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Sorry to hear about this! It's always tough when this sort of thing happens. Any way you could get the others together and carry on a new way?

bob_atherton wrote: Drinking wine and feeling ****. Bob

How's your head now Bob? Bands splitting up hardly ever is pleasant. So good luck! New bands will come eventually.

Sorry to hear that Bob. I have been speaking to the singer today about one of my bands and we both "want" it to split ! Only problem is neither of us will jump as we put a huge amount of work in to get it up and running.

Sorry to hear that Bob; I've only been away from bands for 2 years out of 27 and it drove me nuts. After saying that it drives me nuts being in them too! Hope you get something sorted soon.

Well here is an update.

I am in a new band! My last one, Slipper (good band, **** name), was jazzy, funky worldy and quite ‘out there’ at times. Great fun to play, but not crowd going crazy, dancing on the tables kind of stuff.

My new band, The Bullfrogs (good band, another **** name) is totally Blues and Blues Rock. It is a classic power trio like Cream and we are playing Rory Gallagher, Ten Years After, Peter Green, Steve Miller etc etc. Only rehearsed twice but there is a real magic there that I have not felt for many, many years. This is real dancing on the tables stuff and I just can’t wait to start gigging again.

Basses being used are Ric 4000 and Fender P about 50/50.

Musical life is good again..

Glad to hear it, Bob. Sounds like a fun new thing. And I don't think the name is bad.

We've got some really obnoxious/offensive band names in Chicago. There's a couple bands that if I posted their name, Peter would delete the post and probably me too!

Every time I come up with a good band name, I google it and find out that its already taken.

My band split up in Dec also. Must be something with the stress of the holiday season. The guys just came over Monday night and took their stuff out of my basement. Its sad, but I'm thinking something better will come along soon.

Great news, Bob! Post some pics of yourself playing when you get back to gigging.

Sounds great, Bob1 When will you be playing in Cleveland?

That does sound great, Bob!

How about changing the name to "Bluesfrog", a pun on the anagrammatic "Bllusfrog" ...?

Good on you Bob. I think the name really suits the stuff you're doing....I like it. The main thing is that its a good band. 3 piece bands are great, I was only ever in one once and it was a lot of years ago. I would love to do it again.

Glad things are looking up for you, Bob. My band has been everything from a 5 piece to 3 piece. We've been 'together' for about 15 years but only me and the drummer are original members. We've had 4 different guitar players over the years. Two have left, come back, and one of those left again. Another left about 12 years ago and one of the 2 we have now appears to be thinking of leaving. The drummer must be an a**hole or something.

some of the best events in my life was getting out of certain bands ...

jwr2 wrote:some of the best events in my life was getting out of certain bands ...

and jobs....

johnallg wrote:

jwr2 wrote:some of the best events in my life was getting out of certain bands ...

and jobs....

ya ... you got that right ... boy I am glad I got out of the job in Michigan

jwr2 wrote: ya ... you got that right ... boy I am glad I got out of the job in Michigan

Poor Michigan. That state has really hit hard times.