I dont know and dont want to know my bandmates political leanings, its irrelevant to what we are doing.
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Don't worry, I don't plan to engage into that path on TalkBass. Not because it's forbidden, but because I don't see the point to do that here.
If you cannot get along politically, then it’s hard to get along. I’ve seen families fall apart and friendships disintegrate over the past few years over politics. Bands are not immune to the current zeitgeist.
I got kicked out of a band once because the guitarist did not like what I was playing on one particular song. Everyone else in the band liked what I was doing on the bridge to this song, which by contrast to the rigid quarter notes I was playing in the verse had some ‘swing’ to it. But the guitarist demanded I hold the rigid quarter notes through the bridge too. He was anal about it and considered me a threat so, when the band voted that I should play the bridge my way, he kicked me out. It did not help that the girl singer was hitting on me, and the guitarist’s girlfriend was also hitting on me lol
Bands...no. However, I’m not allowed within 100’ of Victoria’s Secret. Some people are SO touchy!
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Yes.
TL; DR: I got fired from a band for having a good-paying "corporate" job, which was the culmination of six years' worth of red flags.
TL; DR: I got fired from a band for having a good-paying "corporate" job, which was the culmination of six years' worth of red flags.
I was kicked out of a band once for wanting to play music that would get us booked. I brought in some popular tunes, we started getting more gigs, next thing I knew I was out because they wanted to do their own thing. The guitarist left with me and we had all the gigs we could handle for the next couple of years.
I was playing a band in which the drummer was a professional shoplifter and the guitarist a drug dealer.
When I told them I needed to take the summer off to go commercially fishing salmon which was my job, they fired me because I didn't take being a professional musician seriously. I was at a few rehearsals with another group but had to take two weeks off in March for herring fishing and wasn't welcome back into that band after that either.
But I am unabashadly and unapologetically left in my politics and if I found I was in a group with some right-wing loony I would happily say bye-bye. I'm already overtolerant with some right wingers in anothger endeavour I'm involved in and that is already too much to take.
Bon courage. Ça n'en vaut pas la peine.
When I told them I needed to take the summer off to go commercially fishing salmon which was my job, they fired me because I didn't take being a professional musician seriously. I was at a few rehearsals with another group but had to take two weeks off in March for herring fishing and wasn't welcome back into that band after that either.
But I am unabashadly and unapologetically left in my politics and if I found I was in a group with some right-wing loony I would happily say bye-bye. I'm already overtolerant with some right wingers in anothger endeavour I'm involved in and that is already too much to take.
Bon courage. Ça n'en vaut pas la peine.
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People get really confused when I start talking about bass during a political discussion.
I'm closing this. Many people have posted "political reasons" without actually going into the substance of the disagreement, which is great. A few others have been more specific about the substance of the political or religious differences, and I worry that it will keep happening and there will be a bunch of rule violations, infractions and cleanup. Sorry y'all.
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