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"As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the air was out of it and it was time to finish"

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There is something quietly radical in calling a band a "playground": it reframes artistic work not as careerist ladder-climbing, but as a space you build so you can experiment without asking permission. Eberhard Weber isn t romanticizing chaos; he s describing infrastructure. If the existing scene couldn t hold what he wanted to try, he didn t argue with it he made a container for his own rules, then invited others into it.

The phrase "had to get" carries the tell. This isn t whim, it s necessity: a musician pushed by limitations in the broader ecosystem (venues, labels, ensembles, expectations) to carve out autonomy. "Colours" as a name also tips the hand toward a compositional mindset: timbre, texture, shading the things that get flattened when music gets treated as product rather than process.

Then comes the blunt little deflation: "the air was out of it". No melodrama, no mythology of endless bands, no tortured genius narrative. Just the honest physics of creative projects: they inflate with purpose, then lose pressure. In eight years, a group can exhaust its questions, settle into habits, or feel its risk tolerance drop. Weber makes ending sound like craft, not failure. "It was time to finish" lands like a mature refusal to overstay, to let a once-living project become brand maintenance.

The subtext is artistic dignity: build the playground, play hard, notice when it stops being play, walk away before nostalgia turns into inertia.

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Weber, Eberhard. (n.d.). As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the air was out of it and it was time to finish. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/as-a-result-i-had-to-get-my-own-playground-which-100144/

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Weber, Eberhard. "As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the air was out of it and it was time to finish." FixQuotes. Accessed February 1, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/as-a-result-i-had-to-get-my-own-playground-which-100144/.

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"As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the air was out of it and it was time to finish." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/as-a-result-i-had-to-get-my-own-playground-which-100144/. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.

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Eberhard Weber (born January 22, 1940) is a Musician from Germany.

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