I can read music just don't do it much so I'm out of practice. Wow he got signed! I did a 6 month stint with a band that traveled but we were playing all cover music. My current band is actually guys from 20 years ago, it was and still is all original we never got to that signed level. We did a lot of opening for acts in town though.
That's funny. Bass players being "nice guys". It is an instrument most guys fall into I think. I actually wanted to drum and my best friend said "hey why don't you play bass?"
My answer?....."What's bass"? duh!
I glad I ended up on bass. Only 3 things to move and set up. Drums are complicated and a pain to move. And for most music bass lies somewhere between the drums and the other instruments. Kind of best of both worlds. I tend to really lock in with the drummer.
My favorite comment by a drummer is Stewart Copeland (The Police) in his documentary about the band (I forget the title) that he shot with a super 8mm camera. He said something like, "My drum kit started out pretty simple until I got a drum tech to set them up for me. As long as I don't have to move them and set them up I don't care how big the set gets."
