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Your Look On Stage

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JimmyM said:
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 ;)
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Don't front, Jimmy, I know this is your favorite album cover ever.:D

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#442
Depends on the gig. Most gigs I do are dance/top-40/funk type stuff so I'll usually wear a pair of black dockers with a long sleeve button down shirt, and pair of black shoes, sometimes a vest.

If I'm doing country I'll wear jeans usually faded blue and a white button down shirt, and black shoes.

Rock/Metal (which I don't play much) I'll toss on my cut off at the knees desert camo's from the gulf war, and a short sleeve black t-shirt. Sometimes I'll toss on jeans.
 
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GregC said:
Don't front, Jimmy, I know this is your favorite album cover ever.:D

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lol! i gig fairly often locally with lane hoppen, who's larry and lance's brother and the current keyboardist in orleans, and that album cover is my favorite to goof on him with ;) he's not on it, but man, how embarrassing that must be to them now. it's just wrong in so many ways...especially how john hall seems to be leering...you'd never know he's a senator now.
 
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Although its fuzzy .... I am always have my caps and goofy country or hipster doofus shirts on :p
 

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Just found this compliation from a recent gig. I'm on EUB, but hopefully that's close enough for this topic.



I'm so over the top it looks like somebody dropped a pro wrestler into a hippie band, LOL. Somebody else from the band said that our keyboardist/mandolist "sways autistically" for himself when he's getting into the music whereas I "sway publically" to communicate with the audience. That's very true.
 
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WARNING: LONG POST!

IMHO, how you dress on stage is really important. Obviously, the music is the top priority, but if you look like you just rolled out of bed, people won't take you as seriously. I know that when I'm in the audience I am more prone to tune out if the band looks raggedy. And then there's my pet peeve: shorts or sandals onstage. My apologies to dudes who do wear them onstage, but it just bugs me. I understand if you play reggae, or low-key acoustic stuff, and I'm cool with it then, but if you're playing rock or metal in shorts, I think you look a wee bit like a doofus. I mean, come on, plaid or patterned shorts aren't very metal

My point
The name of this picture says it all: Douche Nozzle
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This is even worse: Shorts and a Jacket? WHAT!? It's so contradictory it hurts! It's like a mullet: Business up top, beach party down below. :Facepalm:
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My Normal Wear (Stage and Street):
Slim/Skinny Levis
Slim bootcut/flares
Waistcoat
Bandana or scarf
Plain white t-shirt
Button up (usually tucked in) in retro-ish patterns (but no flannel! Why? Because I'm not a lumberjack!)
Chelsea Boots
Sunglasses (aviators or round lens)
Anything military-styled
Paisley:smug:

And some dudes who dress like motha-lickin' bada$$es
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[Invalid or Expired Link Removed][Invalid or Expired Link Removed][Invalid or Expired Link Removed] Does anyone know where I can pickup a pair of pink crushed velvet pants like Mr.Pages?
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Oddly enough, I picked up a jacket almost exactly like the one Jack Bruce is wearing while is Dharmsala, India. It's lavender purple, and my number one stage jacket.
 
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D.M.N. said:
WARNING: LONG POST!

IMHO, how you dress on stage is really important. Obviously, the music is the top priority, but if you look like you just rolled out of bed, people won't take you as seriously. I know that when I'm in the audience I am more prone to tune out if the band looks raggedy. And then there's my pet peeve: shorts or sandals onstage. My apologies to dudes who do wear them onstage, but it just bugs me. I understand if you play reggae, or low-key acoustic stuff, and I'm cool with it then, but if you're playing rock or metal in shorts, I think you look a wee bit like a doofus. I mean, come on, plaid or patterned shorts aren't very metal

My point
The name of this picture says it all: Douche Nozzle
DoucheNozzle.jpg

This is even worse: Shorts and a Jacket? WHAT!? It's so contradictory it hurts! It's like a mullet: Business up top, beach party down below. :Facepalm:
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My Normal Wear (Stage and Street):
Slim/Skinny Levis
Slim bootcut/flares
Waistcoat
Bandana or scarf
Plain white t-shirt
Button up (usually tucked in) in retro-ish patterns (but no flannel! Why? Because I'm not a lumberjack!)
Chelsea Boots
Sunglasses (aviators or round lens)
Anything military-styled
Paisley:smug:

And some dudes who dress like motha-lickin' bada$$es
mitch-mitchell.jpg

[Invalid or Expired Link Removed][Invalid or Expired Link Removed][Invalid or Expired Link Removed] Does anyone know where I can pickup a pair of pink crushed velvet pants like Mr.Pages?
85053003.jpg

Oddly enough, I picked up a jacket almost exactly like the one Jack Bruce is wearing while is Dharmsala, India. It's lavender purple, and my number one stage jacket.
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That's cool but IMO your really over thinking this. Angus Young rocked the shorts and jacket in hard rock quite well. Freddy Mercury did the suspenders and shorts in rock...but did it better than that doofus. And the 60's cats...please over done and today most would think you looked like a fool. Unless you are a big band ..nobody really cares.
 
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