by ifeellikeatourist » Mon Nov 17, 2008 2:00 pm
From my brief experience of being in a band for a few years, I think the hardest thing for us was simply finding time in the schedules of five different busy people to practice and play gigs and stuff. We didn't have a lot of conflicts regarding the direction of our music because we always viewed the band as the project of our singer/songwriter. We wrote our own parts to the songs he wrote, sure, and if one of us wrote a song of our own that worked with the band's style, we were cool with doing it, but for the most part we just left the songwriting to that one guy. Most of us weren't really into the style of music that we were playing (syd barrett-style psychadelic pop), but that worked nicely, because we all brought approached the music from a different angle, coming from different musical backgrounds. In the end, though, we broke up because he wanted to get more "serious" than we did, and because the struggle of trying to get our schedules to match up led him to decide he'd rather do solo stuff. That and the fact that he didn't want to share recognition with anyone else (ego maniac). He is now in a lou reed/david bowie style project where a band backs him up and he takes all of the credit for the music.
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