mcbike
Silver Member
my band can't do setlists, we try to do them for festivals but a big part of what we do is reading the crowd and keeping everybody in. We do alot of medleys anywhere between 3 and 6 songs. Our fans come see us all the time and we can't play the same songs in the same order.
Most of our songs start with the guitar player and I have a dozen or so that I start and usually I always have 1 or 2 songs ready to go and if can't think of one he just gives me a look and I go into one of the songs I start. you have to be on your toes in my band though you can't even take a drink of water between songs. I usually wait till a song with a longer intro to take a drink or adjust something on my drums.
I have tried and tried to MC when our singer is tuning his guitar or out of action and everytime I do it the crowd just looks around like "where is that voice coming from" it just doesn't work behind the kit. The last festival I played at was pretty thin on bands and there was 3 main bands and we all rotated and one of the bands played the exact same set 4 times all weekend long, the banter was exactly the same everytime. I was actually disgusted watching them do the same jokes between songs. We were all hanging at a bar after the fest and they said "I hope you don't think we just play the same songs over and over again we are just trying to push our new c.d.".
I am glad my band never does the same set twice and never repeats a joke or banter.
Most of our songs start with the guitar player and I have a dozen or so that I start and usually I always have 1 or 2 songs ready to go and if can't think of one he just gives me a look and I go into one of the songs I start. you have to be on your toes in my band though you can't even take a drink of water between songs. I usually wait till a song with a longer intro to take a drink or adjust something on my drums.
I have tried and tried to MC when our singer is tuning his guitar or out of action and everytime I do it the crowd just looks around like "where is that voice coming from" it just doesn't work behind the kit. The last festival I played at was pretty thin on bands and there was 3 main bands and we all rotated and one of the bands played the exact same set 4 times all weekend long, the banter was exactly the same everytime. I was actually disgusted watching them do the same jokes between songs. We were all hanging at a bar after the fest and they said "I hope you don't think we just play the same songs over and over again we are just trying to push our new c.d.".
I am glad my band never does the same set twice and never repeats a joke or banter.