[atsonicpark]

Ever been in a band you hated being in but stayed in it for one reason or another?

Stories!!

[pbradley]

Not really. The bands I've been in were never serious endeavors and were short-lived.

[jon boy]

i was in a band that in the end i hated being in because i made more effort then the other members so it was extremely difficult. example, we went on tour to ireland (booked by me of course) and the guitar player announced on the ferry over that he didnt have any money at all and not even his wallet so we had to buy everything for him.

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

I was in a blues band where apparently everybody hated me. two faced bastards we played good music for like a year before they finally gave me the boot. no hard feelings though, but I surely didn't get it. bands are like girlfriends, you have to play the game right. further, you have to be careful not to let your old lady know about your potential flings and mistresses... it tends to hurt feelings (helped to instigate my removal)

[cryptowonderdruginvogue]

Yes

The guitarist was a control freak
Everyone quit

[Glice]

Not for more than 2 rehearsals. I do know someone who was in a band that are doing quite well now (and shall remain nameless) a few years ago, and the rest of the band, being jobless scum, persuaded her to foot the bill for a British tour. On said tour, they managed to not turn up for most of the gigs and spent their time in various cities stealing her money to buy smack. Oddly, it's more of a Wire magazine band than a Libertines-y one.

[Anngella]

If you count the school band in 6th grade..

[Savage Clone]

I was in a band that I loved, hated, then loved again.
Glad I waited out the bad part.
I stayed in when I didn't like the music because I had so much love and respect for my bandmates, and tried to forgive our Fearless Leader's questionable aesthetic choices during one particular phase.

[Everyneurotic]

my former band had a volatile enviroment the whole time, which made for interesting moments, interesting music and every gig a fucking lottery (you never knew if we were going to play good or be a total mess). but yeah, bastards only fucked up the last time we were together.

i was briefly in another band were the singer was very awful singing, the guitarist was a control freak and the drummer just couldn't stand the guitarist, it was a mess!!! i was playing bass there and basically kinda liked everyone...the guitarist could be a real dick, though.

[evollove]

I was in a classic rock cover band. The second practice, it was the drummer's birthday. The bassist's gift: The Best of Steve Miller. The drummer loved it. I quit.

[screamingskull]

i was in a band in secondary school, we had a lot of band practices but were still not great. we argued a lot about what we wanted to sound like and eventually the band just fizzled away.

[Derek]

I used to be in a metal band lol!

[SpectralJulianIsNotDead]

I joined a band once because they needed a guitarist to play this show in a month that I would get 125 out of. They ended up finding a more permanent guitarist, but couldn't play the whole show, so my solo act and the 3 piece I was in played. They split it 150/150/200 and I got 2 cuts from being in 2 bands, 1 of which was just me

This is the band:
http://www.myspace.com/nomindframe

Their new guitarist is a HUGE tool. He also has enough technical shit to do lame ass shredding but has not rhythm. The singer of that band decided to cover the White Stripes- Fell in Love With a Girl, and he completely ruined that chord progression. He couldn't get that rhythm down, he just played quarter notes.

The 3rd or 4th practice I was at I taught him their songs which I learned mostly by ear, and inbetween songs he'd go into Steve Vai shit or Blackbird or Green Day.

I'm glad I was only in that band for 3 or 4 practices.

[val-holla-ing]

i have a love/hate relationship with my band. on one hand, when we're focused, we're amazing, and blow minds, but more often than not, we're kinda "off." our...their gear, which isn't really that great, is always falling apart (i try and take care of/repair my shit), we barely ever get more than 2 days of practice in (our frontman lives 8 hours away now) and can be really inconsistent live, our record was recorded in less than 24 hours and it shows at times, we can't settle on a drummer for ANYTHING, and at times it feels like the sounds i create for the songs are too subdued to give way to the songwriting, instead of playing an integral part in the songwriting.

that said, i really love my bandmates and love playing with them. when a gig is good, it's amazing. when we have time to flesh out songs the way we want to, in the studio, it's amazing. when the gear doesn't cut out and leave us high and dry, it's amazing.

i think we could take over the world if we had some sense of stability in regards to the band. it'll probably come with time, though (especially since our frontdude is sober now).

[Bollocks_to_Pop]

I used to be in a band that I didn't really like. The band kicked out their old drummer without telling him and replaced him with me. Jamming with the bassist and one of the guitarists was almost always amazing though. The singer/other guitarist was a douche though. He wrote all the songs and they all sounded like a crappy version of Weezer. Everyone else in the band joked about him but none of us wrote any other songs so we ended up playing his. I think I pissed him off too much though for making fun of him because he pulled the same trick on me and replaced me without telling me. Do I care? Not at all. I'm in a much better band now and we're actually going somewhere with out music.

[atsonicpark]

2 1/2 years later, there's gotta be some more interesting stories.

[Derek]

Not really anything interesting for me besides just thinking some of the members are assholes or they avoided practice to hang with their girlfriends or whatever.

[knox]

Yes, all of them. Mostly because I hate myself and I'm in them, so by association.

[Glice]

Originally Posted by atsonicpark

2 1/2 years later, there's gotta be some more interesting stories.

I was in a shit folk band who actually got shitter after I left. I was kicked out for drinking too much and being awesome.

[EVOLghost]

Originally Posted by Glice

I was kicked out for drinking too much and being awesome.

Psh people be hatin' when they can't hang and party as much as you.