It strikes me as odd just how many examples there are of bands in which the key protagonists just don't like one another.
I mean it all looks good from the audience's vantage point. There's Paul Simon, all low notes and clever guitar play and there's Art Garfunkel, all high notes and great hair.
"old friends, sat on a park bench like bookends" they sing.
Old friends or not it seems. These 2 guys tried hard but ultimately had to part and go separate ways. They just couldn't seem to keep on working together.
I think they call it creative differences.
Then there is that guy Peter Cetera who was the lead singer in the band Chicago. Am I revealing something here about myself people?
He left Chicago to go and sing the title song to the wax-on wax-off movie, and became pretty successful. Pretty successful is about as far as it went by the way.
It transpired that he and the other lads in Chicago just didn't get along. He doesn't look back fondly at all on the old days I am led to believe.
In wonder in years to come whether some of the bands of our youth (I speak for myself here) will turn into bitter factions, spitting venomous barbs at one another about how the other was just dead wood and how all the talent was on one side of the equation.
It's happened so many times, I'm inclined to think that all bands are destined to end this way.
Even the E-Street band.
I mean it all looks good from the audience's vantage point. There's Paul Simon, all low notes and clever guitar play and there's Art Garfunkel, all high notes and great hair.
"old friends, sat on a park bench like bookends" they sing.
Old friends or not it seems. These 2 guys tried hard but ultimately had to part and go separate ways. They just couldn't seem to keep on working together.
I think they call it creative differences.
Then there is that guy Peter Cetera who was the lead singer in the band Chicago. Am I revealing something here about myself people?
He left Chicago to go and sing the title song to the wax-on wax-off movie, and became pretty successful. Pretty successful is about as far as it went by the way.
It transpired that he and the other lads in Chicago just didn't get along. He doesn't look back fondly at all on the old days I am led to believe.
In wonder in years to come whether some of the bands of our youth (I speak for myself here) will turn into bitter factions, spitting venomous barbs at one another about how the other was just dead wood and how all the talent was on one side of the equation.
It's happened so many times, I'm inclined to think that all bands are destined to end this way.
Even the E-Street band.
2 comments:
Graham Coxon ended up leaving Blur.
I think Oasis has defied the odds, so far.
Didn't they have a falling out between Noel and your man bonehead, and then with that lad McGuigan, and then between Liam and just about everyone at some stage.
I think they've changed from the original line up too.
The only band I can really think of that still has all the original members is U2.
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