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Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:00 am
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Tell us your stage trick that make you look so cool on stage! (trowing guitar, flipping guitar, playing with teeth, burning guitar, etc)


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my tricks:
-flipping guitar
-playing with teeth
-jumping ala Van Halen
-strings breaking


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Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 10:36 am
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Walk onto stage. Play the guitar as well as possible. Walk off stage.

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Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 10:45 am
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liveatsix wrote:
Walk onto stage. Play the guitar as well as possible. Walk off stage.


+1. If it's something heavier, I'll jump around and move a bit more, but no real "tricks".


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liveatsix wrote:
Walk onto stage. Play the guitar as well as possible. Walk off stage.

+1 -- Stage antics only look cool if you are a good musician. Stage tricks by inferior musicians look silly. Concentrate on the playing. A quality well-placed guitar solo will always do the trick.
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You can't do better than smashing all your gear like the Who or setting your strat on fire like Hendrix.

DISCLAIMER: Don't really do this. Poster not responsible for property damage or loss or bodily injury or death caused by actually listening to this suggestion offered solely in jest.

However, these are probably the best stage tricks ever.

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I'd give anything to be able to move round the stage like Pete Townshend in the '70s. In reality, the evening is going pretty well if I hit most of the right notes and don't fall over.

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... In reality, the evening is going pretty well if I hit most of the right notes and don't fall over ...

Yes. There is nothing worse than finishing the rock-star poses during a guitar solo, only to take a step back and fall over the monitor. I have seen that one. I am STILL laughing.

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Ceri wrote:
... In reality, the evening is going pretty well if I hit most of the right notes and don't fall over ...

Yes. There is nothing worse than finishing the rock-star poses during a guitar solo, only to take a step back and fall over the monitor. I have seen that one. I am STILL laughing.


Seen it - I've done it! So that was you laughing...

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The best 'Trick' I ever saw was when 10 Years After played a gig at a college in Vermont many years ago. Like any magic trick, it still looks awesome even after you figure out how it's done. During one of Alvin Lee's solos, he went over to the bass player and they faced each other with enough room between them to showcase the idea that they were plucking each others guitars while still fingering their own necks. Actually they were both doing left-hand hammer-ons while their right hand fingers were tickling air super close to the others pick-up area. At all angles (except dead center) the 'Trick' can fool even experienced musicians. Most of the crowd (non-musician fans) were totally stunned. IF you can pull it off, your visually attentive audience members will certainly 'drop jaw' in amazement .... LOL :shock: :o

PS: Don't forget the 'Prime' trick for any guitarist, especially during a solo:
PLAYING HOT LICKS UP BEHIND YOUR HEAD! :lol:


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I played for the first time ever in front of an audience Saturday night; a friend who fronts an "occasional" band (he and two of my other friends get together and play at parties two or three times a year) threw his wife a surprise 40th birthday party. Towards the end of the evening he called my son up to play the Beatles' "Birthday" with the band (as he's doing in my sig picture). When that was done Tom called me up; I was just drunk enough to strap his guitar on. I didn't know any of their playlist, so we just did a blues improv. My trick for looking cool? Stage fright! I was scared to death, so I stood stonelike and stared at the frets; people thought I was in deep concentration. Must have worked. I got a lot of compliments. :lol:

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Not really a unique 'trick' but some behind the head playing when it's a good crowd and I'm havin' a good night.

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Didn't Iggy Pop try to cut himself on stage and dive from a set, nearly killing him? So the legend goes.

I've often wondered whether Iggy Pop's given name was something like Ignatz Popadopoulos.


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liveatsix wrote:
Walk onto stage. Play the guitar as well as possible. Walk off stage.


That sounds about right.

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Ceri wrote:
01GT eibach wrote:
Ceri wrote:
... In reality, the evening is going pretty well if I hit most of the right notes and don't fall over ...

Yes. There is nothing worse than finishing the rock-star poses during a guitar solo, only to take a step back and fall over the monitor. I have seen that one. I am STILL laughing.


Seen it - I've done it! So that was you laughing...

- C


I attended a punk/ska show a few weeks ago in San Antonio. The bassist in the opening act did a backwards leap from the drum platform and landed right on the guitarist. They both went down in a feedback-filled heap. It was actually the most enjoyable part of their set. :wink:


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