Blatant stage move ripoffs: C/D?

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One might think that overt mimicry of some rockmeister's stage moves would always be dud, but not really. I'm thinking for example of Turbonegro's Euroboy, whose every pose is a tribute to Townshend. (I could be wrong, but I'm also under the impression that he feels little or no ironic distance to his persona, unlike his bandmates).

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Friday, 7 May 2004 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)

So who else has been known to copy others' moves, but has done it in a way that's electrifying, and that actually adds to rather than subtracts from their stage charisma?

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Friday, 7 May 2004 01:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Sid Vicious' Iggy Pop-isms were rather freakishly fascinating in "good god what a tragic train wreck of human being" kind of way.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 7 May 2004 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw this Swedish metal band [Morgana] Lefay a few years ago, and the vocalist was essentially copping all of Bruce Dickinson's moves. He was half a arm-wave-towards-horizon away from yelling SCRËÅM FÖR MË SVERIGE!

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Friday, 7 May 2004 01:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Speaking of Sweden, that Hives dude like totally bites off Mick Jagger. Totally.

― kattt, Friday, 7 May 2004 01:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, classic btw.

We probably should have a S/D on stage moves, too!
Dud: Guitarists standing in line, rocking back and forth ala Status Quo and what have you.
Ultra-dud: Doing the above, but with ironic smirches.
Classic: Really lame synchronized headbanging to tremolo-picked riffs. Flurry of hair! Very, very amusing.

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Friday, 7 May 2004 01:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Pistol Steve Jones admitted in The Filth & the Fury to rippin' off Johnny Thunders' stage schtick wholesalee

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 7 May 2004 01:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Minus the heroin addiction that is.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 7 May 2004 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

The low-slung bass ala Simonon, Burnell, Hook, Vicious, Gallup should be retired t

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 7 May 2004 01:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I hate hate hate emo-hardcore types who hunch down to look sincerely into the eyes of their audience.

― Ålex In Norway (Øystein H-O), Friday, 7 May 2004 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know if they're still doin' it, but it seemed that a lot of the b-list Nu-metallers were shamelessly apin' Korn's guitarists schtick of hunching way over while playing ala....

http://www.desperado.com/korn/images/Munky/munky13%5B1%5D.jpg

...but, y'know, they suck as well, so who really cares?{

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 7 May 2004 02:00 (twenty-one years ago)

See, I find Pelle's Jagger repellent compared to Euroboy's birdman. I'm not sure why. Maybe because at some level I prefer intensely earnest musicians (such as Townshend) to snarkily strutting frontmen (like Jagger) anyway, or maybe there's just something different in the way Pelle borrows from the way Euroboy borrows (funny how the Scandivanians lend themselves so readily to this sort of study). I think Oystein's "ironic smirches" gets at this difference as well.

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Friday, 7 May 2004 02:02 (twenty-one years ago)

(x-post, obv)

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Friday, 7 May 2004 02:03 (twenty-one years ago)

No, I don't think my first theory holds. Some "snarkily strutting frontmen" are more than fine in my book (if we can all agree that John Lydon fits the bill).

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Friday, 7 May 2004 02:05 (twenty-one years ago)

yea, i dont understand when it became cool to sag their guitars lower than their pants. most nu metal guitarist's guitars are about 2 inches from teh ground.

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Friday, 7 May 2004 02:07 (twenty-one years ago)

yea, i dont understand when it became cool to sag their guitars lower than their pants. most nu metal guitarist's guitars are about 2 inches from teh ground.

I think we can thank thrash metal for going overboard with this.
There's of course the classic Hetfield pose of legs out wide with the guitar around his calves.

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Friday, 7 May 2004 02:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I've heard that Jim Morrison developed his stage act after seeing the Velvet Underground (not Lou Reed but the dancers they brought along from the Factory), but I have no idea if that's true or not. I've merely assumed its validity because I love the Velvet Underground and don't much care for the Doors. And because I'm too lazy to do any research.

― Charlie Rose (Charlie Rose), Friday, 7 May 2004 02:15 (twenty-one years ago)

'There's of course the classic Hetfield pose of legs out wide with the guitar around his calves.'
Did this one start with Peter Hook, though?

― M Carty (mj_c), Friday, 7 May 2004 08:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Dud stage move: The sort of Japanese style formal bow employed as a pathetic, mental health conscious alternative to proper headbanging by lame nu metal bands (see Korn, Linkin Park, etc).

― M Carty (mj_c), Friday, 7 May 2004 08:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Minus the heroin addiction that is.

Unfortunately, that too (for a while)

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 7 May 2004 08:32 (twenty-one years ago)

BBC3 had a Jane Birkin docu, and heck if Serge Gainsbourgh on stage is => Jarvis Cocker. (I knew the music refs obv, but the arms, etc)

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 7 May 2004 08:33 (twenty-one years ago)

"The low-slung bass ala Simonon, Burnell, Hook, Vicious, Gallup should be retired"

in favour of the under-the-chin, looking-for-a-hankie-in-my-top-pocket antics of Mark King?

― coco, Friday, 7 May 2004 09:26 (twenty-one years ago)

...and let us all also accord opprobrium to the Bill Wyman upright and face forwards bass style

― M Carty (mj_c), Friday, 7 May 2004 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I've always wondered why nobody apes Lemmy's boxing-ring-announcer mic technique.

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Friday, 7 May 2004 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

When the Doors film came out Tim Booth of James was on Top of the Pops doing a very convincing Val Kilmer impersonation. I bet he wasn't the only one either.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 7 May 2004 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)

"The low-slung bass ala Simonon, Burnell, Hook, Vicious, Gallup should be retired."

I always cramped up if I couldn't keep my right arm straight.

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Friday, 7 May 2004 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Should mention that I played bass with my fingers. If I used a pick, maybe that would be a different story.

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Friday, 7 May 2004 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

and if you had played it with your thumb, you'd be lucky not to have it broken

― coco, Friday, 7 May 2004 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)

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