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View Poll Results: Where do you stand on stage? | |
To the drummer's hi-hat side
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To the drummer's floor tom side
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It doesn't matter, so I stand where the carrots are
|    | 38 | 21.71% |
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09-18-2003, 12:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Eastern Townships, Québec | | | Where do you stand on stage?
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Where do you stand on stage? Why? I prefer being on the hi-hat side, so I can hear the drummer's "pulse" better. Of course it doesn't matter if you play with in-ear monitors! |
09-18-2003, 12:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The frozen north | | | Hi-hat side, best place to have good contact with the drummer IMO, both for the (hi-hat) pulse and for visual cues (I watch the drummers sticks to synch in after breaks, for ending crash hits and what have you).
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09-18-2003, 12:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: West Side SA | | | behind the keyboard player.
the drummer and i are starting to be come telepathic on good gigs. he and i are getting a better groove the more we work together. we just have to look at each other most of the time and we just adjust.
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09-18-2003, 02:25 PM
|  | Hard on Heels Moderator | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Warwick, Rhode Island, USA | | Quote: Originally posted by nojazzloco
behind the keyboard player. he's really cute from that angle.
the drummer and i are starting to come telepathic on good gigs. he and i are getting a better groove the more we play with each other. we just have to look at each other, and most of the time i just adjust my belt and break out into a sweat. i just luuuv that man.! | 
I stand as far away as I can from skinwhackers like that!
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09-19-2003, 12:33 AM
| | In Tonal Bliss | | Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: USA, Montana | | It really has nothing to do with what side of the drummer, but on the Tom side. The Guitarist is left handed, so it works best for him to be on stage left, which happens to also be the high-hat side. That leaves me with the "other" side, not that I resent it but it does seem like left-overs. 
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09-19-2003, 02:43 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: London, UK | | I tend to stand at the front, alongside the singers (or, sometimes, even in front of them!).
However, the main thing is finding a set up that gives good eye contact between all the band - we're not yet playing stages that are large enough to make hearing the problem. Now, all fitting on is a different matter... 
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09-19-2003, 09:32 AM
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Anyway, I stand near the front of the stage because I am an attention whore. I've NEVER had a problem with not being able to hear the drums and guitar, 'cause I don't really even care what key or rhythm they are playing in. My only issue has been with not being able to hear vocals to songs I barely know, which is, basically, every song. It's just all about groupies, that's it. So you gotta look hot up there. If you're gonna score! | 
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09-19-2003, 09:50 AM
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Sometimes, that does mean standing in a carrot field. |
09-19-2003, 10:05 AM
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09-19-2003, 10:06 AM
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I stand as far away as I can from skinwhackers like that!
Thor | You're just jealous!!
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09-19-2003, 10:06 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Northern Virginia | | | i stand on the hi-hat side but it a left handed drumset... so... |
09-19-2003, 10:48 AM
| | stinkholier-than-thou | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Beaumont, Texarse | | I prefer the hi-hat side, because the tom side is also often the 'earsplitting crash cymbal' side. The hi-hat side has always been occupied by a percussionist in my main gig, but he quit this week, so maybe I can steal his spot...
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09-19-2003, 11:00 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: London, UK | | Get an earplug (singular )
Wulf |
09-19-2003, 11:31 AM
| | stinkholier-than-thou | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Beaumont, Texarse | | Quote: Originally posted by wulf
Get an earplug (singular )
Wulf | I often do just that, actually!
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09-19-2003, 11:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Columbus, Ohio, USA | | | I try to stand on the tom side, so then when I look at the bass neck the drummer is in my field of vision too, it's kind of convenient that way. |
09-19-2003, 11:46 AM
| | Hard on Heels Moderator | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Warwick, Rhode Island, USA | | I confess I have stood directly in front of
my amp, so I could turn around, plink a harmonic,
turn it to 10 or so, stand in the speaker node, and draw out the feedback note, driving the guitar player to premature orgasm.
The sound guy loved it too, chasing around trying to figure where the feedback was coming from.
Especially effective on those extended finales!
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09-19-2003, 12:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Toledo, Ohio | | | I've had to play the whole gig on a pool table once beacause the stage was so small... |
09-19-2003, 02:20 PM
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09-19-2003, 03:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Edmonton Canada | | Excuse my ignorance  but when you say stage left/stage right are you looking at the stage from the audience or from the stage out?I'm a lefty so I'm on the right hand side of the stage? My guitarist is from the darkside (a righty) and I learned long ago that it's not a good idea to cross guitars  
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