There has to be something painful about being a musician who gets kicked out of a band just before it hits the big time. There's the sting of rejection, of course, and the constant wondering, the bitterness, and that little voice in the back of your head that won't stop repeating: It could have been you. Your friends got rid of you, they're all the better for it, and now you're stuck working in a dentist's office in Utah. All in all, it's not hugely fun.
Photo: trello-attachments.s3.amazonaws.com
There has to be something painful about being a musician who gets kicked out of a band just before it hits the big time. There's the sting of rejection, of course, and the constant wondering, the bitterness, and that little voice in the back of your head that won't stop repeating: It could have been you. Your friends got rid of you, they're all the better for it, and now you're stuck working in a dentist's office in Utah. All in all, it's not hugely fun.
So you've joined a band. With all the fuss and the drama of finding the right people to play with, of finding somewhere to play, of figuring out what to play — well, it probably all feels like a lot right now. But you persevere. You practice day in and day out, playing the tiny gigs, recording what you can when you can, and you think that maybe, just maybe, this might all be going somewhere.
Musicians Who've Been Kicked Out Of A Crazy Number Of Bands Scott Dudelson/Getty Images By /Jan. 14, 2021 12:40 pm EDT All things considered, being a …
Creative people can seem kind of magically talented. Since fans only see the end product of their work, it can appear that they just put pen to paper, or brush to canvas, or pick up a guitar and within minutes they've created the thing that made them famous. We rarely experience all the failed attempts that end up on the scrap heap of history — the novels that never make it out of drawers or the paintings that get covered over.
This may shock you, but most bands don't stay together in their original form forever. You see, rock musicians tend to have egos that are a touch inflated compared to us mortals, and the fact that they make their money looking cool and getting underwear thrown at them has a way of making many of them think the good times will keep rolling forever, with or without their bandmates.
