MSUsousaphone wrote:Interesting psychology side note. When someone comes up to congratulate you and you give the usual humble reply of "ah, it was just a'ight" or "eh, I messed up a lot" or something along those lines, the person who first congratulate you is most likely to have one of two responses; 1) They'll start getting it actually WAS just a'ight and their memory of your show will diminish in quality. A good bit of our memories are false (or most, depending on who telling you their theory) and actually colored by current variables. An example would be a 29 year old might look back at an old childhood sleep over positively....but if, after the course of a year, the now 30 year old has a falling out with that with person they sleptover with, a lot of times you'll find their whole perception of the sleepover is completely different. They might even view it as negative....and 2) They'll take your comment as almost an insult. As if you're saying "well you're not able to discern good playing from bad playing".
True story.
Best just to say "thanks".
Ditto
The thing that bugs me is when I know I didn't play a good show and they come up to me and say "FANTASTIC MAN!" and I'm like: not sure if sarcastic or drunk
rfurtkamp wrote:Bastard stepchild of modern delay times/looping and a Lexicon Vortex would have me whipping out the credit card faster than a hooker at a coke convention.
The thing that bugs me is when I know I didn't play a good show and they come up to me and say "FANTASTIC MAN!" and I'm like: not sure if sarcastic or drunk
greigoroth wrote:Congrats on the show Behndy - you're too rad to be a fulltime bedroom warrior. I've got a bunch of standard responses which are pretty trite, but they work well
The gushing dude: "yeah, thanks man, it's awesome that you came out to see the show, we're really happy to have your support" The WTF are those pedals dude: "yeah, you can get a lot of sounds out of em, it's good fun". The interested in pedz for realz dude: "yeah, I've been collecting for ages, it's nice to have the variety... bla blah... sometimes you can find inspiration for a song in a new pedal/sound" The "ok this conversation is over": Alright thanks man - I've gotta pack this shit up, I'll catch you later at the merch booth.
Don't underrate making twee post-concert conversations something of a routine. The punters don't know you say the same stuff to everyone, and if you're kinda smooth with your lines I think they just feel like "wow, I had a great conversation with that guy, what a cool band" = win for everyone.
Solid advice! I should learn this post by heart.
(I usually care less about my playing than about the reaction of the audience. If they dance for example I can be happy with playing utter bullshit and still consider it a good show. If they hiss and boo it can go both ways, depending on my confidence in what I am playing. If I know what the band is doing is good it's actually reinforcing to get some opposition. What I can't handle so well is people that start talking in front of the stage. I started to come to terms with emptying a room lately. *cough*drone band*cough*)
Chankgeez wrote: Musicians are their own worst critics. Oftentimes the audience can't even tell if you've messed up or not (unless it's painfully obvious).
Either their worst critics, or they consider themselves to do no wrong. I've seen a lot more arrogance than modesty in many musicians.
Ha, that's probably true. I guess I tend to fall into the former category.
psychic vampire. wrote:The important take away from this thread: Taoism and Ring Modulators go together?
…...........................… Sweet dealin's: here "Now, of course, Strega is not a Minimoog… and I am not Sun Ra" - dude from MAKENOISE #GreenRinger
oop! vid from the show the other day. only song where they didn't TOTALLY rape the vocals. i dunno why, but they killed the vocals on every band there. the first 1.30 is a kinda sloppy half written/half improvised jam thing. silly.
singer passed on that one of her (of a group of about 10 HAWT friends that came out. why do cute grrLs have so many cute/hawt friends? DISTRACTING.) that "it's neat that he moves more like a hip hop guy than a rock guy.".
i..... don't know what that means. but...... thanks?
Eric! wrote:YOU'RE like having two pedals in one
with your...momentary fuck switch and all..
lol. HAH! she TOTALLY rolls her eyes at me. so awesome. didna even know that.
"you..... so...... ARHYTHMIC."
3.40 is the video glitching, is there some audio stuff that's doing neat things?
Unchained Singers - urf. yah. we're still working that out. we don't want a 4th person, the relationship and musical dynamics are PERFECT right now, not something i'm even the least bit interested in fucking with. but we're trying to figure out a way to have her do keys without being pushed back. i THINK a bigger stage will help a little. that thing was minuscule.
lulz. makes me look like a looming gigantic beast of LOOK AT ME attention whoring. there really just.... wasn't anywhere else to go.
i'm really proud or her actually, this is the first time she used a keyboard live or a pedalboard, 'specially both. there were some hiccups and the keys need to be more facing the crowd/maybe take the laptop off the stand. but she did really well.
Eric! wrote:YOU'RE like having two pedals in one
with your...momentary fuck switch and all..
Yeah, behndy, don't get me wrong, you guys sound fine and I know you like things the way they are, but as far as stage presence goes, having her move around would add a lot. Just some constructive criticism, take it or leave it. I'd like to see what happens on a larger stage with a better sound system.
psychic vampire. wrote:The important take away from this thread: Taoism and Ring Modulators go together?
…...........................… Sweet dealin's: here "Now, of course, Strega is not a Minimoog… and I am not Sun Ra" - dude from MAKENOISE #GreenRinger
guh. i'm so fucking STREET yo. you don't even know.
for sure homie! i'm a big boy, i can take it. hell, i LIKE hearing what y'all think. wouldn't post otherwise. and i'm defiiiiiiiinitely not disagreeing with you.
tis a bit of a conundrom. i don't know how to make guitars work with the way i like to play, if we added somebody else it'd be somebody full time on keys. and i'm deathly afraid of fucking up a situaion that brings me so damn much happiness. we're just gonna have to keep banging away till we figure out the best way for just us three to make it work.
PLEASE DON'T ANYBODY EVER SAY KEYTAR TO HER. FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THE GODS IN THE MULTIVERSE. PLEASE. DO. NOT.
Eric! wrote:YOU'RE like having two pedals in one
with your...momentary fuck switch and all..
I'd like to see what happens on a larger stage with a better sound system. 