear, I left a sign that said....... I QUIT!!!  the one with that now classic little boy in a picture doing the deed on the words I quit.... I think they got the message.  They didn't call me about the "I quit" issue, so they must have been serious about that or relieved that they didn't have to confront me like they did with the other guitar player...... but they did get the sound guy to call about the missing rack gear.  I told him that I was borrowing "my" portion of the gear for a few days but they could buy my ownership share at any time for what I had in it.   He showed up the next day with cash in hand.
 
The band continued on for several more months before it went down in flames. They started rotating member in and out, fired or quit, more often than a McDonalds fry-man job. I got out before the real problems started. I remained friends with most of the band and several told me after the fact that they wished they had quit at about that same time because things got really bad there towards the end.
 
Once you start to see those signs, and we all know them now..... time to move on.
 
The good thing is that you can't get fired from here.

21.  One of the band members uses a DJ setup