What's Unique About Your Primary Band?

[Marvin]

1 minute ago, Bluewine said:

We struggle with consistency.  We can be really good at one gig and lay an egg at the next .

 

Daryl

I've never heard that expression before. I may, if you OK with it, start using it myself. 🙂

 

There's nothing unique, special or stand out about the band I'm in currently. If you were to put the set list in front of me and say do you wany to go and see this band I'd say, "not really". Most of the set is material that has been done a million times over.

[Bluewine]

5 hours ago, itu said:

We are 11.

We practise every Thursday.

We have been doing gigs since 1988.

 

What does not separate us from the others is that we have had many drummers. Just like in the famous rockumentary Spinal Tap.

 

We have trouble keeping drummers too.

 

Daryl

[Bluewine]

8 hours ago, Franticsmurf said:

The Hulla band is a 13 piece with a mix of Ukes, banjo, electric and acoustic guitars, sax, trumpet and trombone, keyboards, drums and bass. The band started as a community social event in the local village hall and they would occasionally play a concert for the village to raise funds for charity. By the time I joined, they had expanded their horizons and the B/L, a dedicated Bruce Springsteen fan, was introducing more rocky stuff. The drummer and I are the only ones not from the village but we have been fully integrated into the 'family'. 

 

What separates us from the other bands in the area? Our eclectic setlist, the fact that we are confident enough not to take ourselves too seriously and therefore always come across as having a lot of fun on stage, and all our gigs generate money for several charities - the band members are not paid.

What do we have that others don't? Compared to most local bands here, we have a wider range of songs in the catalogue that means we can fit in to any style of gig from wake to festival (both of which we've done). We also have bigger gigs.

If I was pitching the band to a prospect, what would be our bast selling point? We're able to do the whole event, including supplying a stage and marquee, sound, lights, a setlist that reflects what the event is all about and we will do requests if they're made in advance.

Areas where I think we struggle. A number of the band members struggle with the confidence to do what they can do - as a result of how the band grew up (with the B/L putting a lot of effort in at the start to get people to play), most of the band only do what he says during rehearsals rather than try out new things or make suggestions. We have some very talented musicians (I once listened to our guitarist play a 2 minute improvised Gypsy Jazz solo) but they won't use that talent in the band context. We take up a lot of room as a 13 piece. 😀

 

 

 

We're also one of the only local bands that has their own high quality sound and lighting. We have 3 divisions.

 

1. Maple Road Blues Band

2. She's Right I'm Left. ( Acoustic offering)

3. Sound & Lighting 

 

Daryl

[Bluewine]

11 minutes ago, Marvin said:

I've never heard that expression before. I may, if you OK with it, start using it myself. 🙂

 

There's nothing unique, special or stand out about the band I'm in currently. If you were to put the set list in front of me and say do you wany to go and see this band I'd say, "not really". Most of the set is material that has been done a million times over.

 

Yes, use the phrase and let us know if and when your band lays an egg. Lol

 

Daryl

[Bluewine]

7 hours ago, KingBollock said:

Oh how I wish I could contribute to this thread!

 

It would be cool if people linked to videos or websites of their bands. It’d be great to see you all in action (without me having to leave the house…).

 

 

I hope this link works.

 

 

 

[jezzaboy]

I play in an acdc tribute band with a girl singer. There used to be a few girls doing it but not so much now. This works for us sometimes but you get some Dicks saying that they would never go see a girl singing the songs but the thing is we can do Bon Scott and Brian Johnston material in the original key whereas most tributes stick to Bon as they can`t hit Brian`s notes.

 

I started doing dc tributes in 2012 but now there seems to be loads of them and some of them are crap, they seem to think that as long as you own an SG and a school uniform they are sorted. The key is the drummer and rhythm guitarist who have to be on it and luckily we have that, if you ain`t got them you are buggered. We would like to take it up a notch but the singer has 3 kids under 10 and a full time job so we just do whatever takes our fancy.

Edited 1 hour ago by jezzaboy

[SteveXFR]

When I was in a band, we were the only sludge metal band in our area and our lyrics were weirder than anyone else's.

[jezzaboy]

8 minutes ago, jezzaboy said:

 

 

Edited 1 hour ago by jezzaboy

[Lozz196]

10 minutes ago, jezzaboy said:

I play in an acdc tribute band with a girl singer. There used to be a few girls doing it but not so much now. This works for us sometimes but you get some Dicks saying that they would never go see a girl singing the songs but the thing is we can do Bon Scott and Brian Johnston material in the original key whereas most tributes stick to Bon as they can`t hit Brian`s notes.

 

I started doing dc tributes in 2012 but now there seems to be loads of them and some of them are crap, they seem to think that as long as you own an SG and a school uniform they are sorted. The key is the drummer and rhythm guitarist who have to be on it and luckily we have that, if you ain`t got them you are buggered. We would like to take it up a notch but the singer has 3 kids under 10 and a full time job so we just do whatever takes our fancy.

I’d love to play bass in an AC/DC band. Just that locking in with drums & rhythm guitar, must be awesome.

 

Good call re girl singer and original keys too, I’ve heard some bands try AC/DC songs where the male singer has sung at Elvis pitch, unable to hit the highs. 

[Cat Burrito]

Q - What separates your band from the other bands in the areas you work in?

 

A - a mix of playing originals (we do covers too), playing darker / gothic songs and our instrumentation. 

 

Q - What do you have that others don't?

 

A - There’s some real talent around here but I think it’s our overall package. 

 

Q - If you were pitching your band to a prospect, what would be your bast selling point.

 

A- We’re good at what we do, we’re easy to work with and we manage to take our music seriously without taking ourselves too seriously as people. 

 

Q - You can also add in areas where you think your band struggles. 
 

A - Just being too left field for what is a rural county. We’re flexible but fairly uncompromising.