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dogwomble
New member
Hey guys,
I'm only an occasional lurker/poster in this forum - mainly because I generally only come here to find out something on a specific music issue
And this is one of those moments.
I've been wanting to get a band type thing going for some time now. I've finally found a few people that would be keen on working with me, and we're going to have a huge planning session this Saturday involving pizza, soft drink and/or beer, two big boards, some butchers paper, and a whiteboard marker. That side of things is going to be incredible organised.
I've been putting a list of things together that I want to try and nut out. I thought it's best to try and make sure we cover anything and everything about what we want to be and where we want to go before picking up our instruments to try and avoid arguments. I wanted to post them here so that some of the more experienced banders can give me advice on whether it's a good point, bad point, or non-existant point (ie. have I forgotten something?)
So if I could please get some feedback on this, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance guys!
-> BAND NAME: Pretty obvious
We think we've got one, we just have to all agree on it 
-> BAND STYLE / IMAGE
-> ROLES IN BAND: Who plays what? Who does what?
-> PERFORMANCE/RECORDING GOALS: Where do we want to go re gigging and recording?
-> WRITING PROCESS: How are we going to write new material?
-> COVER VERSIONS: Are we going to cover existing songs, and how are we going to do so while covering ourselves for copyright?
-> MARKETING: What mediums are we going to use to market ourselves?
-> LEGAL: eg. registering band name as a business
-> MONEY: Setting up bank accoutns for the band, ownership and running of said account, taxation
-> COPYRIGHT: Covering our own material for copyright, and how to enforce that without coming across as the RIAA
I'm only an occasional lurker/poster in this forum - mainly because I generally only come here to find out something on a specific music issue

I've been wanting to get a band type thing going for some time now. I've finally found a few people that would be keen on working with me, and we're going to have a huge planning session this Saturday involving pizza, soft drink and/or beer, two big boards, some butchers paper, and a whiteboard marker. That side of things is going to be incredible organised.
I've been putting a list of things together that I want to try and nut out. I thought it's best to try and make sure we cover anything and everything about what we want to be and where we want to go before picking up our instruments to try and avoid arguments. I wanted to post them here so that some of the more experienced banders can give me advice on whether it's a good point, bad point, or non-existant point (ie. have I forgotten something?)
So if I could please get some feedback on this, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance guys!
-> BAND NAME: Pretty obvious


-> BAND STYLE / IMAGE
-> ROLES IN BAND: Who plays what? Who does what?
-> PERFORMANCE/RECORDING GOALS: Where do we want to go re gigging and recording?
-> WRITING PROCESS: How are we going to write new material?
-> COVER VERSIONS: Are we going to cover existing songs, and how are we going to do so while covering ourselves for copyright?
-> MARKETING: What mediums are we going to use to market ourselves?
-> LEGAL: eg. registering band name as a business
-> MONEY: Setting up bank accoutns for the band, ownership and running of said account, taxation
-> COPYRIGHT: Covering our own material for copyright, and how to enforce that without coming across as the RIAA
