Least amicable band split stories...

[Downunderwonder]

Lucky MrPerpetual showed his stripes early on!

[EliasMooseblaster]

On 18/09/2025 at 11:47, MacDaddy said:

 

I read Keith Richards autobiography and was surprised by how the 'Stones never have been great mates. It's purely a working relationship.

Similar situation with The 'Oo, from what I gather - Roger Daltrey has frequently admitted to any disputes descending into fisticuffs, especially in the early days. It sounds like there was some camaraderie between Moon and Entwistle, but otherwise they just learned to get along on tour and then went their separate ways until the job forced them back together.

[Dan Dare]

On 18/09/2025 at 11:47, MacDaddy said:

I read Keith Richards autobiography and was surprised by how the 'Stones never have been great mates. It's purely a working relationship.

 

That's probably why they've lasted. In virtually any workplace, people wouldn't expect to be best buddies (or sworn enemies). As long as you can get along with colleagues/co-workers, that's fine. You make the odd friend through work, but it's not the norm in my experience.

 

Yet music seems to be different for many. Is it because we are trying to recapture the lost halogen days of our yoof, when our first band was a band of brothers, us against the world, etc? And as for relationships within bands, just don't go there. Guaranteed to be a disaster.

[Downunderwonder]

46 minutes ago, Dan Dare said:

lost halogen days

You rehearsed under fluorine lamps?

[chris_b]

Bands with personal issues; The Kinks, The Beatles, The Stones, Oasis, Pink Floyd, Cream, etc etc . . . .

 

You don't have to like everyone in the band, you just have to be able to make music with them. Success is good at papering over the cracks.

[Lozz196]

As Steve Jones from The Sex Pistols said, you don’t have to be best mates in a band any more than if in a football team, you still pass the ball to the best placed player even if you don’t get on with them.

[Downunderwonder]

21 hours ago, Downunderwonder said:

You rehearsed under fluorine lamps?

You need a tunsten filament and a halogen to make a halogen bulb. Fluorine is not the actual one they use but it would probably go to 11, seemed appropriate for your halogen days.

[SteveXFR]

I was in a prog metal band for a relatively short time. We wrote and recorded enough for a 40 minute set and then had a meeting about getting ready for gigs. At this meeting, the front man brought lists for each band member with specific items of kit each of us had to have. This wasn't little things like leads etc, my list included Ampeg SVT Classic with 410 cab, the guitarists list included a HiWatt amp and a load of pedals. After a relatively short argument, we all quit. The front man contacted me again recently claiming he's a bit more chilled out now, I told him to get stuffed.

[Downunderwonder]

22 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

I was in a prog metal band for a relatively short time. We wrote and recorded enough for a 40 minute set and then had a meeting about getting ready for gigs. At this meeting, the front man brought lists for each band member with specific items of kit each of us had to have. This wasn't little things like leads etc, my list included Ampeg SVT Classic with 410 cab, the guitarists list included a HiWatt amp and a load of pedals. After a relatively short argument, we all quit. The front man contacted me again recently claiming he's a bit more chilled out now, I told him to get stuffed.

How old am I that I recall the righteous indignation you posted at the time?

[SteveXFR]

2 minutes ago, Downunderwonder said:

How old am I that I recall the righteous indignation you posted at the time?

 

I think it was only about four years ago. 

[Downunderwonder]

5 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

 

I think it was only about four years ago. 

So you might just about be able to remember your lines? Seems like a worthwhile thing if the rest of the band and yourself got the knucklehead vocalist to accept his place in the world.