MikeTalbot wrote:zar
There are musicians and there are performers. I'm re-learning this the hard way on my current project. I would assume for a tribute band you must be both.
When I first returned to Georgia from LA I started jamming around and was amazed to find that most guys wore shorts. In LA we 'dressed' for rehearsals.
I got used to it but now I'm needing to get far away from that 'shorts' business and back to sparklin'.
Talbot
excellent point mike. i've always been more of a musician and have mostly played in bands where the MUSIC is the performance. don't get me wrong..i'm not a shoe gazer and when the music is happening i'm moving around and enjoying myself...but it's BECAUSE i'm enjoying myself not because i'm thinking "show".
i had a conversation w a rather uptight banjo "performer" a while back. ( a very good musician too) he sat in w this hippy freak bluegrass band i was playing with. we're playing outside at a local no frills neighborhood bar and it's summertime. weather was around 100 degrees and humidity off of the charts. we're all wearing shorts, tank tops and sandals....banjo guy shows up in his skin tight Wranglers, long sleeved western shirt, a vest, boots (of course), and a leather cowboy hat. and it's 100 FRIGGIN' DEGREES!
he sneered dismissively when he walked over to the stage. i asked him what's wrong and he said something along the lines of "well, i'm used to playing with folks who dress professionally when the perform".
i told him "i'm sure my approach to stage attire is exactly the same as your's". "really?it doesn't look that way"
so i asked him..."don't you believe in dressing in what you think is appropriate for the gig?" ...."yeah, i do"
....."well there ya go..."that exactly what I do. i dress in EXACTLY what i feel is appropriate for the gig".
well, he didn't like that much but by the end of the first of set we were buddies because we were both enjoying each other's playing. different threads for different jeds, i guess.
