With a name like Estes Park, I'm assuming they're all white suburban kids trying to be black.
I think the same thing to, but it's either "gangsters" or Cowboys up here.
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What's your local music scene like?
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I think the same thing to, but it's either "gangsters" or Cowboys up here.
Lou, KY
There are plenty of musicians, venues, and also wannabe musicians. It's not tough to get a gig, but the pay won't often be satisfactory. Style-wise, there's a surplus of classic rock cover bands, modern rock, pop rock, butt rock, country, Christian preachy, acoustic singer-songwriter (folk), punk, various metal, and hip-hop acts. I've also seen some great jazz, flamenco, indie rock, blues, bluegrass, bands but not a surplus for those as far as I can tell. Judging by craigslist, lots of people are looking to form grindcore, hardcore, mathcore, screamo type bands, but I'm not sure yet where these guys gig.
Flakey, unreliable musicians seem to be exceptionally concentrated here. I'm sure Lou is not unique in that sense.
I wouldn't want to make play music here as an only source of income, but some people can pull it off particularly cover bands who can land the corporate/wedding/country club/casino gigs steady enough. Party and club gigs during the Kentucky Derby festivities in late April & early May are lucrative.
Karaoke and DJs have made their mark here too like in other place, but numerous venues have separate rooms for that stuff or alternate between DJ and live bands night to night.
Bigger touring acts (recent examples...Rush, The Eagles, Lady GooGoo, The Flaming Lips) are starting to come through here more often now since the new Kentucky Fried Chicken arena (err..KFC Center...whatever it's called) was built downtown and the annual Forcastle Festival has expanded. There's also an awesome annual festival with some of the best Beatles cover bands from around the world: Abbey Road on The River.
I've seen some well known bands at Headliner's Music Hall: Dinosaur Jr, The Misfits, Guided By Voices to name a few.
I can't complain, but sometimes I still do...
There are plenty of musicians, venues, and also wannabe musicians. It's not tough to get a gig, but the pay won't often be satisfactory. Style-wise, there's a surplus of classic rock cover bands, modern rock, pop rock, butt rock, country, Christian preachy, acoustic singer-songwriter (folk), punk, various metal, and hip-hop acts. I've also seen some great jazz, flamenco, indie rock, blues, bluegrass, bands but not a surplus for those as far as I can tell. Judging by craigslist, lots of people are looking to form grindcore, hardcore, mathcore, screamo type bands, but I'm not sure yet where these guys gig.
Flakey, unreliable musicians seem to be exceptionally concentrated here. I'm sure Lou is not unique in that sense.
I wouldn't want to make play music here as an only source of income, but some people can pull it off particularly cover bands who can land the corporate/wedding/country club/casino gigs steady enough. Party and club gigs during the Kentucky Derby festivities in late April & early May are lucrative.
Karaoke and DJs have made their mark here too like in other place, but numerous venues have separate rooms for that stuff or alternate between DJ and live bands night to night.
Bigger touring acts (recent examples...Rush, The Eagles, Lady GooGoo, The Flaming Lips) are starting to come through here more often now since the new Kentucky Fried Chicken arena (err..KFC Center...whatever it's called) was built downtown and the annual Forcastle Festival has expanded. There's also an awesome annual festival with some of the best Beatles cover bands from around the world: Abbey Road on The River.
I've seen some well known bands at Headliner's Music Hall: Dinosaur Jr, The Misfits, Guided By Voices to name a few.
I can't complain, but sometimes I still do...
Here is mostly Emo/Scremo hardcore highschool kids bands
some metal, punk and pop clone bands
some cover and folk-regional style bands
I think that the 5% of the bands are worthly (Like 2 or 3 bands of 50)
Mostly act so unprofessional
But oh well at least there's a scene here...
some metal, punk and pop clone bands
some cover and folk-regional style bands
I think that the 5% of the bands are worthly (Like 2 or 3 bands of 50)
Mostly act so unprofessional
But oh well at least there's a scene here...
In Edmonton, Canada it's really thriving........ for me at least. Mostly because of a program in Alberta called U22 which mentors and helps get gigs for people under the of 22. I'm still in high school and I usually have at least 3 gigs a week. But some of them are really low key like coffee shops and bookstores, but there gigs. They get me solo gigs and gigs with other artists. We also have a great all ages jazz club here, the yardbird suite which brings in some awesome talent and every Tuesday there's an open jam. They've been really supportive of me at the yardbird even though I'm not out of high school. And next year the music college is getting a degree program so it's only gonna get better!
...with cool original material played by good musicians who are technically outstanding.
Electronica/indie, folk, post-grunge/dude rock (Hinder, Three Days Grace, etc.), and country. I am counting down the hours until I graduate and can leave.
San Antonio's a metal town. That's where Pantera came from. Houston likes their metal, too.
Cherie
An excellent idea! What we do is mic the drums and the amps, then set the vocal volume. Our singer is not a strong singer, and he doesn't hear very well (is also lead guitarist), so we give him a lot of monitor. We set the volume of the mic'd instruments to be just under his vocal volume in the mains. (Helps if you have a fellow musician or someone who knows the band well and have them go out front and listen.) Then, since the drummer and I both hear just fine, we take it on ourselves to apply good dynamics, and listen carefully.
Its a process that takes practice, just as the music does, but well worth it. Best luck to you!!!
Cherie
Rock has gotten boring, and sounding more like The Jonas Brothers, and those boy bands. Creativity is gone. However, the bands that experiment with their music tend to have a more dedicated fan base. Or at least that is what I think.
It also depends on location. If you live in a small town mainly defined from any genre, like Rap, and you're playing another genre, like Metal, you won't have much of a turn out.
If you enjoy playing Metal or any other genre for that matter you should just play and try to look to other towns. Like for me, Boulder is a really good hotspot for a variety of genres and since its a College Town you have a large amount of people with different tastes.
I guess for us Musicians we need to experiment more, create our own sound, and our own Genre. That's what made Rock N' Roll popular in the first place.
So keep rocking!
Ayup...if your town won't support your preferred genre, you go to the outlying areas, and any reasonably nearby college town, and see if they dig ya. There are plenty of punk, metal, and hardcore bands in the Austin area who play out of town more than they do in town.
There is an awful lot of good rock out there...that nobody hears. Radio won't play it, not even here in The Live Music Capitol Of The World, until late at night, for the most part. If I want to hear the local rock and blues-rock I love, on the radio, I have to stay up late, as they don't start playing it until 10:30 or so.
Check out radio programs like Little Steven's Garage, and see if you can pick up KLBJ-FM's "Local Licks", with Loris Lowe, online. Also, check out independent labels like Yep Doc Records. They'll give you hope! Rock's not dead...it just had to change its address.
Cherie
I'm from Baltimore. We have two major scenes: Crappy metal made by High schoolers (not knocking high schoolers, as I am one but...), or Crappy Pop Punk made by High Schoolers,. Now this one was alright a few years ago, when it was like Blink 182-esque skate punk, and melodic punk. Then emo came, and started to die rather quickly...then All Time Low got national exposure and MTV airplay. Now all we've got other then the aforementioned crappy metal, is the aforementioned crappy pop punk. Oh, and Scene/pop punk, are showing no signs of weakness. If my latest project doesn't get off the ground, I'm gonna try to look for a band in DC, Philly, or Virginia, where it isn't as bad. From what I've seen here, Northern VA is on its way back up.
Exactly! If the hometown can't give you what you need, cast around. 50 miles can change many things. Good luck!
Cherie
Music is the whole reason I live in NYC. What kind of scene are you looking for? Reggae, Afrobeat, bebop, hot jazz, Vaudeville, noise rock, metal, electro, new wave, R&B, hip hop, jungle, dnb, folk, country, and on and on and on. Whatever it is there are venues for it and there's a scene. And NOWHERE on the planet is better for jazz, period.
And my local scene in Greenpoint, Brooklyn covers a huge range in and of itself. Plus I can see world class acts seven nights a week...and free concerts all summer long!
It's cutthroat competitive and that really raises the bar on what it means to be "proficient" on one's instrument. But if you can make it here...
And my local scene in Greenpoint, Brooklyn covers a huge range in and of itself. Plus I can see world class acts seven nights a week...and free concerts all summer long!
It's cutthroat competitive and that really raises the bar on what it means to be "proficient" on one's instrument. But if you can make it here...
San Antonio is a metal town.
Pantera came from a place called Pantego, close to Arlington, TX.
The Atlanta scene is pretty much dead.... There are a couple of new bands worth checking out, one is "Son of a Gun".... kinda southern classic rock but they are good....
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(Portland, OR) There are so many styles here. There is a pretty interesting indie/alternative scene here and some really cool bands. There are however, even more really bad awful bands who take up a lot of space and play a lot of shows pretty much every day of the week. That kind of makes it difficult to play a show with 3 or 4 good bands if you are new to the music scene.
There are venues for all kinds of music. You just have to know where to look. I prefer the Ash st saloon or Plan B for the type of music that I play.
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I guess I should add that there is no $ here unless you have a following of 100 or more.
There are venues for all kinds of music. You just have to know where to look. I prefer the Ash st saloon or Plan B for the type of music that I play.
EDIT:
I guess I should add that there is no $ here unless you have a following of 100 or more.
Pretty good I think at least in Columbus. Lots of music bars, not to mention OSU's student body is massive so a lot of different styles.
Really? I've always thought of them as an S.A. band. I guess they just played there a whole lot.
Cherie
kansas city...seems it's mostly cover bands and radio-friendly rock bands. occasional generic metal band too.
lawrence ks on the other hand is a lot more interesting in my opinion. only problem is all the good bands in lawrence end up moving to seattle eventually.
lawrence ks on the other hand is a lot more interesting in my opinion. only problem is all the good bands in lawrence end up moving to seattle eventually.
