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View Poll Results: What side of the stage do you prefer? | |
Stage Right
|    | 95 | 29.41% | |
Stage Left
|    | 153 | 47.37% | |
Center or Other
|    | 17 | 5.26% | |
Doesn't Matter
|    | 58 | 17.96% |
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10-27-2009, 05:35 PM
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Originally Posted by PBass101  Stage left (to the right of the drums). I can stare at the drummer, guitard, and my fretboard all without turning my head!  | That's stage right, not stage left.
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10-27-2009, 05:58 PM
| | | | I voted "doesn't matter" because looking back at old band pics it seems half the time I was on the left and the other half on the right. I "think" I should prefer stage right but in all those years of playing I can't remember feeling better about one side, or feeling lesser about one side. I guess it really doesn't matter for me...
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10-27-2009, 06:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Mike Shevlin I don't see the big deal about hearing the drummers - I can hear them in the parking lot. | ...which is where I would have preferred to hear some of the drummers I've known...
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10-27-2009, 06:14 PM
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10-27-2009, 06:18 PM
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10-27-2009, 06:33 PM
| | | | I prefer stage left because I am partially deaf in my left ear due to a bad ear infection as a kid. I frequently am turned with my right ear towards my rig/ the drummer. If I am at stage right, I end up facing a wall or the side of the stage and can't see anyone else in the band. Even though I run in ears now to help with this, I still prefer the left so I can look at the drummer and everyone else at once. The only caveat is if there is a rhythm guitar player, I prefer to be near him so I can find a good place to lock in with him and the drummer. I was just right of center in my last ban because we had two guitar players and a singer. I really didn't like it. Maybe that was why I quit.
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10-27-2009, 06:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Redondo Beach, CA | | | Stage Right works best for me -- since I'm left-handed, I won't be knocking into the drummer....
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10-27-2009, 08:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Michigan's U.P. | | | I responded stage left. I guess I don't know why so much as I like not whanging my headstock on all things drum related and the gutardist(s) don't get clotheslined by my neck or whapped in the head by my headstock
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10-27-2009, 09:18 PM
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Originally Posted by ProfGumby I responded stage left. I guess I don't know why so much as I like not whanging my headstock on all things drum related and the gutardist(s) don't get clotheslined by my neck or whapped in the head by my headstock | Makes sense. You wouldn't want guitardist heads throwing off the tuning of the bass.
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10-27-2009, 09:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: New Hampshire, USA | | | Voted doesn't matter,
No drums in the band, just me a guitar and mandolin, or me and two guitars.
I've played left, center, right, and I don't mind which as long as each of us can see each other to que changes.
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10-28-2009, 11:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Seattle | | | Stage Left. Easier to hear everything, including myself. |
10-28-2009, 11:40 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Houston, TX | | | After a few necks and headstocks accidentally put into a lead singer, I do all I can to get Stage Left. If I fill in for another band or have to go righty for the house needs it doesn't break my heart, just have to be a bit more mindful during the show. |
10-29-2009, 10:49 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | | | Stage left to be near the hi-hat. The drum groove primarily comes from the hi-hat, snare and bass drum combo. The hi-hat breaks the groove down into eighths or sixteenths and I find it easier to lock-in to. Took a long time to realize that but now I always play stage left.
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10-29-2009, 06:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Boynton Bch FL | | | Mostly either stage left or stage right depending on if the drummer was a lefty or a righty. I was stage center in a couple of bands where we had no main singer and we all switched off lead vocals. Also I always seemed to be the one that had to cue everyone in those bands and center stage worked good for that.
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10-29-2009, 07:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Canada, east of the Rockies | | | Stage left... near the hi-hat (with my current drummer)... I used to be stage right with my old leftie drummer. |
10-29-2009, 07:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Clayton, NC | | | I try to go left if I can, but if not, no biggie
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10-29-2009, 07:17 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Portsmouth VA USA | | I prefer stage right, where I can sit back and lock in with the kick drum, while staying out of the way of the loons jumping around up front. 
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10-29-2009, 07:21 PM
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Nikki Sixx was always stage right...And when I started, I wanted to be just like him.
It just stuck. |
10-29-2009, 07:23 PM
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10-30-2009, 05:57 AM
| | Old enough to know better.....too young to care! | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Ellenboro, NC | | I prefer stage left since most dummers play right-handed. That puts me on the snare/hi-hat side and makes it easier for me to hear the backbeat and lock in the rythm section.
And, on small club stages it keeps my bass neck out of the cymbals 
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