I've fired quite a few friends from my band over the years. That pretty much ended all the relationships right there. Everybody wants to be a musician untill they actually have to do some work (Or learn to really play BASS

).
But if I look back. I can see that none of them really had that drive in the 1st place. I totally believe the only way to be a successful band is to take the hardest working members from 4 bands, and put them into one band. I'm still waiting for those 3 other bands to give me a call.