17 Things Local Bands Just Don’t Get

[ColonelZulu]

see that is the problem, everyone uses this "excuse" to not support other bands and then when no one shows up to your show bcause they have a family, a home, two other jobs, homework.

i try to go to at least 1 local show each month.

Yes, that's it! You don't know me, and you claim the real demands on my life taking priority over seeing other local bands is an "excuse", so I'm the problem leading to there being a weak music scene.

You're so insightful.

 

[Altitude]

Guarantee ?

My point was that they look like professionals taking their jobs seriously and are more likely to be paid thusly than, maybe, these guys:

 

[Altitude]

i think a lot of this depends on what kind of band you are in. i would never want our drummer to use electronic drums and id probably get something trown if even suggested. i would also never run direct into the PA as that would be bypassing my tube distortion that i run at 7. maybe some of this would work for a wedding band, but def not for heavy music

Or you might discover that you have the only "heavy music" band that gets callbacks.

 

[I am Soma]

My point was that they look like professionals taking their jobs seriously and are more likely to be paid thusly than, maybe, these guys:

i prefer this bands look as opposed to the dudes in suits. personal pref i guess

 

[I am Soma]

Or you might discover that you have the only "heavy music" band that gets callbacks.

we're doing fine with callbacks but again i think this is genre specific. might an electronic drum and direct PA gig work for a wedding or mosque band? sure. would it work in an originals heavy music gig? no. just like everyone elses replies these are just personal opinions and should not be viewed as facts.

 

[TUEP]

Where I am at there are a lot of local bands that don't get it. You have indie rock bands that will play in the same are multiple times a week for years and never draw more than 10 people. You have original bands that can write decent but lack image or a state presence. Then you have all these different musicians who despise each other, unless its bands in the punk or metal scenes.

 

[ggunn]

So dont dress as a rock star, But no cargo shorts either. So what should I wear on stage a 3 piece suit ?

Maybe so. It worked for Robert Palmer, didn't it?

 

[Richland123]

My guess is that those guys are getting more than the $300 guarantee at that gig they're playing, too.

Yeah, just a little more than $300. They are a professional oldies band that plays larger concerts and venues. One of them has sold millions of records and has continued the band.

 

[Big Hoss]

Um yeah, I'll do that when you start playing your gigs on a Kala or Ashbory. I drum and have both types and even the best (electronic) kits sound kind of real but the feel and the timing are still limiting. I also play piano and also have a digital and acoustic piano. The limitations of the digital drums are greater than the limitations of the digit piano. At a local church, they tried to put everyone in Line 6 pods and electronic drums. The drummers starting refusing to play worship and settled on a plexi screen instead. Of all the guitar players, the one who refused to give up his amp was the bass player ironically enough.

Not sure since I am not a drummer, but in the circumstances where live kit drummer volume is a problem, I have seen Drum shields used with some sort of curtain, screen, or accoustic foam behind the drum kit. You see it a LOT on smaller church band setups. Outdoor gigs I see drum shields used with no backing, so the sound gets bounced back with nothing for it to reflect forward... Works pretty good...

 

[Robroy]

There is some good stuff there, but it is mostly just saying "Water is wet".

 

[ggunn]

My point was that they look like professionals taking their jobs seriously and are more likely to be paid thusly than, maybe, these guys:

There are, as my dad used to say, many ways to skin a cat. The Grateful Dead enjoyed some measure of success in their 35 year run, and they played in jeans and Tshirts. Bob Weir often wore shorts. They almost never talked to the audience; they mainly just stood there and played.

 

[I am Soma]

There are, as my dad used to say, many ways to skin a cat. The Grateful Dead enjoyed some measure of success in their 35 year run, and they played in jeans and Tshirts. They almost never talked to the audience and they mainly just stood there and played.

+1

 

[AdamR]

Ever hear the saying dress for the job you want ?

As for the volume thing, I played with bands that were so loud I had to walk out of the room.

 

[the harp unstrung]

First played in a band in 63. #1 was in effect then as now.

First played in a band in '68...
1,2,3,5,6,and 17 are as true today as they were then...I don't know a freekin' thing about FaceBook... TKK

 

[Robroy]

Regarding seeing other bands, my problem with that has several facets:
1. Most of them are not very good.
2. Most of them don't play music I like.
3. It's boring to sit at a bar and watch a band.
4. Even good bands are not worth watching every month (In seatle I LOVED seeing Michael Shrieve's band at TOST, now the White Rabbit).

But, most importantly, I'm a doer more than a watcher. I don't really enjoy watching bands, pro sports, etc. Though I like to DO all those things. Some people like to be IN bands, while others like to enjoy the band's performance. Some like both and some hate both.

 

[ggunn]

Regarding seeing other bands, my problem with that has several facets:
1. Most of them are not very good.
2. Most of them don't play music I like.
3. It's boring to sit at a bar and watch a band.
4. Even good bands are not worth watching every month (In seatle I LOVED seeing Michael Shrieve's band at TOST, now the White Rabbit).

But, most importantly, I'm a doer more than a watcher. I don't really enjoy watching bands, pro sports, etc. Though I like to DO all those things. Some people like to be IN bands, while others like to enjoy the band's performance. Some like both and some hate both.

I think what the writer of the list is saying is that you should support other bands because that support will come back to you, not that you will necessarily enjoy doing it for its own sake.

 

[hdracer]

There are, as my dad used to say, many ways to skin a cat. The Grateful Dead enjoyed some measure of success in their 35 year run, and they played in jeans and Tshirts. Bob Weir often wore shorts. They almost never talked to the audience; they mainly just stood there and played.

Not just shorts but short shorts

 

[ggunn]

Not just shorts but short shorts

At least they aren't cargo shorts, right?

 

[Robroy]

I think what the writer of the list is saying is that you should support other bands because that support will come back to you, not that you will necessarily enjoy doing it for its own sake.

I'm just not into it enough to do that. I'm a sixty year old married man with a professional job. I'm not going to hang around honky-tonks to watch marginal bands playing music I don't like. For starters, I don't have the time. I'll support them on facebook.

And they really do my band no good. We play Gospel at churches on Sundays and could play every weekend for two years within twenty miles of my house and never play the same church twice. On Fridays and Saturdays, we play 50's-60's oldies at VFW's, American legions Jamborees and other family friendly venues.

What other bands think of us is utterly irrelevant. Not that we trash them, but it's nothing to be cultivated, at least for us.

 

[Richland123]

Well, here was little bit of everything style wise in one band lineup.