Today, I hung out with the former drummer and Lead singer of Slavantas and a lot of anecdotes of the old days were brought up. But more than that hour hanging out with that singer was way more than I could stand. (And I'll leave it at that.)
So I had the idea of bringing up memorable quotes and anecdotes of bandmates or former bandmates.
My band "Rote Sau"
"Stop going on an ego trip dude, songs have to EVOLVE!"
- Our then bass player after I, in deep frustration, said that I was sick hearing him play the wrong notes over and over in a song we had been practising for two years. Okay, songs need to evolve, I can agree with that but not if evolution means that that mistake becomes part of the song.
"If we start playing shows, can we divide our set list in blocks of three songs with five minute intervals?"
- Our then drummer, because to his own admission, he lacked the stamina to play a full continuous show.
"Dude, are you kidding me?"
- My reply
Slavantas.
We were rehearsing a new song, jamming along, making it all fit together, which eventually resulted in the song "Back in Ballance." It was going great, everything was coming together when out of nowhere our then bass player went "I'm bored with this, let's do something else!" We all looked at him as if he had grown a second head. "Yeah really funny dude." but he was totally serious.
I was there when the next thing I'm going to mention happened, otherwise I wouldn't have believed it. Once again, a rehearsal where we were trying out ideas and see if a song could be gotten from them. When all of a sudden that same bass player said "Yo Walt, check out Josh, what the F&^@ is he doing?" I looked over at our drummer, and he actually pulled a tooth from his mouth with his fingers before tossing it over his shoulder.
Yeah, that pretty much summed up Slavantas in those days: a tooth being pulled out using fingers.
So I had the idea of bringing up memorable quotes and anecdotes of bandmates or former bandmates.
My band "Rote Sau"
"Stop going on an ego trip dude, songs have to EVOLVE!"
- Our then bass player after I, in deep frustration, said that I was sick hearing him play the wrong notes over and over in a song we had been practising for two years. Okay, songs need to evolve, I can agree with that but not if evolution means that that mistake becomes part of the song.
"If we start playing shows, can we divide our set list in blocks of three songs with five minute intervals?"
- Our then drummer, because to his own admission, he lacked the stamina to play a full continuous show.
"Dude, are you kidding me?"
- My reply
Slavantas.
We were rehearsing a new song, jamming along, making it all fit together, which eventually resulted in the song "Back in Ballance." It was going great, everything was coming together when out of nowhere our then bass player went "I'm bored with this, let's do something else!" We all looked at him as if he had grown a second head. "Yeah really funny dude." but he was totally serious.
I was there when the next thing I'm going to mention happened, otherwise I wouldn't have believed it. Once again, a rehearsal where we were trying out ideas and see if a song could be gotten from them. When all of a sudden that same bass player said "Yo Walt, check out Josh, what the F&^@ is he doing?" I looked over at our drummer, and he actually pulled a tooth from his mouth with his fingers before tossing it over his shoulder.
Yeah, that pretty much summed up Slavantas in those days: a tooth being pulled out using fingers.
The night before, one of our members was having a major pre-stage fright issue. He threatened to not do the gig, cause he was soooo freaking out man! At one point he was just sitting there silent and then all of a sudden he jumped to his feet and yelled "I CAN'T TAKE THE PRESSURE! I WANNA BE AN ACTOR!!!!" 
