Who'd a thunk?
So the last few months I've been a bit tied down with the whole band business, so I'm sorry if I've seemed anti-social or inaccesible.
I did a show in November, it was just me. People really liked it. Some people didn't really know how to describe it, but they liked it a lot.
Then Christopher came along after calling it quits after a few succesful years doing "Causing a Scene" He heard the music and was really interested in making a it a very visual and theatric show.
The show with the two of us was pretty enlightening, because the audience that was expecting a night full of metal and hardcore stood shocked during the first song, kind of got the idea of what was going on during the second, and screamed, danced and jumped around for the rest. I distinctly remember just before the last song hearing a conversation that went like this;
"Shit. Is this the last song?"
"D00d, it better not be."
The gig at the Dirty show was all we could have hoped for. Despite the fact that the stage was a bit slippery and I almost punted a 22 inch drum into the crowd, it was all a band could ask for. By this time our lineup increased to myself, 2 drummers, 4 dancer/performers. We certainly had the crowd's attention, and people were going pretty nuts despite the artsy fartsy theme. People were chanting along to songs they were hearing for the first time. To hear the people scream back at you from the crowd is sublime, it's worth more than damn near anything a musician can possibly be given.
When you spend a couple years working on something and then just throw it out there for all to see, the comments have a pretty powerful effect on you. I had friends who I'd not seen in a while who are old school music snobs say "absolutely phenomenal!I was completely blown away!". I had well known artists who were showing their work say, "That was an incredible show, I wish you could have played longer, I can't wait to see you perform again!" Acquaintances who didn't know we were performing said they wished they'd brought their friends. People said that the visual performance was stunning and the music was creative and completely hypnotic and wild. It literally took me 30 minutes to get back out to the crowd with some fliers and info because of the comments.
We had several offers to play at other venues after the show and a lot of way above average feedback from the other performers. We had lots of other performers who wanted to do stuff together.
Why would I post all of this publicly? Is this all for the sake of floating my own boat? Negative. There are damned good reasons.
-I've had a lot of people turn up their nose, laugh and tell me I'm wasting my time.
They're already outnumbered by the people who really loved the show. The nay-sayers lose hard.
-Don't get on stage and perform simply because you're good at it and you wanna be a rock star. You owe that audience something. If they're coming out to see you and paying money or even not paying money, they rule is that you have to entertain. That's our job, to evoke a response and make the people feel better. That's why people go to shows. In some cultures music was considered magic, and spiritual. If you can't make a change in the people and cause a response, you're a failed Wizard, a phony priest.
-I'm sort of a weirdo. I'm a bit socially awkward and a little too creepy for most womens, I scare the hell out of people sometimes, I'm far too random, my unrelated tangents are legendary, and I'm quite sure most people don't want to hear my rants about Indigenous Americans and their pow wows, West Africans and their crazy drums, Brazilians and their Capoeira. But dammit, there's a reason I'm such a fuck-up. It's because I know how to write a few songs and how to present them and make the people get fuckin' wild.
Mind you I'm well aware, that we're not all that big, and that we've a long way to go. Even if things deteriorate like the rest of Detroit and Servitor Sanctum 7 never really goes that far, I'll always remember that something I struggled with and slaved over and put my heart into for years made a bunch of people say "Phenomenal, that was phenomenal."
That makes it worth it. People need that, and I need it.
Thanks to everyone who has come to see us so far.
We hope to see you again, and we'll do our best to make it worth your time
the end.
Salley, Ebenezer, Vader
all of the above.
I did a show in November, it was just me. People really liked it. Some people didn't really know how to describe it, but they liked it a lot.
Then Christopher came along after calling it quits after a few succesful years doing "Causing a Scene" He heard the music and was really interested in making a it a very visual and theatric show.
The show with the two of us was pretty enlightening, because the audience that was expecting a night full of metal and hardcore stood shocked during the first song, kind of got the idea of what was going on during the second, and screamed, danced and jumped around for the rest. I distinctly remember just before the last song hearing a conversation that went like this;
"Shit. Is this the last song?"
"D00d, it better not be."
The gig at the Dirty show was all we could have hoped for. Despite the fact that the stage was a bit slippery and I almost punted a 22 inch drum into the crowd, it was all a band could ask for. By this time our lineup increased to myself, 2 drummers, 4 dancer/performers. We certainly had the crowd's attention, and people were going pretty nuts despite the artsy fartsy theme. People were chanting along to songs they were hearing for the first time. To hear the people scream back at you from the crowd is sublime, it's worth more than damn near anything a musician can possibly be given.
When you spend a couple years working on something and then just throw it out there for all to see, the comments have a pretty powerful effect on you. I had friends who I'd not seen in a while who are old school music snobs say "absolutely phenomenal!I was completely blown away!". I had well known artists who were showing their work say, "That was an incredible show, I wish you could have played longer, I can't wait to see you perform again!" Acquaintances who didn't know we were performing said they wished they'd brought their friends. People said that the visual performance was stunning and the music was creative and completely hypnotic and wild. It literally took me 30 minutes to get back out to the crowd with some fliers and info because of the comments.
We had several offers to play at other venues after the show and a lot of way above average feedback from the other performers. We had lots of other performers who wanted to do stuff together.
Why would I post all of this publicly? Is this all for the sake of floating my own boat? Negative. There are damned good reasons.
-I've had a lot of people turn up their nose, laugh and tell me I'm wasting my time.
They're already outnumbered by the people who really loved the show. The nay-sayers lose hard.
-Don't get on stage and perform simply because you're good at it and you wanna be a rock star. You owe that audience something. If they're coming out to see you and paying money or even not paying money, they rule is that you have to entertain. That's our job, to evoke a response and make the people feel better. That's why people go to shows. In some cultures music was considered magic, and spiritual. If you can't make a change in the people and cause a response, you're a failed Wizard, a phony priest.
-I'm sort of a weirdo. I'm a bit socially awkward and a little too creepy for most womens, I scare the hell out of people sometimes, I'm far too random, my unrelated tangents are legendary, and I'm quite sure most people don't want to hear my rants about Indigenous Americans and their pow wows, West Africans and their crazy drums, Brazilians and their Capoeira. But dammit, there's a reason I'm such a fuck-up. It's because I know how to write a few songs and how to present them and make the people get fuckin' wild.
Mind you I'm well aware, that we're not all that big, and that we've a long way to go. Even if things deteriorate like the rest of Detroit and Servitor Sanctum 7 never really goes that far, I'll always remember that something I struggled with and slaved over and put my heart into for years made a bunch of people say "Phenomenal, that was phenomenal."
That makes it worth it. People need that, and I need it.
Thanks to everyone who has come to see us so far.
We hope to see you again, and we'll do our best to make it worth your time
the end.
Salley, Ebenezer, Vader
all of the above.