Posted this ad on Craigslist...and got the following "responces".
Hell, here we go again. Our band is The Cheatin' Hearts. We're hopin' there's a bassist and a guitarist (fiddle and steel would be great, too) somewhere around here who like and play real Honky Tonk Country music (Haggard, All Three Hanks, Waylon, George Jones, Johnny Paycheck, etc.). It might piss some of the hippies and "players" around here off, but we don't want a "Jammer," or any white blues guys. Might as well tell you the rest up front: We play out of town (Reno, Tahoe, Sacramento, Redding) on the weekends frequently. We take whatever little money we make and put it back into promotion. We are uncompromising about a few things:
1. We don't want someone in fifty different bands...or even one other band.
2. We don't play fuckin' Steve Miller or The Grateful Dead or anything remotely akin to that.
3. Working equipment, ability to support yourself, and transportation are a must.
4. We know a hell of a lot of songs, but focus on our twenty or so originals.
5. We play bars.
respond to
www.myspace.com/bastardmuses.
Now, for the "responces," which are fucking hilarious.
IMHO you have way more in commond with the Greatful Dead ( I was friends with the band) than any "REAL" country ARTIST who's tunes youv'e ripped off and buthcher.
You might just wanna wait your turn like everyone else here on the surface of the planet.
Go home (if you have one) and get your s### together cause your scaring the horses, with your I'm gonna fu##### make this square peg fit into this G## Da## round hole mantality.
That doesn't really work anywhere thesedays, actually it never worked anywhere...ever.
There is a reason no body wants to play with ya, just go take a good long look in the mirror and possibly get your act together man. Your a discrase to good ol' country and western music, oh an by the way... you aint Haggard dude. I grew up playing that great music for a living in public for money, where real people dance and depend on the band to not wreck their favorite song, and they would kick yo arse if you didn't do it justice! Those guys didn't become stars cause they were drunk, it's the other way around, you freakin DORK.
First you have to pay your dues, nobody rides for free... NOBODY especially anyone other than a hot babe, go look again DORK, hairy tits... next... wrong type here it's a dude trying to get a free ride. That might work in prison.
If this isn't enought to piss off every musician in town enough to go practice harder than ever, make amends with your old friends, mend your fences, get it together practice, work it out, be responsable, play good whatever your style is, do it with style and have some grace while your at it.
When did being LAME become acceptable????
What happend to pride in musicianship? there is no ALMOST in music or IT"S KINDA LIKE THAT...in music, there is only good or bad.
It all comes from within, a reflexction of the real you.
You can not polish a t*rd.
You have to earn the public's respect (and your own self respect, if youve ever had any), you do not get respect be ridiculling others into slave labor, so you can continue to be a drunk in denial of reality an embarassment to society.
Do you post these adds with a cell phone drunk at the bar at 1:00 pm cause they just told you you could play tonight....jesus save me now, I'm ready, an I do not like religions.
It's gonna be 2010 in 6-7 weeks WAKE UP PEOPLE it's time to clean house, or were all gonna be slaves to people who would love to make you suffer worse than youv'e ever heard of....IMHO.
What a terrible add, discraceful at the least, unacceptable at best.
You have become an embarassment to attempt to pass yourself off as musicians. The drummer is guilty by association as well. Unbeleivable..
and, this...
Well In defense of Felix and of the poster.: Felix's ads do come off harsh, but he is only trying to get his point across.
He should not insult the white man blues of Steve Miller or the Dave Gleason sound of the Gratefull Dead. That is just wrong Mr Felix.
But truth be known, Mr Felix does not even play real country music. Sure he play's some of the tunes but his style comes with no dimension.
He plays nothing but four on the floor, straight ahead, fast songs all in F major or B flat. No Waltz's, cha cha's or fast
shuffles.As a person who worked
the real country honky tonks for decades i can tell you his music more resembles a Gratefull dead jam sound then that of Merle Haggard .
I personally never liked the Gratefull dead but i have heard their music .Felix should call his band and music "Dead Country".
I would encourage people that like the Dead to go see The Cheatin Hearts and I would invite those that wanna hear real honky tonk
to go seek out a guy from Los Molinos named Teddy Fox.
These are copied verbatim! Anyone want to move to Chico?