About two months ago, a friend of mine was in this band called An Automated Gift. Then, suddenly, I found out she was kicked out of the group, for which reasons I do not know. After I heard about this, I couldn’t really stop thinking about the situation on hand. Apparently, it was said that the bad kicked her out because the guy that owned the studio where they were recording their demos and CD’s with had a daughter that wanted to be in the band. So as the story goes the guy in charge of the studio must have told the band that if his daughter was in the group, sessions would be free of charge or at least less than before. Then, the ax fell and my friend was out of the band. It was kind of a shame too because I saw them perform and I thought they had some pretty damn good potential. But, the story doesn’t end there, and this is what really pisses me off. Not just the group dumped my friend for the guy’s daughter for cheaper rent, but they butcher the songs she fucking wrote. For instance, they took songs she wrote, changed some the lyrics but keeping the music to them, and had the new singer sing them. That was what really got to me. I mean, if I wrote some songs in a band and I was kicked out for whatever and something like that happened, I would go off, those were my lyrics with my music. What was wrong, they couldn’t think of anything original themselves to have their new lead singer sing? Also, their new lead singer in only seventeen from what I’ve been told, while the rest of the band is at least twenty-one and older, so that has to be interesting to book gigs considering they were playing all bars. But, whatever. It just makes me mad when someone just takes one’s work and butchers it after kicking them out of the band. Also, I guess they changed their name as well, now they are called A Line Between Noise. But I don’t know if I should really be saying all of this considering I don’t know their own side of the story, but I’m just mad about what they had done. As a writer and artist, I feel that they broke the code of conduct on band relations, and as creativity as a whole. Perhaps I should tend to one of their shows featuring their new singer and hear how they are. From what I’ve heard on their new demos, their new lead singer sounds like Amy Lee of Evenessence, and their new music seems to be going into that direction as well.
