Why Did the Band Break Up?
Why did our band break up? We were really starting to gel. I don’t understand what happened. If the answer to this question was that the musical styles and ideals do not jive then you are one lucky dude. Because usually that is not the answer. If your musical styles do not jive and you see no future, then breaking up was the logical choice. But sometimes, and usually most of the times, musical style is not the culprit. You have found each other at a club listening to a good band. You know some of the members of the band and they introduce you to someone who plays a killer guitar. You are a bass player, you know a drummer and voila, you have the start of a band. You get together, play and soon add a keyboard and it just goes from there. You spend hours upon hours getting the equipment right, the sound right, the vocals right, everything is falling into place and then….it just disappears. Why? I believe that the start of the process was never really addressed as it should have been. An
