Are you the creepy wireless guy?

[Billy She-hands]

I just use a 75 foot instument cable. All the travel of a wireless system but you still keep all that sweet tone.

 

[Tony In Philly]

I'm reading this thread and it reinforces my thoughts on using a traditional cable. I can't think of a single instance where a young lady would want to have some anonymous wireless enabled old codger charging up into her face and gesticulating while he fingers his guitar or bass. Some might pull it off better than others but I can't stop laughing at the most egregious and delusional egos at work doing this. Utterly comical thread.

 

[Member8675309]

^^^^Nuthin’ wrong with a little gesticulation, bro^^^^

 

[Deleted member 165050]

I just use a 75 foot instument cable. All the travel of a wireless system but you still keep all that sweet tone.

Well maybe not...

 

[JimmyM]

Never had one and never felt I needed one. Most of the stages I play on lately are slightly bigger than postage stamps, so a 20' cord or whatever it is gives me all the freedom I can handle. It has been a few years since I regularly played on a big stage where a wireless wouldn't have looked ridiculous, but I still didn't feel it was an absolute must to have one. I kind of adhere to the Cliff Williams method of live performance, namely stay on my side of the stage very close to my amp and keep out of everyone else's way.

Cliff was wired right up until his last ever performance.

Cliff and Malcolm had the coolest shtick in rock and roll. Stand by the drums till it was time to sing, then run up to the mics together, sing, then run back.

I'm still going to run through the crowd with my wireless, though.

 

[mbasile]

I'm not one to go walking out through the audience but if someone wants to pretend they are a rock god and have some fun, who am I to say they cant ?

Who are you? You’re a random bloke on the internet, WITH an opinion! Don’t sell yourself short, buddy.

 

[callofcthulhu]

If the stage is low enough and the pit is wild enough, there's nothing you can do to stop me from jumping in there.

Yes, it was my childhood dream to do this, and yes, I have been blessed enough to have fulfilled that dream on several different occasions. How many people can say the same?

And no, I don't use a wireless.

 

[2tonic]

And here is the recommend stance for all solos done wireless in the crowd
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Another graduate of the Punky Meadows Lip Farm and Graduate School for Effective Rock Face and Dyspepsia.
Seen here applying advanced level scholarship in the field of Todd Rundgren's Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect!

 

[Member8675309]

I just set a phone in my practice room, recorded myself gesticulating. Yeah, I didn’t like what I saw. Not enough thrust. But, especially now that I’m in my early thirties and getting fatter by the year, when I thrust all my fat shifts forwards and backwards. Kinda hurts. So, I guess I may hang up the audience hang for a bit, focus more on my bass face, which I’ve apparently neglected in favor of more robust thrust.

 

[2tonic]

I'm married and our audiences' average age is 100, so that lets me off the hook

Do their walkers interfere with your wireless reception?
Or do they act as dipole antennas and sum your signal for RAWK SOLID PERFORMANCE!!!!!!!!

 

[petrus61]

Well after reading this thread, I have changed my mind about running around the crowd with a wireless. I used to do it only once in a while. Now I'm going to do it a lot more. Yeah, sure, I'll quit doing something that gets an overwhelmingly positive reaction because a bunch of internet ham and eggers don't like it. That'll happen.

By “overwhelmingly positive reaction”, you mean that you’re just super happy that you didn’t trip over a cord at the end of the night, right?

 

[JGbassman]

Does that mean they walk like bears on stage?

I barely noticed your joke, er, correction.....

I'll leave it that way to annoy others.

 

[JGbassman]

Do their walkers interfere with your wireless reception?
Or do they act as dipole antennas and sum your signal for RAWK SOLID PERFORMANCE!!!!!!!!

So that's how the first theramin came to be!

 

[JimmyM]

Do their walkers interfere with your wireless reception?
Or do they act as dipole antennas and sum your signal for RAWK SOLID PERFORMANCE!!!!!!!!

HAHAHAHA! This thread is the best!

By “overwhelmingly positive reaction”, you mean that you’re just super happy that you didn’t trip over a cord at the end of the night, right?

Oh, I trip over cords...just not my own. Mostly our guitar player's cords, as with his collection of wall warts and power strips, it's impossible not to. Sheesh!

 

[lbbc]

I have a Shure GLX-D Wireless and go out into the audience once per set to check on our sound/balance because we run our sound from stage. Usually people will talk to me while I'm off stage during our set. No one sees it as creepy...or I wouldn't do it!

 

[mikewalker]

HAHAHAHA! This thread is the best!


Oh, I trip over cords...just not my own. Mostly our guitar player's cords, as with his collection of wall warts and power strips, it's impossible not to. Sheesh!

Verily - what stage is complete without a powerstrip plugged into a powerstrip plugged into a powerstrip...

 

[JimmyM]

Verily - what stage is complete without a powerstrip plugged into a powerstrip plugged into a powerstrip...

Apparently not ours!

 

[br1qbat]

In the world of the internet chat forum, "what I think" always equates to "most."

I'm in my mid fifties. My first gig was in 1979. I have played thousands of shows from top flight venues to the lowest dive bars imaginable. In Minnesota, Wisconsin, Colorado, California, Nevada, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Classic rock, dance music, R&B/Soul and country. Never mind that my personal experience has been overwhelmingly positive when playing in the crowd with wireless. Never mind that Jimmy M, who has been gigging steadily, for actual money for as many years as I has had the exact same experience. Someone always has to say "most think something," when in fact, most DO NOT think that at all, and it can't be argued or proven, as it is too silly a topic for anyone to conduct meaningful research.

That's the joy I get from such forums. The sheer unabashed ignorance masquerading as truth by posters who honestly, have no claim at all to know anything outside of their own narrow experience, and other such posters who nod hurriedly in agreement. All that head bobbing generates a heck of a lot of energy. If someone could harness it, it would wipe out fossil fuel forever.

This thread actually postulates that interaction with audiences is a BAD thing.

Tell that to the majority of successful musicians and performers who have buttered their bread doing that exact thing.

There's always someone trying to claim they have more dignity than the rest of us, and the rest of us are all saying, "keep your 'dignity;' we're actually enjoying life."

And the funny thing is this is a prime example of someone trying to claim dignity:

Sure, and I can still think it is cheesy. Do what thou wilt. I don't care.

 

[Hahaha]

I hope that the kids and grandkids of aging wireless wanderers are wise enough to take the wireless away from grandpa when the time comes to take his car keys.

"Where's grandpa? His bass is gone too!"

 

[mellowinman]

Sure, and I can still think it is cheesy. Do what thou wilt. I don't care.

But don't you see? I don't care if you care! You're not my audience! There is NOTHING I could do that would entertain you, so care, don't care; it doesn't matter. I'm here to entertain those who want to be entertained by me, and guess what? I have tons of photos and video of audience members having a great time; in fact I can almost guarantee that there is NOT A SINGLE THING YOU DO AS WELL AS ME when it comes to entertaining MY audience, and in turn, there is not a single thing I do as well as you when it comes to entertaining yours.

So what you think is cheesy is exactly what I like. What you think is lame is what I think is cool. And what you think is COOL? OMG, I laugh at stoner/doom/metal music, and wonder why anybody likes it. That's the world we live in, folks. SUBJECTIVE.