Are my band expectations simply too high?

[colleya]

On 01/03/2025 at 08:27, Sean said:

I can sympathise. I'm in a similar situation. JMB seems to have a lot of people who are just awful at communicating, don't follow through on what they say they'll do

 

The only reason I'm in my current band is because their JMB advert was clear, had punctuation and laid out what they did and what they were looking for. Ads like that were a rarity when I was looking.

[TimR]

I joined 3 bands through JMB. The first I'm still in.

The third has stopped due to availability but is definitely a restart prospect when the guys get some time.

 

The second had disaster written all over it from the initial contact. He messaged me. I declined about 3 times. Then one afternoon he catches me out of the blue and asks if I fancied meeting for a jam. I was free so met up.

 

The music was good, he seemed to know what he wanted, despite the initial contact. We then had a few weeks of good rehearsals and then it descended into chaos with random musicians turning up each week. My first gut feelings were correct. He's not actually told me I'm not in the band but he messaged me the other week asking if I knew any venues that were looking for bands.  Just strange...