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Joke.
In the last band I was in the drummer wanted us to do homework on the covers songs so we could talk about the feelings invoked in them. Me and the singer laughed at this when he presented it to us. We couldn’t help it. It seemed so ridiculous that we just laughed. We didn’t do it and then he got really angry about it. He later said he felt patronised.
Sometimes you're patronised for a reason. He was a pompous guy in reality.
The drummer we we just kicked out... what a character. I don’t even know where to begin. Honestly.
Now we work as a team. Good humoured and respect for each other. Updating the band calendar so I know what everyone’s availability is when a gig comes in. It’s all still hard work running a band but all this makes things a little easier and no arguments occur. Not so far anyway 3 years in
The majority of local gigging cover version band members need to have a day job. The actual gig fees would never pay for their gear quickly enough.
The lead shoutist in the following video is a window cleaner.
Oh how ironic that we find ourselves here.
If I was a slightly better drummer and someone said "can you play X" I'd just say yeah. Everythings in 4/4 and it's probably some variation on kick on 1 and 3 and snare on 2 and 4. (I've played drums as long as I've played guitar but never had the gear/space/neighbours/parents to allow me to practice, sadly)
Anyway... My 2p on having a successful (covers) band is to have someone clearly in charge of it and everyone else accepting to work for them. You make the rules, you pay for the promo, you get the gigs, you pay the band. If your band is good you shouldn't need rehearsals, everyone learns the tunes at home and you show up and play them the way they go.
If you try and do it as an even split of duties everyone has to be responsible for little bits here and there and there will inevitably be someone who doesn't pull their weight because their hamster is feeling ill or they had to make the coffee at work this week or Tescos was closed or they were a dickhead for 7 days and watched Game of Thrones instead of working.
1. Pro/very experienced : probably don’t need to rehearse much/at all and can all turn up and do their thing - tend to work well until genuine creative differences/someone starts being an actual dick/someone shags someone they oughtn’t
2. The less experienced/more weekend warriory - in this chunk lies every sort of setup - and like any group of people everyone has their different wants and needs. Yet oddly lots of people in this category summarise it as “it’s quite simple really, you just need to <insert extremely specific set of expectations based on that persons psyche>”. Tension abounds
I agree that that these sorts of things aren’t unreasonable to want or expect, but like with “common” sense, aren’t actually that common.
Id not stipulate a list of minimum Behavioral requirements of a friend (I have plenty of friends who can be infuriating to be friends with, but I still love them and accept them) so having it as the price of entry for a band mate in anything other than a properly pro setup is creating expectations that are bound to be unfulfilled