U know, a tour/concert,,,,,what would be most important to u?


outdoors/indoors
stadium/small venue
only hits performed/ only album tracks
unreleased songs performed/ y bother when audience doesn't know 'em
pyrotechnics/no special effects or gimmicks
Elaborate staging/bare bones staging
costume changes/real sweat
outlandish costumes/ normal clothes etc.....etc.....

and of course Lip sync 4 dancing or perfrom completely live?

I like stadiums despite if near the back.....on vhs, a stadium kicks ass as atmosphre is better

I don't mind if singer is out of tune, so do dance and sing live.....can't stand people who just stand there the whole time and sing.zz.zzzzz

get bored of just hits played to.....mix 'em up with album tracks and b sides!..... What about u?

The concert has to be "Live" in every sense of the word. No lip synche, no tracks playing in the background. I don't need alot of drama, save it for the videos. I want to see if you can sing and play your songs the way I hear it on my cd and on the radio, with some variations to the song to show that it's not just, verse=chorus=verse=bridge=exit.
I don't need alot of dancing anymore, that used to be cool to me but now I'm just tired of it (everyone does it). Give me a nice 10 piece band and the "baum" background singers and play some of the stuff I don't hear on the radio "b sides". That's the perfect concert in my opinion!

INTIMACY!

If the set is not intimate then there ain't no GREAT live show IMHO!

1. I need the damn show to be live. ALL THE WAY live. I want drummers drummin', keyboardists keyboardin', guitartists guitarrin', etc etc etc., and SINGERS SINGING. If there's pre-recorded stuff going on, there'd better be a damn good reason for it.

Which brings me to...

2. STAGE PRESENCE. Eric Clapton can walk out on stage in an old yellow t-shirt and dirty sweatpants if he wants, and still blow away a packed house, just because he's Eric Clapton and people freak out at the way he plays guitar and he's been freaking people out for like 40 years or something. Most people don't have this kind of luxury. THOSE PEOPLE OUGHT NOT TO BE BORING. I think the bands that rise above are the bands that realize they have an easily-bored, fidgety audience on the other side of the stage, and it's their job to make that audience not wanna go home. It doesn't have to mean costumes or laser shows or any of that crap - it just freakin' means ENTERTAIN THE AUDIENCE. be funny. be engaging. go off on a rant. MOVE WHILE YOU PERFORM. just DO SOMETHING.

3. Please, for god's sake, impose on the audience as little guitar tuning and soundchecking and other technical stuff as humanly possible. Sometimes it can't be helped, I know. But if you find your band can't help but tune their guitars after every song, make up lyrics and have someone sing "the guitar tuning song". Just because you gotta fix your shit doesn't mean the audience goes away until you're ready.

4. If you know you're so shit-hot that an audience would come to watch you sit on the toilet, ignore everything I just typed. Sometimes, if you're really really REALLY hot, you can completely ignore your audience and be complete pricks and play badly and spend 1/2 chunks of your show just standing around noodling on your guitar, and your audience will LOVE it. Chances are, you aren't this band. But if you are, have fun making your audience beg for just a morsel of your cool-ass selves.

Anxiety said:

Also, talent would be nice.

tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...rmusic.htm

theAudience said:

talent?! what's that?