Trying to start a band but it’s a mess
So I’ve been trying to start a band for the last couple years and it‘s been all over the place. I had 3 friends in mind-a drummer, guitarist, and bassist. (I’m a guitarist). What I wanted was to play progressive instrumental music and both me and the other guitarist are both proficient players. We both know theory and it’s really easy for us to communicate ideas with each other. The drummer is mostly a heavy metal drummer, and it works good with what we do. The bassist I had in mind didn‘t join. The first few jams were awesome, we were firing off ideas left and right and making good progress. But after a while the guitarist started being inconsistent and not answering texts. And my drummer keeps inviting new people to play bass but most of them don’t know notes and just don’t know what’s going on. And now my drummer thinks we should get rid of the other guitarist, but honestly without him what I had envisioned just wouldn‘t work. The last few jams have just been me and the drummer and it‘s difficult for me to write music like that because I can’t play rhythm and lead without looping stuff so it’s hard to tell what works. I just needed to rant for a minute lol