Use Any Gimmicks at your gigs?

[iamoldschool]

We do. It's a lot of fun and usually entertains the crowd. Gets us invited back a lot. This is a pic of what we do when we play ZZTop's Sharp Dressed Man.

[nutso42]

Here's mine:



Sometimes I manage to get my whole band to wear similar stuff.... rarely, but sometimes.

[tlwaps]

In my old band we started this thing where we were actually making fun of another bands guitarist. During the breakdown of one of our songs we would all flex our left biceps. It started one night when this guitarist who is semi buff kept flexing his muscles on stage while playing (and greased up with baby oil) and he began making fun of us, so we decided to make fun of him. Little did we know that every time we played a show after that each time we played that song the crowd would begin flexing with us. Was actually kind of funny.

Towards the end of the band I thought it would be a good idea to get on my singers shoulders and let him hoist me into the air while continuing to play. That was an interesting drunken ordeal as well.

[DizzyExiled]

Haven't done any myself but..

Guitarist drinking from a Vodka bottle filled with water (Jack filled with tea, Jager filled with Cola, etc.)

gives a rockstar appearance but keeps you sober enough to play the correct notes in the correct order, rather than one or the other

[Gerlan86]

grow unkempt hair, run around like i am on acid and headbang so hard that i cannot move my head in any direction for a couple of days after any gig (or practice).

[retsamaksrepus]

Every once and a while we'll all dress up in some crazy way. Here's a video of us playing with snorkels, swimtrunks and ties..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezS4YnD3LEM

And we almost always wear crazy sunglasses on stage when we don't have our snorkels..

[RobertPaulson]

Originally Posted by DizzyExiled

Haven't done any myself but..

Guitarist drinking from a Vodka bottle filled with water (Jack filled with tea, Jager filled with Cola, etc.)

gives a rockstar appearance but keeps you sober enough to play the correct notes in the correct order, rather than one or the other

That may be the lamest thing I've ever heard. People actually do this?

[jnuts1]

go go dancers for our next big show.

[jnuts1]

i don't think i have ever seen anyone drink straight from the bottle on stage. what club would allow that?

[kaputsport]

Originally Posted by RobertPaulson

That may be the lamest thing I've ever heard. People actually do this?

Back when I was too young to drink, outr bass player used to fill evian bottles with vodka, and bring them in... Spelled backwards is...

Anyway, it was a great way to drink and not get seen doing so.

[RobertPaulson]

Originally Posted by jnuts1

i don't think i have ever seen anyone drink straight from the bottle on stage. what club would allow that?

There's a few around here where I can get away with it. But i prefer my whiskey on the rocks, so I generally don't.

[Mr. Mig]

I wear my underwear backwards.

[voodoobassist]

Buy some cheap percussion toys,....cowbell, maraca's, tambourines, etc,....drag the prettiest girls in the club up on stage to play them. The girls love it, they get to show off how hot they are,..the crowd loves it, they get to watch the hot girls,...the band loves it because the girls usually tend to rub themselves against the bandmembers,... it's a win situation all the way around. We NEVER take the stage without the percussion toys now.

[jnuts1]

voodoo that is brilliant! you would never be able to hear them at one of my gigs so they could bang on that thing all they wanted. i am stealing this idea

[retsamaksrepus]

Originally Posted by jnuts1

they could bang on that thing all they wanted.

And maybe they could bang on something else after the gig..

[Munjibunga]

I have this rubber chicken that I put on the mic stand with the mic clip in his mouth so the only part of the mic showing is the ball, which looks like the chicken's holding it in its mouth. I had to cut a hole right where its anus would be to slide it over the boom and run the cable to the mic.

Now, I've been doing this for over 30 years (not at every gig), and back in the 70's a little 3-year-old boy (friend of the family) came to one of our rehearsals. He seemed a little reserved at the time. So some 25 years later, I was talking to him about when he used to come to rehearsal, and he told me that chicken really freaked him out, and it still bothers him. That made my life.

[rappa29]

Originally Posted by voodoobassist

Buy some cheap percussion toys,....cowbell, maraca's, tambourines, etc,....drag the prettiest girls in the club up on stage to play them. The girls love it, they get to show off how hot they are,..the crowd loves it, they get to watch the hot girls,...the band loves it because the girls usually tend to rub themselves against the bandmembers,... it's a win situation all the way around. We NEVER take the stage without the percussion toys now.

We used to do that in the R&B\Funk\Soul\Dance band I was in. It is INDEED a perfect excuse to get women up on stage and involved in the show!

The caveat is most of them are arrhythmic so you have to learn to tune them out and make sure they don't get anywhere near a live mic!

[Qvist]

Originally Posted by DizzyExiled

Haven't done any myself but..

Guitarist drinking from a Vodka bottle filled with water (Jack filled with tea, Jager filled with Cola, etc.)

gives a rockstar appearance but keeps you sober enough to play the correct notes in the correct order, rather than one or the other

***, that's worse than selling out... If you're not hardcore don't play hardcore man just have a beer or something instead!

[skidrawk]

Originally Posted by jnuts1

i don't think i have ever seen anyone drink straight from the bottle on stage. what club would allow that?

Most any place in Louisiana.

[devnulljp]

Originally Posted by Gerlan86

grow unkempt hair, run around like i am on acid and headbang so hard that i cannot move my head in any direction for a couple of days after any gig (or practice).

Angus? Is that you?