The reason why you left your band

BassISaWEAPON · 05-15-2005, 03:53 AM

Alright, for those of you that ever left band, what was the logical reason?

For me, iv'e been playing bass for a year in a band, in which the band is almost a 1 year old. We just recently played a show at my school and a few days after the show i heard that people talking trash about how our band sucked.

Iv'e noticed that my band isn't making much progress. I mean, we've been around for almost a year and we only play easy cover songs. We have a few of our own songs, but they suck like hell. My guitarist is consumed in his own egotism and think he's the Sh!t, but he really sucks at playing the guitar.
When i go to school, i get ridiculed everyday for making a fool of myself while on stage, and i watched the video of us performing and yes, we did suck hard.

I was wondering if i should quit? I can't stand the guitarist anymore cause he is very conceited and self centered. He ridicules the other members just to feel better about himself sometimes. And the top of all that, he really sucks!!! He's been playing guitar for 4 years and can't play a single solo.

So yeah, i wanna know if its a good idea to quit while I'm ahead, before i make an *** out of myselft at another show.

Oh yes, and don't forget to say the reason why you left your previous band.
THX!!!!

Benzum · 05-15-2005, 04:31 AM

Either be in a band you would never leave (which is what I have)
Or just don't be in a band at all

***morrissey*** · 05-15-2005, 04:34 AM

I left my band because I was going to University in a different city. It made sense.

DisposableHeroes · 05-15-2005, 05:26 AM

I left my band because they werent playing the kind of stuff i'm into or wanted to play, the lyrics were embarassing too..

RockerGav · 05-15-2005, 05:33 AM

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Originally Posted by DisposableHeroes

I left my band because they werent playing the kind of stuff i'm into or wanted to play, the lyrics were embarassing too..

Thats pretty much why I left my old band.

DisposableHeroes · 05-15-2005, 05:40 AM

I remember one of the lyrics as "someone please give to charity"

DimebagDarrell · 05-15-2005, 05:46 AM

lol i remember you showing me that lyric

if i remember rightly though the rest werent too bad.

Trooper · 05-15-2005, 05:52 AM

Clash of opinions.
I wanted to play one style, they wanted to play another.
Luckly for me I found a new band, I only play rhythm guitar in it instead of lead, but I'm happy. We play music I like and I like the people in the band more. Also much more talanted too.

Kosta · 05-15-2005, 05:53 AM

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Originally Posted by WhenWillTheForestSpeak

Either be in a band you would never leave (which is what I have)
Or just don't be in a band at all

Yes.

And if you just noticed this after a year, then there's really something wrong. And if the main problem is the guitarist, kick him out of the band, talk to the other band members about the direction you should take, and if they don't agree, quit. You can't be a in a band where not everyone's 100% satisfied with the results.

sakic73 · 05-15-2005, 06:49 AM

Come on, someone say creative differences, it's so rock cliche!

Happy · 05-15-2005, 07:08 AM

My friends had a "band" last year which i was supposedly in as rhythm guitarist. The lead had been playing for 2 years and i was already better than him, the bassist and drummer had no instruments and the vocalist changed every week. Once i found out i was in this band i quit.

kastred · 05-15-2005, 07:51 AM

Well, my bandmates liked to play The Trooper all day long. It wasn't that boring, because we had fun together and in a way a good chemistry, but since I was most of the time into rehearsing stuff like Deicide, Obituary, Mokoma and some old In Flames songs (from Lunar Strain, I mean) the whole thing just got out of hands. I was either kind of restless all the time due to my long hours at school or then I was playing some riff from Jotun when I was supposed to take the lead in The Trooper or Die With Your Boots On.

I don't have a thing against playing Iron Maiden (except the fact that it gets boring at some point), but because I was more into other stuff and I even seemed to be crossing the hands of my bandmates at the time, we decided I should go. There was no argue because they understood me very well. Now I'm playing pretty much death metal with my own band, although I haven't forgot the fact that it's important to play Paranoid or The Trooper sometimes.

Excuse my bad English.

deathscreamingsheep · 05-15-2005, 08:27 AM

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Come on, someone say creative differences, it's so rock cliche!

I shall. Creative differences.

Well actually not, it was cause our bassist is a jackass who reckons rhythm guitar is a waste of time, doesnt think it's possible to play and sing and finally was an egoist.

Spiritofmosa · 05-15-2005, 08:36 AM

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Originally Posted by BassISaWEAPON

Alright, for those of you that ever left band, what was the logical reason?

For me, iv'e been playing bass for a year in a band, in which the band is almost a 1 year old. We just recently played a show at my school and a few days after the show i heard that people talking trash about how our band sucked.

Iv'e noticed that my band isn't making much progress. I mean, we've been around for almost a year and we only play easy cover songs. We have a few of our own songs, but they suck like hell. My guitarist is consumed in his own egotism and think he's the Sh!t, but he really sucks at playing the guitar.
When i go to school, i get ridiculed everyday for making a fool of myself while on stage, and i watched the video of us performing and yes, we did suck hard.

I was wondering if i should quit? I can't stand the guitarist anymore cause he is very conceited and self centered. He ridicules the other members just to feel better about himself sometimes. And the top of all that, he really sucks!!! He's been playing guitar for 4 years and can't play a single solo.

So yeah, i wanna know if its a good idea to quit while I'm ahead, before i make an *** out of myselft at another show.

Oh yes, and don't forget to say the reason why you left your previous band.
THX!!!!

y not get the band to kick him out

05-15-2005, 08:36 AM

My band just split last week after three years together. A few months ago we recruited these two female vocalists. At first they seemed great, but as time went on they got worse and worse. It got to the point where we were getting comments about how amazing our instrumentals were, but how horrible our vocals were. Now, we would have kicked them out of the band and been done with it, but the problem is we had a constant stream of shows coming in all over town, and we realistically couldn't remove them from the band without sacrificing a lot with them. Tensions grew high, fighting increased, and then a couple of weeks ago our slide guitarist quit. I decided last week that I'd had enough and packed up my drums and went home.

Our guitarist, bassist and I plan on starting a new project in a couple of weeks, but the old band is sunk.

RoCKinG STANTON · 05-15-2005, 08:42 AM

Wait did you say the guitarist was playing for four years and can't play a single solo??
That weak man.

I would leave.

Kage · 05-15-2005, 08:51 AM

Like others have said, kick the guitarist out and find a new one. Unless you don't like the other people either. In that case, just find a new one.

I'm having to kick my drummer out of my band at the moment. He's a decent drummer, but he always slacks off and instead of coming to practice he goes off with his girlfriend. We plan a practice, and instead of planning his other stuff around that, he ways "well, if nothing else comes up, then I'll come." And, usually other things come up. Lately, when he does show up to practice, he's unlively and downtrodden. He loves playing shows, but refuses to practice...

And, you know when a person can leave his instrument at someone else's house for over a month and not go insane, you're not dealing with a person with enough musical drive to be in a band. He's left his drums at my house for over a month. At first, it was just for a few days...and they're taking up space in my house and he obviously isn't passionate enough about his instrument to be in a band at all.

south_guitar · 05-15-2005, 08:54 AM

I left my band because the lead singer/guitarist and bassist were immature. I would have contributed so much to the style of music if they gave me more than just 3 chords. When I joined the drummer and I became really good friends, so we both decided to break off. Another major reason is that it wasn't my style of music, they wanted to play "grunge" and I listened to metal. Grunge is a lame/dead genre, no point in playing a grunge band.

To threadstarter: Leave the band if you're not happy with it. It's as simple as that. Don't stay in a band just to be in a band, because thats what I did and I wasn't happy at all. Good luck.

Thor · 05-15-2005, 09:13 AM

I left because my band never listened to anything I had to say. The drummer also had no sense of time and I honestly was the only one who knew anything about music. They were all pop punk fans and I was the only one who had a decent taste in music. All they wanted to do was sound completely like Green Day and I'm not into that kind of stuff.

05-15-2005, 09:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Metal_Head_617

I left because my band never listened to anything I had to say. The drummer also had no sense of time and I honestly was the only one who knew anything about music. They were all pop punk fans and I was the only one who had a decent taste in music. All they wanted to do was sound completely like Green Day and I'm not into that kind of stuff.

Ouch, my arrogance detector just exploded. There's nothing wrong with pop-punk. You just picked the wrong people to play with is all. It happens.

05-15-2005, 03:53 AM	#1
BassISaWEAPON Registered User Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 13	The reason why you left your band Alright, for those of you that ever left band, what was the logical reason? For me, iv'e been playing bass for a year in a band, in which the band is almost a 1 year old. We just recently played a show at my school and a few days after the show i heard that people talking trash about how our band sucked. Iv'e noticed that my band isn't making much progress. I mean, we've been around for almost a year and we only play easy cover songs. We have a few of our own songs, but they suck like hell. My guitarist is consumed in his own egotism and think he's the Sh!t, but he really sucks at playing the guitar. When i go to school, i get ridiculed everyday for making a fool of myself while on stage, and i watched the video of us performing and yes, we did suck hard. I was wondering if i should quit? I can't stand the guitarist anymore cause he is very conceited and self centered. He ridicules the other members just to feel better about himself sometimes. And the top of all that, he really sucks!!! He's been playing guitar for 4 years and can't play a single solo. So yeah, i wanna know if its a good idea to quit while I'm ahead, before i make an *** out of myselft at another show. Oh yes, and don't forget to say the reason why you left your previous band. THX!!!!

05-15-2005, 04:31 AM	#2
Benzum Emerg. Calls Only Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 176	Either be in a band you would never leave (which is what I have) Or just don't be in a band at all
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05-15-2005, 04:34 AM	#3
*morrissey* Pictoral Pontification Supermod Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: I don't need luck Posts: 10,999	I left my band because I was going to University in a different city. It made sense.
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05-15-2005, 09:13 AM	#19
Thor good evening Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: North Carolina Posts: 12,190	I left because my band never listened to anything I had to say. The drummer also had no sense of time and I honestly was the only one who knew anything about music. They were all pop punk fans and I was the only one who had a decent taste in music. All they wanted to do was sound completely like Green Day and I'm not into that kind of stuff.
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05-15-2005, 05:26 AM	#4
DisposableHeroes noinuernikufesin Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: UK Posts: 1,266	I left my band because they werent playing the kind of stuff i'm into or wanted to play, the lyrics were embarassing too..

05-15-2005, 05:40 AM	#6
DisposableHeroes noinuernikufesin Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: UK Posts: 1,266	I remember one of the lyrics as "someone please give to charity"

05-15-2005, 05:46 AM	#7
DimebagDarrell Years of Decay Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: South of heaven Posts: 1,546	lol i remember you showing me that lyric if i remember rightly though the rest werent too bad.

05-15-2005, 05:52 AM	#8
Trooper Always Bring A Towel. Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 2,655	Clash of opinions. I wanted to play one style, they wanted to play another. Luckly for me I found a new band, I only play rhythm guitar in it instead of lead, but I'm happy. We play music I like and I like the people in the band more. Also much more talanted too.

05-15-2005, 06:49 AM	#10
sakic73 Mike Patton is god Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Auckland, NZ Posts: 198	Come on, someone say creative differences, it's so rock cliche!

05-15-2005, 07:08 AM	#11
Happy est. 1989 Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Southampton Posts: 30,867	My friends had a "band" last year which i was supposedly in as rhythm guitarist. The lead had been playing for 2 years and i was already better than him, the bassist and drummer had no instruments and the vocalist changed every week. Once i found out i was in this band i quit.

05-15-2005, 07:51 AM	#12
kastred Registered User Join Date: May 2005 Location: My current place to hide is Finland. Posts: 1	Well, my bandmates liked to play The Trooper all day long. It wasn't that boring, because we had fun together and in a way a good chemistry, but since I was most of the time into rehearsing stuff like Deicide, Obituary, Mokoma and some old In Flames songs (from Lunar Strain, I mean) the whole thing just got out of hands. I was either kind of restless all the time due to my long hours at school or then I was playing some riff from Jotun when I was supposed to take the lead in The Trooper or Die With Your Boots On. I don't have a thing against playing Iron Maiden (except the fact that it gets boring at some point), but because I was more into other stuff and I even seemed to be crossing the hands of my bandmates at the time, we decided I should go. There was no argue because they understood me very well. Now I'm playing pretty much death metal with my own band, although I haven't forgot the fact that it's important to play Paranoid or The Trooper sometimes. Excuse my bad English.

05-15-2005, 08:36 AM	#15
Captain Jack Sparrow Guest Posts: n/a	My band just split last week after three years together. A few months ago we recruited these two female vocalists. At first they seemed great, but as time went on they got worse and worse. It got to the point where we were getting comments about how amazing our instrumentals were, but how horrible our vocals were. Now, we would have kicked them out of the band and been done with it, but the problem is we had a constant stream of shows coming in all over town, and we realistically couldn't remove them from the band without sacrificing a lot with them. Tensions grew high, fighting increased, and then a couple of weeks ago our slide guitarist quit. I decided last week that I'd had enough and packed up my drums and went home. Our guitarist, bassist and I plan on starting a new project in a couple of weeks, but the old band is sunk.

05-15-2005, 08:42 AM	#16
RoCKinG STANTON NO money but in band Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: IN Hell Posts: 740	Wait did you say the guitarist was playing for four years and can't play a single solo?? That weak man. I would leave.

05-15-2005, 08:51 AM	#17
Kage Komitet Gosudarstvennoy B Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Orange, California Posts: 25,721	Like others have said, kick the guitarist out and find a new one. Unless you don't like the other people either. In that case, just find a new one. I'm having to kick my drummer out of my band at the moment. He's a decent drummer, but he always slacks off and instead of coming to practice he goes off with his girlfriend. We plan a practice, and instead of planning his other stuff around that, he ways "well, if nothing else comes up, then I'll come." And, usually other things come up. Lately, when he does show up to practice, he's unlively and downtrodden. He loves playing shows, but refuses to practice... And, you know when a person can leave his instrument at someone else's house for over a month and not go insane, you're not dealing with a person with enough musical drive to be in a band. He's left his drums at my house for over a month. At first, it was just for a few days...and they're taking up space in my house and he obviously isn't passionate enough about his instrument to be in a band at all.

05-15-2005, 08:54 AM	#18
south_guitar Symbiotic in Theory Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Richmond, VA Posts: 1,154	I left my band because the lead singer/guitarist and bassist were immature. I would have contributed so much to the style of music if they gave me more than just 3 chords. When I joined the drummer and I became really good friends, so we both decided to break off. Another major reason is that it wasn't my style of music, they wanted to play "grunge" and I listened to metal. Grunge is a lame/dead genre, no point in playing a grunge band. To threadstarter: Leave the band if you're not happy with it. It's as simple as that. Don't stay in a band just to be in a band, because thats what I did and I wasn't happy at all. Good luck.