Last month, I suggested a number of ways you can go about finding people to play with and, hopefully, eventually form a band with. When you start searching, don’t settle for the first people you meet, and don’t expect a miracle right away, either. Many a time I’ve found myself standing in a room with two or three other people, and we couldn’t play even a note together. But don’t get discouraged. Every musician you listen to has gone through this sort of frustration. Doesn’t it sometimes seem like everybody who can play is already in a band? And since that’s the case, how are you ever gonna find someone to play with? It’s a Catch-22 situation. I never beat it, because in the end I found a band that was already making records and touring-they just needed a new guitar player. As I mentioned in the first column, I answered a bunch of ads, and nothing really came of it. But that’s not to say that my experience is typical-there are a bunch of highly original bands out there that totally have their own thing that got together by answering ads they found in their local paper or music […]