What's your ideal performance?

[nutso42]

We are entering MAJOR fantasy land here, but....

If you could lay out a performance, down to every detail, what'd it be like?
1. What band would be playing with you?
2. Where would the concert be?
3. What setup would you have?
and finally 4. What song would you end with?
If you come up with any other things, throw them in too! Anyway, here's my choices...
1. Van Halen
2. the London Wembley Stadium (check the vids of the f. mercury memorial concert)
3. I would have 4-string Ibanez ATK, 5-string Traben Chaos, and 4-string fretless Ernie Ball Stingray, played through an 8x10 Gallein-Kruger cab with GK 1001RB-II Bass head
4. We Will Rock You (obviously)

Hope this is an interesting topic.

[KPAX]

Dude! You're playing Wembly!
Upgrade from that measly single 8x10 and 1001RB.

Originally Posted by nutso42

We are entering MAJOR fantasy land here, but....

If you could lay out a performance, down to every detail, what'd it be like?
1. What band would be playing with you?
2. Where would the concert be?
3. What setup would you have?
and finally 4. What song would you end with?
If you come up with any other things, throw them in too! Anyway, here's my choices...
1. Van Halen
2. the London Wembley Stadium (check the vids of the f. mercury memorial concert)
3. I would have 4-string Ibanez ATK, 5-string Traben Chaos, and 4-string fretless Ernie Ball Stingray, played through an 8x10 Gallein-Kruger cab with GK 1001RB-II Bass head
4. We Will Rock You (obviously)

Hope this is an interesting topic.

[KPAX]

Let's see ...
Me with 1972 Zeppelin ... not (JPJ kicks my ***).
Me with 1987 Metallica ... not (Cliff " " " ).
Me with 1995 Peppers ... not (Flea " " " ).
Me with 2006 Tool .... not (Justin " " " ).
Fail.

Originally Posted by nutso42

We are entering MAJOR fantasy land here, but....

If you could lay out a performance, down to every detail, what'd it be like?
1. What band would be playing with you?
2. Where would the concert be?
3. What setup would you have?
and finally 4. What song would you end with?
If you come up with any other things, throw them in too! Anyway, here's my choices...
1. Van Halen
2. the London Wembley Stadium (check the vids of the f. mercury memorial concert)
3. I would have 4-string Ibanez ATK, 5-string Traben Chaos, and 4-string fretless Ernie Ball Stingray, played through an 8x10 Gallein-Kruger cab with GK 1001RB-II Bass head
4. We Will Rock You (obviously)

Hope this is an interesting topic.

[stflbn]

Personally, I prefer thinking of shapely female humans...

[P. Aaron]

Anytime I can play cleanly, with energy and move around the stage as the band rocks, is the most I can hope for and what I rehearse and practice for.

As far as I know, most big stadiium acts ain't hiring guys for fantasy gigs.

[fdeck]

Bill Evans, "Sunday at the Village Vanguard." The perfect gig is something like that.

[nutso42]

In case you missed it, I said this is absolutely NOT based in reality. This is simply to describe your ideal (but impossible) gig.

[Sartori]

So, going all out here.

1.My band (Hallowed Earth) would be playing with me. Who else?
2.The venue would be either Wacken Open Air Festival in Germany or a revived Day on the Green festival at the Oakland Coliseum.
3.My setup? Rickenbacker 4001/4003 through an Electro-Harmonix Holy Stain combined distortion/reverb, through a Morley Dual Bass Wah into one or two custom 400-500 watt Verellen amplifiers. The cabs would be an Electric 4x15" on its side with an Ampeg or Ashdown 8x10 on top of it.
4. We'd end with our song "World of Apathy" and maybe do Borknagar's "Colossus" and Emperor's "Inno a Satana" as encores.

[RickenBoogie]

It happened last January. My current party band was playing a very local bar, and my former bandmates from the 80's were in the house. We hadn't played together for 17 freakin' years. Not once. But, you guessed it, they got up on stage with me, (it was my birthday), and we rocked a solid hour set, and sounded like we just rehearsed the week before. Astonishing, and a real treat for me.

[nutso42]

Originally Posted by KPAX

Dude! You're playing Wembly!
Upgrade from that measly single 8x10 and 1001RB.

So then what would you recommend?

[nortonrider]

Simple,

Make a bazillion selling Studio Record
Not Tour
Just check my bank accounts for regular deposits.

Retire

[nutso42]

It was ideal 'performance', not 'career'. But that certainly does sound nice.

[Sartori]

Originally Posted by nortonrider

Simple,

Make a bazillion selling Studio Record
Not Tour
Just check my bank accounts for regular deposits.

Retire

You would never play live, like, ever?

Is there any point in making a record then besides money? If the goal is simply to make money, music seems a bit of an odd career path.

[nortonrider]

^Not if I could get away with it. I have done my fair share of playing out, and other than being with the band and making music, I don't really enjoy it.

I'm not an entertainer and I don't care for the limelight. I always feel like a dancing monkey, put on display for the amusement of others. I've never felt the need to do something just to impress others, the need to have to somehow gain their acceptance.
I don't really care about that.

I make music because I enjoy doing it, that's the only reason. BUT, If I could somehow turn it into a windfall and be able to give up my day job, I would do it in a minute.

[Sartori]

Originally Posted by nortonrider

^Not if I could get away with it. I have done my fair share of playing out, and other than being with the band and making music, I don't really enjoy it.

I'm not an entertainer and I don't care for the limelight. I always feel like a dancing monkey, put on display for the amusement of others. I've never felt the need to do something just to impress others, the need to have to somehow gain their acceptance.
I don't really care about that.

I make music because I enjoy doing it, that's the only reason. BUT, If I could somehow turn it into a windfall and be able to give up my day job, I would do it in a minute.

I love performing live, but I don't like recording that much. It's kind of a chore to me, not that enjoyable (I used to hate it with a passion, but my opinion's softened somewhat). For me, the reason to record is to play live.

[nortonrider]

Originally Posted by Sartori

I love performing live, but I don't like recording that much. It's kind of a chore to me, not that enjoyable (I used to hate it with a passion, but my opinion's softened somewhat). For me, the reason to record is to play live.

I can totally see both sides and there are good arguments that can be made for both.
Just for me, music is more about making a compilation of sounds that are pleasing to the listener than it is about wearing the right clothes, making the right moves, or worrying about my hair (image).

If there are two camps of musicans, one containing people like Gene Simmons and Bret Michaels,
and the other containing Donald Fagen and Tom Scholtz, I believe that I would fall into the latter.

I understand that music is the "entertainment" business, and people pay to see a "Show" heck, even I do. I just don't think I'm cut out to be the "entertainment".

and I really can't believe that I am alone in what I want out of music, I'm sure I'm in the minority, but not the only one who is happy avoiding the spotlight and allowing the music do my talking for me.

[Sartori]

Originally Posted by nortonrider

I can totally see both sides and there are good arguments that can be made for both.
Just for me, music is more about making a compilation of sounds that are pleasing to the listener than it is about wearing the right clothes, making the right moves, or worrying about my hair (image).

If there are two camps of musicans, one containing people like Gene Simmons and Bret Michaels,
and the other containing Donald Fagen and Tom Scholtz, I believe that I would fall into the latter.

I understand that music is the "entertainment" business, and people pay to see a "Show" heck, even I do. I just don't think I'm cut out to be the "entertainment".

and I really can't believe that I am alone in what I want out of music, I'm sure I'm in the minority, but not the only one who is happy avoiding the spotlight and allowing the music do my talking for me.

You don't have to be entirely image based to enjoy playing live. Also, who's Bret Michaels?

I enjoy listening tot he finished product of recording, but I'm not that fond of the process itself. I like the energy of a life performance, getting into it in a way that I just can't in a recording session.

I don't really regard a metal concert as that different from going to a live performance of a symphony. The audience customs and the formality of the occasion are different, but to me it's the same concept entirely.

[rcarraher]

Originally Posted by nutso42

We are entering MAJOR fantasy land here, but....

If you could lay out a performance, down to every detail, what'd it be like?
1. What band would be playing with you?
2. Where would the concert be?
3. What setup would you have?
and finally 4. What song would you end with?
If you come up with any other things, throw them in too! Anyway, here's my choices...
1. Van Halen
2. the London Wembley Stadium (check the vids of the f. mercury memorial concert)
3. I would have 4-string Ibanez ATK, 5-string Traben Chaos, and 4-string fretless Ernie Ball Stingray, played through an 8x10 Gallein-Kruger cab with GK 1001RB-II Bass head
4. We Will Rock You (obviously)

Hope this is an interesting topic.

I have often fanasized. At my age what have you got left? Mine isn't so much replacing Macca in the Beatles or anything like that it is more along the lines of my "Personal All-Star Band" guys I have played with over the years that have never played together for the most part.

My drummer, John French from Beefeart. I love his "weird" rythms and the man just knows hom to make a kitchen cook. Bugsy Maugh from Paul Buttersfield (not on bass, cause thats me) playing rhythm guitar and sining.
Lead- Mark Knofler, love his claw hammer bluee, especially the first two albums (I got to jam with him in a pub that maybe held 40 people in 77-78, before Dire Straits hit). Or Freddy Washington (played with The Blues Breakers in the mid 70;'s and even tho' he was pretty much, not a nice man to white people, he kicked major gluts.
Keys, this is a tuffy. I played with a guy named Jimmy Caves from Biloxi,Ms who could belt the blues, tickle an American Legion club piano like it was a Stienway, and keep an audience entertained like no one I have ever known. Then one of the best technical keyoard players i have known is a kid named Toby Ashmore, and he can sing the high parts too .Have to throw in some horns, Dalton Haggler on anything with a reed (he did play with French ona jazz gig in the early 80's). And since I love southern rock/ a guy named Doug Maze, as a lead vocalist, we had a band named Storm back in the early 70's and late 70's and made an album or two that should have been big. Also, he still has my Hohrner 12 string and if he is in my band, I might get it back?

[nutso42]

Hmmm.... I think my fantasy band would be...
Vocals-Brian Johnson (of AC/DC)
Guitarists-Eddie Van Halen and Slash
Bassist-Me (duh!)
Drummer-Tommy Aldridge
and the name would be Wyld Stallyns! (fifteen worthless points to everyone who understands that)