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03-12-2010, 10:17 AM
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So I get told half the pics of me are no good cause my eyes are almost always closed when I play. 
Anybody else close eyes while playing? practicing doesnt count, it has to be on a gig.
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03-12-2010, 10:51 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: St. Louis, Missouri | | | I tend to do the same thing. It usually happens when I get into the "zone" especially during improv. In my jazz/funk band a lot of the changes are by cue and I'm horrible about missing them occasionally because my eyes are closed. I like to play that way because it allows me to really concentrate and use my ears, but it's a bad habit I should try to break.
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03-12-2010, 10:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: DC Region | | | I don't usually close my eyes while playing but the guitarist and keyboardist in my last band did constantly, I had to add a talk back mic on stage to our in ear monitor sends so I could get their attention or else we would STILL be playing Purple Rain...
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03-12-2010, 11:51 AM
|  | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | | Sign me up! I play with my eyes shut, my mouth open and my tongue lolling out.
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03-12-2010, 11:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Here we are... | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Phalex Sign me up! I play with my eyes shut, my mouth open and my tongue lolling out. | 
Tho he does open his eyes on occasion...................... 
Best.Pic.EVAH!!
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03-12-2010, 12:00 PM
| | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | Quote:
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Tho he does open his eyes on occasion......................
Best.Pic.EVAH!! | I'm getting a prostate and hernia exam at the same time! She kinda snuck up and surprised me.
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03-12-2010, 12:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Baton Rouge, La. area | | | I do it too. Nice pic.....did she make you cough? |
03-12-2010, 12:29 PM
| | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | Quote:
Originally Posted by kickstand22 I do it too. Nice pic.....did she make you cough? | It was more of an involuntary expulsion of air. Followed by high pitched whining......
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03-12-2010, 05:07 PM
| | | | I tend to close mine when I sing. I agree, its a habit I should break....
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03-12-2010, 05:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Woking, Surrey, UK. | | | I used to, but I realised that you can't dodge the flying beer bottles/ogle the chicks with your eyes shut. Come to think of it, if you don't ogle the chicks, their boyfriends don't throw beer bottles at you ....
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03-12-2010, 06:43 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Newberg, Oregon | | | Finally!! Someone shares my secret shame!
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03-13-2010, 10:31 AM
| | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | Last night: 
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03-13-2010, 10:37 AM
|  | My geekiness is only balanced by being in a band | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Wilton, Iowa | | | Definitely play with my eyes closed. I actually don't think I do, but it seems that every shot has me with my eyes shut. |
03-14-2010, 07:35 AM
|  | Dr. Hook | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania US | | | I find that I'm playing with my eyes closed on some of the slower "psychadelic" songs like White Rabbit and Whiter Shade of Pale, but not on the faster stuff. And we do mostly faster stuff. |
03-14-2010, 01:29 PM
|  | Total Hyper-Elite Member | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Groom Lake, NV | | | I only close 'em when I play a Steinberger. Otherwise, I'm afraid my left hand will slide off the end of the neck.
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03-14-2010, 11:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Phalex Sign me up! I play with my eyes shut, my mouth open and my tongue lolling out. | +1
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03-15-2010, 10:18 AM
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03-15-2010, 10:27 AM
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EDIT: disregard the guitard... 
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03-15-2010, 12:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Tucson,AZ | | | Yes, I do.
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03-16-2010, 10:18 AM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Central Maryland | | | Yes.The band I played in for 4 years knew this and would bust my "trance" for changes and tit shots.Good mates. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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