2007-09-08 02:49:24 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
This wasn't really a serious question. I would like to be the leader, but I agree with you people that say every bandmate is equally important. I'm not the type that bosses people around, but if I have to organize the band and if I invest more money in it, the other people should obey me.
2007-09-08 03:25:07 · update #1
Dude! Successful bands equally acknowlege one another, and give credit to everyone, like Freddie Mercury did about Queen, when the press called him the leader. He corrected them, and said that he's just the front man, not the leader. You're gonna piss the rest of the band off, and you wont work in harmony. Music is about harmony, not just of notes, but of souls that are working together.
2007-09-08 02:56:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Get a directors chair and put your name on the back of it and sit in it at every opportunity at rehearsals. Seriously though you should also appreciate your band members and the contribution they make to the band as you cannot do it on your own. What is to say your ideas are always the best. People dont like to be lorded over by another person and you would be better working all together than saying this is my band and behaving like a spoilt child. Did you not learn to share when you were younger?
2007-09-08 09:58:40 · answer #2 · answered by bluegizmored 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
control the money the band makes, and you do ALL the booking for gigs. you write ALL the songs. you do ALL the lead singing. basically it's YOU being a solo act w/ the others being your back-up band. otherwise bands are sort marriages- you give & you get. look at the successful bands: the rolling stones for example- brian jones founded the band, brought the others together, but because mick was the lead singer he fell into the role of band spokesman. mick & keith discovered they wrote good catchy songs together, so they became the songwriting team of the band. but then again, charlie watts neither sings nor writes songs, but i KNOW he has as much power in that band as mick or keith.
2007-09-08 09:59:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Be the lead singer or find some quiet guys who don't mind you hogging the limelight :-)
EDIT - Or, call the band Impossible Brutality & the Impossibly Brutals ;-) j/k
2007-09-08 09:56:20 · answer #4 · answered by bizou_bear 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you really were the leader, your band mates would already recognize you as the leader.
2007-09-08 09:56:51 · answer #5 · answered by Report Abuse 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Let me guess you play guitar and everyone else talent is inferior to your talent. Thats what happened to our guitarist. He has since been replaced. We set him free to go be so awesomely talent elsewhere.
2007-09-08 09:58:43 · answer #6 · answered by firefly 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's a good way to initiate a break-up....get power-mad!
ps...you're a drummer, I'll bet!
2007-09-08 09:55:44 · answer #7 · answered by bradxschuman 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Be the spokesperson for the group
2007-09-08 09:58:46 · answer #8 · answered by Mo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Number one rule is to know what's going on.
2007-09-08 09:56:21 · answer #9 · answered by ♥Lovebird♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Emphasize over and over that you don't do the drumming
You're not the drummer..... are you?
2007-09-08 10:01:59 · answer #10 · answered by renclrk 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋