Eagles and Turkeys (not The Eagles, though).

[Sneakypete]

Next week my new band will be getting its new line-up together for the first time. There will be two excellent guitarists from a previous band, a damned good drummer I know from a few open-mic nights and a singer I haven't met yet but I'm reliably informed he's the real deal. We will only be doing covers and we're all too old to think it will lead to fame and fortune but I know that musically we will soar like an eagle - we'll tour the usual pub/club circuit giving the audiences a good time and will build a solid reputation. I appreciate this might be wishful thinking but knowing the others as i do i really think this is going to work out. My last band was rather different - a real turkey. We all got on well socially but musically we were hopeless - nobody ever seemed to practice their parts between rehearsals, everybody just seemed to turn up and noodle as though they were at home alone and we would endlessly discuss song structures without ever getting them cemented. Several months of "rehearsals" - a couple of so-so gigs and then it all fell apart - mostly because collectively we just didn't have the will to make it live.
I would like to hear from you - what's your bird-count? How many eagles and how many turkeys?