Is there a word for

[beaglesandbass]

when there are more people in the band than in the audience?

If not, there should be.

Please share or make up a word for it.

Paid Practice

 

[2BitHack]

icantbelieveeveryonemissedtheeasytricktomakeaOnewordresponseanywayicallitmaybetheuniverseistryingtotellyousomething

 

[Axtman]

The word you are looking for is "typical" as in "Yeah, we had the typical crowd." ;-)

Interesting Factoid: I read that there were only seven people at The Police's first official gig. That is counting girlfriends.

 

[Ric5]

when there are more people in the band than in the audience?

If not, there should be.

Please share or make up a word for it.

2 words … THIS SUCKS

 

[Clark W]

that's because musicians suck at picking tunes for their band.
"no way man, wagon wheel is a horrible song and i hate playing it. what we should really play that one track from Genesis' firth of fifth. it will blow the audience away!!!" no it won't

I absolutely cannot stand "Wagon Wheel". I sit in with two different bands from time to time, and they can't stand it either. But they always end up playing it anyway because someone requests it. I have heard it more times than any human should have to endure.

And the band I'm in, our new vocalist, who is awesome, said, we should do wagon wheel. I said hell to the no on that one and he laughed. Then he said, okay, only if someone requests it. I replied, you know someone will, they always do. So we have an agreement not to do it unless it's requested.

 

[foolforthecity]

Empties the room of musicians, perhaps. But our totally un-hip crowd still gets up for it.

That’s the ugly bottom line. We escaped without playing it tonight

 

[Stumbo]

“Too Many Dudes On The Dance floor”

Sausagefest.

 

[Volker Kirstein]

It's when the band has a case of "MSS" or "Mustang Sally Syndrome", the song that usually empties a room.

Funny. My experience is the complete opposite, with Mustang Sally bringing 'em to the floor singing and dancing; it often gets requested. Audiences love to shout along... "Ride, Sally, Ride!"

 

[2tonic]

"Room service"! ​

 

[Rugmaster]

My friends ex boyfriend had a short lived punk band and every single show they played was like that.

 

[Kmonk]

The word that is "debandsux"

 

[Zooberwerx]

When marketing new venues, we refer to it as "a strong following".

Riis

 

[dbsfgyd1]

when there are more people in the band than in the audience?

If not, there should be.

Please share or make up a word for it.

Fans dressed up like empty seats....

 

[pie_man_25]

The word that is "debandsux"

If I recall it's a Dutch word, derived from the gallo-germanic "diebandsuxe", which was some kind of earthenware casserole dish.

 

[Humbled]

Let me tell you a story about an empty room... Mid-1980s, Nashville, Printer's Alley, Skull's Rainbow Room.

It was about midnight on a weeknight, "The Jimmy Snyder Band" is playing. My wife and I are sitting at a table right at the stage. The band (they were more-or-less the "house band" at Skull's at the time) ...they are soooo very very good.

There are exactly two other occupied tables, the bar-stools are 1/4 full. We're about to call it a night when the front door opens and a boisterous crowd of about ten walks in. Amongst that "party-on-the-move" is Johnny Rodriguez and George Strait. No pain is being felt. We stay. Mr. Rodriguez ends up being talked into doing a couple songs, then George Strait gets up and sings "Fireman" and "Amarillo by Morning". If I'd have stretched my leg out I'd have kicked Mr. Strait in the knee. That was a memorable performance.

 

[Das Jugghead]

Vacant

Vacuous

Spacious

Two words: Ghost Town

 

[JeezyMcNuggles]

when there are more people in the band than in the audience?

If not, there should be.

Please share or make up a word for it.

Bosstones first few shows

 

[Wesley R]

Absolutely cool!

Let me tell you a story about an empty room... Mid-1980s, Nashville, Printer's Alley, Skull's Rainbow Room.

It was about midnight on a weeknight, "The Jimmy Snyder Band" is playing. My wife and I are sitting at a table right at the stage. The band (they were more-or-less the "house band" at Skull's at the time) ...they are soooo very very good.

There are exactly two other occupied tables, the bar-stools are 1/4 full. We're about to call it a night when the front door opens and a boisterous crowd of about ten walks in. Amongst that "party-on-the-move" is Johnny Rodriguez and George Strait. No pain is being felt. We stay. Mr. Rodriguez ends up being talked into doing a couple songs, then George Strait gets up and sings "Fireman" and "Amarillo by Morning". If I'd have stretched my leg out I'd have kicked Mr. Strait in the knee. That was a memorable performance.


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[baileyboy]

when there are more people in the band than in the audience?

a "dive".

 

[Mike Whitfield]

I’ll be that guy.

Failure.

Meh. Success is just a string of failures on a more or less upward trajectory. Those musicians who don’t experience this, creations of Disney or other MUNCs or just ultra lucky, are the ones who crash and burn when their career takes an otherwise normal dip.