Members Rhythm Junky Posted September 28, 2008 Members Share Posted September 28, 2008 The leader of the band wants to implement a dress code for performances. How should we dress if we play songs by Chicago, Steely Dan, The Beatles, and other songs from the '60's and '70's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bbach Posted September 28, 2008 Members Share Posted September 28, 2008 Wow, that's a tough one. Seems like any pair of blue jeans should work. How nice do you all want to look? Maybe a dark sports jacket over some white slacks? Now that you bring up this topic, I've been thinking that we should have a dress code here at the SSS, but that's another topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted September 28, 2008 Members Share Posted September 28, 2008 How should we dress if we play songs by Chicago, Steely Dan, The Beatles, and other songs from the '60's and '70's? Powder-blue leisure suits with bell-bottoms. Next question? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted September 28, 2008 Members Share Posted September 28, 2008 Grey flannel Pierre Cardin suits with nehru collars, winklepickers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GuitarPlayerFL Posted September 28, 2008 Members Share Posted September 28, 2008 And get some platform shoes, too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted September 28, 2008 Members Share Posted September 28, 2008 The leader of the band wants to implement a dress code for performances. How should we dress if we play songs by Chicago, Steely Dan, The Beatles, and other songs from the '60's and '70's? I recommend spending some qual time with something like WKRP in Cincinatti or a similar 'hip' 70s TV show. Feathered hair, tight, low-rise flared bell bottom pants, polyester flowered shirt open to mid-chest. That's how fans of those bands dressed, for the most part. I was there. [EDIT: and looking up from this post, I can tell that great minds think more or less alike... although I have to say that Ras' Pierre Cardin Nehru coats sound way too mid-60s rico-trendy for the common fan. But it might be a real sharp look on stage.] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted September 28, 2008 Members Share Posted September 28, 2008 And get some platform shoes, too! Safe to say our Rust Man "dresses left" (as Savile Row tailors put it) ? Remember when men's trousers always went up OVER the navel? On I LOVE LUCY, Fred Mertz's pants went practically right under his man-tits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted September 28, 2008 Members Share Posted September 28, 2008 It's been said that over the course of the show's eleven seasons that his trousers appeared to progressively consume the veteran character actor like some slo mo horrorshow creature. (I'm thinking Steven King could probably make a big fat best selling supermarket novel out of a pair of haunted men's slacks. If he hasn't already.) PS... I know from my brief sojourn with the Esquire guidebook, "What Every Young Man Should Know," that gentlemen always dress left. But I can't tell you why, for the life of me. I also knew to hang a tie over the door kob of my bedroom when I was entertaining my first (ahem) serious GF in my first apartment that I shared with a roommate. Since I had my own bedroom, I'm not sure what I thought I was accomplishing -- and I imagine it was especially amusing at the height of the hippie era -- when I wouldn't have been caught dead wearing a tie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ernest Buckley Posted September 30, 2008 Members Share Posted September 30, 2008 And get some platform shoes, too! My wife thought I`d look good in these so she bought me a pair about 10 years ago. Considering I`m 6`3" already, I was getting dizzy with a 2" heel... and I wasn`t feeling sexy. Wore them several times and then threw them out when she forgot about them. Shes still looking for them in my closet... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Billster Posted September 30, 2008 Members Share Posted September 30, 2008 Look to where you are playing, not what you are playing. Look at this band's front page. Same songs, just depends if they play at a bar or a wedding or a corporate event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members flemtone Posted September 30, 2008 Members Share Posted September 30, 2008 A Superman cape and panty hose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cooterbrown Posted September 30, 2008 Members Share Posted September 30, 2008 Look to where you are playing, not what you are playing. Look at this band's front page. Same songs, just depends if they play at a bar or a wedding or a corporate event. :::looking at song list::: There's the usual song title and artist errors...Blues Brothers, Commitments, wha...? "Motown Artists???" They make no distinction between the Temps and the Tops? :::looking at band photo::: I already know what they sound like without having heard them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted September 30, 2008 Members Share Posted September 30, 2008 ::: looking at song list::: There's the usual song title and artist errors...Blues Brothers, Commitments, wha...? "Motown Artists???" They make no distinction between the Temps and the Tops? ::: looking at band photo::: I already know what they sound like without having heard them. Yah... I'm a senior citizen... and I'd be reluctant to hire these guys. Maybe, though, it's because I hate crap like the Blues Brothers, Sha Na Na, and that ilk, and when some band then repackages the repackagers... it's like, I don't think so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Billster Posted September 30, 2008 Members Share Posted September 30, 2008 ::: looking at song list::: There's the usual song title and artist errors...Blues Brothers, Commitments, wha...? "Motown Artists???" They make no distinction between the Temps and the Tops? ::: looking at band photo::: I already know what they sound like without having heard them. I think that's the idea :-| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tucktronix Posted September 30, 2008 Members Share Posted September 30, 2008 Unless you're in some sort of 60's or 70's tribute band, the dress code should go according to venue or type of gig, IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted September 30, 2008 Members Share Posted September 30, 2008 I think that's the idea :-| Yeah... Bill's probably got a point. I know I'm out of step. Always have been... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ernest Buckley Posted October 1, 2008 Members Share Posted October 1, 2008 I`m confused. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BlueStrat Posted October 1, 2008 Members Share Posted October 1, 2008 Look to where you are playing, not what you are playing. Look at this band's front page. Same songs, just depends if they play at a bar or a wedding or a corporate event. Wow, those guys look like an aging grunge band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BlueStrat Posted October 1, 2008 Members Share Posted October 1, 2008 When I had my horn band, we took a cue from Lyle Lovett and wore suits even in clubs. Mostly because we played uptown blues with a jazz feel to it, and every other blues band in town were either Stevie Ray Vaughanabees or "the real deal" (in their minds) who basically played 4 songs all night and looked like they just got done working on the Harley. I'm not saying wear suits. I'm just saying look at what everyone else is doing and do something else. It paid off for us. It was funny, too- after about three years, we started seeing more bands dressing sharp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members techristian Posted October 1, 2008 Members Share Posted October 1, 2008 Try dressing alike. (same colors I mean) Sometimes that works. Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Super 8 Posted October 1, 2008 Members Share Posted October 1, 2008 Were legs longer in the 70's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Billster Posted October 1, 2008 Members Share Posted October 1, 2008 Wow, those guys look like an aging grunge band. I believe you are 2/5ths correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted October 1, 2008 Moderators Share Posted October 1, 2008 Were legs longer in the 70's? I remember trying on dress pants when I was in high school and thinking WTF???? There was an extra 3 or 4 inches at the bottom of the legs. The clerk informed me those were for platfoms. I was into to Earth Shoes, the exact opposite. Ain't gonna work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MichaelSaulnier Posted October 1, 2008 Members Share Posted October 1, 2008 I've been trying, but I can't REMEMBER the 70's. I know I wore something... Probably everyday. M Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cooterbrown Posted October 1, 2008 Members Share Posted October 1, 2008 I remember trying on dress pants when I was in high school and thinking WTF???? There was an extra 3 or 4 inches at the bottom of the legs. Not to mention those fashion abortions also have hi-rider waistlines that go above their bellybuttons. That adds another three to four inches to the overall pant length. Also...it's probably not exactly correct to call that a "seventies" look, judging from the shirts and haircuts, I'd say that was right around 1970. They don't have the big butterfly collars or fuzzy sideburns, like they would a couple of years, later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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