[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Who-> Are They (and are They ready for the public?)
From: Sroundtable@aol.com
I work my fucking ass off practicing, getting us gigs, publicizing, and
performing, only to have Scott then question our legitimacy as a "Who
coverband?" That's garbage.
---
mc,
Sorry Brother, but once you make your band and it's music public, in the way
you have, by
spreading the demos around, {yes, I *would* like to hear them} making
booking announcements,
talking about rehearsals and gigs, & touting your own praises as a singer
and for the "WAT" band
as a whole, you'd better toughen up and face the music, you're gonna be
critiqued and you're
gonna get criticised/dissed by some. Sad...but true. It's part of the
game.....
Not everyone is gonna like your band! Not everyone can or will appreciate
the FUCKING hard
work you and the others have, {like we all do when starting and maintaining
a band}, done and
continue to do.
There's only one way to go about it, do it for yourself and sod how in the
fuck anybody else
feels about what you are doing. I am a firm believer that if you believe in
your band, believe
in your material, and put your balls and guts into every note you play or
sing, people will, for
the most part, recognise this and react positively.
---
I assembled Who are They because my love and respect for The Who has gone
beyond the listener/viewer level. In order to satisfy what I am feeling for
the band, I found this the best outlet. I have spent countless hours with
our lead guitarist arranging Who songs like The Real Me, Relay, and Success
Story, which aren't exactly big hits. I have had to fight the band to
include Amazing Journey/Sparks and See Me, Feel Me into the Tommy run we do.
All this and I have to answer to Scott and his ridiculoud insistence that
we have to play 100% Who to be a Who coverband? Fuck that.
---
You don't _have_ to answer to anyone, anyway anyhow anywhere, but, *you*
opened the door
to discussion of your band, even solicited suggestions from _us_ ,and must
now face whatever
comes back through that same door that you, yourself, unlocked and swung
wide open in your eagerness and excitement over your first performing band.
Thicken your skin, mc, and fuck 'em all except the band members and the
people who actually go
out in public to see and hear you.....no one else matters at all.
---
The Who played Shakin All Over, Young Man Blues, Fortune Teller, Summertime
Blues, Saturday Night's Alright, Eyesight to the Blind, and a bunch of other
covers that actually made it onto their pre-Tommy albums. Does anyone here
say, "Hey. Aren't they The Who? Why do they play other people's stuff,
too?" The truth is that Who are They plays what we think are great songs.
Most of them are Who songs. A few are not. When Scott works as hard as I
am and forms his own band, then let him pass judgement on our legitimacy as
a Who coverband.
---
When Scott has his own band, initiates dialog and suggestions here in this
public forum, you too
may have your say......in the meantime, be careful what you ask for, you
just may get it!
As for me.....I wish you the best of luck and know just how damn hard you
work to put a band
together, audition, rehearse, get bookings, pick and arrange songs, work out
the parts/harmonies,
and have to deal with the idiotic jerks/drunks/bartenders/bar-club owners to
boot!
Just keep on keepin' on and sod what anyone says *if* you believe in
yourself.
AnEnglishBoy~
PS~Got any Groupies or BandAids yet?
_________________________________________________________________
STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE*
http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail