Co-operation. Collusion. The 'Gang' nature of a band. Collective composition, collective ideals. Teamwork. All for one and one for all, and all that (and the chap who wrote that was French). Small scale Anarcho-Syndicalism, if you like.
Many great bands have been together since school or university and are more like families. Zep are unusual in that respect, but they spent so much time together in such proximity that they might as well be considered to be a family-like unit: I mean, look at the divorce....Be that as it may, those bands that weren't all at school together still had the same ideals. U2 are Irish, but they do things according to the same principles.
When we started to get all indivdual at the expense of the collective, which is much more the American way, we started to lose the notion that the whole can be greater than the sum of its parts. Stupid really. You can't crew a Pirate ship by yourself.
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Date: 2008-03-26 05:59 pm (UTC)Small scale Anarcho-Syndicalism, if you like.
Many great bands have been together since school or university and are more like families. Zep are unusual in that respect, but they spent so much time together in such proximity that they might as well be considered to be a family-like unit: I mean, look at the divorce....Be that as it may, those bands that weren't all at school together still had the same ideals. U2 are Irish, but they do things according to the same principles.
When we started to get all indivdual at the expense of the collective, which is much more the American way, we started to lose the notion that the whole can be greater than the sum of its parts. Stupid really. You can't crew a Pirate ship by yourself.