Tune your friggin' guitars, please.
Look. You wanna play in a band, go on stage, live the rockstar dream for that 20-minute set, play your music and expect adoration from the audience? Fine.
You might even be half-good, or really goddamn amazing, for that matter.
But what STILL gets on my nerves are people who call themselves musicians and can't even get the basics right.
Like guitar tuning, for example.
Tune the effing guitar, lah, for crying out loud. You can buy a friggin electric guitar and can't afford a friggin tuner? Can't even tune your guitars before you go on stage?
I think what's even worse is when they start tuning on stage when it should already be go-go-go right to your pre sets before you play because, hey, that's what a goddamn soundcheck is about. Tune your guitars beforehand, cos we didn't pay money to watch you tune each guitar.
Waste of time.
There was one gig I remember where there were these girls who obviously spent their time and effort on LOOKING the part and nothing else. Really, when you need the guys to literally plug you in, set your sound AND tune your guitars - you should just be rolling with Ashley, Hilary and the rest of the vacuous wannabes.
On the flipside, there are bands that show that they're serious about what they're about. It's not about making it your fulltime lifetime dedication. It's about taking a bigger interest in what you're doing other than being on stage and syok sendiri.
Learn your set ups, spend the time you use trying to get the hairstyle and eyeliner right for finding out what those little knobs on the amps can do for your guitar sound.
Want us to take you seriously? Then be serious yourselves lah. Otherwise just be a pop singer - we know that's WAY easier than knowing anything about music and instruments.
Sorry. Am irritated. I just saw a bunch of bands play yesterday, and some were awesome, some definitely showed improvement, and some just decided to muck around and play an entire set with a guitar out of tune (and a drummer out of sync, believe it or not) but was saved by the great distraction of a vocalist looking like he ran away from The Village People and putting up a decent performance.
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