Prefer stage left, better connection with drummer (IMO) and don't want anyone near the neck of my bass when I play cuz I moove when I groove.
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Stage-left or stage-right? What is your preference?
- Thread starter nellie48
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- Mar 1, 2005
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Couldn't have said it better. So I won't.
Once upon a time, some 20+ years ago, I was the "stage center" guy in a rock band, with a guitarist on both sides. I turned around quickly and took out one guitarist with a shot to the head from my bass. Hit him hard, he dropped to the ground (but wasn't knocked out, even though he probably deserved it). Amazing how heavy the headstock is on a P bass sporting a fathead and a Hipshot drop-D tuner!
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Either side as long as I'm next to the drummer.
Then you can destroy your hearing equally in both ears from the cymbals!
Then you can destroy your hearing equally in both ears from the cymbals!
I'd prefer stage left, not for any particular reason I guess, I've just had better experiences any time I've played stage left versus stage right. I mean I've worked with a guitarist who wants stage left simply because Jimmy Page stands stage left. But I could always come back with the fact that Geddy Lee plays stage left 
Center stage. Always has been like that. But then I'm the lead singer, and it looks really awkward to have the lead singer on the side of the stage. And I need to hear the drummer, not see him.
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Stage-whatever-happens-to-be-better
That's because our guitarist operates our playback machine which is always on that side of the stage where the stage breakout box is and I'm on the opposite side. I listen to kick and snare and there are wedges anyway if I need more drums.
Well, I don't care as long as I'm not too far from the drummer!
both.
I move too much, I really mean both. as in doing semicircles back and forth around the drummer.
unless he complains- I usually move in time so it helps most of em out after 15 min of wondering what's wrong with me.
I move too much, I really mean both. as in doing semicircles back and forth around the drummer.
unless he complains- I usually move in time so it helps most of em out after 15 min of wondering what's wrong with me.
Center Stage! I play in a four piece rock band. Somehow I ended up in the middle. The drummer is behind me and just to my right. The guitar player to my left and the multi-instrumental/percussionist is to my right. I sing lead on about a third of the songs and backup on the others so I need to be up front anyway.
Right next to the drummer, in between where ever he places our pitcher of beer. LOL, usually on his right away from the hi-hat, which is usually stage left, rigth of drummer.
I don't care. In my opinion, if you have to be right next to the drummer to hear him/her, then your general stage balance is way off. And I lock in with the drums by listening, not looking.
Normally at smaller venues I try to be away from the side of the stage the drunks stagger past so I don't have to suffer them trying to speak to me between (or during!) songs.
Normally at smaller venues I try to be away from the side of the stage the drunks stagger past so I don't have to suffer them trying to speak to me between (or during!) songs.
Our drummer is downstage left. I'm stage left by the drummer's floor tom which I prefer.
All our backline is upstage center where most drummers reside.
All our backline is upstage center where most drummers reside.
wouldn't asking for the stage plot be more specific?
I play stage left in a very unconventional stage plot...so just saying I'm stage left is irrelevant.
I play stage left in a very unconventional stage plot...so just saying I'm stage left is irrelevant.
Wanted stage left because that is the way the neck points.../ but our rehearsal space (guitarist's garage) it us easier for me to load in my gear and practice stage right, so that is the way we go all the time now. Now I am used to it...
