Denial... I'm too stubborn to give it up.
I like that answer...Okay then.... why do you still have enthusiasm for gigging when a presumably large source of your excitement has diminished?
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is band culture changing?
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I like that answer...Okay then.... why do you still have enthusiasm for gigging when a presumably large source of your excitement has diminished?
This whole thread is making me wax nostalgic for the days when audiences wielded lighters instead of cell phones.
I average about twenty gigs a month with five or six bands. I do a lot of fill ins and have some regular weeknight gigs with various bands. It is very hard for one band to work around town with any regularity, so the options are; hit the road with touring band, or juggle bands in town.
There will be scheduling conflicts when working with multiple bands. Networking and having suitable subs is essential. Sometimes a sub will take your job by offering to "always be there". Give them and your former band your blessing, (and remember not to refer that sub for any job you cherish
). Not having all your eggs in one basket means you won't really miss that one gig that much. But don't be a bridge burner. They may tire of him.
There will be scheduling conflicts when working with multiple bands. Networking and having suitable subs is essential. Sometimes a sub will take your job by offering to "always be there". Give them and your former band your blessing, (and remember not to refer that sub for any job you cherish
). Not having all your eggs in one basket means you won't really miss that one gig that much. But don't be a bridge burner. They may tire of him.
Our band has been together for many years and our fan base has grown up with us. These days the fans want to be able to sit, eat, drink, and spend their evening in a safe part of town where parking isn't a hassle, and get home before midnight, so we've had to find places to play that fit that scenario for routine gigs. We usually play from 7-11 or thereabouts and try to stick to a Saturday night schedule once or twice a month. As long as we can maintain that game plan we have a good turnout and a lot of fun.
Maybe you should have passed on the brown acid at Woodstock, grampa!
You don't have to be a baby boomer to know the history of rock. We do songs from Robert Johnson, Howling Wolf and other blues legends that go back way before your time.
What bugs me is the way you seek validation for your band experience at the expense of undervaluing anyone who comes from a different era or has a different perspective. Tell us again how back in the day you had to walk 10 miles in the snow barefoot to get to gigs while dragging 2 tons of prehistoric equipment with you.
The music scene is different today but holds just as much exitement now for that 17 year old kid in his first band as it did for you when you caught Beatlemania in the 60's.
Muttleybass said:
I think it goes further than no appreciation, I think the younger generation has a distinct dislike of live music.
My bands niche is the over 50 biker crowd. These folks want to hang on to their youth and don't want to admit how hard it is for them to stay up past 10pm.
When younger people are bar hop and walk into one of our gigs, as soon as they see it's a live band playing, they leave.
Bert Slide said:Maybe you should have passed on the brown acid at Woodstock, grampa!
You don't have to be a baby boomer to know the history of rock. We do songs from Robert Johnson, Howling Wolf and other blues legends that go back way before your time.
What bugs me is the way you seek validation for your band experience at the expense of undervaluing anyone who comes from a different era or has a different perspective. Tell us again how back in the day you had to walk 10 miles in the snow barefoot to get to gigs while dragging 2 tons of prehistoric equipment with you.
The music scene is different today but holds just as much exitement now for that 17 year old kid in his first band as it did for you when you caught Beatlemania in the 60's.
Well, me, never took or dropped acid,smoked or drank anything. As a matter of fact I don't think I have ever been stoned a day in my life.
While I have a lot of years into this, it doesn't mean my experience is vast by any means.
Do I undervalue the guys that came into the scene late in life and probably for the wrong reasons;
Yeah, I do.
There hasn't been anything like Beatlemania since Beatlemania, so I don't think that 17 year old kid today has the same excitement I had when I was 11years old in my first band.
He has excitement, but it's not the same.
Perhaps they like live music, but they aren't interested in the style of music your band plays. I don't think that you have enough information to draw any conclusions about their appreciation for live music in general.
jive1
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Maybe you should have passed on the brown acid at Woodstock, grampa!
I think the lighter comment went over his head. Bert, obviously you were talking about holding up a lighter during a tune such as in the Arena Rock days, not actually lighting stuff.
jive1
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You kids don't know how good you had it. All we could do was just hang out in the dark.
Come out of your cave some time. When I was seventeen we were fed up with the stadium corporate rock and the folks in your generation that insisted on freezing music in time for 15 years so we created our own punk scene. Did it sweep the world like Beatlemania? Maybe not but it did influence music to this day. Rap was new then too and another newer culture that is still evolving.
Who are you or I as old guys to discount new modern music scenes today that we know nothing about?
