How To Get A Rock Band Together

If you could put together a rock band dream team who would you include?

I could not.I could give a list of musicians I consider to be in my top 5 ratings for each instrument. But even this is futile. how do you judge who is ‘better’, i.e., Clapton or Hendrix? And in the end, any combination of fine musicians would give a great performance playing together. So what’s the point?The REAL CHALLENGE to forming a dream rock band would be to try to predict who would be able to work together toward a shared vision of what the music should sound like, and who could creativity evolve their music. Is this predictable? Baker-Clapton-Bruce looked great on paper, created awesome music together, but imploded just before one of them would have murdered another. Velvet Revolver just barely got off the ground before crashing.In the other direction, The Beatles seemed to be the best example of 4 people with a common vision and sublimation of individual personalities to accomplish this (hah well, at least for a few years..) There seems to be a good number of vocal & guitarist pairings that created special music- Jagger/Richards, Plant/Page, Tyler/Perry, Petty/Campbell, but even these had expiration dates on them, and depended on the rest of the band kind of as sidemen accompanists (by no means slighting their contributions).So if I were asked to put together a super group, my criteria would be less as ‘who is the best xxx’, and more of who have a common vision and sublimation of individual personality to work together toward creating great music. And that only becomes apparent a year or two later…

What keeps bands together?

Being in a band is a lot like being in a startup - both are a group of people striving to achieve a common interest, with each person also having their own individual interests.  Longevity occurs as long as the group is able to sustain all those interests.  In both bands and startups, they could be:1) Making money2) Achieving a certain level of notoriety/fame3) A sense that you're doing something cool or innovative4) Being in a like-minded group5) Learning something newEach person will come to join a band or a startup for some, or all, of these reasons. For instance, I don't care that my band doesn't make a ton of money and we're not as popular as Taylor Swift.  I like the music we create, I like hanging out with my bandmates, and I'm able to practice my recording and mixing skills in addition to playing music.So, achieving longevity in a band or startup is largely about maintaining each others' interests.  You can have a startup that makes a ton of money but isn't cool or hip, and somebody leaves because they don't find it personally fulfilling.  Just as you can have a band that isn't known at all and isn't financially sustainable, but everyone in the band loves it, so they keep going.

How did you get your band together?

My one and only experience being in a band was chaotic. That's how I could best describe the failed phenomenon that was the Ritual Bitch: a complete chaos.In my early 20s, I saw myself as more-or-less bisexual. I'd previously dated a wild girl named Elli. A couple of years later, I was back in Athens, GA and ran into Elli entirely by accident.I had been thinking of being in a band, and I had taught myself some basic drumming (though I was not very good, to put it mildly). Elli was interested.And so, I had a jam session with her, her boyfriend Casey, and a guy named Jeff.We had several jam sessions, and to give you a sense of the kind of band we really were:While smoking amazing amounts of marijuana, Jeff spilled the bongwater. Somehow, the statement "He spilled the bongwater just like that" became a mantra, which we wrote into a song.One song consisted of Casey screaming unprintable and incomprehenible obscenities at the audience. Another, only slightly better, was my composition "Love is a Pain in the Ass" which was full of gratuitous obscenity.And jam sessions ended up with me sleeping with Elli or her husband. I think I slept with Jeff once, but I don't remember.But neither Jeff nor I was any good as a musician, and Elli and Casey were driving each other crazy. And we were all smoking too much weed.Our one and only performance was a disaster. My best composition was "Hathor," and while singing lead, I forgot the lyric ... my own lyric! Casey wound up knocking me off stage accidentally on purpose. And the audience hated us.That was the end of the Ritual Bitch.If you think the band name was offensive to women, it was our one woman band member who suggested it. It's better than the one Casey suggested when we were all stoned...TL;DR?It just happened. It was chaos while it was going on. Four people with different ideas and talents tried to make music together, and eventually gave it up when it was going nowhere.Thanks for the A2A, Steven Dillard.

Why don’t bands record music together?

The answer is separation. That is, with modern recording, you can record each instrument or vocal separately (this is called “tracking”), then mix them together later to make the song sound the way you want. If, after listening to the mix, you decide you don’t like a specific part, or identify a mistake, you can re-record just that one part or even a phrase or word (this is called “punching in/out”), without affecting anything else. Once upon a time, there was a limit to how many tracks you could record on a given piece of tape (2″ magnetic tape could have 24 tracks, for instance), but modern computer-based recording workstations can process effectively unlimited tracks.If you put the whole band into a room, and record everyone at once, this is generally referred to as “recording live.” But there’s a lot more risk. If someone makes a mistake, or you find out you don’t like the guitar sound later or whatever, you have to re-record the entire band again. And maybe that second time a different person makes a mistake, or a mic stand falls over. Then you have to have the entire band play it again for a third time.Also, when you are in a room together, more than one microphone will record each instrument, as they will “bleed” into one another. This can create some weird effects like phasing, which can make the recording sound odd.Some artists do record this way, because they like the way it feels when the entire band plays together, and think it will extract a better performance from everyone. Because it’s generally more tedious to do this (you have to have every instrument and even vocals properly set up simultaneously) most band prefer the process where you track everything, then mix/master later.

Who orchestrated getting the Eagles rock band together?

Ah! his name escapes me… I tefuse to Google, my supposed, stongest subject!Was it , Jackson Browne, ? Great guitarist and slide playet..he was definitely around them alot and supportive of them from the start.. Think he was living with them and jamming with some of the original Eagle's, for a good while