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Would you pay to see this on stage"?
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They're called Band Geek. And they do it in a basement.
Sometimes they do it live too!
But wherever they are, THEY DO IT WELL!!!
JFGI, if you have no idea what I'm talking about...
Sometimes they do it live too!
But wherever they are, THEY DO IT WELL!!!
JFGI, if you have no idea what I'm talking about...
Do we get to vote band members out of the booth, mid-song?
buldog5151bass
Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
First of all, you aren't paying for YouTube. I've only seen Tiny Desk, but those players are still putting on a concert, not just sitting around a practice room.
Might appeal to those wishing to be in a band who primarily live on the web, dread F2F contact, and conduct their entire lives through the filters of FB, Twitter, and Instagram, and email.
But I think the fundamental flaw is thinking there'd be any point to taking something like that on stage. Seriously, what's the point? Why not just stream from your studio and be done with it? (I've paid to watch a few streaming shows and thought it was enjoyable and worth the money.) I don't need to go out or pay money to find a monitor to watch something on.
As a concept it isn't even that radical. Pink Floyd did it with The Wall. But they combined it with a concept and multimedia extravaganza that made it make sense. They didn't just hide behind a wall.
And if you want something truly ahead if it's time, back in 2006 Suzanne Vega did a live performance in the completely virtual world of Second Life which was inspired by the descriptions of the "Metaverse" in Neal Stephenson's book Snow Crash.
There was even an interesting real life moment in Ms. Vega's performance when her avatar had technical issues getting her own guitar to appear - and an audience member loaned her theirs.
This was supposed to herald the start of an entirely new age in music performance. But the novelty of it (and to a large degree that of Second Life itself) began to wane a couple of years after that.
Here's a clip:
But I think the fundamental flaw is thinking there'd be any point to taking something like that on stage. Seriously, what's the point? Why not just stream from your studio and be done with it? (I've paid to watch a few streaming shows and thought it was enjoyable and worth the money.) I don't need to go out or pay money to find a monitor to watch something on.
As a concept it isn't even that radical. Pink Floyd did it with The Wall. But they combined it with a concept and multimedia extravaganza that made it make sense. They didn't just hide behind a wall.
And if you want something truly ahead if it's time, back in 2006 Suzanne Vega did a live performance in the completely virtual world of Second Life which was inspired by the descriptions of the "Metaverse" in Neal Stephenson's book Snow Crash.
There was even an interesting real life moment in Ms. Vega's performance when her avatar had technical issues getting her own guitar to appear - and an audience member loaned her theirs.
This was supposed to herald the start of an entirely new age in music performance. But the novelty of it (and to a large degree that of Second Life itself) began to wane a couple of years after that.
Here's a clip:
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Yes indeed. The videos from their live studio audience "We Like it Here" album were brilliant.
As are their Family Dinner live audience performances.
Michael League is one guy who truly gets it.
This question has created the most visceral response I've ever had on Talkbass. In no way do I mean what I'm about to say as disrespect to your question, purely as a question it's an interesting one. So, with that being said...
In my opinion it's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. I would never, ever go to an event set up in this fashion, nor do I know of anyone in my circle who would. Not only that, I would not watch it after the fact, or have anything to do with this so called "band".
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If you claim to have earned degrees in college writing like that you can't not be trolling. No disrespect there either, that's just pretty blatantly clear. IMO, of courseeveryone's always been saying that since i started and in not that other accouoat all. everyone's saying i have such atrocious vocabulary and sentences or whatever, and wjere i live . im in los angeles area. 38 i speak and write english since kindergarten and graduation upto degrees in college but never got the math too much, or electronics. i have fascination with bass amps. partly because i remember my dad buying me my first bass amp in a dark little low ceiling room and with a sliding glass door into the rest of the store, but i want to play the way im most comfortable and important to me is that i play with various amps in those kind of spaces and prefer the way they spund in what we could call their natural habitats (dens in this case, not withstanding "the wild"). there is a pantea album that is the only recording that sounds close enough to being in a real rehearsal studio lockout type hall with all the 6-8 heavy bands cranking behind their doors, and those players behind them are having secret success, interacting with their gear amd mental attitude in their, and a our im the said about normal setting of being there is a walled off way, that it's a feeling that isn't experienced by many more than only the ones in those halls, at those times.. and it kind of could be micd up and lots lotta people "see" it
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I think in the BEST of circumstances were this was done as performance art as part of a project, it would be hard to digest. For a hard rock show? No.
As mentioned previously, setting up the stage like a jam space or simulated apartment, kind of cool, but no way should the band be isolated and cut off from the crowd. Doesn't that go against the very definition of live? I'd hate that, even if the music was good.
As mentioned previously, setting up the stage like a jam space or simulated apartment, kind of cool, but no way should the band be isolated and cut off from the crowd. Doesn't that go against the very definition of live? I'd hate that, even if the music was good.
everyone's always been saying that since i started and in not that other accouoat all. everyone's saying i have such atrocious vocabulary and sentences or whatever, and wjere i live . im in los angeles area. 38 i speak and write english since kindergarten and graduation upto degrees in college but never got the math too much, or electronics. i have fascination with bass amps. partly because i remember my dad buying me my first bass amp in a dark little low ceiling room and with a sliding glass door into the rest of the store, but i want to play the way im most comfortable and important to me is that i play with various amps in those kind of spaces and prefer the way they spund in what we could call their natural habitats (dens in this case, not withstanding "the wild"). there is a pantea album that is the only recording that sounds close enough to being in a real rehearsal studio lockout type hall with all the 6-8 heavy bands cranking behind their doors, and those players behind them are having secret success, interacting with their gear amd mental attitude in their, and a our im the said about normal setting of being there is a walled off way, that it's a feeling that isn't experienced by many more than only the ones in those halls, at those times.. and it kind of could be micd up and lots lotta people "see" it
OK, now I think I know where this came from:
Can some tell me what the sam hill this is about?
My reaction exactly. If you'd pay a lot to see Pink Floyd and one wall (many people gladly did that), these guys have added 3 more walls and a ceiling. Is that worth more?
