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Location: Chicago | Daymn. I'm glad the little club was packed, but you can hardly hear anything! LOL
I guess you could always turn it up......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF2x2IGbow0
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | That's why I could never do those kind of gigs. When you're really trying to get into a song, you have a bunch of people around you that could care less about your playing, and they drown you out with jobber-jabber. I remember we had a discussion about this on the board before. ... Now if you were playing some Irish drinking songs they'd probably be singing along. |
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Location: Tennessee | Great playing, beautiful sounding guitars. |
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Location: Outside Providence | Some fine playing there! Nicely done! |
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Location: Orlando, FL | As always, beautiful! |
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Location: Flahdaw | I suppose we all want the audience to pay rapt attention to our performances, but it general most could care less that we are there. In fact, they can't wait for the entertainment to go on break so they don't have to talk so loud to each other.
I'm actually a little unnerved when people pay TOO much attention to my performance, especially when you have 5 friends staring at you while singing a song. I start worrying about whether I'm making weird faces, or playing a wrong chord, or if something's hanging from my nose. I like them to listen, but not focus too much..... |
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Location: Jet City | Does the noisy crowd drown out your music?
Yes, if I'm playing in the cover band in a bar, but not so much when I'm playing in the other band in a venue where people came in to hear new original music.
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Location: Chicago | Well this club is "Katerina's" and is a pretty dedicated Euro-jazz joint. The audience comes, in part, for the music but I guess they have a lot to talk about in the mean time. I make jokes in between just to see if anyone is listening! I am not complaining, just amazed at the intensity of the jabber.
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | "crowd drown out your music? "
Huh? What-did-you-say? |
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Location: Chicago | LOL . Oscar Wilde sez: ?"If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk." |
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Location: Upper Left USA | "Yes, if I'm playing in the cover band in a bar, but not so much when I'm playing in the other band in a venue where people came in to hear new original music."
Yup.
Also note that "noise" is relative. I grew up in a Family of 7+ kids in a crowded developement.
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Location: Spain | For me (one guitar, one voice, nothing else) it can be difficult. Folks seem to blabber most when the song isn't an absolute classic, be it modern or older, you know, "time filler"...but of course it's probably impossible to do absolute stunning classic "wow the crowd" songs every one...
Sometimes, and I freely admit, it's my own lack of effort, trying to get through the set....so maybe the songs are boring or not too well known or whatever....so I keep my eye on what's happening and try to very quickly rethink things........then I have another beer 
Nice song by the way and lovely guitars! |
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Location: sitting at my computer | Nicely done dobro (and J.B.)! +1 on the Oscar Wilde quote. I think most people go to a club, pub, tiki bar, etc... to socialize, network, (and drink). I'd get awfully nervous if they all shut up and started staring intensely in my direction!!! =8-Q |
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Location: Massachusetts | If you're having fun and the crowd is having fun it doesn't matter if anyone's paying attention, you're doing your job. I play occasionally at a restaurant/club where the acoustics are real bad. The owner has told us not to compete with the crowd volume. |
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Location: Miami | When there's a playoff for the home team playing on big screens all around the bar, yeah, crowd noise will drown me out! I remember once hitting the last chords to Born to Run, and right when I finished that last "Woah oh oh oh oooooh", the crowd went absolutely nuts!!! Then I realized someone had just hit a home run at the same time. LOL (But the timing was perfect, and I felt like a rock star for a few seconds!) |
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Location: Northwest Arkansas | Ah, but Joe, if you're getting to play for money. You are rock star. Even , if not, you're still pretty lucky to get to play music to a good sized crowd. Rock on! |
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Location: Right now? | Wow. Lovely sound, lovely playing! +1 on the Oscar Wilde quote too (as SOBeach wrote).
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Does the noisy crowd drown out your music?