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Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 2:45 pm
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Stage Dive
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Get tangled in chords while spinning in circles on the Ground.
Jump from the highest point on stage.
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Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 7:17 pm
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not a stage player... but wanna learn how to play w/teeth. I might break a string!!!!

Although i do believe that stage tricks are only that: tricks, nothing more. Unless you play really well doing the trick.

The subtlest thing i can think of is throwing the guitar across the stage when you're done. Try sliding it though, rather than ramming into the ground :lol:

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Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:36 pm
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I never have enough room on stage to even move my elbows let alone think about tricks. The only thing Ive ever even be able to pull off is a power slide. And that wasnt the greatest idea. INDIAN BURRRRRRRN


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Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 7:24 am
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My favorite "stage trick" was consistently done by Grandpa Jones, the country banjo musician. He'd stomp his foot after raising it so his knee was about up to his chin. He did that while playing. He was a heck of a showman. More fun to watch than any other musician I can think of.


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Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 9:49 am
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Gotta mention Roy Clark & his 'trick'....... he'd stick his tongue out and seemingly bite on it, which implied what he was doing (usually on guitar) was a really difficult part (for him, or anyone) to play. Actually, the solos probably weren't hard for him to pull off, but it sure was funny.... :lol:


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You could be like James Hetfield...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKGKHfnfwqw

(Wait till about 3:21 into the song...)


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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 7:07 am
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Walk onto stage. Play the guitar as well as possible. Walk off stage.



Yeah, what he said, minimize errors, a big trick for me :D


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Very simplistic, but if it works for you, that's great.
When I was doing 46 weeks a year, 6 nights a week touring clubs and lounges, I'd actually have a 'perfect' night every so often. NO clunkers and everything sounded great on every song.... literally no problems, smooth as glass. Sadly, some pain-in-the-butt would occasionally hassle me about smiling. "I'd smile more if you'd stop reminding me that I don't have Donny Osmond's plastered-on grin! Geeze...." They just don't understand that one must concentrate to get things right and that such interruptions only make things worse, not better. Many artists have to practice their (fake) grins and smiles so as to do it without having to think about it. I never could coordinate such BS and be fake. Besides, you can usually tell when a smile is genuine and when it's not. These days I consider a perfect night one that I don't bust a string, drop a pick, go out of tune, pee my pants, forget any lines or chord changes and get paid what I was promised! 8)


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Years ago... (decades actually) my buddy went to a concert, and thought it would be cool to rush past security and up onto the stage with the band. He DID make it past security, did get onto the stage... but tripped on a cord, slammed into the bass player, and both fell into the audience.

Lesson to be learned? Audiences don't catch stage diving bass players.

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I can't even begin to tell you how many times people with whatever reason to approach the bandstand have done so totally devoid of a brain and NOT watching where their feet are going. Drunk, high or not, they fall over floor monitors, trip on mike cords, guitar cords and speaker wires, falling over and knocking things all over the place, usually resulting in some kind of damage to them, us or OUR expensive equipment. Then these AHs come back to apologize and repeat their bumbling circus show! THE worst is a request to play some dumb-butt song we've never even heard off, let alone know the words & music.... and they try to talk to us DURING one of our songs!!! I can't believe how stupid some idiots can be. Like asking questions of a horn player or singer while they are blasting their guts out performing!!! Total morons that end up blaming us for their ridiculous actions. No forethought whatsoever. Then we hear they used to be fans, but now hate us.... AS IF we're to blame for their incompetence.


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When that stuff happens to me, I just turn it up until his/her ears start to bleed. They usually back off after that.


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Poor bass players who stage dive :cry: .


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I tend to lose all sense of the world around me when playing, making me do all sorts of weird faces, most often i suck in my cheeks or stick my tongue out in the left side of my mouth
I lose my balance too, making me sway like a tree in strong wind


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in one of the bands I was in we had an absolutely fabulous lead guitarist, but he'd always make these weird mouth shapes, like he was trying to form words while simultaneously doped up with novocain and eating ice cream. I ended up buying him one of those teeth guard things to bite down on cause it would always distract me and make me laugh midshow


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My last band, we were all in black with biker jackets on. Nothing makes more of a impact than a well turned out band. As far as tricks go we had loads.
1 get jools to tune up off stage. nothing looks worse than a band tuning up onstage before their set
2 Insert lit ciggarette into jools's belly button and draw a smiley face around it whilst he solos behind his head.
3 rhythm and solo behind my back
4 Play the set in 6 sets of 5 songs with no breaks inbetween songs (very good for rushed timeslots and looks very pro)
5 solo whilst the vocalist detunes my guitar and keep the solo in pitch with the trem.

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