mxracer591
Junior Member
hey guys, my band is having a dilemma. We've been together for about a year, and are just now getting to the point where we are starting to get some amount of recognition and actually getting shows booked and whatnot. One of the guitar players is, to put it nicely, a douche bag on certain occasions. He has been a fairly big part of the music writing process, and most of the stuff he writes, everyone likes, he has shaped our sound considerably. The problem lies in how he interacts with us, and the way he acts on facebook and the like. he is pretty openly racist, and homophobic... which i don't really understand, but he has made those type of remarks openly on facebook. the other day, he told a few people they weren't allowed at our shows anymore, because he had personal issues with them, and claimed the whole band felt that way. None of us had a problem with them at all. It sounds like a very easy decision based on the evidence I've given, but it really isn't. The problems we have is, for one, no one wants to tell him the bad news. No one knows for sure how he will react, hell, I wouldn't really put it past him to go crazy and try to fight us, as much as he claims that we are all brothers, this band is literally all he has. He lives at home, has no money, and no car. We don't know what we would do with the material that we already have, obviously of which he has written a lot of. As far as a replacement, we know a few people that could possibly fit, but that's really the least of our worries right this minute. I'd rather just have one guitarist then deal with this guy anymore. I've probably ranted a little bit because i'm quite frustrated about the whole situation, and wanted to get a few different opinions/ideas.