[ChrisE]

I played in a band for only about a year and encountered a lot of the stuff mentioned here. Especially the part about the girl singer.

When we first started we had a girl singer who thought it was her band. She saw herself as the star and we were her backing band. The problem was that she couldn’t sing. Or count. Or remember lyrics. She had to read lyrics off her phone and never knew where to come in. Apparently she didn’t own a radio, either. She didn’t have any musical exposure. Even the most popular tunes that anyone would have heard on the radio a thousand times were absolutely unfamiliar to her.

We rehearsed several times, steadily cutting the songs she couldn’t sing from the set list. When we cut her songs, she tried to sing harmonies on the other songs and couldn’t do that either.

By the time we played our first gig we polished our set list enough that she only sang on one song each set, and that was too many. She only had that one gig with us.

The band volunteered me to fire her. I did. No problem.