[Grizzly]

Hi Jose, just my 0.02 cts from my own experience :

Originally Posted by Jose Mrochek

I´ve been in the process of forming a band for the past year.

It took me 10 years to get a solid band commited - it's a very long process I think, as long as learning to play an insrument, and weirdly, I must say it took me 10 years to get myself as involved as we all are today !...

Originally Posted by Jose Mrochek

1.- one is never on-time for practice.. who ever it may be, one out of the 3 cant be there on time NEVER. (screws up the vibe for the rest of us)

So, he's not a professionnal musician, hire pros...

Originally Posted by Jose Mrochek

2.- If they are good musicians and on time and dont miss practice, they have an ATTITUDE problem.

What about YOUR attitude ? - are you easy to get along with ? - are you very demanding or do you let them fully express themselves musically ? - do you feel in the same boat as the guys you're playing with ? - are you obsessed by your own stuff ? - why are you by yourself only on your website ?... (nothing personal, dude, I've asked myself those too !...)

Originally Posted by Jose Mrochek

3.- Lies. plain and simple, don´t keep their promises.

What kind of lies ? - What kind of promises ? - only prophets, politicians and lovers are dumb enough to make promises - musicians just need groove, buddies and freedom more than anything, maybe that's what YOU should promise them. Then if it comes along with paid gigs, it's even better of course !...

Originally Posted by Jose Mrochek

Sad thing is I´m starting to feel I may lower my standards on the musical part, to get the ¨better people¨. Do I really have to go for the bad bass player because he is there on time and is responsible ?

If you start to hire a bad musician just because he's a good guy, it'll never work for anyone in the band and it's unrespectful for the guy himself... And you can learn a WHOLE LOT from musicians that are better than you actually are - I noticed that the band leader is rarely the best musician in the band, but more of the one who knows how to highlight each band member's human and musical qualities...

Originally Posted by Jose Mrochek

and yesterday I fired a bass player. Back to square one....

You sound like you fire people a whole lot - maybe you oughtta think twice before hiring them in the first place... "never marry a woman you don't wannna be divorced from..." my buddy's mom would say...

Originally Posted by Jose Mrochek

P.S .. by musicians I mean hired musicians, not a band as in creative imput to make more albums together. I can´t even begin to think what chaos that would be like.. thanks!

Music IS chaos, alchemy comes from chaos... You may find all your answers to your problems in your post-scriptum - as scary and painful as it may get, try to set up a full "creative" band, little by little, and the sum of y'all may eventually lead to a very exiting "ensemble"... And then your music mates will start to appear as the best musicians you've ever played with as well as the coolest people on earth...

But what do I know, really ?...

Good luck for your quest Jose !

Olivier.