Complete Guide To Forming A Band Part #2

Well, here goes Part Deux: 'Different Strokes'

Jizz of it, things to remember...

1) Make sure everyone wants the same out of making music, whether that be a serious career or abit of fun on Sunday. You don't want to put in all the hardwork and then realize that you're all doing for different reasons.

2) Work out what's important to each member of the band, be that live work, writing abd recording or just picking up chicks (That's exactly what the mag wrote hor...)

3) Agree on a style of music, or even better, agree that you don't want to be put into a stylistic pigeonhole.

4) Remeber that your influences are important, but there's no glory in imitating your heroes.

Everything in the music industry these days are broken up into little fractured groups, and artistes are all put into whatever group fits them best. Generally, it's the record companies that create the little fractured groups - they call them target markets. Then it's the media that decide which target market a certain artist will be sold to - they call it criticism.

Even so, most bands just play music when they're alone in the jam room. The good ones - the ones that don't get caught in the little target market tango - are the bands that can just play music when they get out of the jam room as well.

'We all have heroes, musical and otherwise, but there's nothing worse than when we just blindly imitate those people' - Jane's Addiction

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