"Nothing wrong with a driving band mono bullet"

Amen.

The caveat is that some bullets are called banded bullets when they are in fact grooved bullets. A true drive band bullet has a shank that is manufactured to the CIP bore diameter of a caliber with only the drive bands at barrel groove diameter. See this slide show that illustrates the difference. It is a pps file, takes about 10 minutes to download and must be viewed with MS PowerPoint.