I wrote today on my myspace blog:
http://www.myspace.com/more_gigs about the importance of choosing the right band members if you're going to be  successful with band gigs.

This might sound obvious but often you can get blinded by a potential band member's personality or just how good they are playing etc.

We've been going through this recently and are taking a lot of time over it. In the past we've played with singers who were fantastic interacting with an audience for example. But their negative attitude, unless the gig were a high profile "ego-booster" was far too draining to continue with.

Others have simply not had the commitment or motivation to invest in updating their gear when it was clearly needed. Its a bit formal (and hardly rock n roll) to say you should be "interviewing" potential band members to Gage their attitudes . But the idea really is to just try and find out how good a match their aims and likes/dislikes are for those of the band and rest of the band members. A little bit of extra time invested up front will save a lot of potential heartache later

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