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#158,522
Hummergeist said:
I don't gig with bass, so I can just be comfy in studio. I play live electronic music and these days I opt for total anonymity so the music and VJ can do the heavy lifting, I sit in the dark and do my thing. However...I used to do my own visuals and wear a mask, and aluminium helmet with lights on it, that was fun.
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#158,528
FlyingPigSound said:
IMHO it's totally ok to wear shorts at an informal deck jam, or maybe if you're playing in a Jimmy Buffett / tropical rock group? I'm not a fan of wearing shorts for the guys up front...drummers get a little more slack as they're sitting down and you really can't see? Nobody wants to see my dad legs! Yikes.
What is it they say? Dress for the job you want? (see Batman meme online) Your look onstage says alot about the group and it's professionalism. I was in an acoustic Beatles group years ago, and when we started, we wore all kinds of random casual things....jeans, shorts, t-shirts, whatever. We never had a "look," and on stage it looked sloppy and unprofessional. For one gig, we made the decision to dress up...black dress pants, black dress shoes, white dress shirt, and black skinny tie...think early Beatles recording Please Please Me at Abbey Road. It was a transformational gig for the band. We looked good. We looked like a group. People who had seen us before commented on how good we looked...and stated it was the best we sounded. Did we sound better? I think we did...what's that saying? Look good, feel good? I felt more professional and upped my game on stage.
I don't think this translates to every genre of music, of course. But take a look at Dave Grohl...he more or less has a "uniform" we wears, and it's not cargo shorts and flip-flops. (you don't see any music stands with three-ring binders or iPads on stage with them either...but I digress, that's another pet peeve)
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PillO said:
Some of us still kind of miss hair metal...
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Larry V said:
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I'm solidly in that group... just not the look. Spandex and Aquanet had its day.
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I miss "SOME" of the hair metal but when I listen to Hair Nation on XM, I change the channel a good bit. Some of that stuff did not age well at all, as it is with most genre's of music IMO. Not everything can be a classic. I lived the big hair 80's and dressed in the typical rocker fashions, but not spandex. I see no need for the Aquanet/Spandex to return but if someone else want's to wear it, go for it.
 
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There's no fashion in most rock anymore - it's no surprise to me that most of it is thus forgettable. Give me Nikki Sixx, Pete Way and his Stripes or perhaps Overend Watts with his glammy boots and white Thunderbird - Please. :D
 
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