I am sick of it. Why does every band feel the need to open their set with a hip hop song and do shitty fake dancing on stage. Yeh, granted, even scene kids and pop rockers like to get jiggy with it every once in a while to some Hip-to-the-Hop but when people come to see you play at a show, do not open up your set with someone else's music. I am a big fan of intro's, they are a great way to build some anticipation and use some cool dynamics to start your set. Im trying to figure out what idiot decided pushing random play on his NOW 74 Cd was a great way to start a set. There is a reason you have intstruments on stage- play them. I admit, a long long time ago in a land far far away, tc played Rappers Delight as an intro. I am not proud of it, but at least Nicky asctually played the bass lines. This rant excludes tasteful use of sampled reverses and noises as a short intro with some instrumentation (see Teamwork www.myspace.com/teamworkrocks) .
Heres a good example- The Audition
I saw them the other night, and this intro was just painful.
i imagine the brainstorming came about like this
band member 1 - "hey, we need a crazy intro for our set"
band member 2 -"yehh! something we can dance like fools to."
band member 1- "how about a rap song that is being played out on the radio?"
band member 2- 'BINGO! that would be the perfect melodramatic, copyright infringment, lame ass thing to do"
band member 1 (to himself) - "man.....we are going to look soooo cool. i hope i get to push play on the ipod"
super...
mike
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Elitist.
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1. It isn't copyright infringement, bc, venues are all but required by law to pay blanket license fees to cover any songs that are played under their roof.
2. TC played Rapper's Delight at The Crazy Donkey which by all practical standards is not a "land far far away." In fact, assuming you posted this entry from your house in Floral Park, the Crazy Donkey is a mere 18.5 miles from your house (by car).
Otherwise, I agree.
pwn3d!
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