Why don't rock bands have understudies?

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If one member gets hospitalized and can't make it, I say some nameless jackass fills in for him rather than cancelling the show.

― Triple Ho, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

That would be AWESOME!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

cocaine's a helluva drug

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

don't bands do this using roadies sometimes?

― wetmink (wetmink), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Finally, my whole "growing hair and pretending to be in TV on the Radio" plan could actually work!

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Search: the entire career of Screeching Weasel

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Although for the record I think all bands missing players should just go the Who route and pull random musicians from the crowd. I'm sure at every show there is someone half-competent on every instrument who knows the songs quite well already, or can at least fake it.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Royal Trux live, yeah.

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.encyclopedia-metallica.com/photos/1986-norway7.jpg

― Pleasant - Plains, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

This is the wet dream of every teenager learning to play the guitar everywhere.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Deja vu.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

When I saw Pretty Girls Make Graves open for Les Savy Fav (on a boat!), their singer had nodules on her throat and they had a sign-up sheet for people to sing with them. The guest singers didn't make them any better.

― C0L1N B--KETT, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I am consistently grossed out when I hear about singers having "nodules" in their throatal areas.

Also I'm surprised, because sometimes I hear Pretty Girls Make Graves and think I might actually like them if they had a different singer singing different stuff. Which is to say that I'm fine with the guitar bits until the vocals come in and destroy, destroy, destroy.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

The throat is one of the least-offensive places where one can get nodules, I'm pretty sure.

― C0L1N B--KETT, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, nodes on your vocal chords = SUPER BAD NEWS, like you are on the verge of never being able to speak again because of the unholy stress your incorrect singing technique is putting on your vocal chords.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick, you did say something like that once somewhere. I remember.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I know, that's why I said deja vu.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I've heard about roadies filling for band members. There was a U2 show on the Achtung Baby tour with a roadie filling in for a missing-in-action Adam Clayton.

― Matthew "Flux" Perpetua, Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:23 (twenty-one years ago)

hoboken - soon-to-be-legendary glaswegian synthpop swing-merchants - actually do have an understudy for their drummer/programmer, who moonlights with a frighteningly more famous band. (whom i'm not going to namecheck.)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 30 December 2004 00:37 (twenty-one years ago)

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