Band wants to add a second guitarist…

Hey guys. So I play guitar in a 4 piece band as of right now and we all have great chemistry and love playin together. We do all original music and We are in studio right now creating our first EP and we’ve been playing together for a couple years now. Done a handful of shows and each one has gone pretty good. Our singer has periodically brought up adding a rhythm guitarist here and there but tbh I’ve never really wanted to. Recently, in the studio, I’ve been double tracking guitars and adding lead lines to some songs, for one of the songs our singer plays an acoustic guitar. Last practice our singer brought up that he reallyyy wants to add a second guitarist because he thinks it would fill everything out a little bit more and we would be able to play everything we do in the studio live (where I would be playing the lead parts).

And overall, I do agree with him to an extent… I think it would be cool to be able to play some lead lines here and there, the only thing is I’m not gonna lie I really like being the only guitarist. I like that I have complete freedom to play what I want when I want, and I’m not gonna lie I don’t know how I feel about cutting that creative freedom in half. I also don’t think that I want to constantly be coming up with harmony parts or have a solo piece in every song, for some of our music I think less is more and I don’t really want to constantly make another part for another guitarist. This is definitely a selfish thing but at the end of the day I like people knowing that I was the one playing guitar on the record or if they go to see a show; they know what and when I’m playing and such. I feel like when there’s two, it can be muddy at times and you can’t tell who’s playing what. Our singer can play guitar and it would be perfect if he could and sing at the same time and I could be the standalone guitar guy, but he wants to be a frontman type of guy who just sings. I don’t mind playing with another person at the end of the day I guess but I don’t want to be stuck ALWAYS playing lead parts or break up our really tight chemistry we have right now….

So we’re kind of at a stalemate… has anyone been in a similar position before?

(And I know some the comments are gonna say to put aside my ego, which I do agree to an extent that I’m being a bitch a little lmao, but this band is my baby, and I’m really invested in the parts I’ve been writing and I’m not sure how I feel about my role being cut in half or diminished in any way)