OT: Learning to like bands you hate

[Gio_Force_One]

I don't see what's the big deal. People do it all the time--okay not with a music stand, but maybe a computer screen. The first time I noticed it was W. Axl Rose doing it way back in the heyday of Guns 'n' Roses. John Mayer does it...with his own stuff. One can clearly see it on his "Where the Light Is" video.

I don't know. It's sort of like just reading sheet music like a classical musician would in an orchestra or a jazz musician reading a chart. I wouldn't fault any of those musicians for doing that.

should i have mentioned even with the music stand he still messes up all the words , misses parts , has to search for the song sometimes. It just kind of sucked we would have to go exactly with the set list or we would be up there waiting for him to find the song so if someone wanted to hear a song he would tell them to wait.
my friends band its like all 3 of them are walking jukeboxes no setlists and it seems they know every song its kind of insane. and they are an amazing band also.

 

[andynpeters]

To me it's like an actor reading his lines from a book on stage.....the words have to be automatic before you can perform properly.
Still, compared to Bruce, what do I know??

 

[metalmarty]

Over the years I'm starting to analyse songs on first hearing them, isolating the different instruments and trying to find merit in the individual performances. Songs that I can't stand usually have at least 1 part that is interesting from a technical point of view. "Under the bridge" from RHCP is one of them. The song as a whole doesn't do anything for me but the guitar-parts are simply amazing. Also, years ago I saw Christina Aguilera perform "Genie in a bottle" on Letterman I think it was. Horrific song but there was this really big black drummer dude that did some very cool stuff underneath the track. Most jazz I don't like, but I can really enjoy focussing on the drummers mostly. Then again, if I don't like the song as a whole I couldn't stand to play it with a band no matter what the challenge was technically/as a composition.


On the singer part of the topic: the singer in my old death metal band had the most amazingly deep grunt imaginable and he stopped once in the middle of a song because "he forgot the lyrics". I said what the bloody hell dude, there isn't a single person in here that knows what you are screaming into that mic. It just threw him off balance that he forgot something he had reproduced for a 1000 times I guess. We had some good laughs over that.

 

[andynpeters]

Never acknowledge a mistake....nobody else will notice

 

[metalmarty]

Tell that to the singer

We had another hilarous one with our side-project. The CD-intro was at it's end, we were all ready to start song #1 in which the keyboard-guy had the first couple of bars. He starts playing and all we hear was "ding dong"...A very loud doorbell...wrong patch . Try to not acknowledge THAT hehehehe. We were headlining and the crowd already had plenty of cold ones so it turned out extremely funny. Wish I had a video of that.

 

[Bungo]

Frankly I could do with an autocue just for my occasional backing vocals!

Amazing how they can catch you out. All of a sudden the chorus is approaching like a freight train, you're at the mike, gob open and no idea what words you're supposed to be singing.

HEEEELLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPP!

 

[Neances]

I really started to like "Spice Girls" after i spent some time on figurin out their tunes.