BandKarma

Musician’s Notebook had a great article on the band agreement, the contract (yes contract) you set up when you make a band.

The exit clause is perhaps the most important clause in the band agreement. It stipulates the conditions under which a band member may leave the band, and outlines the actions that can be taken when a band member must be terminated, and for what reasons this may be done. It prevents long, drawn-out arguments over these particularly sensitive issues of band life and prevents one member’s departure from creating problems, or even a collapse, for the whole band.

(read the full article on Musician’s Notebook)

For some reason, when I think of a band starting off, practicing in their garage and one day making it big. I think of Nirvana. Maybe because they started to make it big when I was a teenager. Maybe because they were one of the few big bands to emerge during that time in my life. Or maybe their star fell with so fast and with such fury that it is just burned into my brain that way. I mean – think about it, Brittney Spears is not a band, neither are most of the singers today. The are the pretty faces in front a corporate machine. A machine that knows the public so well making money is easy for them. I might be wrong, but my impression is they can take any no talent pretty face, record traffic noise and barking dogs, and take it to the studio and turn it into the next song your hear 12 times on your way to work. I just can not imagine the creative process happening that way…I mean, no doubt there are creative people somewhere in the process…but who are they?

My point, oh, Nivana movie will have some new music – can’t wait. here’s the link

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