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02-24-2011, 03:24 PM
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For some reason I am rarely excited about playing shows. I do look forward to them, but not visibly excited. Every year I play one of the private parties at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo BBQ cookoff, this weekend, and and I get Giddy like a 5 year old on Christmas morning...  and I don't know why. This is a huge event, a few hundred BBQ teams, thousands of people walking by listening, free BBQ and Beer. I look forward to this every year. This show means more to me than any others through out the year and I've played some large shows in th past. This is the only time that I go over every song in my head in the days before the show. Am I crazy?
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02-24-2011, 03:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Dallas, TX. | | | You should be excited over free BBQ.
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02-24-2011, 03:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Auburn, Alabama | | | unless its a big show I don't get super excited on the other hand if there is free BBQ or any food for that matter...
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02-24-2011, 04:27 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Thump Music | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Melbourne, Australia | | My band is doing a local community festival thing this weekend. The drummer and I are both pretty excited about it as it's a good paying gig, only play 1 set, it's in the afternoon, so not a late night and going to be to a crowd completely different to what we normally play to (the usual drunk bar people).
It means we can throw a normal night's intensity and energy into one set without worrying about being dead come the last set. 
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02-24-2011, 04:30 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: West Covina (LA), SoCal | | | I love playing, and look forward to every show, but its been a long time since Ive been at a point I would describe as 'visibly excited'. Maybe if my band played a strip club...
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02-24-2011, 04:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: NE Ohio/Central Florida | | | Always. I just need to play in front of people (even the small crowds).
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02-24-2011, 04:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Smyrna, Tennessee. | | | Must be the beer and BBQ |
02-24-2011, 04:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: NE Ohio/Central Florida | | I loves me some free BBQ
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02-24-2011, 10:08 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Medford, MA | | | The more people who will be in the crowd, the more excited I get. Playing at bars that are usually slow sometimes becomes more of a chore at first, but I'll still end up having fun. |
02-25-2011, 06:30 AM
|  | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | | We're opening for Slaughter next weekend. I'm kinda psyched about that!
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02-25-2011, 06:50 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Warwick RI | | | I am psyched about this weekend. NEW GEAR TO PLAY WITH!!! Cool clu too, but I am dying to hear my new rig live.
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02-25-2011, 08:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: NJ | | | I'm usually too nervous to be excited for a show. But the one time I played FDR skatepark in Philly was pretty amazing and I really got excited for that one. |
02-25-2011, 08:53 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Littleton, CO | | | I'm only in a classic rock cover band, but I get fired up for every show. It's the most fun I can legally have without my wife being involved! When I lose that enthusiasm it will be time to hang it up.
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02-25-2011, 09:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Baltimore, MD USA | | | I've only ever got really excited when it's a show with a big national or international act, or sometimes just the first real show when you've got a new band. I think the most excited I've ever been for gigs was :
1) opening for Jonathan Richman in 2001
2) playing a big showcase in L.A. (I live in Baltimore) International Pop Overthrow 1999
3) opening for The Old 97s and Gigolo Aunts 1996 or '97 (?)
4) first time playing at the 9:30 Club in DC 1997
5) opening for The Records and Lotion 1998
6) opening for Mojo Nixon 2001 or 2002 |
02-25-2011, 09:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Phalex We're opening for Slaughter next weekend. I'm kinda psyched about that! | I hear you man,opening for Voivod in about five weeks. Feel like a little kid!
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02-25-2011, 03:32 PM
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Originally Posted by JSK5String ... but I get fired up for every show. It's the most fun I can legally have without my wife being involved! When I lose that enthusiasm it will be time to hang it up. | I concur 100%
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02-25-2011, 03:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Victoria, B.C., Canada | | | Every Get Excited Over a Gig?
Ever time!
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02-27-2011, 12:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Ventura CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JSK5String I'm only in a classic rock cover band, but I get fired up for every show. It's the most fun I can legally have without my wife being involved! When I lose that enthusiasm it will be time to hang it up. | +1 If you lose your passion for gigging.....maybe time to take up golf. I'm an old fart in a similar classic rock cover band and still love playing shows. I love hustling the gigs, promoting the gigs, the performance, making new fans, watching folks cram $10's and $20's in the tip jar and interacting with crazy audience members after the show. It's mostly all good and don't even mind lugging around a truck load of sound and lighting equipment. Still having a ton of fun. |
02-27-2011, 08:13 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Lakewood,CA. | | | You had me at free BBQ...
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02-28-2011, 03:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Between Canada and Switzerland | | Quote:
Originally Posted by kosmicwizard Ever Get Excited Over a Gig?
Every time! | +1 to that!
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