Is it uncommon for bands to be "friends"?

I begin the awkward "well this was a very pleasant conversation but probably we never see each other again" goodbye common to these kinds of encounters, and he responds with something I still use to this day: "Ah, yeah -- I'll see you out there." To date, we haven't, but it was a resonant way of acknowledging that touring musicians live half their lives in an outside-of-time "out there," on which concourse they occasionally intersect and renew bonds.

This is so great. I love that: "see you out there."

A friend of a friend shared a car with Robert Plant once and had a similar rapport with him as you describe with Roger Miller. No psychic vampire fanboy stuff, just a nice, cordial encounter. At the end, Plant said, very sincerely, "Have a good life, man." Which for some reason just makes me feel very warm and fuzzy every time I think about it. As in, "the chances of us meeting again are very, very slim, so why beat around the bush with insincere pleasantries?"

For what it's worth, I've heard a number of second-and-third hand stories from people who've dealt with Plant (apparently the guy still really likes going to record stores), and in every one, the guy comes off like a real mensch. The exception that proves the rockstar rule, maybe.

I seem to remember someone from Pavement talking about how when they showed up in NYC they felt very much like outsiders/squares in a scene dominated by groups like SY and Pussy Galore.

i decided to ask geoff from age of chance re this as i thought it was an interesting question,
and they were very well connected to the leeds scene at the time of their adventures.
and his reponse : no
apparently - too much competitiveness between bands made such long lasting connections difficult.

ooops, possibly need to clarify : "no" = no friends.

even keeping a sense of camaraderie within a band is often impossible

I think many of those 90s bands especially the ones that were a bit 'edgy' kind of reveled in being pretty dickish off stage in the clubs.

KM otm.

But then there are of course the exceptions I latched onto when I was coming up, when I was a nipper, such as The Monkees, The Beatles and The Band. Oh wait.

And what about the Ramones? They liked each other so much they all took the same last name!

Lol!!!

Each one of the exclamation points represents a baseball bat. Guess I should have added at least one more.

Lorde and Taylor Swift seem to have a genuine friendship, which goes beyond seeing each other on the red carpet.

Then there are the family and brother acts: The Kinks, The Everly and Louvin Brothers, The Beach Boys, The Cowsills, The Kendalls etc.

Which set of brothers hate each other more: The Davies, The Everlys, or The Gallaghers?

The Windsor's.