Funny audition stories?

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danyeo":2mzi7gv3 said:
I was in a band back in the 90's and we were looking for a singer. A friend of a friend wanted to try out so we tell him when and where. We were playing before the guy showed up but he walked in while we were playing. He's wearing ragged clothes and looks like OJ's buddy Kato Kaelin. He's got a 40oz beer with him, he grabs the mic and screams for 20 seconds straight, sits down on the coach and watches us finish the song. Then he left, that was it. We all stood around and said WTF was that?
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That guy is AWESOME! :lol: :LOL:
 
Once, I auditioned for my own one man all star basement jamming band. I didn't get the gig :doh:
 
We've been auditioning singers for about 8 months now w/ no luck. We had this one dude get in touch w/ me who lives in Jersey and had a 45 min commute to get to practice. We talked on the phone for a while he seemed pretty cool so we had him come and try out. We were practicing at my Firehouse and this kid shows up. We are all jeans and tshirt type guys. He gets out of his car wearing hippy moc/sock/shoe type things, Girl Pants, a muscle shirt, and bracelets all the way up his arms to go along with his sleeve tattoos. So he really didn't seem like our type of guy, but we don't hate we started talking to him... he said he had a dead on Anthony Green (Saosin) style of voice and and had tight screams of all ranges. So we go in and start playing, showed him the stuff we had written. He said he really liked it and wanted to take some time to work out lyrics for one of them. we said we wanted to hear him before we gave hime any of our files.

So he prefaced his singing with "I don't like to write and sing about all that high school girlfriend lovey dovey type shit. I write stuff thats really deep and makes you think." I got excited cause it sounded like the angle we were going for and then he began to "sing" and the off the top lyrics he made up were as follows - "Girl..... Give me you Love, You are my world, Oh Girl..."

As soon as he finished all I could hear was the chief of my station laughing hysterically from the other room... I could easily compare this kid to a dying giraffe that had been lit on fire. What are these people thinking? :doh:
 
My band was looking for a lead singer. I go to this dudes house in Anahiem and he playes for me, my song. Its got my old singer on it but the guys is claiming its his voice.......... :confused: :confused: :confused: . I explain to him its my song and he clammers a bit and says. "well my voice is just like JJ's" (the real singers name)

another one in Anaheim, I go there, its 86 87 so image is eveyrthing. Dude has short nerdy hair but points to a wig in the corner.
 
We had one dude show up to audition for bass, and showed up w/o any equiptment and asked if we had a bass and amp he could use....
 
ashesofphoenix":30461nia said:
I could easily compare this kid to a dying giraffe that had been lit on fire.
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Grade A Quality sig material!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :hys:
 
I auditioned for prong once. Tommy victor shows up like in these Hawaiian shorts and shirt with flip flops. Was not expecting that! Super nice guy. We were talking and we both had daughters from former wives in Indiana. His talking voice was also not what I expected. But man when he cranked look out!
 
We practice at my house so I'm usually pretty diligent about talking on the phone first and screening people, but it doesn't always work.

We've had people;

Ask if they could live in the practice space
Show up with an entourage
Shoot up in the corner. "Gotta get right, man"
Arrive with two full stacks
Show up without equipment
Show up drunk
and one that walked in, looked around and walked out without saying a word.

Always an experience.
 
I really wish I had video of this, but all I have is the audio recordings. About 6 years ago, my buddy and I auditioned this singer for a project that we were working on. He shows up, we are hanging out, whatever. We told him to learn Master of Puppets. He, apparently, did not lol. Anyway, he started singing, and it turned out pretty hilarious for us. He was bald and had a huge vein coming out of his forehead. Also, his whole face turned red hahaha.

This is one of our songs that he put vocals to and sent us later...



Heres some stuff he just sang...



and, of course, master of puppets...



I thank this dude frequently for bringing lulz to every one who has seen this for the past 6 years lol.
 
I have the ULTIMATE audition story! Honestly, you can't make this kind of stuff up.

When I still lived in Minneapolis/St Paul area, my singer and I were auditioning drummers. We placed a CL add and got quite a bit of calls since we were both in bands prior that were popular in the area.

So we go to this one drummer's house to check him out. He calls himself "Fat Pat". Sure enough he was quite a large dude,lol. We go to his basement and I set up my halfstack and tune up, all the while he's fiddling with his kick pedal and telling us stories about how he toured with Iced Earth and lived in the singer's basement, how his drum kit belonged to Keith Moon, and then here's the kicker...

That he did all the studio drumming on Fear Factory's Obsolete!!! (or maybe he said Demanufacture):lol: :LOL: :scared: :doh:

WTF?!

All this and he still hadn't even played a beat. I started getting pissed and told him to just shut up and play something and when he finally did, he couldn't even play A SINGLE BEAT!!! Nothing! Not even Beatles or Aerosmith caliber drumming. It sounded like be had NEVER touched a drum set in his life.

Dude was insane and a compulsive liar. We got out of there pretty quick after that and went to the bar and got WASTED. :lol: :LOL:
 
We placed an add in the local paper looking for a singer in 1991. One dude showed up wearing leather chaps, a leather vest and MANY bandanas. He was carrying two cases. He opened one case that held his microphone and the second that held a leather glove that he placed on the hand that he held the mic with. He dance around the rehearsal hall like Billy Squire while singing our songs. I can’t describe in words how funny this dude was.
 
rbasaria":2t227f7o said:
and, of course, master of puppets...
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Holy shit that was rough. Chop yo breakfastes on uh mirrah was my favorite.
 
The Country/Classic Rock band I was in for the last five years had three different fill-in drummers over a two month period. They were incredible "Rock" players, but couldn't play a "Cha-Cha", "Waltz" or other country type beats at all? :confused: Thank god our regular guy got healthy again..... Kinda cracks me up when a drummer says country music is boring because it's too simple. It's really not as simple as it may sound. ;)
 
tweed":a9897ea4 said:
this thread is almost as epic as the shart thread a while back :rock:
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Shart thead? I must have missed that one. I CAN contribute to that. :lol: :LOL: Everytime I've been over Ralph's I've cleared a room. :lol: :LOL:
 
I've auditioned 2 different drummers that said they dont like songs with repeating parts like choruses and verses. They could have saved us some time and trouble if they would have listened to our material before they came to the audition... Lol!
 
Great stuff in here guys. I seriously LOL'd at a lot of it. We have a bass player coming to audition tonight so hopefully I won't be able to add to this later. :confused:

Raf, that is a new level of HORRIBLE. :lol: :LOL: Surprised I have not seen that before.
 
Our band (currently in a state of limbo :( ) auditioned a bass player a couple of years ago. We met him at a gig and sent him the stuff before his audition. So the guy turns up, seems nice enough, plugs in...and doesn't play a note. At all. For the whole rehearsal. He just stood there kinda looking at his shoes. We all started chatting amongst ourselves as normal, and by the end it was as if he wasn't there. Hilarious. Why do people do these things?!

-C
 
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