How to look cool?

c0ok1e

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Just a light chat here. Nothing serious so dont flame k :p

Here's the story. Everytime going for band practice or hanging out with band members the guitarist will hang a guitar over his back and that looksdamn cool to the chicks!! Its like people will think "Wow this guy's a guitarist. He's damn cool" and shit like that.

WHile the drummer will "usually" be carrying his square kick pedal case which makes him looks like he's bringing some documents to the bank or just finish his sales job which makes him look like a dork. That sucks!!

How to be a drummer and look cool carrying your gig bag around like the cool factor guitarist always get?
 
You know what's cool for the drummer? When he just shows up in a two-seater sports car and two other guys show up in a truck and set everything up for him! That's beats the pants off of a guitar player wearing his guitar when he's not playing it.

Here's another thing that gets cooler as you get older: you play less notes but make more money. When you're young you're happy to be playing anything and will most likely over-play every chance you get. Your dollar-to-note ratio is off. As you get older you try to change that ratio so you make more money, but play less notes! I do this all the time now. I show up with my foxey wife in the two-seater, and I have two guys show up with my stuff hours before my arrival and have it all set up for me. Anytime I can just walk up to my kit and start playing at the downbeat (I don't noodle, either), that's when the note-to-dollar ratio is just about right!
 
You know what's cool for the drummer? When he just shows up in a two-seater sports car and two other guys show up in a truck and set everything up for him! That's beats the pants off of a guitar player wearing his guitar when he's not playing it.

Here's another thing that gets cooler as you get older: you play less notes but make more money. When you're young you're happy to be playing anything and will most likely over-play every chance you get. Your dollar-to-note ratio is off. As you get older you try to change that ratio so you make more money, but play less notes! I do this all the time now. I show up with my foxey wife in the two-seater, and I have two guys show up with my stuff hours before my arrival and have it all set up for me. Anytime I can just walk up to my kit and start playing at the downbeat (I don't noodle, either), that's when the note-to-dollar ratio is just about right!

Bo, few of us are in your class.

My advise is to learn to twirl your sticks. I haven't done that because I don't care if I look cool or not. Plus I'm not that talented.
 
You know what's cool for the drummer? When he just shows up in a two-seater sports car and two other guys show up in a truck and set everything up for him! That's beats the pants off of a guitar player wearing his guitar when he's not playing it.

Here's another thing that gets cooler as you get older: you play less notes but make more money. When you're young you're happy to be playing anything and will most likely over-play every chance you get. Your dollar-to-note ratio is off. As you get older you try to change that ratio so you make more money, but play less notes! I do this all the time now. I show up with my foxey wife in the two-seater, and I have two guys show up with my stuff hours before my arrival and have it all set up for me. Anytime I can just walk up to my kit and start playing at the downbeat (I don't noodle, either), that's when the note-to-dollar ratio is just about right!

"Your dollar-to-note-ratio is off"

BAHAHAHAHA ... Thats just RICH!

cOOK1e....that's a tough one to answer. The time to shine is when you are on the kit. Try writing fills that make peoples head hurt trying to figure out. :)
 
You know what's cool for the drummer? When he just shows up in a two-seater sports car and two other guys show up in a truck and set everything up for him! That's beats the pants off of a guitar player wearing his guitar when he's not playing it.

Here's another thing that gets cooler as you get older: you play less notes but make more money. When you're young you're happy to be playing anything and will most likely over-play every chance you get. Your dollar-to-note ratio is off. As you get older you try to change that ratio so you make more money, but play less notes! I do this all the time now. I show up with my foxey wife in the two-seater, and I have two guys show up with my stuff hours before my arrival and have it all set up for me. Anytime I can just walk up to my kit and start playing at the downbeat (I don't noodle, either), that's when the note-to-dollar ratio is just about right!


You can always show up way ahead of time, dressed in just coveralls and aviator sun glasses (maybe a fake mustache) Set up your kit, leave, and then come back later as your self.

Much cheaper than paying lackeys. :p
 
you play less notes but make more money.

Hear, hear.......as "cool" as it gets, old mate!! :)

OP....there is NO worse image than one that is forced. Just be yourself and don't suffer stuff that really doesn't matter.

If you can play (and I mean PLAY...not show off by twirling sticks, or bending over backwards.....or setting yourself on fire...or whatever gimmick it is that's selling this week), keep yourself employed, not be such a wanker that no-one wants to play with you, be adaptable, and above all, be professional....then you're already "cool" and your bandmates will think likewise. :)
 
dollar to note lol.
thats something new to me


I dont mean drummers are not cool.. On the stage, to me drummer is cooller than other players. I mean seriously, even when I was a kid, i was always more interested looking at how the drummer plays than other members of the band.

I just mean when u walk around the street and taking the subway and shit. Not that this is important but just for the sake of chat, guitarist always have cool aura showing off while off stage, carrying their cool guitar around. Drummers carry a brief case :(
 
I just mean when u walk around the street and taking the subway and shit. Not that this is important but just for the sake of chat, guitarist always have cool aura showing off while off stage, carrying their cool guitar around. Drummers carry a brief case :(

So, I'm guessing I'd better get to the crux of this issue for you.

No mate.....I'm afraid that in life, guitarists get laid waaaaaay more frequently than drummers do!

Who ever said life was fair though, hey? :)
 
dollar to note lol.
thats something new to me


I dont mean drummers are not cool.. On the stage, to me drummer is cooller than other players. I mean seriously, even when I was a kid, i was always more interested looking at how the drummer plays than other members of the band.

I just mean when u walk around the street and taking the subway and shit. Not that this is important but just for the sake of chat, guitarist always have cool aura showing off while off stage, carrying their cool guitar around. Drummers carry a brief case :(

You'll get it sooner than later. Better to not look like any kind of musician at all. Musicians can't hold regular jobs and are always dreaming about being somewhere else rather than where they are ;)
 
you can always move the kit to the from of the stage...
 
Want to be cool? Get a couple of roadies. Make sure they go with you everywhere. But never call them roadies. Call one your drum tech - and the other your P.A.
 
I have a drum key on my key ring... Would that be cool enough?



It is the most important key.
 
You know what's cool for the drummer? When he just shows up in a two-seater sports car and two other guys show up in a truck and set everything up for him! That's beats the pants off of a guitar player wearing his guitar when he's not playing it.

Here's another thing that gets cooler as you get older: you play less notes but make more money. When you're young you're happy to be playing anything and will most likely over-play every chance you get. Your dollar-to-note ratio is off. As you get older you try to change that ratio so you make more money, but play less notes! I do this all the time now. I show up with my foxey wife in the two-seater, and I have two guys show up with my stuff hours before my arrival and have it all set up for me. Anytime I can just walk up to my kit and start playing at the downbeat (I don't noodle, either), that's when the note-to-dollar ratio is just about right!

And don't forget the Viagra for women - it's called cash! LOL!

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Yes, we're very superficial when compared with the great depth of men ... who care so much more about the human being beneath the big boobs, skinny waist and 18 year-old cutie pie face :p

Looking cool? Dunno. Never done it. Sunglasses? Hipshot's drum tech and PA ...

Bo seemed to nail this one first up. As he said, avoiding looking like a muso (ie. poor muso haha) is a good idea. Being a muso lost its cool value to women in the 70s or early 80s when we woke up to the fact that a higher percentage than usual were using, lazy, selfish, ego-centric, unstable bastards :) ... especially guitarists caught up in the 70s guitar hero game.
 
Also the term "Save a drum, bang a drummer." has worked before xD
 
... especially guitarists caught up in the 70s guitar hero game.

That must have been very different to the one that came out a few years ago. I imagine the graphics and sound were a bit disappointing.
 
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