If you're famillair with my band's music ... you might know we have a song called Hey Judas. Just came from a show where we played it. I realized while we were playing how apropo it might be.

It was sparked by a former bandmate who tried to screw us over. He kept pushing us to incorporate (i.e. Tempus, Inc.) at a point in our "careers" where we didn't even have regular gigs. Hell, even our rehearsals were hardly regular. He wanted to handle all the business stuff ... said he'd be "CEO" since he had "connections" to push the paperwork through more quickly. We could all pick the "C*O" title we wanted. We talked about shares, about percentages, about buyouts, about trademarks ... business shit. Now, a lot of bands do this ... it's pretty normal when things start to get big. But when we realized that he talked more about money than he did about music, we decided that incorporating would be a bad idea. Especially considering that percentages are useless when there's nothing to be divided.

He left when we refused to incorporate.

I'm pretty fucking glad we caught on when we did.