Originally posted by educatedfilm
Sonic youth, Pavement, Primus, System of a down...
erm... I dont really understand what you mean by "fun band"... I thought all bands i listened to were fun, that's really why i listen to em... sorry, I'm a bit dense

No quite a few bands dont seem much fun to be in e.g. those that choose to have Perrier water and fruit on their riders rather than crate loads of Jack Daniels and a bunch of babes clearly up for a bit of party action. I dont think it's a whole lot of fun to be in backing bands where youre treated like an employee the way James Brown and Mick Hucknall do. It's not much fun where the 'leader' /songwriter makes you rehearse the the same song a zillion times . I'm not sure it's a big laugh being in 'serious' bands making 'serious' music with 'serious' messages about isolation, paranoia etc. Personally I'd rather be in Motley Crue, Aerosmith or Led Zep than REM, Radiohead or U2. But some of the wildest, hardest living/partying dudes come from the jazz and country music worlds/ e.g. Merle Haggard, Steve Earle, Willie Nelson, Charlie Parker. I guess being with these guys wouldve been a wild ride.