I feel like the unluckiest man on Sup Forums

I feel like the unluckiest man on Sup Forums

>be me in band
>been in band for five years (was a founding member)
>some small gigs but not enough to make real money
>find out in February this year that a relatively medium large indie label is interested in signing and promoting us
>holy shit, all these years weren't wasted maybe, everything is going to be okay perhaps
>main songwriters of the band are finalising talks (I'm the drummer)
>we've actually done it, we're going in to talk to some bigwigs next week
>i haven't been this happy in my whole life, my friends and I are ACTUALLY going to make music as a job
>other members call a band meeting
>they tell me they have concerns about my drumming ability and my image, they love me but they aren't sure it 'fits'
>tell they are auditioning for a new drummer
>I burst in to tears, this has been my life's dream and music is all I really care about
>they say sorry and tell me not to show up to the meeting with the label bigwigs
>feel like killing myself, everything was golden, I was happy for the first time in years and I was so excited at the prospect of actually making a living through music and they just snuffed out my dreams because of my 'image'
>am now 28, with no qualifications, no band and no job

I want to die.

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what the fuck

expose their asses

kill them

these people are fucks, I'm very sorry user :(

make them suffer slow deaths OP

I got a similar story
>be drummer
>fly from britain to fucking hamburg in germany to join a band
>we're not sucessful but keep playing anyways
>they replace me with new drummer and become famous for some shitty love popsong

You can either sue them or killl them

honestly if this is true, the only thing you can do is pull a dave mustaine and start an even more successful band

of course your chances of actually pulling that off are pretty tiny since you're a drummer, not a singer and you're definitely not as talented as dave.

but go for it man. revenge is the best medicine

t.pete best

try being a better drummer maybe? practice like 7 hours a day

Don't they legally have to pay you a certain amount if they kick you out as opposed to you willingly leaving? I'd check up with a solicitor on that sort of thing if I were you.

Become Robbie Williams, he's been dumped by Take that in a simmilar way but became even bigger.
Why would they care about ''image'' when they haven't made a single concert yet? If it's really about image, why not changing it? You can be fat and ugly but a proffesional can make you look like a rockstar with a lil bit of make up, clothes, haitcut, accesories, that's exactly how it works in showbiz.
But honestly getting signed doesn't mean much, especially for an indie band, 5 years is a big term, if your(band's) music would have been good enough, you'd be already rocking on stage

solution is simple, outlive them all out of spite

Getting drunk, crash the meeting and piss on everyone in the room.

bullshit, no one gives a fuck about image of some gay up and coming band

also no ones gives a shit about what drummers look like

This may not really make you feel any better, but for what it's worth:
Those people are cunts. It's already been said in the thread, but they're are straight up wankers. If they had concerns about you, they should have brought it up with you, but instead they couldn't grow a pair and face you about it, so instead they went behind your back to auditions straight away. In the long run, you wouldn't want to be in a band with them anyway.

Godspeed, I hope you can find another way to pursue your passion

become a better drummer than whatever drummer replaces you and then find a way to reaudition to your old bandmates. Chances are they'll prefer you because you're a Day 1er from their POV, and they'll want you back. And you'll be a better drummer

disregard this - didn't realise that it was your bandmates and not the bigwigs booting you out

use this as "sad backstory" for your wikipedia page when you become 1000x more successful than them

OP do you need somebody to talk to? I don't know how much help I or anyone else would be but there are definitely people here for you.

wasn't meant to be a reply to sorry

Ask them why the fuck they didn't mention it until they had already started looking for a replacement

Duder, this isn't 1992, signing with a label isn't a step forward. You are fortunate to be escaping the rape.

Ok Ringo, go to bed

Do a Dave Mustaine and make a better band, also if they use any of your songs sue for royalties, what was your band called?

t. Chad Channing

Pete please

>even more successful band
Are you implying Megadeth is more successful than Metallica?

Funny but true

just continue drumming, start a new band, FUCK THEIR FACES WHEN YOU MAKE IT BIG AND THEY HAVE TO ASK YOU FOR A TOUR SPOT

Haha, dude you say it as if you've been kicked out from fucking U2 or smth, chill, they're not gonna make it anyway, at least further than your hometown

Are you fat or balding?

Without Megadeth, you don't have Burzum

I suppose he's managed to embarass himself less since the 80's ended, is that a good revenge?

>Metallica have 4 good album
>Megadeth have 6 good albums
I'm not the user you replied to and while Metallica have more money than Megadeth they aren't as good

Dave please leave

Part of me wants to say things like get a haircut and practise more, but I don't know how bad or good you are at drumming and how bad or good your 'look' is, so yeah tough shit man. But I'm kind of reading like it might not be too late yet? As in, they haven't replaced you yet but are auditioning, so maybe you could try to convince them? Otherwise fuck 'em, they're gonna play shitty venues for 50 dollars + gas for the next years and then have huge gaps in their resumes.

No, fuck off Lars.

Start a new band, I'll join, where you at?

Name of band? OP FUCKING COMEBACK AND ANSWER OR YOUR BAND WILL BE THE NEXT STROKES

>Name of band
Pussy lips, from Portland, Oregon.

>memey ass indie rock band name
>memey ass hometown
Yeah you dodged a bullet. Was the frontman either a woman or PoC?

She's the manliest member of the band, the band name was her idea.

ew holy shit

Want to know if someone is creative and capable of making art that isn't 100% derivative? Check their band name. If it's two words and begins or ends with "pussy" (Mannequin Pussy, Thunderpussy, perfect pussy) then you have the answer

That's true user.It's always the singer.

Should've been a better drummer/less shit of a person. Mainly though you should've been in more than one band, you were basically asking to get your life fucked by putting all your eggs in one poorly-made basket like you did

>implying that anyone cares what the drummer looks like
>kicking you out of your own band

i hope they fail

name band and let Sup Forums destroy them publicity by accusing every single member of rape.

Thanks, OP, I will be sure to check them out, since they care about the quality of their musicians enough to replace them when necessary.

Those people are cunts OP, don't let them destroy your future man

start practicing 4 hours a day and join a new band

>havign a gril in yr band


one way ticket to drama central

>concerns about my drumming ability and my image
You suck at playing drums and you look like shit
>I want to die
Might as well

What's wrong with your image? Try to be as brutally honest with yourself as possible.

Who cares about getting signed in 2017? You're working in a dead genre in a dead scene, probably making regressive music that was done better 20 years ago. You need to step back and think.

Huh I live near there. Haven't heard em.

id rather die than be in a band with that person

She's a leader by nature. What struck me the most, she clamed my ''image didn't fit the band'', while she always appeared on sessions with hairy armpits and greasy hair, sweating like a horse.

>be casual guitarist and a decent tech
>friend hit me up
>"our fucking guitar tech just broke 3 fingers can you do us a solid?"
>head out to the venue that night
>they were opening for motherfucking every time i die

Grabbed my copy of Ex Lives out of the car and got it signed by the band, what a good fuckin day.

this

thats feminism

its hip

its cool

its in

>resume

do you have a picture of all of them?

Fuck 'em, total bunch of fucking losers. If they were willing to sell you down the river, especially as a founding member, then they weren't real bandmates to begin with. Start something new, something better. Maybe not so much out of spite but out of the necessity to not kill yourself. It's trying times like these that make or break people. Pick one.

You should expose them when they release their LP, make sure they get shit on and thrown out of the scene

Hahaha, spotted!
OP is a cuck faggot, not realizing he's too old for that kids, prob got labled as pedo creep(those glasses thou), pretty obvious, band wasn't quite comfortable having this big guy playing music for 15yolds

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>feel bad for op

>get emotionally involved with story of betrayal

>see pic posted above this post

>BUST UP LAUGHING

"These are the breaks..."

How do you know it's OP?

if your band members are willing to kick you out because of your "image" then fuck them. they don't care about music or having fun obviously, they're just in it for success or money. i would suggest you go on social media and explain what happened and expose what kind of people they are.

if he got a haircut and black-rimmed glasses he'd be indistinguishable from like weezer or whoever

not buying this story

Exactly my thoughts. If that is OP in then his image really shouldn't be that detrimental to the band. He looks like a generic 30 year old indie musician.

at least you look decent.

Had something similar to op's situation happen to me. Shit really stung because I thought that the guys were my close friends, but apparently they thought that I looked that bad for the band image or whatever. I am admittedly a little overweight and wear glasses, and didn't fit the kind of punk alt rock image they were going for, but I could have tried to change my appearance if they had just asked. Still, it fucked me up pretty bad. I feel for you OP, I would just say to forget them, but I know from experience that it isn't that easy to do. Try to move on and make them regret kicking you out. That's what I have been doing and even if you aren't successful, it still is very good motivation to keep working at trying to improve yourself.

Maybe you should've learned songwriting?

>"punk"
>crafting and caring about their image
lol'd out loud

kek

Ask the band if they need two drummers

That's what my thought was, but they were more into looking like they didn't give a fuck instead of actually not giving a fuck. I didn't look like a member of the strokes so I got the boot.

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Name those 10 good albums

How the hell would you know that's OP?

two questions OP
-How did you spend 5 years thinking those people were your friends ?
-Why do you dream of one thing and count on only one project which furthermore relies on other people to follow this dream ?

You could kill yourself, or, maybe, start your own project and in the future think twice before you call someone friend and put your dreams in his/her hands.

Op start your own band using helium to change your voice, you know it gets kinda tuned from helium, it's pretty funny and original.