Advice?

[gjkdioepppp]

There's this guy at my school, he wants to start a band with him playing guitar and me playing bass. I kinda liked the idea, until i heard him play. He wasn't brilliant.
On top of this he got two guys i don't like at all to be singer and drummer.
I'd feel like a complete dick if i quit now, since i already got his hopes up,and his chances of finding another bass player are slim. So what should i do?

 

[Distazo]

Being in a band is all about chemistry, talent doesn't matter near as much as how well you gel with the people. So is your friendship with this guy enough to overcome your dislike for the other two members?

 

[theComposer]

It honestly doesn't sound like a good fit if you despise two of the members and are underwhelmed with the talent of a third. That's a a lot of conflict waiting to happen. Get out now and save yourself the trouble later. If you and the guitarist are good enough friends, he'll understand.

 

[gjkdioepppp]

Sorry for the double post, btw, computer screwed up.

 

[Chewster]

Suck up the differences for now and join the band. Get a small following going by playing for free at tiny and relatively unknown venues in your hometown. Practice a lot and release a cheaply made demo which you will mostly sell to friends and family members. Have a record exec come to a show and get signed. Release a brilliant and well-received first album followed by a tour where you write a second album that is hailed as being just as good. Take some time off for a third which will sell amazingly but will not be praised as much as critics and early fans will claim you have sold out. Decide to then do a concept album that will divide musical critics. Begin to struggle with alcoholism and a coke addiction. Start fighting with the other band members who will say you've let success go to your head. Walk out after the first three songs at a major concert after which you will cite "creative differences" to Rolling Stone Magazine. Go indie for awhile and release some solo stuff that will mostly be ignored. Delve into the depths of hell as addictions and depression take over your life. Wake up all disheveled in an alley in Vegas one day and decide to get your life on track. Enter rehab. Get clean after much soul-searching. Leave rehab. Write a book about your experience there. Catch up with the band which has been floundering since you left. Rejoin them and go on a huge comeback tour and make millions playing music from your old albums.

After that, it is up to you, really.

 

[Communist partisan]

There's this guy at my school, he wants to start a band with him playing guitar and me playing bass. I kinda liked the idea, until i heard him play. He wasn't brilliant.
On top of this he got two guys i don't like at all to be singer and drummer.
I'd feel like a complete dick if i quit now, since i already got his hopes up,and his chances of finding another bass player are slim. So what should i do?

I have no idea.... I would probably fuck it all or talk to your friend and say what you think and say you'll give it a shot and if you don't like it yust fuck it.

 

[Space Spoons]

Give it a shot, I'd say. There's always the chance you could hit it off with the singer and drummer once you start playing together, and the guy on lead guitar... Well, there's always one guy in the band who really doesn't have the talent to be there. That's just the way bands work.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Give it a go, at least. It might not work out but you won't have lost anything.