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| I've always stood, playing bass or guitar in bands and running around like an idiot with a wireless. But now it's all solo or small group stuff. I'm not going anywhere, and I find myself doing more of a tap dance with various pedals and devices to sound like more than I am.
So I use a folding bar stool - the Pro model from Wal-Mart. I am, in fact, an old guy. Why waste energy? Hey, I just play music. Ya want a floor show, try Vegas.
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Location: Corvallis, OR | I can't stand to sit |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | Yes.  |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Stand with the band; sit on a stool at solo gigs. |
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Location: UK | Stand always, with band and solo... |
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Location: New South Wales, Australia | I like to stand. It gives me a bit of a head start if I have to make a quick escape :D |
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Location: south east Michigan | Mostly stand.
For me, I think I can sing better standing up. |
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Location: closely held secret | I prefer to sit, but standing works out better. I find when I sit it cuts off the blood supply to my brain... |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | I always sit. I have a birth defect in my neck and playing with a strap HURTS. I DID however use a strap with my open backed banjo the other night at open mike. It is very lightweight and I only played two songs. There were so many of us on stage there wasn't room for a chair. We had guitar, fiddle, mandolin, banjo, dobro, and several guitars going at once. We played "Faded Love" and "Red River Valley", which were the only two songs everybody up there knew. (There were a couple of guys in their eighties, and the old guys played WELL.)Lots of fun. |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | "So, Do You Stand or Sit on Gigs?"...
Quite often! |
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Location: Western Massachusetts | I just gotta stand.....I don't even sit while practicing. Weird I know! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | both, depends on the song
I heard someone else talking about this and it was a quote from Norman Brown, a jazz guy. He sits to "groove" and stands to "deliver a show"
Interesting distinction and it makes sence. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by Beal:
He sits to "groove" and stands to "deliver a show"
Interesting distinction and it makes sence. I really like that. |
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Location: Chicago | As you see from the last link there: sit. We are a trio and seated works best for all. |
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Location: Vernon CT | I do both. I like to sit when Fingerpicking, Stand the rest of the time. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ...stand. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | ... guitars, sit.
... flounder, stand. It's the only giggin' I do. |
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Location: Michigan | I sit behind the pianist at church and hide :) . |
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Location: NJ | electric stand
acoustic sit |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I sit for slide, much easier to hit the notes that way. |
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| Sitting is tough on an audience if your wearing a grass skirt, I suppose. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | You can't do knee slides from a sitting start.
That would just look like falling off your stool. |
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Location: closely held secret | Yes, it does. |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Originally posted by fillhixx:
You can't do knee slides from a sitting start.
That would just look like falling off your stool. Man, that's just the perfect Spinal Tap moment, there, Phil! |
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Location: Nashville TN. | Mostly stand.
I sit with some slow ballad stuff |
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