I saw a band from Royal Oak, MI this weekend called FONTANA. They were fucking awesome. The drummer played with traditional grip. That is a surefire sign.

· modified/hacked gear is generally a good sign. like "wtf happenned to that guitar?" or "what the fuck is that keyboard filled with duct tape and with pedals attached?"
· a minimal drum kit also does it for me. (like, bass drum, snare, hihat and crash )
· a fender bass vi type instrument
· yeah, an extra drum kit
· no guitar player

emmanuelle cunt wrote:double post.

rub it in why don't you.

Verbs and Nouns wrote:

steve wrote:If the drummer sets up and his cymbals are pretty high up and especially if the hi-hat is pretty high up over his snare drum, then he's a pretty good drummer.

Like this?

I used to live with one of those guys!

If the keyboardist is NOT playing a Nord Lead.

There is a farm animal on stage.

Usually good signs:

Homemade gear of some kind

A bass with one pickup

Tape on the guitars

Fingerprints, sweatsalt, and/or blood on the guitars

Any kind of immobilizing device on the kick drum. The guy in the Supersuckers used to nail his kick to the floor with a twenty-penny nail. Not a big fan of their records, but I think they were great live.

Linechecking about like this: boom boom whack. Durnnn. Blang blang. Check one two and done. (This is inverse of linecheck for bad band, which is more like band practice.)

Lack of pickiness about vocal monitor

No backwards hair

Applause sign.

Big, big fat guy usually means there's gonna be some ass-kickin. It can't be any phony, just-husky kind of fat, though; it must be a born-fat, sloppy-crazy-fat, good-time fat guy. He will rock like nobody's business.

Christopher wrote:Big, big fat guy usually means there's gonna be some ass-kickin. It can't be any phony, just-husky kind of fat, though; it must be a born-fat, sloppy-crazy-fat, good-time fat guy. He will rock like nobody's business.

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