How to look cool?

LOL!!! Preach it Polly

As a woman, I have to say I don't think we really notice these things... Though that said, my boyfriend is a guitarist :)

Ooh, I noticed all right. Some of the guys in my old bands were even worse reprobates than I was!


That must have been very different to the one that came out a few years ago. I imagine the graphics and sound were a bit disappointing.

Ah ... guitar-hero-game ... missed that. Uncool of me :)
 
Just Do Like Me.......

How to be a drummer and look cool carrying your gig bag around like the cool factor guitarist always get?
 

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Carry an extra bag than you actually need, fill it with junk pies or misc hardware. Ask the lady to help you carry your stuff and you can talk about what kind of drink she'd like.
 
Yes, we're very superficial when compared with the great depth of men ... who care so much more about the human being beneath the big boobs, skinny waist and 18 year-old cutie pie face :p

Looking cool? Dunno. Never done it. Sunglasses? Hipshot's drum tech and PA ...

Bo seemed to nail this one first up. As he said, avoiding looking like a muso (ie. poor muso haha) is a good idea. Being a muso lost its cool value to women in the 70s or early 80s when we woke up to the fact that a higher percentage than usual were using, lazy, selfish, ego-centric, unstable bastards :) ... especially guitarists caught up in the 70s guitar hero game.

Wow Pol. I wasn't kidding when I said what I said, you sound down-right bitter! But it's so truthful! Dig it!
 
Is the 'first to arrive, last to leave' and clearly working harder than everyone else in the band cool? I get to the gig two hours early, while our singer arrives ten minutes before showtime and rightfully steals the spotlight. She does help me lug gear back to my car, though, while the guitar player disappears in the direction of the bar...
 
Time for the graph me thinks!


DING DING DING! We have a winner! Priceless. Although the "Period of Cool" seems a little short! Below "Homeless Guy" before age 35! I am so not cool anymore. :(
 
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And don't forget the Viagra for women - it's called cash! LOL!

Yes, we're very superficial when compared with the great depth of men ... who care so much more about the human being beneath the big boobs, skinny waist and 18 year-old cutie pie face :p

She shoots...SHE SCORES!!!!

Yes, turns out men like money too and most studies indicate that on average, men spend much more money than do women.

Back to the thread: I'm not sure how well I do at looking cool but I must say that at least with some people, my "day job" (I'm a sex therapist) generally tends to elevate my over-all "cool factor."

I suppose I could wear a t-shirt to the gig advertising my profession but I sense that, for some reason, people might not take it seriously. In fact, I'd probably have to start a thread entitled, "How to Look Creepy." ;-)
 
Looking cool = Be confident, dress smart, wear shades, work out and play in a band!


Now, why hasn't this worked for me..
 
...Get few tattoos, grow up some beard (dirt) on your face, slick hair and tight jeans. ;-)

Looking cool = Be confident, dress smart, wear shades, work out and play in a band!


Now, why hasn't this worked for me..
 
hanging a guitar over your back makes you look cool?

since when?

thats as corny as walking around with drum sticks in your back pocket....

be yourself brother....dont worry about what looks "cool"

when you TRY to look COOL ...you end up looking just like everyone else

trust me
 
Anytime I can just walk up to my kit and start playing at the downbeat (I don't noodle, either)..

I don't do this to look cool, but I make a conscious effort to set up before hand and then when everybody else is tuning and fiddling, especially right before we start, I just sit there. I don't talk, I don't noodle on the kit. The first thing that anybody hears is what happens on the first song.

A few years ago, I filled in for a band and afterwards, they all thanked me for being so "Easy" whatever that meant. I didn't make a bunch of noodle noise while they were tweaking. I just showed up and played.

It might not up your coolness factor with the ladies, but the other musos will notice.
 
I don't do this to look cool, but I make a conscious effort to set up before hand and then when everybody else is tuning and fiddling, especially right before we start, I just sit there. I don't talk, I don't noodle on the kit. The first thing that anybody hears is what happens on the first song.

A few years ago, I filled in for a band and afterwards, they all thanked me for being so "Easy" whatever that meant. I didn't make a bunch of noodle noise while they were tweaking. I just showed up and played.

It might not up your coolness factor with the ladies, but the other musos will notice.

Well, I had a college music director who actually kept wire cutters with him and if the guitar player(s) were noodling between tunes he'd cut a string! Taught us all to not noodle really quick. And then when I actually started playing for Disney years ago, I noticed that after all the horn players played a few long tones to warm up on, I didn't hear anything again until the downbeat. That was quite unnerving as well, but in a really cool way. When you're in an environment where out-right noodling around is not appreciated because of the close quarters you keep with others, you tend to become cool.

Nowadays when I hear people backstage noodling around, that's when I think their note-to-dollar ratio is off ;)
 
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