That's funny cause here in England the most annoying thing is when bands fake american accents.
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The BIGGEST douche move onstage is...
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I think its secretly called "Band [Drama] Management" where we learn to manage our bands drama.
And yes, it does distract me from my work.
Your so right. So So right!
Even worse are the people trying to imitate Billy Joe's fake accent.
Slash doesn't care if you think he's a douche...
thats coz he's from t north(to be said in fake yorkshire accent or summint)
I have to agree, affecting a false English accent ABSOLUTELY ranks up there among the douchiest things anyone can do onstage. I've been witness to it personally.
Flash back to the 90's. I was checking out a lot of friends gigs at the time because I was single and had plenty of time to spare. One night I went into NYC with two friends to check out a band that one of them was friendly with. We thought we were running a little late, so after parking the car we ran across the street to get into the club. Someone outside the club actually yelled out the name of our band (in an English accent) which made us all do a double take. It was cool that someone recognized us (it was the mid 90's, so pre-internet), and it was outside a club we had played a few months prior.
And someone British was recognizing us? This was back in those delusional days when we thought seriously about "making it", and perhaps this was some English A&R person who had heard of us since after all, we HAD shipped off some of our 7" singles to friends in the UK.
We get into the club and check out the set. I actually liked what the band was doing. I was really digging how the bass and drums were locking together. The guitar player was doing some cool things that were a little atypical. And the singer seemed to have some charisma. When the first break between songs came he spoke with the audience. In an English accent.
At first I didn't think anything of it. It's New York. I worked for a British company at the time. I had friends in England.
And then he spoke some more between songs. And the accent was coming and going.
Mind you, in my capacity working for a British company, I was on the phone to people in London 20 or 30 times a day. I had become somewhat familiar with the various British accents. One guy spoke with the cockney accent. Another was from Birmingham. There was the Scottish guy. And the guy from Newcastle. Plus my friends from Liverpool. I knew some of the subtle differences in the accents, but couldn't place this guys accent.
Anyhow, the set wraps up and we're finally able to hang with the band. I generally liked what they were doing musically and let them know. And at one point I was hanging out with the guitar player. We were talking about what our band was up to, and what they were doing. Our singer, who knew these guys, was friendly with the guitarist, bassist and drummer, but the singer was something of an unknown even to him.
So I asked the guitarist "Where did you find this singer?"
He responded "Oh, David?"
"Yeah. How did you get hooked up with this English dude? Did you guys post an ad in The Voice?", referring to The Village Voice, which yielded much better results in Musician Wanted Classifieds back in the days before Craigslist, and local music papers were how you found other musicians.
His response? "England? He's not from England!"
Puzzled, I asked "Well, then where the hell is he from?"
The guitar players response? "Ridgefield Park, New Jersey".
The douche chill that crept up my spine was so disturbing that I had to excuse myself from the conversation.
Flash back to the 90's. I was checking out a lot of friends gigs at the time because I was single and had plenty of time to spare. One night I went into NYC with two friends to check out a band that one of them was friendly with. We thought we were running a little late, so after parking the car we ran across the street to get into the club. Someone outside the club actually yelled out the name of our band (in an English accent) which made us all do a double take. It was cool that someone recognized us (it was the mid 90's, so pre-internet), and it was outside a club we had played a few months prior.
And someone British was recognizing us? This was back in those delusional days when we thought seriously about "making it", and perhaps this was some English A&R person who had heard of us since after all, we HAD shipped off some of our 7" singles to friends in the UK.
We get into the club and check out the set. I actually liked what the band was doing. I was really digging how the bass and drums were locking together. The guitar player was doing some cool things that were a little atypical. And the singer seemed to have some charisma. When the first break between songs came he spoke with the audience. In an English accent.
At first I didn't think anything of it. It's New York. I worked for a British company at the time. I had friends in England.
And then he spoke some more between songs. And the accent was coming and going.
Mind you, in my capacity working for a British company, I was on the phone to people in London 20 or 30 times a day. I had become somewhat familiar with the various British accents. One guy spoke with the cockney accent. Another was from Birmingham. There was the Scottish guy. And the guy from Newcastle. Plus my friends from Liverpool. I knew some of the subtle differences in the accents, but couldn't place this guys accent.
Anyhow, the set wraps up and we're finally able to hang with the band. I generally liked what they were doing musically and let them know. And at one point I was hanging out with the guitar player. We were talking about what our band was up to, and what they were doing. Our singer, who knew these guys, was friendly with the guitarist, bassist and drummer, but the singer was something of an unknown even to him.
So I asked the guitarist "Where did you find this singer?"
He responded "Oh, David?"
"Yeah. How did you get hooked up with this English dude? Did you guys post an ad in The Voice?", referring to The Village Voice, which yielded much better results in Musician Wanted Classifieds back in the days before Craigslist, and local music papers were how you found other musicians.
His response? "England? He's not from England!"
Puzzled, I asked "Well, then where the hell is he from?"
The guitar players response? "Ridgefield Park, New Jersey".
The douche chill that crept up my spine was so disturbing that I had to excuse myself from the conversation.
+1 I love playing reggae but I would never sing with a fake Jamaican accent lol . I've heard many people do it
And it ruins he song everytime haha
Playing after bands who spit on stage is the absolute worst. I don't want to slip in it while getting my equipment on/off the stage and I sure as hell don't want somebody's spit all over my cables.
Big douche move IMO.
Big douche move IMO.
One time I went to a Sammy Hagar concert and he and his lead guitarist were trading licks, the lead guitarist smoked him, and Hagar hawked a logey 20 feet across the stage at him.
As an aside, maybe a moderator may wish to chime in;
I find it odd that in this largely adult (ahem) forum, potentially offensive language such as douchebag, douchebaggery and turdgobbler are permissible but you can't say sh¡t.
I find it odd that in this largely adult (ahem) forum, potentially offensive language such as douchebag, douchebaggery and turdgobbler are permissible but you can't say sh¡t.
Singers who let the expensive house mic drop like a stone and promptly exit after there 'killer' performance.
Talking in a fake american accent a'la Joss stone is a funny one as well.
I don't mind music stands at all or wearing whatever one wants-it may just go with the music played, the environment etc...
The ONE douche move I won't excuse is showing up un or under prepared.
Jeez, it's a joke thread. All those examples I listed in the OP as contenders of doucheness have been ridiculed here in the past. I forgot to include fanny packs, among others.
I didn't make them up, and I wasn't making a personal attack on anyone.
I was serious about the accent though. Used to see a band from VA and the singer would yap to the crowd with a fake English accent and say, "We're Atlantis and...," pronounced At-LAWN-tiss, before nearly every song.
You can't really go asking a mod to step in after breaking several rules yourself, a la: the S word and douche.
