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What are your go-to stage moves?
- Thread starter Dr. PhunkyPants
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i havent seen a video of myself performing in awhile.. but ive been told that i point to the roof/sky alot.. usually during a changeover between verse/chorus/bridge/etc... so umm yeah.
cheezewiz said:Pre planning stage moves? This certainly is getting to be a Brittany Spears world
yeah, Britney would be a lot less cheesy and lame if she stood motionless and did the 'turkey nod' throughout her entire show
I find myself unconsciously doing the Danny Partridge bounce. Watch reruns of the Partridge Family and you'll see what I mean. I don;t mean to do it, it just sort of happens.
which usually goes with the notes
I've been accused of doing a Steve Harris, and I'm like no, no, it's a Tremonti! Left foot on the monitor, lean back in a metal stance and just rock out. Can head bang from that position too.Bad_Habit_Bassist said:
A good bass solo with a whammy bar isn't complete without going Zakk Wylde face to face with the amp to feedback like a mofo.
Other than that I just headbang and groove.
I do some moves, nothing crazy though. Pretty much whatever the music I'm playing makes me feel like doing. Sometimes I will jump up and down lots (always in time with the music). If the crowd are doing it, I will do it even when i don't feel like it. I walk around the stage a bit and talk to the other muso's. Sometimes, if the stage is big enough I will run around. I make bass faces at people in the crowd. If I'm playing something I really like, I start to move my whole upper body and head back and forth and side to side with the music and I start playing the bass so it's on the side of my body, not in front of me. Something like Flea and Tony Kanal do. Or i will do that while walking around the stage, so it kinda looks like I've got this grooving/stalking/menacing walk thing going on. I like to think it looks cool. If I'm playing at church and getting carried away worshipping, I will just sort of sway with the slow songs, and play with me eyes shut so I can focus on God.
Occasionally I will get down on my knees, lean right back, and finish songs with my eyes closed like an 80's try-hard-rock-start guitarist. I also like standing on my rig and playing. I can feel all the notes that way. One of my favourites is what I like to call "Happy Gilmore bass". I basically put the bass in front of my crotch, and make it stick straight out (slightly inclined of course) and start doing the happy gilmore thrusts while I'm playing. I love doing that one. Don't get to do it much at church though.
I probably look like a tool when i do these things, but people like watching it, and I like doing it.
Occasionally I will get down on my knees, lean right back, and finish songs with my eyes closed like an 80's try-hard-rock-start guitarist. I also like standing on my rig and playing. I can feel all the notes that way. One of my favourites is what I like to call "Happy Gilmore bass". I basically put the bass in front of my crotch, and make it stick straight out (slightly inclined of course) and start doing the happy gilmore thrusts while I'm playing. I love doing that one. Don't get to do it much at church though.
I probably look like a tool when i do these things, but people like watching it, and I like doing it.
I do quite a lot of different moves. Cause i play punk, sometime during the bridge, I would do the Tim Armstrong spining move. And of course, punk rock can't be without spining kick, and jumping off your amp!!!
I tend to wander about - just to see how the other guys are doing during some of our 'longer' tunes - but my head just bobs to the beat without me even thinking...it's just a feaking habit of mine that I have almost no control over... 
One thing I have noticed is that since I switched from playing mainly rock to jazzy funk - I now find myself NOT doing any 'special moves' on stage (*NB see the film <b>'Napoleon Dynamite'</b> for a true definition of <u>special moves</u>), as I'm playing a more mature type of music. Rock allows you to get away with, and almost be obliged to attempt, some kind of posing - most of it pretty dumb - but admittedly fun. I've done my share of jumping around, splayed legged stances, head banging, and running around like Iron Maiden - this is all just a bit silly now that I'm 32 - I like playing the right notes, in time, now.
Mx
One thing I have noticed is that since I switched from playing mainly rock to jazzy funk - I now find myself NOT doing any 'special moves' on stage (*NB see the film <b>'Napoleon Dynamite'</b> for a true definition of <u>special moves</u>), as I'm playing a more mature type of music. Rock allows you to get away with, and almost be obliged to attempt, some kind of posing - most of it pretty dumb - but admittedly fun. I've done my share of jumping around, splayed legged stances, head banging, and running around like Iron Maiden - this is all just a bit silly now that I'm 32 - I like playing the right notes, in time, now.
Mx
i used to have a "hardcore" band where i did really great moves.... from spinning backwards like the guy from meshuggah, and running all over the place to.... accidentally hitting the head of the singer with my moses neck, and after that i accidentaly crashed my moses neck with the neck of our lead guitarist(he was doing his stage moves and i was too close, it was his fault thought ....) i broke 2 of his strings and a little piece of wood from the back of his headstock, in the middle of a song, but that's not all, in the same gig i was doing some stuff, and suddenly a little amplifier gets in the middle and i fell to the ground.... but i'm enough rock star to keep playing on the floor.....
as you have seen... i get possesed by strange forces!!
as you have seen... i get possesed by strange forces!!
