Fuck him. Move on.
Shall we go, you and I while we can? Through the transitive night fall of diamonds...
Thanks. Only you will know if you're listening. Listening can be hard in a band if you are not communicating, particularly if folks are playing too loud to hear the other instruments, or if the other instruments are not loud enough. Ideally, folks will turn down and then everyone will play a little softer if they can only hear themselves. In my band, I'm fairly militant about listening and communicating and I'll keep directing volumes and talking to folks until we can all hear each other. Listening is also with nonverbal (and nonmusical) communication, such as eye contact, head knods, hand gestures and other forms of communicating during a performance. Usually, lack of listening by any one member encompasses all of the above--they're not looking, not hearing, and not communicating. I hope you get to jam again with your mates, and when you do, focus on communicating.This^
We were so rusty. If a band fails to rehearse they will suck.
I swear we spent more time discussing songs they wanted to learn but we don't know individually than we did actually practicing songs.
And (the singer) has now sidelined most of my favourite songs claiming we can't play them well enough. That's Eyes, the Other One, Birdsong, and Cassidy. They want to replace them with simple first set songs. I'm just going along for the ride now. Happy to be playing music.
It's all about not sharing the limelight with the guitarist. As far as I can tell. Anything that I'll shine on he doesn't want to play. And (the drummer) buys into it because it's this funny power trip thing going on.
Which makes me simply want to put the brakes the whole thing. It gets to a point where it's like a bad marriage. It's just a battle over everything and no one seems to be having a good time.