Originally posted by travlin'easy:
Though we often agree on many aspects of the music biz, your statement about the audience not believing what they are hearing is no longer an issue. Most of our audiences think our keyboards are nothing more than Karaoke machines, and more often than not, they don't have a clue as to what the hell we are doing while onstage. They walk up to you while you are singing and playing and ask stupid questions. They'll say things such as "Do you have anything in there by Frank Sinatra?" almost as if you could answer them while in the middle of the song. The bottom line is they don't have a clue, and probably could care less--they just want to be entertained. They did the same stupid assed thing when I was playing a 12-string Yamaha guitar in a smoke-filled bar and using a Roland drum machine for rythm backing. Technology will not change this, and even if you were playing a grand piano and singing your heart out the idiots would still come up and ask stupid questions.
Cheers,
Gary
Gary, I couldn't agree more with these words
today's audiance needs to be educated in the art of enjoying an entertainer perform without the audiance coming up to you in the middle of the stage with a microphone in your hand singing a ballad to request Delta Dawn or some other request...they seem
to be unaware of the people around them...
TR
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