The common thread between all of these is that they're groups that have been entirely or mostly friends and friends of friends, and if they weren't before they became friends over time. And I've realized over time that that's exactly how I like it.
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I've on three separate occasions joined other groups for prog - Alphascape in 2018, TEA in mid-2020, and TOP in Sept 2024. And honestly? Aside from that TEA group, I was miserable.
The Alphascape group wasn't meeting my expectations for prog; the TOP group ran for two weekends before breaking, and the personality of some of the members was just so rotten that I probably would've left then anyway.
But I wanna focus on the Alphascape and TEA groups because my reason for joining them was the same - after Sigmascape, the group I led fell apart. After Eden's Verse, the group I led fell apart. And both times for one reason or another the band got back together after.
sidenote 1: the TOP group was something I was doing on weekends cause we were on Light-Heavyweight reclears and I wanted to see how I could fair during the downtime. Still miserable.
sidenote 2: if I hadn't been brought in to the current group for TEA I probably would've kept trucking with the outside group through there to wherever they ended up.
And I wanna be honest: it sucks! I hated seeing those groups fall apart, I hated seeing friends yell at each other, and the entire time I would sit there feeling like it's my fault that things were breaking apart that way.
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