whelp sorry afura.  guess i'll just....take these opinions on home.  sorry folks, move it along, no opinions wanted here.  hey i got a joke.  two opinions walk into a bar and ask for a drink.  the bartender slowly reveals a shotgun he keeps under the counter and says, "we don't serve your kind round here" and tells them to get the fuck out.  also the bar is the music forum.  and the bartender is afura


anyway yeah i would because bars, especially southern bars filled with drunk white racists, are shitholes so yeah go figure i don't really think of the IDEAL JOB as anything involving being in one.  idk i do not view anything ASSOCIATED WITH MUSIC as a dreamjob and i definitely wouldn't want to play cover songs in dive bars multiple nights a week.  that sounds like a nightmare, honestly.  i really fucking detest bars.  if you desire this then i am happy for you and HAVE FUN but i do not understand it.  i worked with this woman who was apeshit about films once, and she said she'd do anything as long as it related to the film industry.  just being some set hand on shitty movies was enough.

i mean partially i'm just fuckin with you (trolled ya lol) but i do really think being in a cover band playing shitty southern bars is probably the least desirable job you could have short of handling the trash in shitty southern bars.  i don't fault you for it tho because if you need ducats you need ducats

also how many of those pre-sy bands played rhcp covers (none hopefully).  idk i respect people who take risks for shit they want instead of compromising at every turn

also do all along the watchtower or someshit.  is that a popular cover?

and

also i think you guys don't really understand how expensive it is to have an even remotely successful band. to even get booked at most places you need a decent quality demo and a PRESS KIT. that includes posters, buttons, shirts, stickers.

man equipment i wouldve given you a pass on, because pa systems/mics/amps/guitars/basses/drums/whatever else is exorbitant but decent demos can be cut for relatively low amounts of money and posters/buttons/shirts/stickers are not particularly expensive either!!

ps funny story i walked into a white redneck bar type of place a few nights ago because they have WINGS and theyre the best fucking wings ever you have no idea and everyone literally turned and looked at me, and continued looking at me, until i left.  im not paranoid or anything usually but i was seriously half-expecting some kind of fucking ENCOUNTER on the way to my car from the way some of these dudes were looking at me.  and this is in northeastern ohio, not virginia!!!  be thankful you are not black bucko.  i suspect you have an entirely different perception of these places than i do but for me they are very high on the list of places you do not go

also tool is a cool band whats wrong with them man!!!!


like the fans are often gay and maynards a dick but w/e !


next person to post an opinion in this topic gets a warning from yours personally! watch your step folks!!!!!!!!!

well shitty student bars arent so bad!  idk i think if i lived in REDSTATE i would just try to leave.  my mom lived in west virginia so i have been there a great deal and i cannot imagine being there ALWAYS.  i make fun of cleveland but it'd be 10x worse if it was in the south.

i mean, they're buttons, dude.  you can buy button-making machines!  posters probably add up if you have to go to a print shop or something but it isnt that bad.  if you're going through 250 buttons and a ton of shirts/posters in a single show, it means they are SELLING VERY WELL so none of this is bad because everything i've read from underground acts in reference to SHWAG SALES say that they're profitable.  it's not like you're selling a ton of them at a loss.

this is kind of interesting though, whats studio quality?  i have heard demos of very good quality cut at local recording studios by acts i've known and they weren't $2000!  maybe you have much higher standards but yeah, i've heard impressively high quality stuff that people have told me cost them under a grand to cut.  if it's $2000, would it not just be more economic to buy $2000 worth of recording gear and do it yourself?

i thought that was really your band till i clicked the youtube

sorry i panicked

really?  idk you seem more into HENDRIX//LED ZEP//CLASSIC ROCK AND FUNK than punk/noise shit so i assumed it'd be right up your alley

also HMMM maybe the 2-3 people i have talked to on this HAD THE HOOKUP or something.  idk, it sounded really good and i thought under a grand was just the GOING RATE for 3-4 song demos.  and yea the keidis emulation is sad but i did not laugh; it was just embarrassing to watch.  also NO SHIRTS

also i dont know man, does it have to be SHIT REDNECKS WOULD LIKE?  becase that is just not a very big segment of the music i listen to!  i could just suggest <generic hendrix song> but you already know this soooo.  do queens of the stone age maybe.  theyre a decent band imo, and barfucks would probably like them.  maybe some smashing pumpkins.  they'd probably like violent femmes too, depending on the song.  also i like murder by death a lot but it is accessible enough at times that i think it'd go over well in a bar, like if you played BROTHER or some shit.  how do you feel about ohia?  that might do okay too

tools p gay though imo.  i didnt know anyone besides atari actually still liked them

you could do the allman brothers, maybe?

afura: i'm studyin for a final and also workin on the rap I PROMISE

hahah your ok!


Man I really like Tool, I don't care too much for their pretentious message but I think the music itself is pretty sweet. Even APC also, except of course EMOtive was pretty average