Originally posted by Hootayah

With me it was usually the same thing.
6 months looking for members...most of it trying to find a keyboard player and a vocalist with their own p.a.
6 months of practicing in somebody's basement, maybe twice a week cause that's all anybody could manage.
6 months of looking to book gigs and not being able to find any and not being able to get a booking agent.
6 months to realize that all the band really knows what to play are cover tunes and nobody can write after all.
Then somewhere about 2 years into it either somebody gets discouraged and quits or personality conflicts cause a huge blowup.
Then the whole process starts over again with the next band.
After about 25 years of this you finally resign yourself to the fact that even though you can play better than van halen, you're never going to get signed, or hear yourself on the radio or even play live in front of more than 300 people and you yell at your kids, kick the dog and crawl back into bed with your fat wife.

That may be the saddest thing I've ever read in my entire life. Seriously.

Because, and here comes a rant and please listen!!! :) , but I'm in the point in my life where I don't wanna do anything but guitar. I go to comm. college but I don't want to. I want to dedicate myself to music. A big chunk of that inspiration? I don't want to be a working class nobody (this may seem cold, but it's the truth) like my mom. I love her but I don't want to have kids and be stuck and have my life ruined and over. I can't ****ing take that. I'd want to die... really.

But getting back on topic. I have yet to be in a band but that's all I think about and I always think of ideas on what to do, stage shows, outfits, song titles, CD titles, etc. I know a bass player, too. I guess I should try to stay good friends with him, huh? Since bass players are hard to find? :D LOL

But, I can see the main thing that'd drive me away from a band I would be in and that'd be creative differences. Yeah, do the usual: Play a few original songs but mostly covers. The covers might be the hardest thing to agree on. Me and the bass players love Metallica. Love them, love them, love them. He can already play "Creeping Death" and wants me to play that so we can jam but I actually (Yay me, btw!!! :D) just finished fine-tuning the learnings of the last few sections of "Enter Sandman" so I know I can play that perfectly!!

Oh, and Psycho Amram, I know you don't wanna be the vocalist but it could turn out for the best. James Hetfield sang when Metallica started because no one else wanted to and they tried to get John Bush who played for Armored Saint back then I believe, but he didn't want to and I think it worked out pretty good. :D