Doe4s the venue change your setlist?

[jetcitywoman]

Playing Ebensburg or portage might want to kick the Lynyrd Skynyrd up a notch to "11" lol

However playing Harrisburg....

Does the venue change your setlist is my question?

[nakedtwister]

No !!!

[jetcitywoman]

No !!!

why not/
playing to your audience would be wise would it not?

[Banned]

Go out and see a Hawks show and find out.

[jetcitywoman]

Go out and see a Hawks show and find out.

plan on it but mean time Y don't ya 'splain it to us lucy?

playing to your audience might be a wise biz decision seeing as how they are paying your ticket?just saying

[kayla]

the hawks are a blues band. straight blues. i dont see them playin any skynyrd any time soon.

[Banned]

Duh! They are a blues band. What do you expect them to do, play Lady Gaga music?

[kayla]

play Lady Gaga music?

just had a visual of jason playin poker face. hahaha.

[nakedtwister]

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[Banned]

play Lady Gaga music?

just had a visual of jason playin poker face. hahaha.

Shhh...don't tell him. LOL

[Banned]

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I can't wait to see your outfit B.

[jetcitywoman]

the hawks are a blues band. straight blues. i dont see them playin any skynyrd any time soon.

Great. but BLUES can be JAZZ, RHYTHM&BLUES or even RocknRoll....depending on the chord progressions..right??

right, or not? please advise

Wouldn't this leave a bit of room for specific changes in setlists per venue?

[Jasaoke]

You HAVE to play for your audience. Otherwise you're just wasting everybody's time.

But that doesn't mean you can't 'country-up' a rock tune, or what have you. My band utilizes the concept of "lenses" quite a lot. Country songs often have that bassline that alternates between the chord root and it's fifths; guitars are very legatto and don't be stingy with the 7ths. Take the same chords, play straight eight note power chords, lots of snare fills and you've got a punk song.

We don't use a set list.

[Big Jimi Cee]

It doesn't change our setlist from the standpoint of the songs we play, but it does effect how we may approach or play the songs on the setlist. With that said, being a blues band that is trying to put their own spin on everything we do, this gives us the flexibility to do so.

We can change meter and dynamics on a song we play on a given night depending where we are or how the crowd is reacting. I really depends on what you are trying to achieve as a band and how much flexibility you feel you have with the music you are playing.

The other side of the coin is that we do a setlist for every job and the order in which we play the songs will change dependent on where we are and to some extent to break the monotony of doing the same song over and over again. We will also change of the fly again depending on the crowd and by just general observation.

So to answer a question with a question, what do you mean by change the setlist??

[lonewolf]

We adjusted our setlist to the crowd and used a lot of "audibles".

We would switch to whatever kinda stuff was keeping them on the dance floor.

There were only a few venues where we used a significantly different setlist and that was because we knew there would be a significantly different crowd.

[nakedtwister]

Here's my question. If you go to a Hair Force One gig, do you go up to Vic Synn and ask him to do " Down With The Sickness"? Maybe you ask John Stevens to do some Godsmack, Mama Corn Style. Maybe you tell the Embalmed you want to hear some Sugarland, even though they work their asses off to hone and fine tune the originals they strive to put out to the public. So No! I never ask a band to play something not on their set list. I sit back and enjoy what they are playing.

[ToonaRockGuy]

Here's my question. If you go to a Hair Force One gig, do you go up to Vic Synn and ask him to do " Down With The Sickness"? Maybe you ask John Stevens to do some Godsmack, Mama Corn Style. Maybe you tell the Embalmed you want to hear some Sugarland, even though they work their asses off to hone and fine tune the originals they strive to put out to the public. So No! I never ask a band to play something not on their set list. I sit back and enjoy what they are playing.

Exactly. People go to see a band for what that band does. Some bands have a wider repetoire than others, but if I go to see HF1 or Sunset Strip, I expect 80's hair metal. If I go to see The Embalmed or Dethlehem, I expect to get my face ripped off with metal. If I go to see Mama Corn, bluegrass. The Hawks, blues. Half Tempted, classic rock. It's what the bands do. Now stop asking dumb questions.

[bassist_25]

Haha, The Embalmed examples are funny, because I recall Jason telling me a story of a guy requesting for them to play some Creed...and the dude had already heard The Embalmed play...and he was not being sarcastic or ironic.

With that said, I do tailor set lists to the venue. It blows me away that there are bands who don't change their set lists from gig to gig. You can literally predict what song they're going to play next.

Great. but BLUES can be JAZZ, RHYTHM&BLUES or even RocknRoll....depending on the chord progressions..right??

Seeing as jazz, blues, R&B, and rock 'n roll all have a basis on 12-barre I-IV-V progressions, then no.

Okay, okay...play I, vi, II, V7 in the turn-around and it automatically becomes jazz.

[kayla]

It blows me away that there are bands who don't change their set lists from gig to gig. You can literally predict what song they're going to play next.

this blows my mind too. i can't understand who would want to play exactly the same thing day in and day out. and you can't expect people to keep comin out to see the exact same show. imo.

[songsmith]

Maybe you ask John Stevens to do some Godsmack, Mama Corn Style.

Challenge accepted!
Hey, we play Sabbath, Floyd, Dead, CSN, a song from a Rob Zombie movie, Merle Travis, Men At Work, a 14th-century Scottish ballad, and the rare Michael Jackson song.
It could work.

Seriously, Mama Corn does have a list of songs, but we rarely use a setlist anymore. I'd like to see one used, especially when we take too long between songs, but it does really help to shift gears as needed. My performance background has always required a constant eye on the audience reaction, so we try to stay loose on what we play. Once upon a time, the bands I was in just did our obscure metal stuff, and if you didn't like it, tough... but I've grown accustomed to applause and interaction, so we really try to crowd-please.
That said, if I go see a blues band, I want to hear blues. And much as it pains me to agree with joe, The Hawks are a good blues band, everyone should check them out.

[moxham123]

The Conniptions never use a set list and we adjust and are flexible with our songs each gig depending on the audience and we do requests if we know them. That is what works well for us but not necessarily suits other bands.

[jetcitywoman]

heres the thing: once in the biz long enough that you learned & know a large repertoire of tunes..can pretty much freewheel it from gig to gig keeping it fresh w/o repeating yourself and satisifying requests as they come up

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