[Spunky Munkey]

At this point after having been in many bands many aspects of music are funny to me.

Here are some of the things Ive seen,

-the relation aspects within a band,

-a secret group within a group, emails, telephone calls that all band members dont get,

-hidden agendas by some members that come out as the band evolves, this corresponds to my next point,

-not discovering a big jerk until you get to know them better,

-band laziness as far as members not practising and showing up at practice not prepared,

-the basement syndrome, too much practising in the basement without getting your butts out,

-the leader of the band thing, this is something I avoid these days after having played that role to the extreme, what eventually happened was that the band could not think for itself, I was tyranical and dictatorial shutting down songs for reasons after the fact that were trivial,

-travel time required by members, living too far away to get to practice
This current band The Rockaholics has evolved atypical to what Im talking about, the bass player contacted me, he was all excited to get it going. I joined he brought in another guitar player friend, I found a drummer, we got a lead singer. Shortly thereafter the other guitar player quit because he and the drummer clashed, then the bass player the guy that started the whole thing suddenly packed it in so we found another bass player.

Now the real funny thing is that the original bass player has contacted me again and he wants to put together a 3 piece and now he is all excited again.

I think the best thing to avoid band politics is just be open and honest in a calm way, although I'm still me I am much more diplomatic discussing band issues and in turn everyone responds usually in a similar way, bottom line the band is really another family you are part of.