Summary: I am in a band that likes to fire people. We've gone through a drummer and a guitar player. Here are some tips I've picked up for doing auditions. 1. Give them three songs to learn of different styles. 2. Make sure the band knows those songs. 3. When they arrive explain how you will run these three songs. 4. If the songs go ok, you can "wing it" and "jam" or whatever. If things are not going good, you can thank them for their time, and let them go. We didn't do these and we had a drummer who couldn't sing, show up and he hadn't learned any of our songs, and wanted us to play music from the band foreigner. It went on WAAAY too long, and we know he wasn't a good fit after the third song.
