Larry
"Uncle Larry"
I'd have paid rehearsals. 75 bucks a man. All the songs would be infectiously danceable tunes. There would be no showing off unless it was required to excite the crowd. Anybody who goes off in their own world, and not a part of the unit, would get a 3 strikes you're out ultimatum. Simple eye contact with the audience, the other bandmates, 95% of the time, bare minimum. Everybody would be required to go past the music and try to be at least a little entertaining, engaged in the audience. The goal would be to whip the dancers into a frenzy, every time, not just play good. The frontman would regularly pick someone in the crowd, a few times a night, and ask them where they're from, what they do, to break down any barriers and make them feel a part...The ladies would get special attention, because they deserve it for one, and why wouldn't you want them to feel like they are all that? They should be thanked repeatedly for being there and they should be told how sexy they all are.
It's all so simple to me, why do most musicians think "being cool" is enough? It isn't. Being fun is funner, and it automatically makes you cool. I don't understand what people's goals are.
I was at a gig over the weekend, we finally got dancers up, and they wanted more fast stuff because they were so in the mood to dance. So what does our main front man do? He picks Tin Pan Alley, a SRV s l o w number. I was thinking, WTF is your goal here? To with hold fun? I just don't get it. We are there for THEM, to entertain THEM, to get THEM dancing. It's like they're begging for it, and we say, no not right now...how unfulfiling.
If I was the boss, I would have laid it on them with all we had until they were exhausted, and needed to sit down and have a drink, then you pull out a slower one so they can have a drink or perhaps hold their honey close....
It's all so simple to me, why do most musicians think "being cool" is enough? It isn't. Being fun is funner, and it automatically makes you cool. I don't understand what people's goals are.
I was at a gig over the weekend, we finally got dancers up, and they wanted more fast stuff because they were so in the mood to dance. So what does our main front man do? He picks Tin Pan Alley, a SRV s l o w number. I was thinking, WTF is your goal here? To with hold fun? I just don't get it. We are there for THEM, to entertain THEM, to get THEM dancing. It's like they're begging for it, and we say, no not right now...how unfulfiling.
If I was the boss, I would have laid it on them with all we had until they were exhausted, and needed to sit down and have a drink, then you pull out a slower one so they can have a drink or perhaps hold their honey close....