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Image and Rock

#63
bluewine said:
All good points, I think it gets tricky when your talking about your average bar band and the venues your playing.

I'm not going to wear eye liner to a hard core biker bar that holds 50 people Max.
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First, its guyliner, and 2nd, better off wearing it at the smaller biker bars... As the crowd gets larger, the odds of someone kicking your ass go up exponentially...:p;):D:hiding:

Randy
 
#64
Mykk said:
Last rehearsal the band who had the space booked before us went over-time, I open the door to the studio and see Dave Lombardo (Slayer Drummer) and one of his bands wrapping things up... Guess how they dressed. They wore clothes like the rest of us as if they didn't give a crap,'cause they didn't. In fact, every 'known' rockstar who rehearses at my studio dresses chill...I ran into Gavin Rossdale in Venice a couple weeks ago, shorts and T-shirt.... This original post is null and void
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Nope. The original post mentioned they dressed like Larry the Cable Guy on their website, he was not complaining they didn't wear rock star clothes to the audition.

Randy
 
#65
hrodbert696 said:
The band is, to some extent, a projection of the audience, or the audience as it likes to imagine itself. Sometimes the audience wants pure fantasy and you get Liberace, or Alice Cooper. But most of the time the audience wants someone more or less like themselves - maybe a little snazzier, but basically recognizable as like themselves.
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Wow, this is pretty deep. I think you nailed it right there...

Randy
 
#69
Respect the music AND yourself. The genre you play should have a bearing on what you wear IF you care about what your listeners will perceive, at least at first. I suppose if your band has the chops to completely blow everybody away in the first tune, it probably doesn't matter. This was alluded to in a previous post.

We are (musical) actors on a stage. Actors dress the part. I personally will draw a line at totally outrageous - it's just not me - but the gig will/should to some degree dictate the outfit, as someone else previously mentioned. I understand anyone who is so committed to his/her music that a mindset of "The audience be damned! If they can't appreciate my music for what it is, scre* them. Whatever I wear shouldn't matter..." can exist. But that person isn't an actor, rather more of an artiste. I'm not casting aspersions, just my opinion. Whatever floats YOUR boat.

If money is an object, you gotta respect the client. It's just good business sense. I won't show up to a corporate gig in jeans with holes and a ripped T-shirt. A national act might get away with this if that's their persona, but *I* can't do it. Nice jeans and a polo maybe, or a T with a not-obscene something on it. If the gig is a hippie-fest during the day, hey, maybe shorts, a T, and sandals (although for load-in and -out, sneakers will protect my toes in case the guitarist drops something on my feet). Getting rehired because the client likes all aspects of you is a good thing.

Like it or not, appearance matters.
 
#70
Zoa said:
I think I know what you're getting at here. If you have the chops to overcome that first impression, then by all means dress however you like. For those of us who can't play like Warren Haynes &Co, however, its always better to start from a positive impression looks-wise.
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+1
 
#72
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The attitude.
 
#73
I am past the hairband stage of my youth but, I still consider my image for gigs and still use my stage name and my adopted today stage look to help separate the guy who plays on stage from the guy who works in a cooperate office in front of a computer 10 hours a day When I walk into a club people know I am with the band. Black Fedora, Wrist bands with flames, black suit jacket, rock t-shirt or something cool like Sinister almost all of them have Phoenix bird on them, Black Jeans, Engineer boots or red and white sneakers and sunglasses
 
#75
father of fires said:
I can't look cool. So I don't. I bought a cool rock shirt once and my band laughed at me.
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bluewine said:
Everybody can look cool!

It's more of an attitude and how you are perceived than a physical look.
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nutdog said:
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The attitude.
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Ya, I'm with Father of Fires. I gotta disagree with you, Bluewine. I'm incapable of looking cool. I just can't do it. I could pull off the attitude back in the day. But that wouldn't even work now that I'm old and fat and slow.

Now I didn't say I can't BE cool. But mostly that one is pretty iffy as well.
 

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