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03-25-2008, 01:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Windsor, Ont. | | | Female Lead Singer - should she help carry equipment?
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What do you guys think.
If you were in a band that had a female lead singer, would you expect her to help you load/unload equipment for shows?
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03-25-2008, 01:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Quebec | | | Yes. |
03-25-2008, 01:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Anaheim, Ca. | | | Of course she should. Why would she be exempt from such a critical band function for? |
03-25-2008, 01:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Windsor, Ont. | | | I wholeheartedly agree with you all.
She helps sort of...but its usually very half-assed. Like, she'll carry a mic stand or a guitar. And she never comes back to help us unload after a hard night of playing.
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03-25-2008, 01:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: NYC | | | unless she's willing to unload your personal equipment (ummm, wink)...i'd say yes!!! without question!!!!
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03-25-2008, 01:56 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College Station, Texas | | | make her carry your 2 8x10s up stairs! |
03-25-2008, 01:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Windsor, Ont. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by palm grease  unless she's willing to unload your personal equipment (ummm, wink)...i'd say yes!!! without question!!!! | LOL
Yeah things would probably be a little awkward after that.
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03-25-2008, 01:59 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Harpers Ferry WV | | | With some exceptions based on her own build and effective carrying capability, absolutely.
You aren't her roadie, she isn't yours. You are a band. |
03-25-2008, 01:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Windsor, Ont. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Valerus make her carry your 2 8x10s up stairs! | I'm going to buy 2 8x10's for this reason alone. 
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03-25-2008, 02:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Bos, MA | | | as someone who plays in an all-female band and usually has to walk with our own PA...yes!
within reason, of course.
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03-25-2008, 03:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Central Ohio! | | | IME, each member is responsible for thier own crap. I schlep my rig, my drummer schleps his kit, etc, etc, etc... |
03-25-2008, 03:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Finland (Northern Europe) | | Hi.
Within reason, yes.
Our new singer, drummers GF, helps as much as she can. She wouldn't have it any other way.
In fact when the troubles started with our last singer we talked about a female vocalist. The guitarist sat there rather quiet but then he had one requirement for the new singer: She has to be strong enough to carry some gear . Quote:
Originally Posted by McHack IME, each member is responsible for thier own crap. I schlep my rig, my drummer schleps his kit, etc, etc, etc... | So I should make her carry the entire PA, if I decided that I don't want to sing at all?
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03-25-2008, 04:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: New York, NY | | | The real question is: would you want her to?
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03-25-2008, 04:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Israel | | If she can carr herself around, it's already alot! Seriously now, I'd give her a mission of carrying a mic and its stand...
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03-25-2008, 04:08 PM
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Originally Posted by fenderhutz With some exceptions based on her own build and effective carrying capability, absolutely. | +1
You beat me to it.
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03-25-2008, 05:47 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Wake Forest, NC | | | I wouldn't expect her to carry speaker cabs, but mics, stands, cymbols. And she should be trained at plugging everything into the snake while everyone else is lugging the big stuff. |
03-25-2008, 09:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Ireland | | | Have you seen some of the skinny dudes in indie bands and emo bands these days?
If they can carry gear any girl can.
Bottom line if you can't lift it. You get someone else to lift it with you. Half a cab isn't too much weight for a chick to lift. Most chicks could probably lift a full cab. If they pull some girly crap. Just tell them to shut up and get on with it. Or they are fired.
If I was unpacking for a gig and everyone arrives individually. Bring in my stuff. Then help others bring in theirs I'd expect the same of anyone else. If everyone arrives in a van. Then everyone start unpacking the van.
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03-25-2008, 09:57 PM
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Originally Posted by spectorbass83 I wholeheartedly agree with you all.
She helps sort of...but its usually very half-assed. Like, she'll carry a mic stand or a guitar. And she never comes back to help us unload after a hard night of playing. | She sounds like 99% of all other singers. I think it goes with the territory. |
03-25-2008, 10:04 PM
| | | I agree that she should help in a manner congruent with her abilities. Show her this thread, and tell her to stop being a Diva. There will be plenty of time for that later, when the press makes her a star, and ignores the rest of your monkey asses later on down the road. 
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03-25-2008, 10:06 PM
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Originally Posted by palm grease unless she's willing to unload your personal equipment (ummm, wink)...i'd say yes!!! without question!!!! | Unload the load, yes. Or schlep equipment, like everybody else.
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