And maybe that's why when I search the Craigslist > Iowa City > Musicians page for "drummer" and see the following, I feel a little sad:
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| Drummer Wanted - Empty! |
I will say when I read for the Quad Cities-based band 50 Shades of Rock, I felt like I would be the perfect drummer for them, especially when I read this blurb:
We play the songs in the original keys with the original arrangements and the vocals/guitar solos are strict interpretations.
It made me think that Uncle Rico the Band and 50 Shades of Rock would have been a great 1-2 punch in a bar as Uncle Rico the Band played strict interpretations as well, which is not a bad thing, per se. If I talk about Uncle Rico the Band, I talk about just how awesome playing with them made me as a drummer because I had to be 'ready to go' at rehearsal. If there were tunes I needed to work on between the previous practice and the next practice, it was in my best interest to have done so. I am not being negative about the other 3 in the band - it was a sense of being prepared to work out the parts that were giving me difficulty at the last practice, which required me to know how I was going to play it. I can liken it to how if a guitarist says he's going to learn the solo for a tune at practice on November 1 and then the band practices again on November 15th, the expectation of the other band members would be that the guitarist has learned the solo for that tune - he made a promise to his bandmates. The same was true for me and Uncle Rico the Band with difficult-for-me-parts being promised as what I would hammer out prior to the next rehearsal. Kind of a convoluted way of saying, "Do what you promise to do."
I'm not going to try to be the drummer for 50 Shades of Rock for a very good reason. In 2018, they scheduled 25 gigs, which is double, plus 1, the number of gigs I'd like to play in a year. Here's when they played, plus the 2 remaining gigs in 2018:
- JAN 6
- JAN 13
- FEB 3
- FEB 10
- MAR 30
- APR 27
- MAY 5
- MAY 26
- JUN 2
- JUN 16
- JUN 22
- JUN 30
- JUL 5
- JUL 14
- JUL 27
- AUG 3
- AUG 4
- AUG 10
- AUG 24
- SEP 15
- SEP 29
- OCT 13
- OCT 27
- NOV 30
- DEC 21
That said, they did play at J&A Tap in North Liberty:
https://www.facebook.com/50ShadesofRockQC/videos/627292547448550/
Here's the entire ad for 50 Shades of Rock below.
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