A couple posts ago I put up the Craigslist ad that my other band Flapjaks posted in our search for a female vocalist. True to Craigslist form, responses to our post were rapid and numerous; I took the post down after only two days, because by then we already had more interested folks than we could possibly audition. I pointed interested responders to this site to listen to samples of our music. I warned them that our samples are rough and that this site was my personal blog and explicitly stated that it would probably be in their best interests to ignore my rants. … seems reasonable right!?!
Well I noticed a marked reduction in correspondence frequency regarding our search AFTER I sent the emails pointing our candidates to this site. Could it really be our music? Perhaps. But after our second audition last night, a second, more plausible explanation came to my mind. The candidate hinted that, after taking a peek at this site to hear the samples, she really didn’t know what she should expect. Perhaps the portrait, in my profile, of that mulleted creature and his offspring that I pass of as my own may have elicited the slightest hint of doubt in our promise as a band.
TO ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE NOT YET MET ME FACE-TO-FACE:
While the portrait contained in the “Profile” section does accurately convey my electronic persona, it is not an accurate rendering of my physical appearance.
Anyway, we hope that our vocalist search is over. The female who auditioned last night is better than what we had hoped.
2 replies on “DUMB MOVE”
Seems to me you did exactly the right thing! This way it’s a two step audition process — first they look at your blog, and if they’re too dense or have zero sense of humor, they won’t be any fun to play with anyway, so it’s just as well….
The only way it could backfire is if they had no sense of humor AND they wanted to play in a rock + folk act with that hillbilly. Then you’re screwed…
Oh Thug! You’re just the prettiest little german shepherd in person! Rough but classy. What kind of crack-nut would have a problem with your long blonde mullet and your carnie-baby? Squares is all! You just keep on rockin’ and don’t let no one tell you that cracked tooth ain’t cute!