We thinks the best outfit when playing on-stage is a smile. I've seen thousands of pictures where the musicians either look like they are at a funeral or don't even have eye contact with the audience...
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Your Look On Stage
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LOL. I'm a hefty bald guy with a handlebar mustache. Much younger chick singers keep asking me to play shirtless, so I guess it works.
Most places, you really need to wear more than a smile. Especially if it's cold.
Poor quality picture but sums it up. Modified Motorhead t shirt, hot pants and stompy goth boots. I get comments from other band members about how I always dress, but I couldn't wear jeans at a show - I like to hop around so I get far too hot when I play and need the ventilation to keep moving.
However I try to tone it down for the pop/rock band I play in... And I try to make it a bit smart when playing at weddings with function bands but the boots must always stay. Anyone else have a band that has a theme where you all have to wear the same thing eg colour scheme? Gets hards after a little while, I hate wearing the same outfit more than once...
However I try to tone it down for the pop/rock band I play in... And I try to make it a bit smart when playing at weddings with function bands but the boots must always stay. Anyone else have a band that has a theme where you all have to wear the same thing eg colour scheme? Gets hards after a little while, I hate wearing the same outfit more than once...
Exciter is an old-school Speed Metal band. On stage, I wear black leather pants, knee-high sh*t-kicker boots, cut-off Exciter t-shirt, and black 6" sweat bands.
Cheers!
That is by far probably the most metal picture ever in taken in the history of the universe.
I play in a hardcore metal band, so the look is tight jeans and band tees for the most part. Nothing different than I wore before getting into music.
Rebecky said:
I've played a show where we all wore white vnecks and black jeans and the vocalist wore all black. Not a single person noticed our clothing choice.
jmattbassplaya said:I played a gig where we all wore plaid shirts and jorts. People noticed
I would love that, but being in a metal band, people would notice too haha
Poor quality picture but sums it up. Modified Motorhead t shirt, hot pants and stompy goth boots. I get comments from other band members about how I always dress, but I couldn't wear jeans at a show - I like to hop around so I get far too hot when I play and need the ventilation to keep moving.
However I try to tone it down for the pop/rock band I play in... And I try to make it a bit smart when playing at weddings with function bands but the boots must always stay. Anyone else have a band that has a theme where you all have to wear the same thing eg colour scheme? Gets hards after a little while, I hate wearing the same outfit more than once...
And she plays a Ric too. Damn!!!
Ya know...I was always a t shirt and raggedy jeans type. Had to buy a suit some years ago for higher line stuff. Now I dress a little better, some guy I know saw us said he liked our "look" said it was casual. I never really thought about that stuff. Most thing my drummer would say is "this is a nice place, take a shower".
One thing I do like to do...is sit when I play. I always like having a barstool up there. Sit, stand and stretch your legs, sit, stand...especially now we're dressing a little better, I have these ring boots w heels and they are a b-tch to stand in for 3 hours. But I guess they look nice. And most of the time you can use the space on smaller stages.
One thing I do like to do...is sit when I play. I always like having a barstool up there. Sit, stand and stretch your legs, sit, stand...especially now we're dressing a little better, I have these ring boots w heels and they are a b-tch to stand in for 3 hours. But I guess they look nice. And most of the time you can use the space on smaller stages.
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This is pretty typical. I'll switch the shirt up, but I always go with my slimmest dark jeans, nice brown leather shoes, and a matching leather belt. It works for almost any setting I'd likely find myself playing in.
This is pretty typical. I'll switch the shirt up, but I always go with my slimmest dark jeans, nice brown leather shoes, and a matching leather belt. It works for almost any setting I'd likely find myself playing in.
CauliColin said:
Yes, if it's cool looking and the stuff fits right.
A lot of guys will want to know that once you get into that 38 waist size, even jeans don't look do great.
Interesting I have seen these young guys that are obese and out of shape, seems like instead of trying to work with what they are, they take the route of I am going to go out of my way to look like a bum.
I wear purple Vs and purple argyle sweaters a size too big and play with an ESP LTD F-155DX. Soon I will cover my case with purple duct tape and paint the shell of my amp (not the grill. I'm sure that could get bad.) Being in a band that plays like Foo Fighter songs, I tend to jump around a little. My band rhythm/singer says I need to lower my strap a little, so I have to get used to slapping with a low strap so I can look cool. -_-
Mybikeisblack said:
How do you know that nobody noticed?
I don't think non musicians notice anything about bands.
I was going out with this chic last year. She didn't know I was playing bass or what a bass was. She just thought we all played guitar.
We really don't have a sophisticated music crowd in Milwaukee
There's a relatively small Indie/ originals crowd, but for the most part it's your dollar beer Mustang Sally crowd. The band doesn't even have to be any good.
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