Neil Finn should never have joined

I've often thought that musicians must be a very diificult lot to get on with. And writers, artists, actors, poets, performers- all thespians actually. They are just so damned creative. All Black great Sean Fitzpatrick stated in his book "Winning Matters" that he believed that most people who achieve great things just keep turning up in the morning and graft their way to glory. In other words, there's no great mystery to so-called 'success' (however that's defined). According to him, there's no way around just putting in the hours. I wonder if that is all that separates the musicians who make a good living at their skill, or who make a REALLY good living at their skill, and all the other crash and burn wanna be's. There's little doubt that New Zealand's most well known pop songwriter Neil Finn just happened to possess an ant-like work ethic. That's probably why they nicknamed him thus. The Ant. Amoung other names. Partly because of this, I've always felt that Neil should never haved joined Split Enz. It was Tim Finn's band and should have remined so. They have such different personalities, and that 6 year age gap has always, to my eyes, appeared larger than that. Recruiting Neil, when founding member Phil Judd finally left the band, could be regarded as taking one of the easy options. Neil certainly didn't impress with his mastery of the guitar when he arrived at band HQ. But such is the way it is without all the wisdom that age and experience brings. In some families, siblings are pretty hard to say no to. It would have been interesting to see how things would have panned out for Tim, if he had been left to his own devices, and remained the sole focal point for the band, as I suspect he always wanted to be.