Dear Fretboarders,
I've been trying to create a second band due to the guys in my first band not being bothered about helping get gigs and various other things.
I advertised on FB and Joinmyband, and find a singer - made it clear I wanted a rock / blues based covers band and she was cool with it. Rehearsed and she sounds brilliant. Found a drummer, he's into the rockier stuff and is great, so all good. Then found a bassist and he's also great.
So, issues have started to arise when choosing songs and trying to arrange regular rehearsals; the singer can only do monday or Tuesdays and refuses to work around anyone else. Drummer can't do Tuesdays, so, Monday it is - which I can't do. However, I've bitten the bullet and cancelled what I did on Mondays for the sake of the band.
Online calendar - singer refuses to fill it in as she doesn't 'do' online stuff. Everyone else is OK with it.
Song choices - quite a few rock numbers, but also some bizarre lounge / cruise ship versions of songs.
Keys player - drummer is wanting another guitarist as we can't get a keys player, but the whole point was to find a keys player as that really opens up song choices. So I've said no to another guitarist (yes, partly down to ego as well).
I'm essence - I'm not sure what to do here. They're great musicians, but if things are this tricky at the beginning (when everyone is meant to be on best behaviour!), I wonder what the future holds....
Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated
Confused in High Wycombe.
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Anyone that doesn’t do internet and wants to be in a band is automatically making everyone else’s lives harder. I know someone will cite an exception, but honestly unless they’re truly irreplaceable they’re just making everything more awkward from step 1
Trouble is finding the bands looking for a guitarist though... I'm on some Facebook groups and a couple of websites, so hopefully something pops up.
Just can't face the band stuff right now!
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we have a good time. pub covers. no delusions of grandeur. no money involved. we all get along and just have fun. long may it last, if it doesn't, que sera sera.
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Now just to find a decent band needing a lead guitarist....!
In the past I've had to be the band leader which is hard for an introvert but nobody else seemed to be as committed. Now we're all pretty well committed I can take a bit of a back seat and hopefully let it run itself as it should if this one fails I don't think I'll do originals again for a while. It's just too much of a pain in the arse only to do gigs to a handful of people and promote music that nobody other than ourselves cares about.
It’s lonely being the sole leader, but if you have a right-hand person who you can go to the pub with and decide on songs, and can help get gigs, and help organise stuff, and that you know is like-minded and will always discuss stuff with you first, might make all the difference.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.