Big over the ear headphones can block the sound from outside better than the in ear ones. If he is protecting what hearing he has left, that is a good reason.
Last time I saw BB he had to be wheeled to the edge of backstage in a wheelchair and sat down for the entire show. I think he was 85 or 86 at the time. Still put on a hell of a show
When Rush got their big break opening for KISS, Gene went looking for them, wondering why they weren't partying like everyone else after the show. He found them in their hotel room watching the news.
Read an interview with 10cc where they talked about how they were at a hotel with The Sweet and those guys had their junk out with all these adoring fans and the 10cc guys were reading books
When I play an expensive guitar at a guitar shop, they make me sit down and then they hand it to me. It's just for the safety of the instrument. I also see Baxter sit down when he is playing a custom shop Fender.😁
I was at a Christmas party with a rock band. The 20 somethings complained it was too loud and everybody else was cool with it. And the RNRHOF is not rock n roll, a HOF in general is not
Baxter: "You don't need to be communicating with the drummer anyway. He just needs to shut up and do his job. Dance monkey." Lololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololo
You guys alluded to it... The acoustic set in the middle of a rock show. Not doing an unplugged gig - that can be rock n roll, but sitting down and playing three songs in the middle of a gig with the drummer standing behind you playing a triangle or something.
The North Face stuff for some one who never goes outside, so 2005. Humble Bragging (any guitar player name here) I am self taught , never had a lesson. yet playes in the blues scale and the standard major and minor keys all night long.
In the 60s, I knew 60 - 80 songs in memory. No music stand. Now at 76, I can barely remember titles. I use an iPad with full lyrics. It’s the performance that counts. I won’t give up performing for your prejudices.
I was classically trained on the violin and bassoon, my parents are also classically trained professional musicians, and so I spent the first half of my life playing with ensembles, and mindfully adjusting playing dynamics along with everyone else I’ve recently started playing at a church with the drum shields, everything else run direct, and in ear monitors, and I feel like it’s the most unmusical way to perform. You pretty much just play your part hard, to a click, and let the sound team handle the dynamics and the mix, which is usually very loud and very compressed. I guess dynamics don’t matter much when it’s all loud all the time. All this to say I don’t care for how isolating in ear monitors feel, standing next to people that feel so far away
As a rock n' roller with physical and medical problems I can attest to sitting down not being cool. It sux when you can no longer play your wah. another long story there.
i work for cradle of filth, we use a drum shield because dani is very quiet on the mic. also michael houser from widespread panic used to sit down. RIP Houser
Front man/guitar player asks the audience to clap hands. Baxter nailed it. No I won't friggin clap! Dance for me monkey, I payed you. Also, when bands start doing so called "power ballads," instead of the hard stuff. Heart comes to mind. New listeners think that's what their music has been. Well now, has been. Springsteen makes my skin crawl. Living in NJ for 62 years and NO, He doesn't represent me, or my state. Front men who suddendly strap on a guitar, mostly as a prop. Nope.
ok so, the white strat with the tortoise pickguard ? it is getting set up and new strings ? because you guys should play it and melt some power chords and blues runs from a loud fender or marshall Amplifier on your show for people that might like to hear what that guitar is capable of .
Wasn't Skunk Baxter the first to wear headphones on stage? And by the way, Darius Rucker wasn't the first rocker to go country...........that would probably be Conway Twitty.
I saw The Doobie Brothers back in the 70's and Skunk was sitting down and wearing headphones. He was so cool that he just sat there and played, I think he might have got up a couple of times and came out to the front with the others. There was a famous quote by him about being in the studio and it might take 2 months at $2,000 at day before he found the right chair to start recording, ha!
@@EclecticHillbilly Did Johnny Cash beat Conway? He was marketed right along with Elvis and Jerry Lee in the early days. When did Waylon Jennings go country?
We Don't need no stinkin drum sheilds, unless we want our hearing, and Rock Stars in their 60's and 70's should be required to wear Bubble Wrap for Live Performances, Heard Snoop working a Hoover round Deal Next. Approved Commercials would be Roller Coasters or Water Slides 3 stories Tall or The Tower of Terror
Speaking of Baxter, but not really, when I saw Jeff Baxter playing with the (full complement of) the Doobie Brothers in the mid '80s, he sat in a chair. when I saw him tour with Steely Dan ten years later, he sat in a chair. Tell me the Skunk ain't rock & roll.
I've had ear problems and surgery,I can't physically wear in ear monitors. I still use stage monitors, not headphones. And I like drum surrounds but I make decisions on the fly, so I need to communicate with the drummer.. setting - I don't like watching a guys crotch if the stage is up high..peck
Any jacked up tv commercial with guitars as props in the background and some dufus selling hair cream, computers or websites is definitely not Rock and Roll.
At my last gig, the SG tried to put a sheild in front of my amp. We agreed I'd not use the shield if I turned down the Marshall, so I did. Then the set started, and I leaned over and pushed the volumes back up.
I saw Larkin Poe in Nashville on March 31, this year, and Rebecca fell off the stage. She was so busy watching her sister the Slide Queen “shred her ass off” (Rebecca’s actual quote) that she wasn’t paying attention how close she was to the edge of the stage.
Headphones not cool? Give me a break. Pete Townshend did a tour in the late eighties or early nineties , where he was onstage standing and playing in a clear plexiglass box to protect his hearing. It's said that Mozart composed his music while he was deaf. Not everyone is Mozart.
DON'T WEAR SHORTS ON STAGE. You can not command the stage with shorts on. It is not Rock and Roll looking like you are going to a clam bake. This is what I would tell my band members before every gig.
If you are playing guitar for people on a stage ? I think you should be dressed up, stage clothes are nice ,you should not wear jeans with holes in them. I like ZZ Tops outfits!!
I usually like to sit when doing anything acoustic. Strange as it may sound, I just feel like I can do more with the acoustic when I am sitting rather than standing. Definitely makes a difference in my arm and hand location, being able to more easily reach different strings and different places on the neck. Funny thing is, solid body guitars like my Strat, I prefer to stand. Semi-hollow like a Gibson ES or "big orange Gretsch" and I prefer to sit.
I’m the opposite with my 335, I like playing it standing up, it’s a hard guitar to play sitting down. Acoustics are thicker and make it easier to play sitting. At least, for me. It’s all preference here and no one is right and no one is wrong.
@@smelltheglove2038 Oh yeah, ES 335, ES 135, etc. played standing! I was thinking more of the ES 175. I should have said "thicker bodied guitars". Those are the ones I prefer to play sitting. You are absolutely right!
@@sharris70 I’d love to get one of them big jazz boxes one day, like a Super 400. They sound great. I love the neck pickup in almost every guitar I play. That darker “creamier” tone just does it for me. Probably shit in a rock and roll mix but chilling in my jam room it’s heaven.
Baxter looks like he’s about to shame me for not making my own trail mix
😆
As he should
😂
I mean, bringing your LAPTOP on stage and playing pre-recorded tracks during your "live" performance is not particularly Rock and Roll.
Big over the ear headphones can block the sound from outside better than the in ear ones. If he is protecting what hearing he has left, that is a good reason.
Bb King used to lean on a stool, which I’m fine with because he was BB King
And he’s blues
(He still is, even though he’s passed)
Old blues dudes get a pass in the sitting for me.
He apologized to the crowd the last few times I saw him for sitting. But, he was in his 70s and 80s at that point and still sounded great.
Last time I saw BB he had to be wheeled to the edge of backstage in a wheelchair and sat down for the entire show. I think he was 85 or 86 at the time. Still put on a hell of a show
Drummers , keyboards players? It is the music that counts. Set down stand up just rock out!
Robert Fripp always played live seated. Steve Hackett played seated with Genesis.
Came here to say Fripp!
Wearing headphones too!🤣
@@kw9172 Belew on the other hand is Rock and Roll
Steve Jones' book, "Lonely Boy" has a very funny appendix listing things that are "Not Rock 'n' Roll"
Keith Moon with headphones...iconic! Chucks rule.
Bruce Springsteen is falling over from the crushing weight of the profits he's making off his ticket prices!
Joe Bonnamassa sits down because he's not putting strap buttons on a pre-war D-28.
The heart of rock and roll is still beating...right grandpa Huey? Cheers Casino!
Saw Megadeth in concert recently and they used drum shields. Definitely not an "easy listening" crowd. They definitely serve a purpose 👍
When Rush got their big break opening for KISS, Gene went looking for them, wondering why they weren't partying like everyone else after the show. He found them in their hotel room watching the news.
Read an interview with 10cc where they talked about how they were at a hotel with The Sweet and those guys had their junk out with all these adoring fans and the 10cc guys were reading books
Having a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for the most popular guys and gals is soooo un-rock-and-roll!
When I play an expensive guitar at a guitar shop, they make me sit down and then they hand it to me. It's just for the safety of the instrument. I also see Baxter sit down when he is playing a custom shop Fender.😁
I'm with you guys re drum shields, but I've gotta say there's nothing more rock'n'roll than a bass shield!
Paul Gilbert uses hearing aid, guys. That’s probably why he uses over ear phones live, too.
I was at a Christmas party with a rock band.
The 20 somethings complained it was too loud and everybody else was cool with it.
And the RNRHOF is not rock n roll, a HOF in general is not
I appreciate you bringing up USC talking about Darius Rucker. He is the coolest man, def the coolest of us gamecocks 🤙🏻
they had to help the Boss up because his jeans were so tight, he couldn't bend his knees lol
That's because his spine and a**hole are fused ever since his record deal at the very beginning.
Baxter:
"You don't need to be communicating with the drummer anyway. He just needs to shut up and do his job. Dance monkey."
Lololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololo
At work listening to your show. Appreciate you guys for making my workday better. Thanks.
Drinking Ensure on stage.
😂
Wearing those headset microphones like Ted Nugent or Britney Spears lol
You guys alluded to it... The acoustic set in the middle of a rock show. Not doing an unplugged gig - that can be rock n roll, but sitting down and playing three songs in the middle of a gig with the drummer standing behind you playing a triangle or something.
Have to agree with Jonathon..... When Rucker was doing that BK series of ads -- It was just an example of LAME selling out.
The North Face stuff for some one who never goes outside, so 2005. Humble Bragging (any guitar player name here) I am self taught , never had a lesson. yet playes in the blues scale and the standard major and minor keys all night long.
Reading lyrics from a music stand or, for the youngsters, your phone. Learn your songs!
That's a good one. I like the one with the iPad on a stand with the foot switch. Rock and Roll.
In the 60s, I knew 60 - 80 songs in memory. No music stand. Now at 76, I can barely remember titles. I use an iPad with full lyrics. It’s the performance that counts. I won’t give up performing for your prejudices.
When Bruce fell, it l[ked like all the others were thinking, "My money!".
Love in an elevator, going down.
I can't wear the in-ears, my tinnitus flares for days after...OTE really help
I was classically trained on the violin and bassoon, my parents are also classically trained professional musicians, and so I spent the first half of my life playing with ensembles, and mindfully adjusting playing dynamics along with everyone else
I’ve recently started playing at a church with the drum shields, everything else run direct, and in ear monitors, and I feel like it’s the most unmusical way to perform. You pretty much just play your part hard, to a click, and let the sound team handle the dynamics and the mix, which is usually very loud and very compressed.
I guess dynamics don’t matter much when it’s all loud all the time. All this to say I don’t care for how isolating in ear monitors feel, standing next to people that feel so far away
As a rock n' roller with physical and medical problems I can attest to sitting down not being cool. It sux when you can no longer play your wah. another long story there.
no tube amps is definitely lame
Definitely can get behind this.
If you were better prepared, you’d have a whole bunch of Hello Kitty stickers to plaster over the drum shield every time they screw up the beat.
Love that you called out @hotelfiction. Great band!
Knee length jean shorts, khakis, New Balance, Crocs, using in ears, using amp modelers.
i work for cradle of filth, we use a drum shield because dani is very quiet on the mic. also michael houser from widespread panic used to sit down. RIP Houser
Love the train in the background at 7:35!
Front man/guitar player asks the audience to clap hands. Baxter nailed it. No I won't friggin clap!
Dance for me monkey, I payed you.
Also, when bands start doing so called "power ballads," instead of the hard stuff. Heart comes to mind.
New listeners think that's what their music has been. Well now, has been.
Springsteen makes my skin crawl.
Living in NJ for 62 years and NO,
He doesn't represent me, or my state.
Front men who suddendly strap on a guitar, mostly as a prop. Nope.
Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die
Johnathan. It’s coming. Sitting. 🤓. Lol
Stagnant Fresh is rock poetry. Long live Steel Beans.
Keith could do ANY advertisement then it becomes Rock n Roll !
Peter Frampton plays seated...he gets a pass.
Frampton has Inclusion-Body Myositis
I think I saw Skunk Baxter wore headphones while sitting in a chair when I saw the doobie brothers in the late 70s
ok so, the white strat with the tortoise pickguard ?
it is getting set up and new strings ?
because you guys should play it and melt some power chords and blues runs from a loud fender or marshall Amplifier
on your show
for people that might like to hear what that guitar is capable of .
Check out That Pedal Show or Anderton Music
In the old days if Keith had a bag worth a lot of money, it was a zip lock bag.
Billy And Dusty sat down.
Paul Gilbert didn’t start the headphones on stage thing. Check out Keith Moon.
I’m disabled with messed up knees I have to sit and about half ways through a 4 hour gig but I hate doing it.
I have one leg and I don’t give a fuck about sitting.
Wasn't Skunk Baxter the first to wear headphones on stage? And by the way, Darius Rucker wasn't the first rocker to go country...........that would probably be Conway Twitty.
or maybe Elvis.
I saw The Doobie Brothers back in the 70's and Skunk was sitting down and wearing headphones. He was so cool that he just sat there and played, I think he might have got up a couple of times and came out to the front with the others. There was a famous quote by him about being in the studio and it might take 2 months at $2,000 at day before he found the right chair to start recording, ha!
@@leonlowery3389 Conway made the switch before Elvis even did his comeback special......so he was before Elvis in that respect.
@@EclecticHillbilly
Did Johnny Cash beat Conway? He was marketed right along with Elvis and Jerry Lee in the early days. When did Waylon Jennings go country?
@@charlesbolton8471 Fair point on Cash. I don't remember on Waylon but he was country pretty early on.
We Don't need no stinkin drum sheilds, unless we want our hearing, and Rock Stars in their 60's and 70's should be required to wear Bubble Wrap for Live Performances, Heard Snoop working a Hoover round Deal Next. Approved Commercials would be Roller Coasters or Water Slides 3 stories Tall or The Tower of Terror
Hov-a-round, Hoover is a vacuum.
I saw Santana take a plunge. You guys are the Seinfeld of music content. Baxter has the Kramer thing down
Ok, Baxter…it’s soooo cold. Got it. 🤔
Turner on the headstock
Roger Waters wore headphones on stage back in the day.
Sorry but drum shields are a good thing. Depending on the acoustics of the venue it can be impossible to get the levels right without them.
Wearing a jacket is not rock n roll enough. Baxter 😅
Speaking of Baxter, but not really, when I saw Jeff Baxter playing with the (full complement of) the Doobie Brothers in the mid '80s, he sat in a chair. when I saw him tour with Steely Dan ten years later, he sat in a chair. Tell me the Skunk ain't rock & roll.
I've had ear problems and surgery,I can't physically wear in ear monitors. I still use stage monitors, not headphones. And I like drum surrounds but I make decisions on the fly, so I need to communicate with the drummer.. setting - I don't like watching a guys crotch if the stage is up high..peck
Someday you guys will be old and falling down. Then, in your Skechers and your shorts you be arguing that it’s still rock and roll 🤣
Rober Fripp has sat most of the time.
Ringo did a bunch of sketcher’s ads.
Judging from the wall in the back it looks like PRS called and said put some of our guitars on the wall
Baxter,
Is there a reason you don’t like the sound dept. with your clothing choice?!
Michael Timmins plays sitting down, so you're wrong on that one
Any jacked up tv commercial with guitars as props in the background and some dufus selling hair cream, computers or websites is definitely not Rock and Roll.
WHEN THE DRUMMER IS THE SINGER
I still need a Gibson sg… ❤ great video though!
Noisy North Face coats are so not rock and roll.
Pedo coat
At my last gig, the SG tried to put a sheild in front of my amp. We agreed I'd not use the shield if I turned down the Marshall, so I did.
Then the set started, and I leaned over and pushed the volumes back up.
My gf is from SC. They do indeed love the……….
Falling off the stage IS NOT rock and roll. Diving off the stage IS.
I saw Larkin Poe in Nashville on March 31, this year, and Rebecca fell off the stage. She was so busy watching her sister the Slide Queen “shred her ass off” (Rebecca’s actual quote) that she wasn’t paying attention how close she was to the edge of the stage.
Headphones not cool? Give me a break. Pete Townshend did a tour in the late eighties or early nineties , where he was onstage standing and playing in a clear plexiglass box to protect his hearing.
It's said that Mozart composed his music while he was deaf. Not everyone is Mozart.
@Zap You're right. My mistake
Jagger never fall once.
They need to make stickers of bass players to stick to the plexiglass drum shields so the bassist doesn't fly into said drum shields and kill himself😢
Those clip on tuners aren’t so rock n roll.
Iggy Pop advertises car insurance - definitely not rock and roll
No, it’s retirement.
Iggy gotta pay the bills.
Staying solvent is rock and roll.
@@friedrudibega6384 I'm definitely not rock and roll enough then!
Did you just suggest USC is in Berkeley? 😒 😂 Umm nope… Los Angeles.
Does this mean drummers are never rock and roll since they are always sitting.
Paul McCartney fell into a stage pit years ago
DON'T WEAR SHORTS ON STAGE. You can not command the stage with shorts on. It is not Rock and Roll looking like you are going to a clam bake. This is what I would tell my band members before every gig.
"It's only Rock and Roll and I like it"
If you are playing guitar for people on a stage ?
I think you should be dressed up, stage clothes are nice ,you should not wear jeans with holes in them.
I like ZZ Tops outfits!!
Whats with the anorak inside? Are you tryign to be Liam Gallagher?
He seems to be sick or something.
This will bring the hate... Hair extensions and bad plastic surgery. They might think it's rock and roll, but not so much...
Curtis Mayfield
Non-Rock n Roll - ANYTHING Coldplay.
Drummers should be confined to cages 24/7.
What's with the parka?!? Is Baxter down to 3% body fat or something??? ❄️❄️❄️
Female rockers can make commercials,
Also, backing tracks. An insult to live rock & roll
Way too much fatigue with in-ears as compared to open air headphones.
There are no rock stars now. Who is a rock star now?
Jack White and Charlie the tuna.
@@maximusindicusoblivious180 Jack White is almost 50.
@@user-tz2zz5ij1s That’s cool. Charlie the tuna gotta be pushing 70+ by now. And don’t forget the Kars for Kids Band. Nobody rocks harder then them.
#6. Own a PRS guitar.
Breaking your ribs is not r r n r but taking a shit on stage and throwing it at people is??
That’s punk rock. I guess feces is(are?) the distinction.
Quick digression, is the word “feces” plural and singular?
Oasis didn’t run around…
I usually like to sit when doing anything acoustic. Strange as it may sound, I just feel like I can do more with the acoustic when I am sitting rather than standing. Definitely makes a difference in my arm and hand location, being able to more easily reach different strings and different places on the neck. Funny thing is, solid body guitars like my Strat, I prefer to stand. Semi-hollow like a Gibson ES or "big orange Gretsch" and I prefer to sit.
I’m the opposite with my 335, I like playing it standing up, it’s a hard guitar to play sitting down. Acoustics are thicker and make it easier to play sitting. At least, for me. It’s all preference here and no one is right and no one is wrong.
@@smelltheglove2038 Oh yeah, ES 335, ES 135, etc. played standing! I was thinking more of the ES 175. I should have said "thicker bodied guitars". Those are the ones I prefer to play sitting. You are absolutely right!
@@sharris70 I’d love to get one of them big jazz boxes one day, like a Super 400. They sound great. I love the neck pickup in almost every guitar I play. That darker “creamier” tone just does it for me. Probably shit in a rock and roll mix but chilling in my jam room it’s heaven.
Trashing your band mates, not very rock n roll. ( on stage)