Does anyone do these? For a few years I used to play with just a drummer, and a microphone.
The main problem we had was too many amature "MC"s. We played mostly instrumentals, I sing on maybe 1 in 5 tracks. And we would have good hip hop artists(from established local groups ) freestyle as guests on a few songs. And on lucky nights a guest instrumentalist or 2 to fill out the sound. We played 5 nights a week for a while, it caught on eventually. The best part of a two piece band is the worst part of a 12, $$$.
The problem was, once some one did their thing on the mic, people thought it was open mic or something, and after that it sonetimes became impossible to police.
It's hard enough keeping a crowd interested in a two piece semi-improvisational groove dance band, but add a moron spitting "my name is ------and I came to----" forget it.
I'm going back to a similar, stripped down 2-3 piece sansguitar/lead singer group, and I'm wondering, what do people do to keep kooks off the microphone? Oh, sometimes the kook is a friend you don't want to offend.
Second question, what if I dump the drummer too and use a looper and Ableton live? That seems like an insane amount of pressure, but acoustic guitar people do it. I was thinking throw in some jazz standards, a few beatles as instrumentals, a sung song like creep by radio head somewhere... idk, my guitar player was killed and I can't bring myself to replace him.
I heard some really cool experimental music a member hipped me to.
Any bassists here play full on solo shows? What is the format like? Response? Tips?
One thing I learned from the 2 piece, and playing acoustic guitar, play LOUD, or people start having conversations, I suppose if you're hired to provide background music that's ok.
The main problem we had was too many amature "MC"s. We played mostly instrumentals, I sing on maybe 1 in 5 tracks. And we would have good hip hop artists(from established local groups ) freestyle as guests on a few songs. And on lucky nights a guest instrumentalist or 2 to fill out the sound. We played 5 nights a week for a while, it caught on eventually. The best part of a two piece band is the worst part of a 12, $$$.
The problem was, once some one did their thing on the mic, people thought it was open mic or something, and after that it sonetimes became impossible to police.
It's hard enough keeping a crowd interested in a two piece semi-improvisational groove dance band, but add a moron spitting "my name is ------and I came to----" forget it.
I'm going back to a similar, stripped down 2-3 piece sansguitar/lead singer group, and I'm wondering, what do people do to keep kooks off the microphone? Oh, sometimes the kook is a friend you don't want to offend.
Second question, what if I dump the drummer too and use a looper and Ableton live? That seems like an insane amount of pressure, but acoustic guitar people do it. I was thinking throw in some jazz standards, a few beatles as instrumentals, a sung song like creep by radio head somewhere... idk, my guitar player was killed and I can't bring myself to replace him.
I heard some really cool experimental music a member hipped me to.
Any bassists here play full on solo shows? What is the format like? Response? Tips?
One thing I learned from the 2 piece, and playing acoustic guitar, play LOUD, or people start having conversations, I suppose if you're hired to provide background music that's ok.
