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Gig clothes?

#121
Baird6869 said:
Coolest shoes ever for gigs. I don't surf the web for gigwear normally but my wife bought me a pair of these. Expensive, but very cool.

The say old school but I have a shred of style. Or am a metalhead, but still read GQ (but only in the crapper:D )

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Good god, I still own these shoes over 8 years later!
 
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#128
I constantly wrestle with this... if it is a decent gig, I put effort in otherwise it is black jeans and a cool t shirt... now my stage t shirts normally are not what I wear anywhere else but still not overly fancy. I know a bunch of guys who buy Affliction T shirts at $80 a pop and to me nothing screams desperation more than an $80 t shirt.
 
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You can try to make a come-back of this style:

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It is rather attractive attire, don't you think? Bound to be a crowd-pleaser. :rolleyes:
Just for a fun torture-question: If you HAD to be one of them. Which one and why? <evil snicker...... but please keep it to yourself...I really don't want to hear it..or get sick to my stomach>



<wow..those clothes reminds me of my jammies....uh...uh...not really, please believe me...not really...whew>
 
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#134
A dredge to be sure, but a topic that is always relevant.

When it comes to gigwear, the answer is "It's all relative". The key is giving it some thought and (in almost all cases) adjusting a bit for the show. If it's a corporate event, maybe button up and put on a tie. If it's a summer town festival maybe something more casual. The key is to fit what you wear to the style of music and the event. If it's a rock pop-rock gig, maybe (if you can pull it off) some skinny jeans, chucks and a cool t-shirt.

It doesn't have to cost alot of $, but I don't understand folks who want to look like a shmoe on stage. It's a performance for heaven sakes. Respect the fact that the audience have not come to see a bunch of average guys on stage and have some fun with what you wear. Besides, many audience members wouldn't be able to tell a good band from a crap band and are going to judge you as much (perhaps more) on how you look as how you sound.

For myself, it varies alot, but tend toward western shirts and slim T-shirts and either skinny jeans or boot-cuts depending on the footwear. Look like a rockstar, feel like a rockstar, get treated like a rockstar.

One last thing -and this is my own personal rant- when it comes to looking good fit is everything. That doesn't mean you have to wear skinny tight clothes. What it means is regardless of your size, the "coolest" most expensive clothes are going to look shabby if they aren't the right size or a good fit for your build.
 
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#137
We listen with our eyes more often than we want to admit... This goes for the clothing, for the brand on the headstock and the shape of the bass..

How you present yourself on stage matters. Please stop lying to yourself saying that only music matters.

I went to a metal show years ago...I remember how ridiculous and amateurish was the keyboard player making air guitar with a toy plastic ukulele and wearing a hawaiian flower necklace..and the lead guitar wearing a wool sweater and a pigtail.. The rest of the band was wearing appropiate rock/metal clothings .. I can't remember any of the songs.. and I've never wanted to go to see them again..

Last month a friend released an album and he did a gig with the band. Metal show again.. I freaked out seeing how looked the bass player and the lead guitar... again, they were dressed if they going to hang out with their friends to see a soccer game.... The band looked like a 3+2 music combo.. three metalheads and two other guys

I usually wear jeans and shirts everyday..I dress casual... but when it's time to get out to the stage I usually wear chains, leather, boots and all that show people that we're a metal band just before we hit the first note...
 
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AlexBassMP said:
The rest of the band was wearing appropiate rock/metal clothings .. I can't remember any of the songs.. and I've never wanted to go to see them again..
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Classical music has a pretty precise definition of appropriate clothing, with variation allowed in various contexts. Metal probably has the second most precise definition of any genre, doesn't it? Rock is a bit looser, and then probably jazz, country, pop and hip-hop in that order? And indie pop probably dead last, because you can wear just about anything ironically.

I can imagine people complaining about what a rapper is wearing on stage, but complaining that it wasn't appropriate would be very, very rare.
 
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pklima said:
Classical music has a pretty precise definition of appropriate clothing, with variation allowed in various contexts. Metal probably has the second most precise definition of any genre, doesn't it? Rock is a bit looser, and then probably jazz, country, pop and hip-hop in that order? And indie pop probably dead last, because you can wear just about anything ironically.

I can imagine people complaining about what a rapper is wearing on stage, but complaining that it wasn't appropriate would be very, very rare.
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Yeah sometimes we the metalheads are the worst :laugh::laugh: ...


 

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