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Stage presence: finally someone gets it
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Wow, a 10 minute bass solo! If I ever got that full of myself I would hope that somebody would shoot me about two minutes in and put the audience out of their misery!
I got some great compliments on our performances last night from a dude in one of our buddy bands. Told him to be brutally honest. He loves the music and thinks we play consistently well show to show, but he also said me and my guitarist stand pretty rigid and intense like we're trying not to eff up. I told him he was right. 
My singer is plenty animated. He can have all the attention as far as I care.
My singer is plenty animated. He can have all the attention as far as I care.
I saw a 15 second clip of that on the @rigsofdad Instagram the other day. Couldn't believe what I was watching then, seeing the full performance clip is even harder to wrap my head around. Just... wow.
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Hey, my favorite band! Great guys, too...their singer and I spent an afternoon together when he and his wife came to Miami, and their banjo player now owns my Team Awesome Fuzz Machine. But this is their best song if you ask me:
That's a lot of bottom end going on. Anyway, it's important to entertain visually as it is musically. Kiss certainly knows this, just ask Gene, he'll gladly tell you. lol However some places you're basically shoehorned in on stage as well, which doesn't give much room for movement. Big stages are much better. Outdoor events are always the best as you usually have lots of room to move around.
Let's not forget the metal stuff. Most energy I'd seen on a small stage(Houston's Warehouse LIVE venue) since seeing Styx at The Warehouse in New Orleans when they first came out......
Well--even backwards it makes no sense...
Well he's on a stage filled by the bandleader and a bunch of women--he wouldn't be noticed otherwise.
The video is backwards, but the song is forward. And it makes plenty of sense...Indrek is listing off a bunch of practical jokes he's going to do to his neighbors, like fill their car trunk with herring, feed their chickens gypsum, and pour cat urine on their doorstep, then he screams "Wreck and burn!" Of course you wouldn't know that unless you spoke Võro, an offshoot dialect of Estonian spoken by South Estonians.
Certainly the song is not backward--although not speaking any Estonian languages or dialects--I may not know that.The video is backwards, but the song is forward. And it makes plenty of sense...Indrek is listing off a bunch of practical jokes he's going to do to his neighbors, like fill their car trunk with herring, feed their chickens gypsum, and pour cat urine on their doorstep, then he screams "Wreck and burn!" Of course you wouldn't know that unless you spoke Võro, an offshoot dialect of Estonian spoken by South Estonians.
But the sound wasn't backwards--the video being in reverse makes as much sense as anything else...
Sounds like a fun guy to hang out with
LOL! Yeah, their videos are often pretty confusing. One of their guitarists is a big TV/movie director in Estonia and he does all their vids. Check out the one for "Peegelporand" as well, and read the English translation of the lyrics
I had a good time. Very nice guy and very unaffected by his sudden worldwide fame when that first vid from Eurovision came out.
Yup. That's what I was referring to. Unfortunately it's not rare for guitar players and bass players to use the minor pentatonic elements of the blues scale in places where it doesn't fit.
Back to Jackie Gleason dancing bass player contest.
