How to Be in a Band

by Sean Nelson
There Is No One Way to Do It
Even if there were, I'd be the last person to know what it is. I say that as someone who's been a musician in Seattle for more than 20 years, and made somewhere between some and all of my living from being one for most of that time.
In 1976, the musician Tony Moon drew a comic for the UK fanzine Sideburns showing how to play A, E, and G on a guitar. "This is a chord," he wrote, pointing to the A chord. "This is another," he wrote, pointing to the E cho