Re: OPEN RELATIONSHIP / MASS MARRIAGE show at TALK'S CHEAP
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 11:28 pm
maybe its just me but I've always preferred good music, to bands saying something witty in between songs/or leaping around while playing.
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The Mika Miko factor is crucial.Human-Demise wrote:maybe its just me but I've always preferred good music, to bands saying something witty in between songs/or leaping around while playing.
Ebony and I talked about maybe getting All For The Best over to Vic for a show and doing it with Victim's Choice and Open Relationship. I think it'd be cool to have a bill with women in every band, it's mostly unheard of in hardcore and punk in this area. In fact before Wolfgang's show at his shop, I don't think I've heard of a show in Vic of Van where the bands were lady-centric in years.kay wrote:(And also what I just said about supporting girl musicians is what pretty much everyone has been doing so far on this thread. Moot point? Perhaps.)
Yes yes yes!Andrew wrote:Ebony and I talked about maybe getting All For The Best over to Vic for a show and doing it with Victim's Choice and Open Relationship. I think it'd be cool to have a bill with women in every band, it's mostly unheard of in hardcore and punk in this area. In fact before Wolfgang's show at his shop, I don't think I've heard of a show in Vic of Van where the bands were lady-centric in years.kay wrote:(And also what I just said about supporting girl musicians is what pretty much everyone has been doing so far on this thread. Moot point? Perhaps.)
Random people: You should move around more when your playingHuman-Demise wrote:maybe its just me but I've always preferred good music, to bands saying something witty in between songs/or leaping around while playing.
I see your point, and agree with it for the most part, but I think it's also worth noting that my experience was pretty much not realizing I could play music/being taken seriously as a musician until I was actually in a band. There seems to be this unspoken attitude that unless you've been in bands before you shouldn't be in a band. It's like trying to find a job for the first time and you keep getting turned away because you don't have any experience even though everybody started from nothing at one point. I would have probably never been in a band unless somebody asked me to jam despite my prior experience being limited to shitty joke tracks that consisted of 15 minute long 3 chord break downs because my confidence as musician wasn't the greatest because before then nobody wanted to be in a band with me because I hadn't been in any serious bands. People need to jam with new musicians in general. I can understand the apprehension to start a band with somebody who doesn't have any experience, but anybody who has ever touched an instrument has been in that situation where the people they're jamming with are head a shoulders above them so they just improve that much faster too keep up. Everybody should jam with new musicians if for no reason other than it will keep our community thriving.kay wrote:The Mika Miko factor is crucial.Human-Demise wrote:maybe its just me but I've always preferred good music, to bands saying something witty in between songs/or leaping around while playing.
And also I have this theory about girls in the music scene...
I work with kids all day and I always see boys exude this toughness, as if they're capable of playing certain games better than the girls. When the girls try to join in, the boys act like the girls are just getting in the way because they suck SO BAD at wall ball or soccer or whatever. At the very least, the girls aren't really invited for that sort of thing. So the boys play these games together all the time and after awhile they actually do get better at kicking balls around just by practicing.
A lot of girls start going to shows in our early teens just like boys. But when we look onstage at shows we see mostly male musicians. After a few years of sticking around, girls tend to start participating by promoting/postering/taking pictures/working door/dating dudes in bands instead of joining a shitty 3-chord punk band when we're 16 like many boys do. A lot of girls don't realize that we're totally capable of playing music until later and by that point we've lost practice time. So to avoid the whole playground-wallball scenario I described above, it's important not to dis girls who are just learning how to play or treat us like we're not serious musicians. Instead, jam with us and make sure we are in bands and onstage!
(To be clear, I don't just want to book Open Relationship for the sake of punk rock affirmative action...I'm stoked that they're girls but they also look like a band that's creative, fun to watch and fun to dance to. I want to see them!)
Medusa got a new drummer and we'll be looking for shows soon. We would love to play on a bill like this!ebony wrote:Yes yes yes!Andrew wrote:Ebony and I talked about maybe getting All For The Best over to Vic for a show and doing it with Victim's Choice and Open Relationship. I think it'd be cool to have a bill with women in every band, it's mostly unheard of in hardcore and punk in this area. In fact before Wolfgang's show at his shop, I don't think I've heard of a show in Vic of Van where the bands were lady-centric in years.kay wrote:(And also what I just said about supporting girl musicians is what pretty much everyone has been doing so far on this thread. Moot point? Perhaps.)
What's the story on Medusa?kay wrote:Medusa got a new drummer and we'll be looking for shows soon. We would love to play on a bill like this!
Our drummer went out of town for 3 months then came back for 2 weeks then decided she wanted to leave forever! But now we have a new drummer.Andrew wrote:What's the story on Medusa?kay wrote:Medusa got a new drummer and we'll be looking for shows soon. We would love to play on a bill like this!
No, I mean what style of music and such.kay wrote:Our drummer went out of town for 3 months then came back for 2 weeks then decided she wanted to leave forever! But now we have a new drummer.Andrew wrote:What's the story on Medusa?kay wrote:Medusa got a new drummer and we'll be looking for shows soon. We would love to play on a bill like this!
Oh...Andrew wrote:No, I mean what style of music and such.kay wrote:Our drummer went out of town for 3 months then came back for 2 weeks then decided she wanted to leave forever! But now we have a new drummer.Andrew wrote:What's the story on Medusa?kay wrote:Medusa got a new drummer and we'll be looking for shows soon. We would love to play on a bill like this!
Good way to get on this bill is to do the show.kay wrote:Medusa got a new drummer and we'll be looking for shows soon. We would love to play on a bill like this!
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