i dont think bobbing your head is necessarily showing
off....i just get into it cause im playing it loud as
fuck and it sounds dope...giving off some energy...no
big deal...
d
www.mp3.com/dannn
--- swamay <swamay@home.com> wrote:
quoted 93 lines What do you expect a electronic musician to do while
> What do you expect a electronic musician to do while
> on stage?
> I ask this because i hear people saying "all he/she
> does is just sit there
> with a laptop! how boring!" or "the band was not
> there for the fans, they
> were just up there making noise!"
>
> What, you want flaming skulls and a rotating
> drumset suspended over the
> croud? :) I think anything more than twisting
> knobs and bobbing your head
> to to the music you are making is pure "look at me
> im a star" BS. Unless you
> are naturaly a jumpy show off. When i see a live
> electronic show, i am
> interested in how they make thier music, and what
> gear they are using to
> create it. Im not there to see a band jump up and
> down and look stupid. I
> lose respect for anyone that is trying to "show off"
> on stage, and "create"
> a false persona or "show"
>
> Its important what comes out the speakers, not what
> is on stage.
>
> What do you think?
>
>
>
> ~swamay~
> www.swamay.com
> www.mp3.com/swamay
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rev Simon Rumble" <simon@rumble.net>
> To: "Iain Forfar" <Iainf@ukgateway.net>
> Cc: <idm@hyperreal.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 10:02 AM
> Subject: Re: [idm] All Tomorrow's Parties
>
>
> > I concur, somewhat. Tortoise were brilliant.
> Boards of Canada
> > brilliant. Broadcast were great. Def Jux Posse
> were great and seemed
> > quite out of place since they were entertaining
> the crowd, not jerking
> > off musically.
> >
> > This brings me to my gripe with the weekend. Most
> of the bands didn't
> > seem to be there for their "fans" but were instead
> just up there
> > making noise. Major culprits: Authechre,
> Television, Stereolab and
> > Tortoise DJs (playing Whitney Houston may be
> tres-ironic but I heard
> > the same track three times over the weekend
> bringing it to five times
> > in the last week or so).
> >
> > These bands and DJs need to remember they're
> entertainers. An hour of
> > wanking on stage isn't very exciting, although the
> turtleneck crowd
> > seemed to be into it.
> >
> > Organisation was a bit lacking. 100 quid tickets
> and no way to get
> > from the train station to the festival except a
> once-per-hour bus (the
> > normal town bus) or one of the six taxis in town?
> Our "four berth
> > chalet" ended up being four beds of six people in
> the room meaning we
> > were meant to share with two strangers, until we
> kicked up a stink.
> >
> > --
> > Rev Simon Rumble Current physical location:
> London, UK
> > simon@rumble.net
> > http://www.rumble.net
> >
> > Prejudice:
> > A vagrant opinion without visible means of
> support.
> > -- Ambrose Bierce
> >
> >
>
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