Band organisation

er...i at one point, was in three bands at once. i was in a band with this guy i knew from school, clare and his girlfriend. i really liked the stuff we were making but it seems he was an a*s and stole all our songs which he then claimed as his own unfortunately i found them on the internet the other day, alas the band has already broken up around christmas just gone
second band a band called neureal which we (me and a load of mates from school and college) went into twith the idea of creatign something a little unusal...we had two practices and things were going well i hadn't heard a genre that would fit what we made but i kinda lost interest in that band as did the guitarist i think although we do plan on getting that group back together.
third band at that time was caleld black rose. now this is the first band i was called in as a singer (something i've dreamed of and always wanted to do) and lyricist. so i jumped at that i knew the guitarist via english language lectures, we had no bassist for a while and had some practices without one it was all good and going well then we recruited a bassist who responded to an advert posted around college, he came along and is f*cking amazing to me. me and sam (bassist) got on really well better than anyone rreally goto n with martin (guitarist) who ran it as though it was his band and nothing else mattered. it was sh*tty after a while as he just wanted to re-create black sabbbath and i hate that, the bassist hated that, and the drummer although to cowardly to stand up to martin and tell him hates it too. so me and the band split through artistic differences (then martin did somethign to p*ss me off which we wont go into) then just recently the bassist quit so now he has exactly what he started with.
the moral of this story? bands come and go but be perssistant and just keep making music, but be open minded try loads of things.
right now i am in an acoustic band where i sing now and we are in studio at the moment by tuesday after this tuesday coming we should have a finished e.p. then its up to working on live stuff so we can gig. we are all good mates, all open minded all willing to try anything. and its great fun. so keep plugging away. jus find peeps you know whop lay instruments and ask if they wanna play with you (not in that way!) but ya'know wat i mean

The best thing to do is to get with a few mates who you know.If you're gonna be singing or writing lyrics then you want people who you're comfortable with.
Me and my brother have been writing and recording some stuff on guitar and piano/keyboard and then we just plan to teach a few friends the bass and guitar parts and hopefully do some gigs.Whenever we get together to practice,though,we just end up drinking too much and jamming.
As for artistic differences,a guitarist friend of mine who we jam with also wants to be involved despite the fact that she dislikes my piano-playing but won't say so to my face.I think she will be left out.
Me and my brother also have a few differences due to the fact that he wants to put guitar solos in everything whereas I'd rather do something more experimental.It's no big deal,though,we just share the music/lyric writing.I just really want to play a few gigs,so whether or not I have 100% input doesn't bother me that much,as long as I get the chance to play.
Hope this helps.

A singer doesn't particularly have to be a good singer.There's a lot of bands about with crap singers.Or you can just have an instrumental band like Dirty 3.Or do arty spoken word stuff.Endless possiblilities.

Only the saddos say it is like sex





the real pros say it is better than sex

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Its also very true, speak to any semi pro or pro musician who is basically only living to play music and they'll describe it in a similar way. where as playing is usually likened to sex. (no seriously)

Yeah, I agree with that.