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Your Look On Stage
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chewing gum? sorry, but i see people chewing gum onstage and i wonder if they realize they're onstage. our keyboard player used to chew gum onstage all open mouthed and he'd smack gum in his mic with his mouth all wide open and irritate the crap out of me. gross. i used to beg him not to do it and he'd still do it. finally he quit chewing gum altogether a month ago...sweet relief!
when i bandlead (i don't in that band), i always make gum chewers spit it out. very unprofessional and distracting imho.
^^^^ I hate gum too Jimmy, but recently I bought DVD of Level 42, and Mark King chewed gum all the way through the video....go to wo. I'm guessing it was nicotene chewy or some stress relief type gum. Any way, if Mark can do it, it can't be THAT bad? Can it?
i was in hawaii and had a really bad cold. combined with the crazy humidity, i can't breathe through my nose. i saw a video of me playing and my mouth was literally hanging open the entire time. i looked ridiculous. then i noticed that i tended to have my mouth open while i played fairly often. solution: i started chewing gum while i played. my mouth had to be closed, otherwise it'd fall out. i totally get you, but in my case, it broke me of a bad habit that was probably the worse of two evils
That gum chewing for some is a look, particularly for the harder Pop Rock Bands.I admit it's really old school and might be a dated look but it is a look. Jeff Beck (Guitar Icon) always chewed gum on stage, we thought it was cool. Oh well, I do it, I think it makes me apear younger than my true age.
We finally got out of our drummer's basement (after years of jamming weekly) and played our first gig last Thursday night. It was also the first time that any of us played wearing jackets. Took some getting used to 
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hey, i used to see john lennon hisself chew gum onstage. but i find it reaaly distracting. it's all i can see onstage when someone does it. i guess if you guys are working and you chew gum, i can't say a thing about it, but that's my opinion.
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This was a couple of months back.
I like to dress up for gigs, so do the other guys, makes us look like a serious band.
And for the record Rob Ahern was the guy taking the photo, not me.
This was a couple of months back.
I like to dress up for gigs, so do the other guys, makes us look like a serious band.
And for the record Rob Ahern was the guy taking the photo, not me.
I am guilty of chewing...but so is this guy!
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=565635&highlight=greg+lake+gum
you guys are making me sick with all the shirtless guys and gum chewers! listen, do what you want, but if you do it at a show i'm at, i'm going to the bar and ignoring you till you're gone
you guys are making me sick with all the shirtless guys and gum chewers! listen, do what you want, but if you do it at a show i'm at, i'm going to the bar and ignoring you till you're gone
C'mon Jimmy we just want to be cool. Chewing gum makes us seem probably cooler than we are. And anyway,if your in a hot rock band you are required to be cool by law in some states.
Thats what i thing
you guys are making me sick with all the shirtless guys and gum chewers! listen, do what you want, but if you do it at a show i'm at, i'm going to the bar and ignoring you till you're gone
I gotta agree. If you have a beer gut that looks like a bag of cottage cheese, put on a shirt. I went to a Green Day show a couple years ago and the bass player for the opening band was fat and sloppy and shirtless. It was kinda gross watching his belly fat jiggle while he was playing.
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