stage/live performance

[maks]

Can any of you recommend a place where one can research techniques/guidlines as to how a band puts together a show, not so much the technical aspect of gear, but the asthetics, creating drama , a performance, sort of like acting on stage but not quite? is there any such thing? cause my band is about to go on the road , but coming up with clues/concepts aside watching other bands is quite challenging..how do the big boys plan these things out?thanks....

[Dave Martin]

I think that you just need to invent that for yourself. Watch concert videos of bands y'all love, and steal any ideas you especially like.

[jho]

The Peter Gabriel "growing up" DVD ... what a lesson that is!

[LTA]

Find some drama nuts. Learn the 3 act paradigm. Watch movies looking for this. Read books (fiction) and look for all that climax build denoumount stuff that you ignored in your sophmore highschool english class.

Then, when you are familiar with the common drama concepts and start noticing them in day-to-day life, go watch some live shows. Some shows will be WAAAHHHHHHHHH in your face as "loud" as possible for the entire set. Others will move up and down, building tension and releasing it. Then, you try to do something like that with your own stuff. The lights, costumes, dances, etc will then be apparent.

Drama is an ebb and flow thing. I loosely refered to it as being "contrast" in another post. Think of it as a being a good story teller that can keep the audience riveted to the tale for hours, gasping at the appropriate parts and smiling at others. There is no book; it is rather called life. *inserts Yoda rant about "the force"* Or, if you want to be more self-centered, all the world is a stage. Listen first, speak later.

If this doesn't help, go rent Spinal Tap. Or study LCR circuits.