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11-28-2007, 01:06 PM
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Wow Cherie, a 3 piece with a married couple?!
That would be a level of hell for me, lol.
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11-28-2007, 01:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Fawkes007  I was in a band with a female lead singer. She and the guitar player "neglected" to tell the rest of us that they were an item. If they had, I would never have joined them. When I found out about them I almost quit the band - they convinced me to stay and said that it "wouldn't be a problem." And it wasn't - until they started making decisions for the band and telling us about them rather than asking for our input. "We thought this would be a good idea for the band." Next thing I know, we hire a female keyboard player. Here's how things went from there - the guitar player and singer got married. The drummer and keyboard player got involved (and are still married to this day and I love them both dearly), and I started introducing myself as "Mick Fleetwood." So, now I had not one but two "items" to deal with in the band, and was treated as "just the bass player." The four of them would go off and do their little "couple" things and leave me out. "Well, why don't you get a girlfriend?" Like that would solve the issue.
Bands are hard enough to keep together when NOBODY is involved with ANYONE, let alone wives/girlfriends/husbands/boyfriends getting into the mix and adding their "input." I don't know how many times I would hear some significant other say, "You know, you guys would probably be better if you did whatever the hell it is that just popped into my head two seconds ago." | YIKES!!! Mick Fleetwood, indeed.
Hubby and I had worked with everyone in our band already, and we'd always worked so cooperatively, all of us, that there was never a question of making a decision for the band without everyone's input.
Our problem was temper. He and I are both pretty emotional. But we solved that problem with humor. We had a little box of orange plastic bb's. One day, I mouthed off to him, and he whinged one at me. I threw it back. Laughter ensued. And that's how we solved fits of temper in that band. Worked well, too! 
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11-28-2007, 01:40 PM
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Originally Posted by bigfatbass Wow Cherie, a 3 piece with a married couple?!
That would be a level of hell for me, lol. | Yeah, well...
Let's just say they need a really, really big box of orange plastic bb's.
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11-28-2007, 02:26 PM
|  | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | | Just be honest with her and tell her to shut the hell up. |
11-28-2007, 05:47 PM
| | Bassists do it with 2 fingers...and a thumb | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: East Coast | | | I'm currently in a band where the lead singer is dating the drummer. they failed to tell me that when i joined.
Except for the fact that I'm shortly moving away, I think I would probably not want to stay in a group where people are involved with each other. It never seems to work. Either they break up and kill the band, or the two involved become a "power center" and try to run the band. Either way, it sucks.
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12-01-2007, 05:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Tucson, AZ | | | We had the opposite problem.... the wife( our keyboard was great ) but her husband ( our second guitar player ) was a basket case.
We had to let the husband go and, of course, if you fire one, the other one quits.
But we found a smoking keyboard player to replace her. Never really wanted a second guitar player in the first place.
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