Band trends that need to go away

[Bassus Sanguinis]

fuck, everybody is STILL missing the point, so I'll kindly utter it once again:

90% of everything is CRAP as Sturgeon's law clearly states 90% of everything is CRAP as Sturgeon's law clearly states 90% of everything is CRAP as Sturgeon's law clearly states 90% of everything is CRAP as Sturgeon's law clearly states :rage:

Oh, who the fuck is this Sturgeon guy?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_Law

[Achtane]

THEN A TWO PERCENT INCREASE IN GENERAL NOT-SHITTINESS ALL AROUND
THAT'S ALL I ASK

[Bassus Sanguinis]

Exactly. THAT's why I go to see bands I've never even before heard of, save hear their music, if ANYBODY with any ear to music says they're a good band. Just to give them a chance to prove me wrong. I love it when it happens.

[rot gut]

triggers on drums

[kbit]

triggers on drums

people still do this?

[Achtane]

COME ON GUYS. TURRICAN IS A FUCKING AWESOME GAME.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FiDHP0oQSI[/youtube]

[dase]

kinda feel like I could post 90% of talkbass' 'band management' subforum in here as things that need to die.

[RR Bigman]

local bands that engage the audience.

[mathias]

micing the drums when the venue is small enough that the drums are fine acoustically.

not every drum hit needs to be miced and compressed to sound like an electronica drum beat.

acoustic drums don't ring out (part of the reason I think they compress them so much) like an electronic drum beat does, and acoustic drums HAVE DYNAMICS.

[rot gut]

local bands that engage the audience.

who wants to hear your local band go "hey everybody, how are you all doing tonight?" "this next one is about..." shit like that.

[D.o.S.]

kinda feel like I could post 90% of talkbass' 'band management' subforum in here as things that need to die.

[alexa.]

People who have expensive rigs and make them sound like a shitty starter amp. Don't buy a fucking all tube half stack if you're going to run your shit boss ds-2 through it, scoop the mids, and then lose it in the mix anyway. Buy a fucking $150 combo and make that sound like shit.

People who don't actually know how to convey musical concepts that want to jam. If you can't tell me what key you're in, you can't slow it down enough that I can follow your shitty metalcore riff and figure it out myself, and you can't follow what I'm doing, why the fuck am I here?

ANYONE WHO BITCHES ABOUT FUZZ. I jammed with a guy one time and he kept saying that my rig "sounded broken" while he sat there and ignored me and the other player that was there. I almost threw him out of my house that day >:(

Screamers who never actually learned their trade. Seriously, stop muffling, watch The Zen of Screaming, and learn to do what you're supposed to be doing.
Related: Screamers who can't sing, but try to anyway.

And vocalists who are completely unengaged from the set. There's a band that has a female vocalist in my area, and she just stands there and sings off key. She doesn't look into the music, she doesn't have the personality to pull off being a shitty vocalist, she just is a shitty vocalist.

Yup.

And people who think that a metronome is bad for your playing and creativity.

[chutneyfarmer]

Bands attempting to kickstarter every shitty little thing they do. If you absolutely need to re press your crappy demo on six colours of vinyl, play a tonne of shows, hustle and try and save some money. Don't expect people to pay for you to be in a band.

This times a fucking hundred!!!!! Independant bands were always poor and yet they somehow managed before the likes of fucking Kickstarter

[Jwar]

Emo, Dub Step style of shit, grunge...die already damn it! JUST DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think we need to bring back the funk. George Clinton funky style funk! Who's with me??????????????????????

Also Death Metal. Gag. You can't sing. I get it. So you have to grunt. I get that too. But could you at least make it musical for God's sake.

[aen]

local bands that engage the audience.

who wants to hear your local band go "hey everybody, how are you all doing tonight?" "this next one is about..." shit like that.

That's why i always just start out with
"WHO WANTS TO DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!?!?!?!?!??!"

Then later on, "Hey everybody, happy (insert name of nearest holiday) I hope you get diarrhea."

Just kidding, I never did that but I really want to.