How To Handle Different Personalities In Your Band

How do you deal with different people and the characters in your band?

That's a really fun question.

Thank you for asking it.

So.

Out of personal experience,

What I can tell you is that if you put We are five people and sometimes in the studio we are.

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Eight people because of the sound engineer and the camera team.

It's an experience because everybody needs somebody.

Everybody has different things they need.

It's,

I think,

One of the most important things is that you give people the most freedom that you can give them.

Because to express themselves and we all work differently,

Somebody needs a tea,

The other person needs a coffee,

The other person needs a sandwich.

Or.

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Anything else that they just want to bring into the studio or also on stage and to feel them comfortable,

To feel comfortable,

That's it.

That's a big part of it.

That is part of dealing with different characters for me in the band.

It gives everybody the room to kind of joke and come together and speak what's on their mind or what they're busy with.

So I think to me you're describing actually to let people be people in the process,

So to speak.

Yeah,

Also give them their freedom of expression and what is it in English called Wärmeflasche?

Is it like a hot water bottle?

So that's Viola's thing,

She loves to come,

Or this time she came with a hot water bottle.

And yeah,

We all have our things that we need and that we love.

Yeah,

And I think what magically works for us as well is the The capability of letting people help other people.

We have in the setup people who are interested in people,

So to speak.

They don't just bring their knowledge about music,

About their instrument,

About their voice.

To the studio or to the band,

But they bring themselves as growing people into the band that are interested in other people.

And so what I often observe is that where I find myself at wit's end of,

You know,

How to deal with a certain situation,

Somebody else kind of swoops in and has an understanding from their own way of life to help to transmitted.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And one general thing I would watch out in a band is that people like each other.

This is more important than.

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.

A lot of people think.

You have to,

To a certain degree at least,

Like each other and have common interests.

Because you spend a lot of time together,

A very intense time.

I think so too.

We love you.

The band as it is,

Unless you're a really big band,

I mean a famous band as such,

Doesn't exist anymore for a lot of professional musicians.

They are being hired to join somebody,

In particular if you work in the rhythm section.

And then they kind of come in and they're asked to do something and they can do it,

As I said,

Because they're professionals.

But what makes the juice of the interaction and the possibility of creating something together is that when they really feel they are there as humans,

As part of a group,

As much they can be for the short time we are meeting at times.

I find that super important too,

Yeah.

Yeah,

So this is also.

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Sometimes we are joking around and say,

Ah,

Yeah,

You have to have long hair to be in our band,

Because all of us have long hair.

But of course,

That's complete crap.

But it's fun.

Yeah.

Yeah,

Exactly.