Funnily enough.... I have already talked to one former member of my last band if he was interested in joining my new project and he seemed into it. An hour or so ago he and another former member invited me to hang out tonight. The three of us are three out of the four members of the last line-up. I'm going to ask both of them to join my project, and if they agree, I'm then going to ask if they are ok with me asking another former member to join (not from the final line-up of the last band).
Oh, and yeah, I want to do my own thing. I'm going to do a lot less compromising this time around. But at the same time there will be a lot less pressure.