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How to approach a touchy subject
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What's your plan for when she sobers up?
Dunno, still looking for the one girl that thinks I'm cool.
Ric5
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As a guy when I see a band I really want everybody to be clothed ... I don't want to see anybody with their shirt off.
Also I have reached the age (over 50) where my shirt should stay on ... but even when I gigged back in the 70s and I was young I kept my shirt on.
I'm kind of surprised by a lot of the answers here.
I really don't care if a guy in a band takes his shirt off. If he's hot, (I mean temperature wise,) he should go right ahead, and whether or not he's got the body to support it, is up to his audience to decide.
I wouldn't care if women took their shirts off, either. It's just a chest. We all have one.
I find that, once again, the talkbass Boy Scouts are out in full force, ready to tell people what is "acceptable" on stage. Believe me, Jim Morrison, Iggy Pop, Mick Jagger, and plenty of others who are absolute icons in the music world have done it since the sixties. I'm not sure why others are calling people names over it.
I'm desperately trying to get into good enough shape to get away with it myself.
And when I get there, (and I will get there,) I think I'll post a photo on this very board, and some sort of poll.
Thank you, thank you very much.
I really don't care if a guy in a band takes his shirt off. If he's hot, (I mean temperature wise,) he should go right ahead, and whether or not he's got the body to support it, is up to his audience to decide.
I wouldn't care if women took their shirts off, either. It's just a chest. We all have one.
I find that, once again, the talkbass Boy Scouts are out in full force, ready to tell people what is "acceptable" on stage. Believe me, Jim Morrison, Iggy Pop, Mick Jagger, and plenty of others who are absolute icons in the music world have done it since the sixties. I'm not sure why others are calling people names over it.
I'm desperately trying to get into good enough shape to get away with it myself.
And when I get there, (and I will get there,) I think I'll post a photo on this very board, and some sort of poll.
Thank you, thank you very much.
Usually the shirtless look doesn't work for anyone. So don't do it. Or do. Whatevs. But if you don't want the big guys taking them off, you shouldn't either.
IMO, no one can pull it off, unless your name is David Bowie or Iggy Pop.
IMO, no one can pull it off, unless your name is David Bowie or Iggy Pop.
If there was such a band, guaranteed some guys that would never succeed on a level field of play would show up, band would get scared and wear clothes again.
Something tells me that the fat dudes in your band did this as their passive aggressive way to show you how dumb it is to play a show with your shirts off. If it's an outdoor gig, fine. Otherwise. Stay fully clothed.
And they never played shirtless until they were "big time?"
I would never do it, but I don't judge other people that do.
I wouldn't. I don't get into music where a shtick is the main thing they are banking on. If I'm that hard up I'll hit a strip club or the internet ;-)
Hi Floyd,
I agree with you.
The guys mentioned were all international celebrities. What they can do as opposed to all us "schlubs in bar bands" is completely different.
Just like pro bands that use "walk on" music, do that at the bar band level and it comes off as pretentious.
blue
It really depends on what type of music is being played, the venue and the crowd.
Exhibit A: Restaurant, jazz ensemble or blues. Please to leave your stupid fedora, shorts and washed up 1984 rush concert t-shirt with the sleeves cut off at home. Long pants and shirts, please, no smoking and no obvious drinking.
Exhibit B: Bar with your typical rock fare and a great atmosphere. Leave your freaking suit at home dude, you aren't impressing anyone. Shirt might be optional depending on how fratty you want to look. Bonus point might even be scored if the fat, hairy, unappeleaing guys do it too depending on how much they sweat on the pretty girls. I know I'm not beyong having fun and a good laugh if the band is getting into it and I see moobs and or pot bellies with stretch marks. I'm not 55 either.
Exhibit A: Restaurant, jazz ensemble or blues. Please to leave your stupid fedora, shorts and washed up 1984 rush concert t-shirt with the sleeves cut off at home. Long pants and shirts, please, no smoking and no obvious drinking.
Exhibit B: Bar with your typical rock fare and a great atmosphere. Leave your freaking suit at home dude, you aren't impressing anyone. Shirt might be optional depending on how fratty you want to look. Bonus point might even be scored if the fat, hairy, unappeleaing guys do it too depending on how much they sweat on the pretty girls. I know I'm not beyong having fun and a good laugh if the band is getting into it and I see moobs and or pot bellies with stretch marks. I'm not 55 either.
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