bobbing your head to the music makes sense, but jumping around and making a
spectacle of yourself seems silly to me. I do like the visual additions to
shows. It helps the music tell a story.
~swamay~
www.mp3.com/swamay
<<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...>>
----- Original Message -----
From: "ff g" <glassmuseum@yahoo.com>
To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 12:20 PM
Subject: Re: [idm] What do you expect from IDM musicians on stage?
quoted 130 lines i dont think bobbing your head is necessarily showing
> 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:
> > 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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