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Dooks,
Being in a band can be stressful, especially if you think you're a better singer, guitarist and songwriter than the person who sings, plays guitar and writes the songs! And that person is a know-it-all American with an ego the size of a country who thinks he's the next big thing on the music scene, and the fact that we are all fat, bald and well over 35, playing fucking awful psychedelic rock is somehow irrelevant.
I solved that one by leaving the band and vowing never to be in another.
Then before you know it I'm playing bass in another band and loving it. I've never been the bass player before. It's ace. I'm playing the bass because nobody else in the band can, which makes for zero ego clash. We're only playing covers for fun so there is no songwriting arguments, no pressure and 2 gigs a year. I made it quite clear I would leave if it ever got serious. Everyone else feels the same.
Apart from that I'm much happier being the Trevor Horn and making everything myself in my little home studio. (Trouble is I never want to see another computer by the time I get home so I don't tend to record anything these days. I even bought myself a new PC and a legal copy of Sonar.)
I reckon if you have musical block it's no bad thing to give it a rest for a while. Then buy a new guitar, take up another instrument (bass, piano, drums, whatever) and give yourself a break from the old routine.