Music Industry Discussion

Thats cool, red always looks good too.
I most often wear my black shirt with the tigers on it.
I prefer to wear it over a back tank as well.
I always get complements on that shirt, makes my wife happy as she bought it for me in KC
The black makes my guitar stand out, and the loose fitting shirt covers my S&W well.

You can't go wrong with a white mask and a KFC Bucket on your head!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEDB4xJsXVo - Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains at Bonnaroo 2002

See the very last photo on my page.
Not a very fancy, eh?
But - weve gotten a lot of compliments.
Not bad for a $6 shirt, huh?

If you're a performer is not at all superficial to be concerned about image, image and stage presence is the second part of a performance. It's what the audience sees, as well as hears. I usually dress in black, with blue jeans. I a little bit skater a lilttle bit rocker. Our other guitarist wears a f**k Mountain Dew Shirt at every show, but whatevs I guess that's his style.

Well stated Parker.
Cool pics n stuff. Put up some music samples for us my man, and welcome to the boards.

P.S.
Perhaps you can have his significant other steal and trash said MD shirt.

It is HUGELY important.
For us, we have sparkly, glittering vests, leopard pattern shirts, shirts and ties and more... we change several times in one show and people say that's a theatrical element they love about us...

Look at David Bowie

It is HUGELY important.
For us, we have sparkly, glittering vests, leopard pattern shirts, shirts and ties and more... we change several times in one show and people say that's a theatrical element they love about us...

Look at David Bowie

i guess for us its the long hair dark colors and jean jackets hahaha
but since I dont have the long hair anymore i dont push the denim jacket envolope either.
Fans come see us for our songs, it relates to them i guess.
others come to see the bassist that solos with the lead guitarist hahaha.
and then you got the hecklers, but who cares they paid the entrance fee, I gave my performance and its always a good show. Not no sitting on the amp piss drunk.

If anyone is interested in how clothing affects people, U should definitely check out this book,John T. Molloy's Dress for Success. The author has put a painstaking amount of research into this book to determine the best look in tems of clothing at the workplace and other settings. He started out as a teacher in school and noticed that when he wore different colors, styles and combinations, students reacted positively or negatively to his instruction. And this is all subconscious, the students were not even aware of how physical appreance was affecting them. Very interesting reading...it's one thing to discover something that works on stage for you but it's entirely different to understand WHY it works.

Thanks for the heads up. A little information can be a dangerous thing.

I read that book a couple decades ago, and experimented to see what is what.
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When I was about 25 years old I walked into a strange biker bar wearing a suit and tie - and acted exactly the same as I always do - drinking, playing pinball, and what-not.
I expected some guys would give me a hard time or something - but they didn't. And everyone talked to me "too" courteously.
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But I don't like underdressing for anything . . .
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I verified it myself - the guy is right.
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The clothes DO make the man, in the eyes of other people . . ..
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One thing that is often overlooked is the shoes.
If you see 2 people dressed identically, - but one is wearing ratty sneakers, and the other is wearing polished leather shoes - we automatically get two different impressions of them.
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Also, this 'dressing for success' extends to 2 other things - our cars, and our girl friends.
I won't go into that aspect of it, though . . .

It depends on where you're playing. If you're doing covers in a bar, I doubt people are going to care very much. If you're doing a tribute band or something like a 70s or 60s band, then people are going to expect more.

If you're doing originals, and if you have a look, it helps.

I have a gothy steampunk style about me and so does my band. It makes it harder for us to find musicians, but hey, I know this, when I walk into a club everybody wants to know who I am, when I walk up on stage everybody turns their attention to me to see what I'm going to do. Just something to think about.

Chaeya

I'll have to check out that book, John T. Molloy's Dress for Success.

Surely, image plays a part in everything. Wether we like it or not we are projecting an image of ourselves. We can choose either to control it or let it be controlled for us. I never have a lot of money for clothes, though. I'm reminded of the Jeff Foxworthy joke; you could destroy everything we own (except the music stuff) and we'd be out $15 bucks! Practically everything we own came from thrift stores, garage sales, someone's trash, or were given to us. So, as a by-product, our "image", is kinda trashy lower-class (t-shirt, jeans, jacket, etc. all preferably black). If I had the money, I'd like to get some nice Nehru suits (f**k neckties). I'd wear 'em offstage AND onstage.

Maybe that's kind of a helpful key. Make your natural image your stage image and you'll need fewer clothes. The Ramones, AC/DC, Motorhead, etc. kind of made their real-life wardobe their uniform. Even some people with an outlandish dress sense, like Grace Jones, wore their same clothes offstage.