[DustFerret]

Hello everyone, I'm in a band. Nameless, so far. We're writing originals (meaning I'm writing originals, while they others tell me how much they suck), and playing covers, but me and our bassist often get into very heated arguments.

Although we're only in highschool, it seems like he's trying to sell us. He is trying to push me very far into the mainstream, and whenever I have any unconventional idea. Like covering a song that isn't popular, using a different instrument, electronic effects/backtracks, he accuses me of wanting to turn us into art rock. Which isn't what I want to do at all. He calls electronics and all that cheating, and thinks the rest of the stuff is stupid, because it doesn't sell.

He dropped Rush form our set list, to do Disturbed because it's more popular. He wants to do the songs that everybody knows, but I want to introduce people to something different. He is under the conception that a band is about energy, and not art, and that doing things like acoustic sets, and softer songs is unnacceptable because it lacks energy, therefore it's pointless.

I'm a drummer, learning guitar. I can't afford proper drum equipment, but I have an acceptable guitar for the time being, but he want's me to spend money on a drumset my parents won't let me have. He's insane. I need to find some help in making it work.