sign of an awesome band - any band that can successfully tune a guitar or drink a large beer in the middle of a song without making the song sound horrible

anytime i see a guitarist kick his amp and stop to take a drink in the middle of a song and the band is still sounding awesome i start to think THIS BAND IS SO FUCKING GOOD THEY DON'T EVEN NEED TO PLAY THEIR INSTRUMENTS


also, any time a member of the band is like a chemistry professor or something, that always seems to be a good band. one of the best live shows i've ever seen was from this upstate new york band called 'hedaya'.. i can't really remember the details but it was like a math prof, a mail man, and like a computer technician or something and they were FUCKING AWESOME. they could never play shows because of their busy schedule!!!

any band where the singer jumps into the crowd is awesome. i know this is mostly hardcore but like if that retard from coldplay would just stop crying on the piano and went out into the crowd and have some fun, that would be awesome.

any band where people kick stuff is cool in my book. there's this really terrible sounding band i can't remember, they're from louisiana and they're called like 'buried in flames' or 'all i ask' or something just horrible, and they've got that horrible singing-screaming mtv sound.. anyway we saw them live and i couldn't fucking believe how cool they were. everyone in the band was like 6'8", they could all play with their guitars behind their heads, their bassist kicked in all the emergency exit doors so the sirens were going off over their music (which made the music sound better), the singer looked like josh from qosta, but even bigger and more ferocious and more red-headed if that's possible, and everyone looked like they were on a lot of drugs. i had such a good time, even when they all cut out so the guitarist could sing something about black winters or something

also, all bands that just start playing and don't go running around crying to the promoter about how they want to wait for 15 more minutes or run around to people having perfectly good conversations outside and saying things like GO IN WE'RE ABOUT TO START LISTEN TO ALL THAT FEEDBACK AND CYMBAL NOISE WE'RE ABOUT TO START. any band that just starts playing with 2 people in the crowd probably fucking rules

most bands that don't have money but smash gear at the end of the show are usually pretty awesome

all bands who stick around after the show and have fun with the crowd rule.

Marsupialized wrote:It kinda says something about the mindset of the people here that the 'signs of a shitty band' thread is running wild, people just can't come up with enough reasons why some band would be shitty yet the 'signs of an awesome band' thread died instantly.

I agree.

davesec wrote:sign of an awesome band

there's a thread for that on the front page, y'know.

danmohr wrote:- Four word band name (also known as the Four Word Emo Band formula, e.g Begin By Gathering Supplies...)

fyp.

that damned fly wrote:

danmohr wrote:- Four word band name (also known as the Four Word Emo Band formula, e.g Begin By Gathering Supplies...)

fyp.

I'll assume you meant to put this in the 'awesome' band thread

Marsupialized wrote:Anyone in the band who's not a female wearing a scarf. It's gonna blow.

Clearly you have not ever worn a scarf. Scarves are underrated as fuck. So warm.

placeholder wrote:I know I've probably mentioned this fifty times on this forum, but when I saw King Diamond a few years back, he had a banner above the stage. It looked very much like a bedsheet with the King Diamond logo airbrushed on it.

He had props onstage too, like cardboard tombstones and something that was supposed to be a terrifying spider but looked like a hair weave.

This was a spectacular show.

Yeah! That was his wife in that wolf mask too. So fucking awesome.

And danmohr's stache just looks good. I don't think a moustache should be judged on any other merits, personally. It's either got it or it don't.

readysetrawk wrote:

Marsupialized wrote:Anyone in the band who's not a female wearing a scarf. It's gonna blow.

Clearly you have not ever worn a scarf. Scarves are underrated as fuck. So warm.

I'm sure sticking my entire head up a horse's ass would be pretty fucking warm as well.

Some things are just not worth it.

Marsupialized wrote:Anyone in the band who's not a female wearing a scarf. It's gonna blow.

My roommate absolutely loves this video. Whenever he plays it, he points out how awesome it is how their scarfs are blowing.

It's not a horrible song.

Though I think this thread is too long and has too many examples which don't really indicate that a band will suck, here's an almost sure-fire warning sign:

If the band calls their friends up from the stage and have them play worked-out high school horn parts over their shit.

Exceptions: The Big Boys and Flipper.