Sure the good times were great, but on three occasions over 30 some years I've been involved in really great bands. We rehearsed, we learned songs, we got really tight, we had really talented players and singers (I was the LEAST talented in all of them). Then just as it got really good, somebody got drafted, somebody started messing with somebody's wife, somebody drank too much, somebody's wife raised hell...anyway, there are downsides to bands. It seems like we were constantly looking for a replacement or fill-in. I gradually just started doing it all myself!
It's like old girlfriends, we remember the great sex and tend to forget the bitchin'!