How To Keep Your Band Personnel

Michael Clune, a seasoned professional musician, sits down for a grounded conversation about the unglamorous but decisive side of making music work: people.

Not inspiration. Not gear. Personnel.

This episode centers on how bands are actually built, sustained, and—just as often—undone.

Clune speaks from lived experience as a bandleader, drummer, keyboardist, vocalist, songwriter, arranger, and collaborator across multiple projects, including Moon Dance, Sleep Till Noon, and the Clune Brothers. The discussion cuts into the realities of selecting musicians, defining roles, managing expectations.

Rather than romanticizing collaboration, this podcast treats it as a discipline. Clune breaks down what leadership looks like when there’s no corporate hierarchy, only trust, accountability, and the shared risk of putting work into the world.

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