Membership First's record is one of conflict, division and, ultimately, failure.
And when one of you falls down he falls for those behind him, a caution against the stumbling stone. Ay, and he falls for those ahead of him, who though faster and surer of foot, yet removed not the stumbling stone.
Then, with lots of people doing that without ever looking over their shoulders to see how they were affecting anybody else, it couldn't work, and it didn't work, and it just came to a standstill.
I think that's what I learned a lot from Odd Future. I learned a lot of great things from them, but one of the mistakes that they made was that we didn't stay together, and we didn't communicate. We never had meetings. Everybody had issues with everybody else and wouldn't talk about it.
Never count on the crowd to take care of you.
Most of the groups I worked with 30 years ago are either dead or dead broke. And it's a shame.
So many groups fail because they spend all their time in the clubs. Work pours in and they can't handle it because of late-night drinking.
Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.
