He's a guitarist and writes his own tunes for his own band as well, so hopefully he doesn't have a bad case of LSD (lead singer disease) :lol:
Oooo noo! That
could be worse - "singer/songwriter looking for backing band" syndrome!! :lol: (That was my particular, er, "social problem")
On the ego front though, everyone needs to remember that those "singer egos" are quite fragile (we are aware, subconsciously at least, that we are actually just con-artists who can sing a bit). And that's why the vocalist in one's band can seem so @rsey sometimes - bigheaded bluster to cover up basic insecurity.
Unfortunately, if the singer's any good, the rest of the band
needs that ego and needs to learn to live with it, massage it when necessary, deflate it during rehearsals, but
never damage it permanently - it's the oversized ego, the over-inflated sense of self-worth, and the need for adulation that enables the front man/woman to do the job...
Just think of the "great" frontmen - Freddie, Mick, Dave Lee Roth, Bono (don't like him, but he's good), etc, etc, etc... I only really know details about Freddie Mercury, but I guess they were all capable of being complete tw@ts behind the scenes, acting like stars even before they were. Without that special god-given "tw@t-factor", we would never have heard of any of them (nor, probably, any of their colleagues who played the accompanying banjos etc...) :lol:
But the flip side of the coin (for any of you lead vocalists out there), you've got to watch yourself for the prima-donna behaviour, it really winds the the other band-members up. Don't let it get to you, because the "tw@t-factor" is a good thing for the band as a whole, but every now and then you need to try to see yourself through their eyes...
Of course, I only figured this out
after I'd stopped playing/singing in bands... :roll: And, to be fair, it was my ex-drummer who taught me that he'd learnt that as long as I was winding people up he knew I was still capable of doing the frontman bit in public...
(Not sure why my wife puts up with this behaviour nowadays though! :lol:)
