There was a race horse called that, a few years ago. That's how I know it means "fear of the number 13"
Similar to your music talent? I actually think you can play a little bit, but maybe the lads got bored of you dragging them down?
I think you’re right. My blistering lead solos became too much for what they were trying to achieve. So they sacked me.
I’ve done 300-400 gigs over the last 8 years. It became stale. I need a new challenge. My new band is going to be quite raw.
You said it was your band mate, so....... Also, seeing as it’s your band, you’ll be the one who has authority over the actual website, it’s showing that you’re playing this weekend bro. #ontheball #falstaff
I was the impetus for a band coming together - advertising for musicians, putting together a song list, deciding which direction we should be heading, organizing rehearsal space, etc. That was ten years ago, and the band went through many incarnations, with many musicians coming in and out. I'm the only surviving member of the original line up. Back in those days, the band was called Black Tulip, and we had a female vocalist. The Other Guys sprang, effectively, out of a reformation, when we acquired our keyboardist and new male vocalist (not Daz), around seven years ago. The band's name was coined by the keyboardist, but I have never liked it, as I think it sounds too twee for a heavy rock band. Indeed, it has been mainly the influence of the keyboardist that has steered the band away from the harder/heavier rock that I prefer, and more into pop rock. I set the band up, but there has never been a leader. Our view was very much along the lines of "once you get invited in, you are here until you decide to leave." Decisions were always taken on a democratic basis, and we never played stuff that any one member was absolutely dead set against. It often made choosing material very difficult, because we each had very different ideas as to what constitutes "classic" rock. One of the reasons the band plays a lot of Pink Floyd is because their music was universally loved throughout the band, and we all knew and understood their material. Because of my work commitments, I never really had the time to organise and run the band, once we started becoming popular on the circuit, and so the band delegated that stuff to Rob, our drummer. He, effectively, became our manager. People don't appreciate how much work it takes to keep a band up and running for 30-40 gigs a year. Rob quit the band just before the covid outbreak (planned retirement), and what with all that's since happened in the world, no one has bothered to change anything.
You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need ...
