i need some rock god stage moves!!!

[Icey101]

this is a very serious thread ,i've decided i stand still on stage to much, i want advice on some cool rock moves i can do. The condition is that i need to be able to keep playing, so windmilling like townsend wont cut it for me.

so whats your fav rock god stage moves that you do while you keep laying that groove down?

[No Malarky]

We need "The Pose" on this one.

[mikerophone]

what kind of music are you playing?
i tend to just kind of bounce around and have fun, sometimes it's a little more like stumbling, but it's a punk-ish band so it's cool. i raise my bass up for the big hits, and tap my foot a lot.

also, yes, "the pose" is needed.

[mikerophone]

one more thing, this is my favorite move:
link'd because there's most of a cuss word on a banner in the picture

[Icey101]

thats a good move,,,i play rock

[IncX]

this

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t..._5002421_n.jpg

costume optional

[pklima]

You don't want to just use stage moves to look cool. You want to use the stage moves to make the structure of the song more clear to the audience. That will make you look much cooler than if you're trying to look cool. Raising your bass for big hits, like mikerophone said, is a good example of that. Being a bit more animated during the big refrain would be a more subtle example.

That's something I never noticed until a singer told me that I sway in order to communicate something to the audience, while our keyboardist sways autistically to himself.

If you can't play while windmilling then you're just trying to play too many notes, haha. I gotta post this link once again: ‪Double Bass Technique: Advanced Attention Getting Devices‬‏ - YouTube

[hrodbert696]

‪99 Red Balloons - GoldFinger‬‏ - YouTube

[tom once dead]

Don't talk to me about not being able to windmill and play
‪Cold Hand Of Malice - Bleed‬‏ - YouTube

[Rockmusician]

You don't need "rock star" moves. John Entwisle didn't need any. In fact, most great musicians do not need to do anything other than play. Be yourself. If you try to force it, you will feel very uncomfortable and it will be obvious to the audience.

[MrGotBass]

Originally Posted by tom once dead

Don't talk to me about not being able to windmill and play
‪Cold Hand Of Malice - Bleed‬‏ - YouTube

Easy mode Get the whole band to windmill!
‪Amon Amarth - "Runes to My Memory" Metal Blade Records‬‏ - YouTube

[masterFlash]

wrap your torso in white christmas lights. Wear a white tshirt over them. plug them into a power strip (or make a stomp box). Click them on during the chorus, off during the verse, then on and off during the outro (hopefully in time).

[CnB77]

Originally Posted by Rockmusician

You don't need "rock star" moves. John Entwisle didn't need any. In fact, most great musicians do not need to do anything other than play. Be yourself. If you try to force it, you will feel very uncomfortable and it will be obvious to the audience.

The appeal to authority is a logical fallacy. It doesn't matter if John Entwistle needed any moves; that is unrelated to the question. OP wants to make his stage presence better, so don't just walk in and tell him what he wants

[ReginaldPLinux]

Backfilp from an upright standing position.

[GrapeApe]

Whatever you do, don't force it. Case in point: my Dad recently got this Pat Travers DVD, and as we were watching it, I noticed the Bass player was good, I also noticed he couldn't decide whether to go for "the pose" or not. He was playing well, and hitting everything correctly, but you could see it on his face:

"Should I go for the power stance?"
*takes half step forward*
"Not yet..."

next song

"Alright, when the chorus hits, pose time"
*chorus hits, halfway does it*
"nope."

Just be yourself. You're the bass Player, you don't have to move, you can just make everyone else do it.

[MarcusPocus]

Originally Posted by ReginaldPLinux

Backfilp from an upright standing position.

If you feel that a backflip is necessary in a song, by all means hit that back flip. Smile while you do it.

The point is, feel the music. It will make you groove. But, if your playing shoe gazing, downer music, chances are no one is moving at your show anyway so who cares if you move.

Hike your leg on a monitor and scowl.

[JTE]

You're a bass player. Our instrument by its very nature is the subtle control. It does its job without drawing attention to itself, and by so doing, controls everything while seemingly not doing anything. Embrace that.

Emulate Entwistle and John McVie, the original "bassists with their toes nailed to the stage" bassists. The Who simply wouldn't have been The Who without Ox's bass playing, and he didn't need "rock god stage moves". So, make your stage presence be the very absence of movement.

John

[madmatt]

Here is an idea, stuff a pair of tube socks down your drawers and play with your legs spread and your hips thrust out. The women will love it.

[lavmonga]

Originally Posted by masterFlash

wrap your torso in white christmas lights. Wear a white tshirt over them. plug them into a power strip (or make a stomp box). Click them on during the chorus, off during the verse, then on and off during the outro (hopefully in time).

+1

[dave64o]

Originally Posted by masterFlash

wrap your torso in white christmas lights. Wear a white tshirt over them. plug them into a power strip (or make a stomp box). Click them on during the chorus, off during the verse, then on and off during the outro (hopefully in time).

Unfortunately, that's probably far too little to get most audience members to ackowledge the presence of the bass player.