Pet Peeves anyone?

[DirtySanchez]

What are some pet peeves of yours regarding the live show?

Here are a couple of mine.

Musicians bitching and complaining to a small crowd about a small crowd.- I seriously don't get why people do this. Are you TRYING to play to even less people?

Wireless Abuse- Work the crowd, but that stage is there for a reason. Singers get a little more leeway but not much. I bust Roman Our roaming bass player for this all the time. Just because you can play 12873984674 feet away from your rig doesn't mean you should. What's next a drum kit on wheels?

Demanding Gratification- If people aren't responding to your show, do something that deserves a response. You are there to entertain. Do it. Don't TELL people what to do. If they wanted that, they would have picked up some extra shifts at work. The audiences response is a direct reflection of what you are doing. If they look bored, guess who bored them?

Faux Enthusiasm- You're not Billy Fucking Mays selling Oxi-Clean for chrissakes. Be yourself. Be a happy version of yourself, but please don't be so fake happy that you look like Lamar from Reading Rainbow OD'd on Prozac.

Reading Lyrics while Performing- At least hide your chet sheet if you must.
Don't stand there like you're reading the newspaper to your audience. It's not Karaoke.

These are the things that irritate me when I see PROFESSIONAL MUSICIANS doing them. It's not the sixth grade talent contest, quit being a hack. Anyways what irks you?

[Colton]

drummers who dont count

anyone with like $2000 + in gear and cant play worth a damn

I'm just gonna stop before i write a book and piss everyone off, haha



OH OH ONE MORE
People who play tool! I'm sorry, none of you guys do it right

[witchhunt]

Faux Enthusiasm- You're not Billy Fucking Mays selling Oxi-Clean for chrissakes. Be yourself.

Classic.

[nightcrawler_steve]

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[Heartless_Mockery_Records]

People who play tool! I'm sorry, none of you guys do it right

Thank you. If I hear one more person butcher "Sober" I'm gonna hurl myself through a plate glass window.

Here's a few since I'm a whiny bitch...

1.) Way too much stage volume for the size of venue/crowd. I know you need a certain volume to attain your 'sound'. But sometimes this gets ridiculous... being loud enough that you don't need monitors is ok. Being so loud it is painful to the audience is not.

2.) Telling people to 'get up front' they clearly aren't there, clearly because you suck.

3.) Swinging mics around by the cord then wondering why the fucking thing keeps cutting out. Iggy Pop.

4.) Blaming the fact that you suck on either the venue, crowd, sound guy or anything else.

5.) Taking 10 minutes between songs to tune.

6.) Taking 10 minutes between songs to tune, without muting your amp.

7.) The obligatory drunk guy telling everyone they need to 'scoop the mids'.

Sorry feeling bitchy today, must be my time o' the month.

[DirtySanchez]

People who think drummers with kits on wheels are rediculous

~luv ya DS

Funny you should mention that DS, there is a kit on ebay on wheels. No lie.

Somehow I'm not surprised.

Would be cool if the kick pedals put it into motion. Watching Death metal drumers do 90 mph into a wall would be funny.

[Colton]

drummers who dont count

Count what? I like to count how many hot chicks are in the crowd and guess their cups size.

Okay the, drummers who CANT count

[witchhunt]

People who think drummers with kits on wheels are rediculous

~luv ya DS

Funny you should mention that DS, there is a kit on ebay on wheels. No lie.

Somehow I'm not surprised.

Would be cool if the kick pedals put it into motion. Watching Death metal drumers do 90 mph into a wall would be funny.

Wonder how long it will be till someone invents a kit that you can play with two WII controllers from a distance. Somebody get on that.

[DirtySanchez]

2.) Telling people to 'get up front' they clearly aren't there, clearly because you suck.

See this at every other show I'm at. Annoys me to no end.

Sometimes the band is really good too, and this just makes me not like them.

[metalchurch]

2.) Telling people to 'get up front' they clearly aren't there, clearly because you suck.

See this at every other show I'm at. Annoys me to no end.

The shows you play? That would be annoying for sure, hang in there Brian,it will get better I promise.

[onegunguitar]

What are some pet peeves of yours regarding the live show?
Wireless Abuse- Work the crowd, but that stage is there for a reason. Singers get a little more leeway but not much. I bust Roman Our roaming bass player for this all the time. Just because you can play 12873984674 feet away from your rig doesn't mean you should.

Haha,I'm gonna go back to wireless for the following reasons:
1) So you can't pull my freakin' hair
2) Most of the stages aren't big enough for our fat asses anyways
3) So I can play 12873984674 feet away from my rig like Roman

[XlifeNexus]

-People coming up to the microphone to show off their mad karaoke skills.

-Musicians with more equipment than brains.

-Mannequins. They just plain freak me out.

[Ron]

Porn links that install adware.

[DirtySanchez]

What are some pet peeves of yours regarding the live show?
Wireless Abuse- Work the crowd, but that stage is there for a reason. Singers get a little more leeway but not much. I bust Roman Our roaming bass player for this all the time. Just because you can play 12873984674 feet away from your rig doesn't mean you should.

Haha,I'm gonna go back to wireless for the following reasons:
1) So you can't pull my freakin' hair
2) Most of the stages aren't big enough for our fat asses anyways
3) So I can play 12873984674 feet away from my rig like Roman

haha get a haircut hippie!

[onegunguitar]

What are some pet peeves of yours regarding the live show?
Wireless Abuse- Work the crowd, but that stage is there for a reason. Singers get a little more leeway but not much. I bust Roman Our roaming bass player for this all the time. Just because you can play 12873984674 feet away from your rig doesn't mean you should.

Haha,I'm gonna go back to wireless for the following reasons:
1) So you can't pull my freakin' hair
2) Most of the stages aren't big enough for our fat asses anyways
3) So I can play 12873984674 feet away from my rig like Roman

haha get a haircut hippie!

LOL! I'm afraid if I get it cut it won't grow back since I'm pushin' 40,YIKES!!

[moxham123]

I agree with Dirty Sanchez on his points and would like to add a few more.

Guitar players who feel they have to play the opening riff to the next song like a refresher preview through the P.A. to remind themselves how the song starts before they actually start the song.

Musicians who noodle around playing random notes and riffs between songs.

Bands that take unreasonably long breaks and play very short sets.

Bands that can't seem to start on time. Equipment, vehicle, illness, or travel problems are accepted as legitimate reasons for starting late. Not just because the band does not feel like starting or think they have to wait for more people to show up before they can start.

[ToonaRockGuy]

When you get really excited about a show and it doesn't happen.

When you get really excited about a show and the Murphy's Law evening kicks in...everything that can go wrong...does.

Not bringing spare drumheads to a gig. You'll never break one...until you don't bring a spare.

When you're playing softly and notice your favorite cymbal is cracked. Shit.

Drunks in the audience who think they can play drums...then try to sit down at your kit and start hammering away, when it's obviously time for them to strap on the helmet and hop the short bus home.

When you blow a simple fill immediately after noticing that another drumer whom you respect has entered the establishment.

When your friends tell you they are coming to your show...and they don't.

Just a few there.

[drums=life]

What are some pet peeves of yours regarding the live show?
Wireless Abuse- Work the crowd, but that stage is there for a reason. Singers get a little more leeway but not much. I bust Roman Our roaming bass player for this all the time. Just because you can play 12873984674 feet away from your rig doesn't mean you should.

Haha,I'm gonna go back to wireless for the following reasons:
1) So you can't pull my freakin' hair
2) Most of the stages aren't big enough for our fat asses anyways
3) So I can play 12873984674 feet away from my rig like Roman

fuckin classic!!!, love you guys

[bassist_25]

Musicians bitching and complaining to a small crowd about a small crowd.- I seriously don't get why people do this. Are you TRYING to play to even less people?

+1298457384752938.... x10!!!!!

I fucking hate this! It's one of the most unprofessional things a front person can do. As someone in the audience, it makes for an even longer night for me. The one and only time it is even exceptable to comment on a light crowd is when it is said in a positive light. For example, "Hey, there might not be a lot of you out there tonight, but we can still party the same!" Albeit, less cheesy, but that's just my example, since there's a reason I'm not a frontperson. LOL

Taking 10 minutes between songs to tune, without muting your amp.

Yes! Behind scooped mids, live tuning is my number two biggest pet peeve! If you can afford the 10,000 watt Marshall full-stack, you can afford the Boss pedal tuner. I have a Korg DTR-1000 in my rack. It's the shizzle. It's the first thing in my signal chain directly after my bass. I mute it, and there's no sound reaching either my cabinets or the front of house. It's true bypass, so there's no tonal colorization or noise introduced into the signal. I don't have have perfect pitch, but I like to think that I have pretty good relative pitch. I still know that the perfectly strobed electronic tuner is more accurate than my ears!

And since I brought it up - My number one pet-peeve: scooped mids. People, people, people...what sounds bad ass in your bedroom does not sound good on a live stage. You know that really fast sweeped arppegio guitar lead you just did? I didn't hear one single note of it. It sounded like mush because you have no mids. The bass mix sounds like a low rumble, because everything between 200hz and 1k is missing.

Bands that can't seem to start on time. Equipment, vehicle, illness, or travel problems are accepted as legitimate reasons for starting late. Not just because the band does not feel like starting or think they have to wait for more people to show up before they can start.

Reading this reminds me of another pet-peeve I have - Multi-show bands where a band takes forever to set up. We had a Saturday off the other week, so I went out to a local venue with some friends. One of the bands - and I shit you not - took longer to set up than it took them to play their set. Now they weren't running electronic drums or Bradshaw switching systems on the guitars or anything like. It was just simple heads into cabs. Total lack of professionalism! Seriously, why does it take this long to set up when you already have a house PA waiting for you? Craziness.

Oh yeah, last pet peeve - Local bands with primmadonna attitudes and pretentiousness. You're playing in Altoona or Johnstown for Christ's sake, not Shea Stadium. Be professional, but don't be a stuck up ass. I can't stand pretentiousness from national acts, let alone the cover band playing the corner bar (the pretentious original band is even worse, because they're material usually is nowhere good as they'd like to believe it is). We're musicians; we serve a very important aspect in society of providing art and entertainment. However, we're not curing AIDS here or anything.

[PanzerFaust]

People who play tool! I'm sorry, none of you guys do it right

Thank you. If I hear one more person butcher "Sober" I'm gonna hurl myself through a plate glass window.

Here's a few since I'm a whiny bitch...


7.) The obligatory drunk guy telling everyone they need to 'scoop the mids'.

Sorry feeling bitchy today, must be my time o' the month.

Wow I thought I've heard every statement a drunk guy could come up with but never commentary on to scoop or not scoop mids......

Apparently you're drawing more audiophiles with your band hehe...

[floodcitybrass]

My pet peeve is walking into guitar center and hearing poorly played guitar licks on out of tune guitars through crappy sounding amps... only to have 3 really hot chics hang with him as if he was a rock star.

I also hate when the band truck breaks down in Punxsutawney on a Friday night gig when you have a wedding to play the next day.

[Heartless_Mockery_Records]

People who play tool! I'm sorry, none of you guys do it right

Thank you. If I hear one more person butcher "Sober" I'm gonna hurl myself through a plate glass window.

Here's a few since I'm a whiny bitch...


7.) The obligatory drunk guy telling everyone they need to 'scoop the mids'.

Sorry feeling bitchy today, must be my time o' the month.

Wow I thought I've heard every statement a drunk guy could come up with but never commentary on to scoop or not scoop mids......

Apparently you're drawing more audiophiles with your band hehe...[/b]

As for the Tool thing, don't get me wrong i couldn't play it either. so that was probably unwarranted on my part. I guess the correct thing to say would have been "people trying to play things above their ability level, bothers me".

no, i don't play in a band.

as for the "Scooped mids thing". Actually, that only happened one time but it stuck with me, and i can't even remember the band that was playing. though i assure you it was quite hilarious at the time.

it was like he just learned the phrase and was trying it out between their songs.



kinda funny most people on here 'peeve' on the same stuff.

[Killjingle]

out of tune instruments!!!!!!!!!!!!!! tune ur drums and your guitars...

and super lame FOH mixes!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I know every room is not the Metropol but fuck it doesnt have to sound like a shed... if the mix is that bad I am the asshole who will ask for my money back.

My biggest pet peeve? I know this is perception or personal taste... but ppl or fans who are diehard followers or who fall all over a band who clearly has not put the proper thought or time into their performance, or just plain SUCK. If playing the gig is a joke or is not important to your band; I guarantee I am even less disinterested in your performance. Also dont show up to a gig without equipment in multi band perfomances and then expect to play someone elses gear.

[floodcitybrass]

and super lame FOH mixes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How about when the sound guy makes the kick drum fifty times louder than anything else in the whole band just for the sole purpose of showing off is subwoofer penis.

[HurricaneBob]

I hate when sit in drummers have to play with there pants off, leaving a bacon strip on my seat.