Battle of the bands

juineaux · Unread post by **juineaux** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 12:39 am

Im doing one of these things things for the first time, anyone have some advice/suggestions? Just myself and another guitarist, up against alot of 4-5 peice rock bands-

fatjack · Unread post by **fatjack** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 12:58 am

juineaux wrote:Im doing one of these things things for the first time, anyone have some advice/suggestions? Just myself and another guitarist, up against alot of 4-5 peice rock bands-

hmmm, dont expect to get much going in with just two guys, chances are they will be looking for the full ensembles, even if you are better than the others

juineaux · Unread post by **juineaux** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 9:34 am

really....that sucks

everydayDMBfan_18 · Unread post by **everydayDMBfan_18** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 11:32 am

Most of the times you won't win unless you cater to what everyone else likes...which sucks.

juineaux · Unread post by **juineaux** » Fri Apr 02, 2004 11:58 am

hmmm....should I pull out of it?
it costs money to sign up for it, but we are being judged by a panel of judges instead of crowd reaction(which is good, because acoustic music dosnt always get a roar out of people)

jeffro · Unread post by **jeffro** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 7:39 pm

my friends and i played at a small one not too long ago, but the rest of the bands were emo and so were the people so we only got 17 votes

gravesRR7 · Unread post by **gravesRR7** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 8:15 pm

i played at a battle of the bands a few weeks ago and there were just two of us. but it was me (guitar and vocals) and a drummer.

we did very well. so you can do well with only two people but i think you really need drums to win.

but you can still do very well if its just guitars. only advice that i'd give would be (if you don't have drums) to play songs that the audience can really get into. maybe do something with a good beat and clap your hands at the audience telling them to do it too. you're biggest challenge without drums is to really get the audience engaged in the music. and fist pumps (like in warehouse) or clapping hands is a good way to do that.

good luck with that. let us know how it goes

what songs are you doing?

juineaux · Unread post by **juineaux** » Sun Apr 25, 2004 12:56 am

Well you guys were right, we lost :cry:

And we lost to a Godsmack cover band(i really hate godsmack, so that pissed me off). We probably should have tried to do more covers too, oh well......

lesson learned

myxomatosis · Unread post by **myxomatosis** » Mon Apr 26, 2004 10:57 am

I can't believe there's a godsmack cover band :shock:

mastermindmatthews3436 · Unread post by **mastermindmatthews3436** » Tue Apr 27, 2004 7:02 pm

what was the set??

lyrics101 · Unread post by **lyrics101** » Sun May 02, 2004 3:31 pm

Me and a friend play Jimi Thing and Tripping Billies (two piece acoustic) and won a few weeks ago.

Suck to lose to Godsmack man; like they said, it's exactly like radio. Cater to tastes.

juineaux · Unread post by **juineaux** » Mon May 03, 2004 10:43 am

here was our set at the battle:

the river(original)
mona lisa(original)
incohearant(original)
spirit world(original)
river rat jimmy(kelly joe phelps cover)
I need a Woman(Jeff foucault cover)
Given Myself(original)
shes always on my mind(original)
troublemaker(original)

It sucks that we lost the battle, but good news actaully came out of it. The people in the student government really like our stuff more and want us to play some really nice gigs at the university next fall. So I guess it wasnt a total loss-

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