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How would you feel?

This either bothers me or I could care less, I can't decide which?..

If you had a working trio that where the (2) principals had been together for six years.

You normally book 80% of the gigs, have an instance where you give the other fellow a lead becuz you are too busy, He books the band in a retirement community & while you are loading in on the facility elevator notice an ad poster on the elevator wall which says: " xxx xxx & his 3 Pc Trio today at 2PM"

In other words he booked the band in his name rather than using our band name.
This fellow 1/2 jokingly refers to the band as "his band" often, (He's 12 years older than me/drummer)

He also has a bad habit of rushing to anyone I speak to at a gig & forces his business card on them when he sees me giving one out...All that does is confuse people.

What is this?.. If we didn't have so much work I'd bolt....
The only part I have an issue is his not using the band name. The business card thing is annoying, but not threatening
 
Poor form. In my locale, it's an unwritten rule that you don't hustle your own band at someone else's gig. The band has to agree that if anybody is going to promote anything at a gig, they're going to promote the band as a whole.