I'm sitting down to write this without any idea quite what I want to say, so bear with me. Or not.
I've recently moved out of my university city of Lund, to Halmstad, which is about two hours further north. This is problematic for a number of reasons, but of course kind of unavoidable. Now, we had to split my band, since we were three people and there was no reason for them to keep going without me. The problem I want to address here is therefore: How do you go ahead and form a new band?
I've always been the kind of person who's more into working together with someone rather than using them as sidemen to play my songs the way I've pictured them beforehand. I already know what I sound like, I don't think it's very interesting to just project my style or whatever onto others. I may have a bass line, a lyric, a melody or something, and we'll write something together using that as a basis. On the other hand I want some level of control, in the sense that I don't want to be stuck playing something which I think sucks or just isn't my thing for some reason. Can I afford to be picky? Probably not. Am I satisfied playing cover songs and occasional Guns n' Roses ripoffs written by some guitar playing turd with no interest in doing something even slightly interesting or original? Nope.
The guitar player in my former band was the kind of person I could imagine playing with until the day that I die. We connected on the level where we were usually able to just sit down and play without knowing what we were going to do, and come up with an idea within 2 seconds. It was like that from the first time we played together until the last. It was sort of once-in-a-lifetime I guess.
Y'all, do you have a musical soulmate? How did you meet? I need a project and I need someone to play with. Or maybe I should try something else, like learning how to program some fucking drums and do everything by myself. How do you do it? Which do you prefer?
Head full of problems.. no single way of expressing it. Maybe I'm just venting. I'm 26 years old and I play bass by the way, also handling singing duties whenever needed. I'll be crawling up the walls within weeks unless I find some kind of project again where I'm living now.
Answer any of my questions or just rant away like me..