I've got a new one... it's only developed in the last 48 hours
Bands who take ages to clear the stage. Two nights in a row I've had gigs with Skullfunk. Both nights had a fifteen minute changeover period between bands... and both nights the bands before us took longer than that just to get off the stage. They hadn't got tons of gear or anything, it was purely due to fucking about O_o

Last night's took the biscuit: the guitarist carefully sorted out all his cables, packed everything away neatly, boxed up his pedals, made sure everything was put neatly away, then left the stage. Oh, and then came back to get his amplifier. Total elapsed time: about twenty minutes. Luckily we set up really quickly.
Don't get me wrong; I make sure all my gear is properly packed away, but get it all off the stage asap then sort it out in the backstage room, so that the next band has got time to set up.

/rant
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Sat 6 Oct 2012, 12:32, 13 replies)

One of the reasons Slash turned his back on Guns and Roses I seem to have read
He got completely fucked off with Axel taking the piss out of their audiences or something
( Jahled Three shades of black, Sat 6 Oct 2012, 12:34, closed)

That, and his ginger pubes

(McChinaman banned, Sun 7 Oct 2012, 3:32, closed)

I have someone do that sort of thing for me, while I'm lapping up the adoration of the audience, and selecting which girls I'm going to have sex with.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Sat 6 Oct 2012, 12:34, closed)

Me too
Oh no wait. That's not me, it's someone else
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Sat 6 Oct 2012, 13:33, closed)

Nah
Bands who take longer to soundcheck than their actual set and stop you getting a soundcheck at all. You wouldn't think it was possible to spend twenty five minutes tuning a guitar. It is. I have seen it done.
(Rise and Fall of the Atomic Cabbage Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?, Sat 6 Oct 2012, 15:18, closed)

Yeah that happened last night as well.
Twenty fucking minutes with a Les Paul and a Marshall JVM head, a shitload of stompboxes and a barrage of "More guitar in the monitors please", "There's too much bass", fiddling with his amp, fiddling with his guitar, tweaking his pedals and still ending up with a trebly, piss-weak gutless sound... O_o
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Sat 6 Oct 2012, 16:01, closed)

Did they also have a keyboard player with all the skills of Linda McCartney, a woman who sang through a megaphone, and a dressmaker's dummy with a TV screen balanced on top showing random shots of people's heads while they performed?

Because if so, we supported these guys too, and I feel your pain.
(Rise and Fall of the Atomic Cabbage Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?, Sun 7 Oct 2012, 16:00, closed)

Hahaha, nope.
They had a guitarist/vocalist who didn't sound very good...
A bass player who'd forgotten about moving any part of him except his hands and who frankly looked as bored as me...
And a semi-decent drummer
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Tue 9 Oct 2012, 10:10, closed)

"I Make sure all of my gear is properly packed away"
That's not very RocK n' Roll is it?

Shouldn't you trash your kit and set fire to the stage?
(Nitrous Nitrous, Sat 6 Oct 2012, 16:45, closed)

Well yeah, but it gets expensive

(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Sun 7 Oct 2012, 13:54, closed)

& your myspace page is?

(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Sat 6 Oct 2012, 19:06, closed)

Ha, I just had to Google that, to see if we actually have a myspace page.
Do you really want to know?
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Sun 7 Oct 2012, 13:54, closed)

I've met
promoters who still ask you for your myspace page as a matter of course and look at you funny if you say you haven't got one, as if thinking "How the hell can a band not have a myspace page in this the wonderful 21st century? Do they think Spandau Ballet still rule the charts?"
(Rise and Fall of the Atomic Cabbage Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?, Sun 7 Oct 2012, 16:25, closed)