to continue with your comical misunderstanding
a band that doesn't know any songs = a band like mine
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 28 Mar 2011, 15:45, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

That was always my problem with Electric Head Funk.
No actual songs at all, just psychedelic noodling based on a few staple riffs. It's amazing how we got away with it, to be honest.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 28 Mar 2011, 15:47, Reply)

that's an accepted way of performing though
we try and write songs and then our singer forgets them and plays them wrong and mashes them together and the rest of us have to try and keep up.

We've been doing it for 3 years or so, and I still don't believe anyone when they tell me that they think we are good and they like our music. I'm all "were you actually listening at all?"
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 28 Mar 2011, 15:50, Reply)

It is amazing
how different it sounds being in a band/DJing/whatever from being in the audience. Even mixtapes I've done which I think are appalling are actually well-liked by the people who got copies. This reminds me I did a pretty good film soundtracks mix a few years ago...wonder where that is.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 28 Mar 2011, 15:56, Reply)

The other point is that 90% of people
don't listen to music from a musician's point of view - and with a live band there a several musicans playing so you can confuse people into not noticing your errors - this is harder with DJing.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 28 Mar 2011, 16:00, Reply)

+ especially when you've only got two records, both of which are the same song.

(Bazongaloid, Mon 28 Mar 2011, 16:02, Reply)

Fucking right.
If you fuck up a beat juggle there's nowhere to hide. I am
a) choosing not to pour scorn on you for your pitiful ignorance of the sphere of technical DJing and
b) also pretending not to notice your dismal attempt at some form of mockery
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 28 Mar 2011, 16:11, Reply)

the good thing with playing the guitar is that if you cock up
you can repeat the same mistake three times and then claim it is jazz
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 28 Mar 2011, 16:13, Reply)

Hahahah so true

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 28 Mar 2011, 16:18, Reply)

it's a tip I learned from Gordon Giltrap

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 28 Mar 2011, 16:19, Reply)

Or claim you're just 'painting pictures with sound' (c) Althegeordie

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 28 Mar 2011, 16:18, Reply)

Actually I saw a good band last night and they were playing "Rebel Rebel"
and obviously forgot to go into the chorus at one point, but within a bar everyone had realised and switched and none of the none musicians I was with noticed.
(Bazongaloid, Mon 28 Mar 2011, 16:03, Reply)

you both raise some good points..
I think part of the problem is that I listen to quite different stuff to that which we play, so often think that our stuff is too simple.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 28 Mar 2011, 16:08, Reply)

Those 'none musicians' can be so stupid.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 28 Mar 2011, 16:12, Reply)