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Old 08-15-2013, 09:49 AM   #1
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Default Juan Alderete de la Peña recalls Zwan audition

Credit goes to The Machine Somehow blog for finding this. Interesting/funny/sad stuff.

http://pedalsandeffects.com/throwbac...igan-and-zwan/

 
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Old 08-15-2013, 10:12 AM   #2
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he should have known better, showing up with a dick.

 
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Old 08-15-2013, 10:22 AM   #3
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That's a pretty lame story, not even worth the effort he put into turning a one sentence story into six paragraphs.

 
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Old 08-15-2013, 12:56 PM   #4
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thank god he went to racer x / tmv instead

 
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Old 08-15-2013, 01:07 PM   #5
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That's a pretty lame story, not even worth the effort he put into turning a one sentence story into six paragraphs.
Yeah, seriously.

"Billy was a dick and didn't really care; I got to jam with Jimmy and met Matt."

 
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Old 08-15-2013, 01:27 PM   #6
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The Perry Farrell story is hilarious

 
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Old 08-15-2013, 01:27 PM   #7
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Old 08-15-2013, 03:25 PM   #8
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Yeah, seriously.

"Billy was a dick and didn't really care; I got to jam with Jimmy and met Matt."
It's really not even Billy was a dick though, it's more like I went to a cattle call and they treated me like I was at a cattle call.

 
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Old 08-15-2013, 03:27 PM   #9
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It's really not even Billy was a dick though, it's more like I went to a cattle call and they treated me like I was at a cattle call.
Dude... The guy was lying in the middle of the room getting a massage while the rest of the band jammed out with the guy rehearsing... How is that NOT being a dick?

 
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Old 08-16-2013, 01:34 AM   #10
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Dude... The guy was lying in the middle of the room getting a massage while the rest of the band jammed out with the guy rehearsing... How is that NOT being a dick?
I would do the same shit if I was a rock star.

 
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Old 08-16-2013, 10:39 AM   #11
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i sent paz the schoeps recordings of the first four shows before she joined zwan.

edit: she requested them.

 
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Old 08-16-2013, 11:20 AM   #12
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Dude... The guy was lying in the middle of the room getting a massage while the rest of the band jammed out with the guy rehearsing... How is that NOT being a dick?
Not exactly. He was bullshitting with them while Corgan got his massage; Corgan stopped the massage to jam. Perfectly reasonable.

And hey we don't know the other side of the story here. Maybe Corgan was up all night writing Yeah, Baby Let's Rock, and Endless Summer and really needed a message; or maybe Corgan didn't even feel an audition was even necessary because he took one look at the bassist, saw he didn't have boobs, and knew he wasn't the one?

 
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Old 08-16-2013, 11:31 PM   #13
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It sounds like that massage gal was just there as a courtesy service from A&R. True, I see how that accentuates the perception of inordinate privilege given to the very people who least need any more special privilege...BUT IT'S A FREE FUCKING MASSAGE. Like, who wouldn't accept that? Just imagining that, it feels soooo good...

 
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Old 08-17-2013, 07:40 AM   #14
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Or maybe the story is exaggerated and it had nothing to with label and it was just a friend of Billys rubbing his shoulders.

The whole story is one long desperate attempt to try inflate his own importance and make a perfectly normal situation sound like some sort of over the top rock star ego trip decadence.

 
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Old 08-20-2013, 09:40 AM   #15
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I'm not saying that Billy's actions were as "over-the-top" as this guy is making them sound, but it was an audition. In particular, it was an audition for a band Billy was starting. It seems like it would be common courtesy to at least pretend like you're interested in the person auditioning.

 
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Old 08-20-2013, 12:56 PM   #16
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I'm not saying that Billy's actions were as "over-the-top" as this guy is making them sound, but it was an audition. In particular, it was an audition for a band Billy was starting. It seems like it would be common courtesy to at least pretend like you're interested in the person auditioning.
Let me guess you have never been to an audition for anything in your life?

 
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Old 08-24-2013, 09:32 PM   #17
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Still the golden age before fat Billy

 
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Old 08-24-2013, 10:22 PM   #18
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still, alderete would have been a interesting bass player for zwan. he did a great job with mars volta - rip

 
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Old 08-24-2013, 11:37 PM   #19
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sounds like the process that happened last time ... "bassist auditions, everybody! everybody apply we need bassists here... oh nvm here's the chick from that one band." i thought that was kind of a dick thing

 
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Old 08-28-2013, 11:29 AM   #20
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writing Yeah, Baby Let's Rock
c'mon
c'mon an feelalo
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Old 08-28-2013, 11:58 AM   #21
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sounds like the process that happened last time ... "bassist auditions, everybody! everybody apply we need bassists here... oh nvm here's the chick from that one band." i thought that was kind of a dick thing
same with the drummer thing

 
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