Advice?

[mindspell]

I am playing my first show/party ever tonight, any advice so as to not fuck up all the songs? Any relaxation technique?

Thank you

 

[avi]

-stretch
-drink a beer (but not two)
-om

 

[Helm]

Don't look at the people in the audience.

 

[mindspell]

I think I might take off my glasses, and I can't see more than three feet in front of me without those...

 

[Helm]

What instrument do you play? If you can, warm your hands up and do scale practise for an hour before the set or something. Nothing will fuck up your mentality worse than screwing up a lot on the first song. Unless the first song is really easy. Death and Taxes used to play their easiest two songs first because their guitarist didn't like warming up.

 

[xfer]

are you in a band now? DJing? what? details!

 

[mindspell]

I play bass.

A band with friends, we are going to play a bunch of covers at a party for the girlfriend of a friend who just finished her doctorate degree. The songs are pretty crap but what can you do, it is for her after all.

Set list as it stands right now:

How You Remind Me - Nickelback (I know)
You Give Love a Bad Name - Bon Jovi
Seven Nation Army - White Stripes
Final Countdown - Europe (this one is a blast, very funny)
Rockin' in the Free World - Neil Young

Acoustic set while a video will be playing (I don't play those two):
Beautiful Girl - INXS
Good Riddance (time of your life) - Green Day

Fade to Black - Metallica
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
Pretty Woman - Van Halen version
Johnny B Goode - Elvis version (I am not playing this one)
99 Red Balloons - Goldfinger version
Sweet Dreams - Marylin Manson version

 

[xfer]

"Beautiful Girl" is a good song. "Good Riddance", not so much.

 

[mindspell]

Note that I have not had much say in the song selection and since I have only been playing for a year I really can't play anything too complicated yet...

 

[avi]

fun!

 

[azal]

this is a great party set list.

Except that there needs to be more Bon Jovi up in that piece.

 

[mindspell]

I think it needs more AC/DC personnally but our singer can't do it...

 

[xfer]

make up for his definiciency by regularly whipping it out during your set.

 

[chupe666]

final countdown would be pretty amazing.

 

[azal]

As soon as I get it transferred from tape to CD I'll post some clips of the drunken high school cover band I sang in.

It's pretty amazing stuff.

 

[FalseTodd]

just remind yourself that you can play those songs easily, that you know what you're doing. confidence is it.

 

[chupe666]

also, i recommend taking advantage of the fact that the acoustic set is just long enough to mix with THA LADEEZ without enough time to say something stupid before you have to rush back to the band.

again, as untodd said, confidence is it.

 

[azal]

Mindspell, I am playing my second annual gothfest tommorow night, so I shall be rocking along with you bass brethren.

my only tip would be, try wearing mascara and a silky shirt.

 

[avi]

azal's gonna go and get some "work" done, if y'know what I mean

 

[azal]

I'm all "yeah I'm playing in this goth band as a favor to a friend" with my true intentions veiled behind the powdery breasts of a wiccan fatty.