usually what i try to do is try to forget about the audience (or lack thereof) and just try and have fun playing with and engaging with my bandmates on stage, almost like pretend we're in our practice space instead of on a stage. sometimes this works.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 8 September 2009 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, that's pretty much the way to go IMO
― Photo needs a Jamiroquai hat (HI DERE), Tuesday, 8 September 2009 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
My suggestion would be to plan to play a shorter version of your set - kick more ass in a shorter amount of time - if the audience is pretty small, especially since you're on last. If they're still feeling it, then play the full length.
― what happened? i am confused. (sarahel), Tuesday, 8 September 2009 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link
also, do not wear pants
― tylerw, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 20:54 (fourteen years ago) link
i hear that works really well in chicago.
― what happened? i am confused. (sarahel), Tuesday, 8 September 2009 20:56 (fourteen years ago) link
xp sarahel OTM
agreed it's not always easy to psych up but playing music with your friends is still a fun way to spend an evening, plus you might even get to know a band from another town which is not a bad thing
― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 20:59 (fourteen years ago) link
dude just fuckin rock it, wtf?!drink as much free beer as they'll let ya and get up there and fuckin rock it. eat all the free bon bons drink all the free beer don't steal but maybe play a prank on the other band, ya know debauchery. i know it's only rock and roll but i like it.
nope, i'm thinking maybe throw a tantrum, and compose a wicked diatribe denouncing this.
wait nope, no tantrum/diatribe, just fuckin rock it!
― Don't hag me with your false green. (jdchurchill), Tuesday, 8 September 2009 22:49 (fourteen years ago) link
in short, just rock it!
― ojo, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 01:31 (fourteen years ago) link
ha i like jdchurchill's advice, thanks. we will rock it.
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 10 September 2009 17:52 (fourteen years ago) link
feeling better about this show. it might be empty, fuck it.
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 10 September 2009 17:53 (fourteen years ago) link
HA! and now i get an email from the booking company that we have been moved to 2nd out of three (or 3rd if they ever actually book a fourth band), per our request. whatever.
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 10 September 2009 17:57 (fourteen years ago) link
but still dude: rock that shit.
― Don't hag me with your false green. (jdchurchill), Thursday, 10 September 2009 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link
ok
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 10 September 2009 19:05 (fourteen years ago) link
are you coming? to the show?
Has this happened yet? How'd it go?
― oing oing oing (╓abies), Thursday, 17 September 2009 14:12 (fourteen years ago) link
And was it rocked?
it's tonight. still not really expecting many people in the audience but i'm pumped for our set, it's been sounding really good in practice lately, so i think we'll be able to just have fun. i might take our video camera.
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 17 September 2009 14:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I always really really love small shows that are just like some people with a basement + 10-15 of their drunk friends, though I dunno how I'd feel about that at a venue.
― oing oing oing (╓abies), Thursday, 17 September 2009 14:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Sorry, that's kinda discouraging! I mean ROCK IT
― oing oing oing (╓abies), Thursday, 17 September 2009 14:39 (fourteen years ago) link
i think we would be happiest mostly playing house/basement/art space shows, but the people we used to do that with stopped doing it and now we don't really have any connections to that scene anymore
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 17 September 2009 15:14 (fourteen years ago) link
This is all I can think about every time I see this thread.http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/4562/dreado.jpg
― bamcquern, Thursday, 17 September 2009 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
ugh
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 18 September 2009 04:55 (fourteen years ago) link
oh no
― million dollar pig junior (electricsound), Friday, 18 September 2009 05:17 (fourteen years ago) link
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― Herman G. Uccmane (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 18 September 2009 05:23 (fourteen years ago) link
did yz rock it?
― Mark G, Friday, 18 September 2009 14:58 (fourteen years ago) link
oh shit i think the twitter music reviewer is trying to make fun of me
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 18 September 2009 15:32 (fourteen years ago) link
i've been playing in my friend's band for about a year, most of the time i play autoharp. last night we're playing a show, we're a fairly quiet band, and a drunk guy decides that the middle of a song is a good time to wander up and ask what the instrument i'm playing is called. i try to just stare him down, he says "you don't know what it's called? ok" and wanders away. kinda put me in an odd funk for the rest of the set.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
"it's called a nightcap"*smashes it over drunk guys head*
― the boy with the gorn at his side (Edward III), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
^ why I don't play folk music anymore
― the boy with the gorn at his side (Edward III), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
that's better than "can i hit your drum? hey, can i hit your drum?"
― the third kind of dubstep (Jordan), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
I have a concert on Sunday in which we are doing this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CsBGC8KlDo
it's going to be a hot mess, or maybe it will all come together at the last minute, I dunno
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
the club also arbitrarily pushed back the start of the music by an hour, literally minutes after we were talking about how we liked playing there because they're so professional
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
just rock it, DJP
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
that song is sick, btw
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
there's a video of a high school choir doing it from memory with random choreography:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoK9X35LQyE
it is a fucking badass song when it works and a trainwreck and a half when it doesn't
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
haha yes i can believe that
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
omg @ that video
lol I know, right?
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
awesome
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
yessss
― the third kind of dubstep (Jordan), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
random choreography indeed! the boys stage right doing the beavis dance at :53 is great.
― NZA, Friday, 20 January 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
i'm in a band with some guys i know from high school, and this OTHER guy we knew from high school who is kind of a trainwreck, he's kind of got mental problems and he's an alcoholic, well, whenever he comes to our shows he makes a big spectacle of himself, saying things like "okay guys well i'm going to that OTHER show now, but you shouldn't care cuz i payed my cover" or "hey you guys see the members of the band you're opening for over there in the bar, they suck haha" etc in the lulls between songs, and i have learned to dread any show that he rsvps on facebook to.
― NZA, Friday, 20 January 2012 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
Down here in the hinterland, the shite I dread is having to play gigs where you have to drag the PA to play a gig. The amps and such you got to do, but the PA on top is kind of a pain. Bars with live music are a bit more hit and miss like this in the sticks. The shows are usually pretty good and some we actually get a decent crowd over a night, but it is a whole lot more work.
― earlnash, Friday, 20 January 2012 22:13 (twelve years ago) link
last band of a four-band bill on a monday night = show dreadat least i took tuesday off work
― na (NA), Wednesday, 13 June 2018 16:14 (five years ago) link