Those people need pyrotechnics more than anyone else.
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Setting your bass on fire
- Thread starter AaronVonRock
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Those people need pyrotechnics more than anyone else.
at the risk of sounding like a dick...OP, you're an idiot...(also I'm ok with sounding like a dick)
I hear ya. I'm not going to set fire to my bass every song. It would be once near the end of our set which would be 15 seconds out of 30 minutes. But now I'm leaning more towards the drummer setting his cymbals on fire, so everyone can settle down.
Somewhere there's a drum forum with a thread asking how to set cymbals on fire, with drummers in church and cover bands reacting very similarly.
...and a lonely performance arts forum with fire eating, sword swallowing, trash can diving, people suspended by chains to hooks in their backs just waiting to help out.
I was just wondering, I don't know if anyone in my old band would want their stuff set on fire?!
And we played Kerosene by Big Black(?)
"Set me on fire kerosene"
Nobody would like this.
Why not? Attaining ignition every song would be EXTREMELY unique in my estimation. After a while, fans would come to anticipate it
and maybe even join in the shenanigans with a bit of the ol' self-imolition.
Granted, you don't want to lose momentum between songs -- so firing up every three songs or so might be more prudent.
Just make sure the FLAMES ARE LARGE and the CLUB EXITS BLOCKED.
I would dress up and try to do it exactly like Jimi.
Nobody would like this.
Nobody would like this.
No more ridiculous than most of the topics in the setup, strings, and pickups forums.
*shakes head*
What did that add to the music that didn't sound great to begin with?
Mastering fire - and in fact all the elements -- is a highly dangerous but inescapable rung in the ladder
of attaining the status of High Magus, as is of course required by all Illuminati- anointed pop stars.
No result is ever guaranteed.
of attaining the status of High Magus, as is of course required by all Illuminati- anointed pop stars.
No result is ever guaranteed.
The singer from Brutal Juice briefly lights his head on fire at the 0:50 mark of this clip. It's not at the level of Michael Jackson but MJ had the advantage and flammability of the Jheri curl.
If I was a bouncer at that club, I'd throw him out as soon as I saw fire... I would advise against this.
Used to do a bit of stage magic. Flash paper and a concealed launcher isn't tough to rig up, and shooting fireballs is probably more impressive than just lighting a bass on fire. I could put one on the back of my headstock, easily. Except after that Whitesnake thing, any sort of pyrotechnics is really, really frowned upon in most venues without a ton of expensive licenses and insurance and fire marshall approval, etc.
