This show went really well. It wasn't nearly as good as I wanted it to be, but it went pretty well.
But what was wrong? It had a ton of energy, a lot of people went to it, and it's me playing Metallica.
Yes, all of those are true, but we also had to deal with a bunch of dumb stuff that shouldn't have happened.
We played Sad But True, and that song is in D. Whenever the SoR has a song that in a tuning like that, the director usually just says, "F*ck it" and has the kids play it in standard. I convinced our director to play it in D, because it would otherwise just kill whoever was going to be the singer (which originally was me, actually)
But, showday comes, and at least two of the kids are tuned wrong. One kid is tuned in C for some bizarre reason that I still don't understand, and another was tuned to standard because he wasn't listening because he's dumb. I'm not happy with that kid. He'd been rehearsing that song for months, and he didn't tune down. That leads me to believe that people had been holding his hand and doing stuff for him such as guitar maintenance, which includes tuning for me. THAT IS UNACCEPTABLE. FAILURE. GET OUT.
But I can't tell him that, because he's already on stage looking like a moron. So, our director unplugged him, and took his guitar to tune it. On top of that, the kid with tuned to C was never fixed, and the song never ended properly. It just kind of ended right before the bridge where the vocals echo "I'm your dream, I'm your eyes, I'm your pain." btdubs, even when they did play that part right, they didn't do the callback right. THENOTESAREN'TTHESAMENOTESFORTHECALLBACKWHATISWRONGWITHYOUKOFDBMDUBFMDFMBZ
I was upset. So what else went wrong?
Well, for the second showing, the tuning wasn't an issue, and that song actually didn't sound terrible, but one of the main drummers of the show got sick, and we had to scramble to fill in his parts. That wasn't fun. And most of the songs that people covered for him on sounded not very good. On top of that, the sick drummer is one of my best friends when it comes to playing music. I love playing with him more than I love playing with most people. We just kinda connect, you know?
I was upset. But hey...Master Of Puppets was really good... and so was Creeping Death.
...Master didn't make Best of Season, though.
...that upset me.
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