James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Busted is not the ideal band I'd like to be in by any stretch of the imagination.
In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground.
People think I left The Band and spoiled this whole thing, and that's not what happened. Nobody broke up The Band. Nobody ever said, 'That's it, we're done.'
I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.
It's hard to say when the life of a band starts and stops... but playing music together is an act of trust. When that's broken, it's impossible to continue.
Being in a band is far more than playing an instrument. It's surviving. It's getting an album together.
I broke up the band in the office in Gerrard Street.
There was never going to be a right time for a band that was still recording and had health in its environment, had made a very good record and was playing well.
A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.