do u care who your audience is???

to all you musicians out there do u care who your audience is???
if say ur fans started saying you were the best band in the world what would you do???

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I would start a cult (if I wasn't already a member of one, which I sadly am ;)).

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yeah I care, especially if they think you suck or drink fools that hop on stage & annoy you

That should be drunk fools,
but anyway I hate when they want to play your drums, it fuckin pisses me off, they ask over & over again again grrrrr

and it gets worse when they actually play them

It will never come to that point

as long as they want to be there watching/feeling the music you create,
then we all sing along and be happy humans,

other wise show them the door and tell them to fuck off,

Sometimes I wonder what 'kind' of person would most likely dig the music, but I usually catch myself out before it gets too serious... I'm certain with this kind of thing the artist has very little control over who ends up listening to their stuff once it's 'gone public,' so to speak. Leave that stuff to the marketing dept.

...which more often than not is the artist too.

You should care as much as what you believe your music to be. If you're music sucks arse, then you should seriously consider an occupation change, quickly....or write better songs, to get a better response.

yah.. it would be so cool to like be able to control like who listens to your music... like i'd get so disgusted and probably like stop playing if i was looking thru the crowd and there were certain retards in the audience....

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huh? dude, we're on totally different wavelengths. i'm never going to understand that viewpoint.

lhabia odviously likes to have a certain "steriotype" of his audience and what he wants them to be
i aggree with you when you say //if i was looking thru the crowd and there were certain retards in the audience....

yeah it would suck

i prefer to always see familiar faces in my audience and make a point of getting to know people who come watch my band play, that way you start a following and get more fans each gig etc etc

and also gettin to know them means when you ask if they want to drink youre blood there not as surprised......

School girls.

I like your way of thinking.

Anyone should be intitled to see your band play. but they should have a fair bit of respect to not be quick to judge on your music/performance if it doesn't meet their required standards. And its really for them to decide if they want to see your band play.

But personally i wouldn't want anyone in the audience that is pushy and shoves everyone around unprovoked or anyone who kept trying to throw things on stage. It would be cool it it was people you knew like your closest friends but NOT your parents! That's just a major put-off!

i love having my parents at a gig - just thought i'd let you know

i could understand why you wouldn't want them at a gig when i still lived with them - but when you move out you move on and as your relationships change it's great to see them supporting you. we played in dunedin this year and our bass player's dad came down from good old ashvegas to see us - i mean he's moving over to england so it was probably the last time to hear us for ages but it was fucking choice to see him there

no... i'd rather just have people who get us and are like minded enough to know what we're about and yah..
like the audience at a tool show.. how everyones so like minded and their there for the music and yah...

//like the audience at a tool show
i was told the place smelt like weed and was full of stoners lighting up
maybe that why everyone was so "minded"

Yes, the audiences at Tool shows are hardly all enlightened individuals who all think on the same wave-length. A large majority are a just out for a night where they can get stoned out of their heads and listen to metal. To say that all the people at Tool shows are like-minded is a bit of a stupid comment, yes, they all like the music, but there are some vastly different types of people there. I sure as hell know that I didn't have much in common with the guys in front of me wearing Slipknot T-shirts!

yeah well, unfortunately slipknots next album is their last :'( :'( so , so sad

>>to all you musicians out there do u care who your audience is???
No, i dont care *who* they are. Not in an individual sense, at least. I would care if my music attracted people who harbour bad behaviour or attitudes.

>>if say ur fans started saying you were the best band in the world what would you do???
Buy them a drink and talk shit. To me, people can say what they want; but i play music simply for the joy of it. My joy, and the punter's joy.

just whatever..... you probably dont go to a tool show just get stoned... its not the kind of music you lux your carpet to... .. as in not 'metal' theres so much more to it than that..

just whatever..... you probably dont go to a tool show just get stoned... its not the kind of music you lux your carpet to... .. as in not 'metal' theres so much more to it than that.. and the audience that goes to a tool show is really diverse but their all their for the common love of the music so yah... and anyone who 'really' likes tool get them on so many more levels than just the music so whatever...

ive been thinking about it and tool is really hard to properly classify i can only get

metal

PS: i know its alot more than that
anyone keen to gives a hand?

Tool isn't metal its more like a form of rock, but they're very similar to neo-gn'r that is they are hard to classify.

:O!!!!!!saul said something that didnt start an argument!!!!yet..

//Tool isn't metal its more like a form of rock, but they're very similar to neo-gn'r that is they are hard to classify.

Tool isn't a form a rock similar to neo g'nr either. Well maybe since the format is progressive rock. Tool are more atmospheric than metal and more alternative than rock, They sometimes describe themselves as "art-metal". But í'd just call them experimental since they keep evolving.

Experimental music is a genre these days.

Sad. So very, very sad.

genres suck, so bleh

it's cool seeing people at your shows that enjoy what you're doing and look like they are having a good time. I like seeing people smiling and having a good time.

Tool is the classical music of our time, im sure bach and the crew would love tool

except today it's louder due to all the shit noise we put up with like cars/phones/moronic personality

i hope your kidding.

dont get me wrong, love tool. but as far as classical music of our time? shit..... classicial music of our time is still classical in the the sense of classical. Tool still have nothing on the lovely lovely ludwig van.

ocphuman if you really want to listen to some beautiful classical music of our time listen to Godspeed you black emporer. But if you want heavy heavy guitar classical listen to the lost shellac opera album or my father my king by mogwai

Or just listen to anything which takes your fancy.

sorry i can't add new topics so I'll post here.

I just heard on the street that paselode are playing an impromtu gig tonight at Indigo. Apparently testing out the huge new PA. no hype, just a low key affair, friends drinking and listening to great live music.

check it.

I don't think it 'overly' matters who your audience is, if they're listening to your music and supporting your gigs - its a compliment and enables you to keep playing it, I guess you could hand out applications at the door :0)

maybe they should have backround checks @ the door to make sure only youre favoured type of audience is there??

"so you like snoop dogg?"
"yes"
"fuck off!"