Personalities
according to their instrument/role in band. Here’s an incomprehensive list of
self-evident truths that I won’t belabor but want to share:
Lead
guitar players: brilliant musicians, moody, quiet when you needed to talk about
anything important, passive-aggressive, etc. . . . their talents are admirable,
but I find it hard to know them or get close to ‘em. Drummers = fun and a
little crazy, opinionated, real characters. But, drummers are easy for me to
chum around with. Bass players = usually bandleaders, more even tempered than
the rest, sweet. Generally, bassists are romantics -- or snide bastards!
Vocalists = good P.R. people, schmoozers, “the face” fronting the group.
In
the Squares, we had three vocalists, two lead players (Bruce AND Tom, on
electric banjo later on), an occasional drummer, and Tom on bass (though he’d
occasionally have Bruce or I play bass, on “Promises” and “Fourth Day of
July.”). Oh, we also had two stand-up comedians who dealt in “fastball wit.”
Me
being in the middle of it, in our inverted V formation, I tended to feel left
out. . . I was of the more cerebral, rambling stage patter school, which didn’t
work so well in a tight group. Oh well. At that point in our act, it didn’t
hurt to have the cute girl in the middle. . . though I felt smarter than I may
have looked, I was also not clued in at the right times so how smart was I,
after all?!
My
tenacity always won out. I stuck with the Squares through the good times and
the bad, and I stuck with survival jobs and boyfriends too, generally -- until
the breaking (or tipping) point prevails. . .
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