On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 11:04:31PM -0700, Matt Anderson wrote:
quoted 8 lines What I care about is that there is something else going on onstage. Create
> What I care about is that there is something else going on onstage. Create
> visuals, make a set, have something going on!Fireworks would be nice! RDJ
> had big fuzzy bears and greased up female body builders onstage for a
> reason! Most people I've talked to who have seen autechre said they hated it
> because "nothing was happening", or that it was good, except "nothing was
> happening". I would agree that the same applies for 'live bands' as well.
> Sitting there strumming your guitar isn't interesting (at least, it isn't to
> me). Put some effort into the SHOW you are putting on, because it is a SHOW!
Yea, I totally agree with this... Usually for my live shows I get at
least a few of my friends to come onstage with me and do silly things...
It usually turns into drunken craziness within a few minutes, which is
cool with me, but a lot of people complain that it "ruins the music."
(check
http://www.atomly.com/music/sets/ and tell me what you think).
At the Furthur festival, for example, I had two of my friends, one a
jungle DJ and one a booty house DJ, on the mic being stupid and another
friend of mine (Jason Clark from Strangeloop/Spiritual Krack
Laboratory... If you haven't checked out his stuff, you really should-
http://www.strangeloop.nu/ and
http://www.krack.org/) crawl over the
turntables from the crowd and get naked and rowdy.
I don't know if any of this enhanced the music, per se, but it certainly
made for a more entertaining show than the back of my laptop (and I
don't even use a Mac, so you couldn't see the lit up Apple :P)
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