Bandmates showing up at gigs looking..weird

This one guy in our band has a haircut like that, but I can do you one better. He wears a kilt when we play.

He's our bass player.

He's me.

 

The guys in my last punk band used to show up to gigs looking like they got mugged on the way home from a fishing trip. It used to drive me crazy. Now in my current band, there are so many guys all doing their own thing, it would be fruitless to even care. Dudes will be playing in ripped t-shirts next to a guy in a suit and tie... Total fashion chaos.

 

Which one of these does not belong:

 

F***in dave.

 

Adam Sandler?
oh ... wait...there is a Santa Claus over in the corner!

 

Exactly.

 

Always.

 

I've given up trying to get any sort of "uniformity" of onstage apparel in my band.

There are a couple of guys who routinely dress more "casually" for our gigs than I would prefer, but none of them get so far "out there" that the rest of us are embarrassed to be on stage with them. And they're decent players and people in every other respect so it's really not worth making a big stink about. We probably don't look quite as "pro" as we could onstage but we've got a full slate of well paying gigs, we all get along on the road and people always seem to have a good time at our shows so I figure why mess with something that's working?

The other thing is, our youngest guy in my band is 25 and our oldest guy is over 60 with the full gamut represented in-between... so just on account of the varying ages we're never going to look like a completely coherent group. As long as we play well, that's what matters more to me.

 

OP - I think what one of the biggest issues is, is that the cross has become so co-opted across cultures that a lot of people don't really know what it stands for anymore, or its true origin (brutal, tortuous slow death for the most despised criminals in the Roman Empire). So they just assign meanings to it based on the other clues they see in context. Black Sabbath was using crosses as inlays on their guitar necks years ago already. You can drive all over Western Europe and see a cross on every corner even though probably less than 1% of the currrent population in that part of the world adhere to beliefs bearing any resemblance to evangelical Christianity.

So, your drummer comes out sporting crosses on his body in various forms and maybe he is sincerely sold-out to Christ but unfortunately most people aren't going to be able to see that because of all the "noise" put off by the tats and weird hair... and because of all the people they've already seen wearing crosses who clearly have no affiliation with (or in fact outright antagonism toward) the Christian faith. The prevailing impression is going to be that he's just a goofball who's trying way too hard on the whole radical look thing.

 

I guess as long as none of my bandmates are violating any of the Rules of Stagewear Douchery that have been laid out here on TalkBass the last couple of weeks, I'm good with it.

 

I was gonna say the guy wearing sunglasses inside..

 

we're southern metal. plaid shirt is our team jersey.

total douche

 

To be fair we all started out in plaid shirts, Dwayne and I (drummer) ditched them. Dave...errrr Santa...well I can't make excuses for him. LOL.

 

one of my guitar players showed up dressed in all white from head to toe, we're in a country band. He looked like Freddy Merury for the night....weird. He did it one more time after that but stopped...hope it never happens again though!

 

i meant to add an obnoxious amount of smilies to my post. fail on me.