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The other guitarist has now got bored with playing guitar and bought himself a new camera and is busy booking up photo shoots every weekend (yet still hasn't organised the one for his own band).
Oh, and I've just discovered that the singer's away at least two, sometimes three weeks of each month with work.
The result of all this is that there isn't a single month until August where we can actually get a gig and a rehearsal within weeks of each other.
But, of course, they're all pissing and moaning that we haven't got any gigs booked...which was the reason for me badgering them to update the calendar two bloody weeks ago.
I'm genuinely losing the will to do anything with it. Fighting musicians to be able to play music is the total opposite of fun. I always said that I'd stop playing in bands if there was no prospect of even vague success by the time I was 45.
Turned 45 yesterday.
UPDATE: Band collapsed due to the other guitarist being a whiny dickhead about it and me losing patience with him. Feel significantly better than I thought I would, actually.
Not for you specifically, but in general, I have a book called "Bandalism", written by Julian Ridgway in 2007. It's quite funny and describes all the ways you (collectively) can "vandalise" your own band. For those, like me and digitalscream, who like banging their heads against brick walls yet hate it at the same time, it can be a humorous rebalancing for your soul.
One solution where logistics take the fun out of playing is to do different things - I play in a monthly funk jam at a rehearsal studio - 3 hour session, sociable, fun and no strings or frustrations around gig arrangements etc. I love it