eph221
Well the surprisingly, despite their needs and wants to the contrary, both parties are the very thing they fear:  fascist.  I think the only real cure is anarchy.

If that was political I couldn't hear it.  I have politics EQ'd out on the Sonar channel

Guitarhacker
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I would clarify that...  Uhhh I meant to say TRUMPet supporters.... I'm not a big fan of TRUMPet music....
 

 
...unless that TRUMPet is played by a pro.....

Except that if Miles came up today, everyone would hate it and think that he did not know what he was doing! Trying doing what he does on a guitar, or bass ... and everyone will drop you like a brick!
 
There is a side of the whole musical thing that is scary ... and creativity is the one part ...

bitflipper
But introduce me to somebody with a sense of humor and I'll get along with them just fine, regardless of their persuasions.

Well, sure, no mystery there.  People with a sense of humor tend to vote the way the smart people do.  People without a sense of humor vote with the stupid people.  Duh!  

Well, not really. Sarcasm is the sign of feelings of inferiority and its simply a rhetorical flourish.  Sarcasm isnt funny unless it's about straight people.  :D

So join. If you don't like it, leave. I managed to get along with some seriously abrasive personalities in bands, but one time it became too much. I left.

Give them time to get used to your sense of humor.

I've decided to go for it. I need a reason to get out of the house. First rehearsal is Sunday. 
 
(By Monday I'll know just how badly I really wanted to get out of the house. I've got a gig tonight and Saturday, then this rehearsal on Sunday. My back hurts just thinking about it.)

Good luck, bit.

I wouldn't put too much significance on your initial experience with the singer. She might have felt tetchy for any number of personal reasons (including biological) and that icy stare may well have been totally out of character for her. I'll never forget my first couple of weeks at a new school when me and this other kid REALLY rubbed each other up the wrong way. I remember staring at the back of his neck in class thinking "God I hate you so much." A couple of weeks later we were best of friends. As for political differences, it wouldn't even bother me if she was a Trump supporter or anyone else I didn't like. I have a good friend who's a Marxist and I'm like almost the exact opposite of everything he believes in and yet we get on great because we know when to avoid the subject of politics.

My only worry about joining a band now - and it's been almost 15 years - is perhaps damaging my ears. I hate to say it but I'd be pricing out those fancy fitted earplugs.

I know it took me years to get that "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee..." to stop playing in my head!