Being a solo act is great, but sometimes something fools the public to think that your in a band.
Think “Dave Mathews Band’ or ‘Alan Parson’s Project’. These are bands with multiple people, but the bands have people in it named “Dave Mathews” and “Alan Parsons”. As I perform, I’ve started to get asked ‘Am I A Band’? I hope and think and say ‘no’. 
Then when my show is done and I get paid, 9/10 times I’ve been noticing that the envelope of Canadian Tire money (that’s a joke), actually has written on it – ‘Brendon Gomez Band’. I stop and then think ‘could i do, or should I do this’? Become a band of ‘1’, with some sort of name extension. Would that sound legit, or too 1998? I guess the bonus of being in a band, is that band’s always like hanging out in music stores. And to me that’d be pretty cool hanging out in places like Steve’s Music, Guitar World, or Long and McQuade, having conversations about musical toys, staring at walls of walls of guitar and other swank gear. Gee its’ good to be in a band.
Then when my show is done and I get paid, 9/10 times I’ve been noticing that the envelope of Canadian Tire money (that’s a joke), actually has written on it – ‘Brendon Gomez Band’. I stop and then think ‘could i do, or should I do this’? Become a band of ‘1’, with some sort of name extension. Would that sound legit, or too 1998? I guess the bonus of being in a band, is that band’s always like hanging out in music stores. And to me that’d be pretty cool hanging out in places like Steve’s Music, Guitar World, or Long and McQuade, having conversations about musical toys, staring at walls of walls of guitar and other swank gear. Gee its’ good to be in a band.
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