god if it's hard to start a new band...

[dheim]

after the band i was playing with split up - i went away and the other guitarist followed in a couple of weeks... - i've begun to play with a brand new band. original material, in the vein of paradise lost and katatonia... i didn't write anything yet but - strangely enough - i liked the songs anyway...
BUT they rehearsed on a fixed day, and being turn-based my work doesn't allow me to do it EVERY DAMN TIME. so i just discovered that the guys (well, the drummer swears he knew nothing and i can believe it) worked to replace me without telling me anything. and i don't think they would have told me until they found someone else...
and this quite pissed me off.

so goodbye to another band.

i'm starting to loose hope, this damn work will keep me out of business FOREVER, i fear... and there's plenty of borious wannabe-professionals out there...
if only they played like professionals, at least...

[ailean]

That sucks dude, sorry to hear it.  :(

[Twinfan]

Maybe they realised your job was the problem, you couldn't fix that, so looked for a replacement.  If they'd told you what they were doing, would you have felt any better?  I doubt it.

Bad news though, and I'm sorry for you  :(

[nfe]

Making music via the internet is the answer. Or so I have decided.

[_tom_]

I hate trying to find a band its so much hassle. I dont think I know anyone into the sort of stuff I really want to play either so its a bit of a lost cause. I can do it myself at home (only instrumental though) but playing to programmed drums gets dull.

Making music via the internet is the answer. Or so I have decided.

Sort of but its just not the same :(

[Henk]

Well, to be honest....

I always have been in bands from my 16th till i was 32, then my family and work demanded too much of me so i had to stop.

Somehow writing stuff got me involved in new projects/bands and gigging my stuff led to new opportunities.

Kind of a mayor deal was the writing, any decent and self respecting band plays their own stuff for a mayor part at least IMHO.

Thinking back maybe it al evolved during the time i played in a band that REALLY worked. You know, the kind that make you nearly drop unconcious after giving 'it all' during a gig.

Still its all about making music IMO, and i am not the sort of guitarist that kept himself busy with gear or forum, but sat down in the street with an acoustic guitar and just PLAYED for the people passing by.

Some message is in here i hope, just do and stop thinking about stuff so much, obviously ive got burned too AND got flamed at(especially when i got to writing bass and drum parts MUHAHAHAHAAHAHAAAAA 8) ), but always seemed to go on trying to do something people found worthwhile to listen to.

[Twinfan]

Kind of a mayor deal was the writing, any decent and self respecting band plays their own stuff for a mayor part at least IMHO.

So there are no decent and self respecting covers bands out there?  :roll:

I completely disagree.

[nfe]

Kind of a mayor deal was the writing, any decent and self respecting band plays their own stuff for a mayor part at least IMHO.

So there are no decent and self respecting covers bands out there?  :roll:

I completely disagree.

Of course not, clearly less than 1% of professional musicans are decent and self respecting.

[Henk]

Kind of a mayor deal was the writing, any decent and self respecting band plays their own stuff for a mayor part at least IMHO.

So there are no decent and self respecting covers bands out there?  :roll:

I completely disagree.

Of course not, clearly less than 1% of professional musicans are decent and self respecting.

Clearly 99% of the professional musicians feeds their ego and their wallet copying what some great players put down on music. Lets charge all cover bands for playing the real musicians property!

[Dr. Vic]

Maybe they realised your job was the problem, you couldn't fix that, so looked for a replacement.  If they'd told you what they were doing, would you have felt any better?  I doubt it.

Maybe it wouldn't have change anything at the end, but playing in a band is for having good time with people at first, imo. So I think that not having telling him what they were doing is not fair, and that's what sucks here, more than the fact of leaving the band, at least that how I understand it.

Sorry Dude ! And good luck with your next band !



 

[dheim]

Maybe they realised your job was the problem, you couldn't fix that, so looked for a replacement.  If they'd told you what they were doing, would you have felt any better?  I doubt it.

Maybe it wouldn't have change anything at the end, but playing in a band is for having good time with people at first, imo. So I think that not having telling him what they were doing is not fair, and that's what sucks here, more than the fact of leaving the band, at least that how I understand it.

Sorry Dude ! And good luck with your next band !



 

you got the point...
the fact is that i'm not having any real fun with the bands i'm playing with lately...

one of the best experiences i had in these last years has been a really stupid rock-pop cover band i put up some year ago with some friend of mine... we began just to have some laugh and in the end we ended playing a lot of gigs - always keeping the original spirit... being not too serious also meant that we did a lot of "strange" things with arrangements... something worked great, something else not... but playing "loosing my religion" with gothic guitars or a doom version of "karmapolice", to name just a couple, was really funny!

[Twinfan]

That's the key thing - enjoy yourself!  If you're having fun, it'll rub off on the audience  :)

Hope you get something sorted soon  :D

[Muttley]

being not too serious also meant that we did a lot of "strange" things with arrangements... something worked great, something else not... but playing "loosing my religion" with gothic guitars or a doom version of "karmapolice", to name just a couple, was really funny!

Haha, sounds great.  Years ago, in my old punk band, we used to do a swing version of Enter Sandman which always went down well.  :)