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I understand what you mean about finding a good front person being hard but I think if our bass player left we would be stuck because when we were putting our band together the most difficult member to get was the bassist.

Tony

my own viewpoint on bands in general has always been this:

You can have great musicians, and a crap frontman, and you'll get no recognition whatsoever.

You can have mediocre musicians and a great frontman, and everyone will love you.

It's a sad thing to say that a frontman is probably the most important person come gig night. And also the most difficult to replace.

Mick

@ %3 Degrees
Quite right!!

ha. you were bound to say that alec!!

@markk - do you not find one problem is all the reality singing programs? everyone thinks they're a singer!

good luck - hope you find someone.

Mick

For us its always been drummers that are hardest to find. At least reliable ones with no other band commitments. It took us nearly 18 months of looking before we found Alex. Though I guess it helped that our guitarist and bassist just happened to be good mates anyway. I guess alot of it is down to who you know.

hi mark, as a band in the same position, i agree with you, a singer ( closely followed by drummer) is the hardest to find, we are still looking, had a really good singer come down a few weeks ago , but he's about as reliable as a skoda from 1970 ! so the hunt goes on, good luck in your search....bill

@markk: did you fill Stixxy's role in Vankwish?

actually, for us personally, we searched for a drummer for 5 years!! we used computer based (and not too bad sounding if i might say so myself!) drum tracks for all that time since our original drummer left us after our very first gig!!

i suppose i was answering a different question in my earlier post - 'which member is the most important come gig night?'

i guess some of it comes down to circumstance - we had a couple of really decent drummers contact us, but they all wanted about 14 thousand gigs a month and to pay the mortgage on the 28 bedroom houses they'd bought from it! but we just can't commit to so much band activity, so we struggled with the lunatics and plain bad drummers for a while before giving up looking completely. Nicola, our drummer came to us in a chance meeting at a jam night.

Mick

Finding muso's? easy, finding good muso's? tricky, finding good muso's you feel you could work with? damn near impossible !!!......Tex

I hope its not you :D.. I will try out for ya soon.. now ya frightening me :D

For me personally, its finding a band that aint cruel to their singers :D

Cruel to their singers???

Surely it's the job of any other band members to be as cruel as possible to singers to prevent their inflated ego's from taking over the planet??? ;)

Mick

I was just kidding ya :)

I think the main problem can be, has I have found in the past in bands I have been in and we are auditioning for others to join..

Talent counts for a high % but so does personality and being able to fit into, put yourself forward into what is already/hopefuly a tight nit group and also for that group to have the same idea of the type they are looking for and to be open/friendly enough to allow another in.. egos aside :)

When you have done many gigs with band members as I have in the past, bonds are made and even those I done gigs with years ago, when I see them now, even though I may have not seen them for years.. the bond/trust friendship remains, its what naturally comes from doing gigs together, having to rely on the other to do there part.. one fails, we all fail.

You need someone who A has talent and B Isnt shy, has the confidence in personality to step up to the plate but plays has a team, friendly with all..

eek, thats me :D, hopefully you will think so.. we will see :)