Rock Star Status

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How Far Have You Gone? You can pick two if you have an undecided average.

  • Bedroom/Livingroom/Played an acoustic at a party to try and impress a member of the opposite sex

  • Open Mic Night/Cafes <100

  • Bar/Club/Large House Party/Wedding <1,000

  • Large Venue/Theatre <5,000

  • Amphitheatre <15,000

  • Small Stadium/Festival <25,000

  • Stadium/Large Festival 25,000+

  • Not quite a single gig, but... TV, National Radio, Soundtrack, Etc... Unknown, but it's a lot

  • I'm here for the memes and/or off topic discussion/thread derails

  • I sing in the shower

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I've done shows for a few hundred, with the most being a little over a thousand. For our headlining shows, the most we've done is a few hundred, but that is just for us. We've done some festival gigs and played some big shows, but never anything huge.
 
spguitar said:
Yep she got it. I'm still praying for another shot one day. That's wild about Reznor wanting super tall people for NIN.
Let me tell you, playing Jellybelly with Jimmy Chamberlin is something not of this world. Just insane.
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I don't know if it was tall people they were actually looking for or male people, tbh. 🤷‍♀️
Either way, glad it didn't amount to anything, have been pretty happy with my life despite the usual ups and downs everyone faces.
Jimmy Chamberlin is def one of my favorite drummers. I was at one of the last shows they did before the original breakup and D'Arcy never to return.
I swear that I remember Billy Corgan singing some song and looking at me funny because I was singing it too by the second verse. It hadn't been released, iirc and I jokingly thought forever that he probably thought it was so pop/catchy that he ended the band. :ROFLMAO:
 
DanTravis62 said:
@NowYou'rePlayingWithPower

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DanTravis62 said:
That's actually one of the reasons we recorded there :ROFLMAO:

Dude has a really killer setup with a bunch of vintage mic pres and rack units that he frankensteins to the DAW, and it's a really good combination of old and new
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Will have to ask my daughter if she knows him. She knows everyone from Seattle to Sacramento, it seems.
 
For me it's been just bars and house parties. Mostly with a cover band called Flood I put together in 2010 and dismantled in 2015 or 2016. We played FUBAR a few times, opened for Rhino Bucket along with an out of town band called Fallujah. Played a lot of bars on the south and west ends of the STL metro area.
I also played bass for a band called Hookman and recorded a soundtrack to a movie called Spanish Lake. Prior to that I had mostly original bands, all 3 piece and played for shit money or no money to almost no one at shit dives and occasionally at large house parties.
 
I “performed” twice, both venues are something in between options 2 and 3, closer to option 2.

One of them was State Philarmonic Hall, second was Lutheran church. Actually chronologically they came in reverse.

I played a simple lead line, same on both occasions.

In the church it was on a classical guitar, where as the only lead player I had to pick those strings HARD to be heard above the ensemble. And that was my first time playing in public. Imagine debuting as the only lead player lol Managed to not fuck up.

In the Philarmonic Hall I already had my Ibby RG plugged into front of house (is that how you call the sound system of a venue?) through a Boss ME-50 pedal.

But my technique is too poor to play something serious onstage, and I don’t want to bring my pricey guitars to some shithole to get beer poured on it 😂
 
I was in a band for a minute back in 2000-2001. We recorded a few songs, but they're poorly produced/mixed.
We didn't know shit about mixing, so it really shows.

Other than that, I played in a couple of virtual open mics last year. Maybe like a dozen people attended..

Now I just sing to the shampoo bottle in my shower.
 
I did a handful in the 3000-12,000 range. Opened for lots of national acts. I was fairly active 1986 -2007.

Weekend before last there was at least twenty people in the bar when we played.
 
shawn w said:
That's cool. My shop is based out of Tumwater. I'm not much in the "local scene", but its always neat to learn about places like that.

shawn
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Are you the coffee stand girl's husband by chance?

DanTravis62 said:
Cool! Yeah we went out for the night and caught bands at the crypt and a couple other places, it was cool
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Cryptatropa is one of my hangs. Kind of the most cliche goth bar, though. It's owned by this guy known as the dark dentist who has a bunch of weird rental properties where he covers the windows and packs college students in them. Have heard (as in urban legend, possibly not true) that he offers cheap/free rent in exchange for cameras in every room. :oops::ROFLMAO:
 
NowYou'rePlayingWithPower said:
Are you the coffee stand girl's husband by chance?



Cryptatropa is one of my hangs. Kind of the most cliche goth bar, though. It's owned by this guy known as the dark dentist who has a bunch of weird rental properties where he covers the windows and packs college students in them. Have heard (as in urban legend, possibly not true) that he offers cheap/free rent in exchange for cameras in every room. :oops::ROFLMAO:
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Yeah I met him, he seemed kind of odd NGL 🤣
 
My rock star status was just playing local bars/clubs and such. I played for fun and never cared about trying to make money, "go pro" or anything like that. Joined random bands, created a couple of my own, Played a handful of shows. Nothing really lasted that long anyway. After the last group I put together crapped out in the late 2000's I stopped playing with bands. I lost my tolerance for the drama that always came with things. I'm satisfied being a bedroom warrior and jamming every now and again with friends who play. I'm just here for the gear porn and memes.
 
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