For a band this means… | For a busker this means… | |
Rehearsing | getting together in a soundproof room to play songs over and over again, until you know them by heart and they sound great | The same stuff you do on the street, but now in your bedroom |
Gig | Performing for a paying crowd at a club or venue | short for giggle. What girls do when they point at you and call you names |
Guitar-solo | The instrumental center piece of many songs, featuring virtuoso licks and tapping on an expensive Gibson, while the crowd goes wild and starts demonstrating their air guitar skills | When you forget the words to a song and just play the chords until you remember them |
Fan | Someone who worships you and your music and pays a serious amount of money to prove this | a device that blows air around and is hit by shit on a regular basis |
groupie | a hot chick who wants to sleep with you just because you were on stage | Something that only exists in dreams or legends, like unicorns and fairies |
recording | Committing your songs to tape or hard disk in an expensive studio before they are released on an album that will sell a million copies | someone who uses his cellphone to film the street where you happen to be singing |
hit | when one of your songs is played on every radio and is legally downloaded so many times it hits number one in the charts | (1) a famous song of which you play an irrecognisable cover version
(2) What you get in your face for doing (1) |
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Band Slang And What It Means To A Busker
Posted: August 4, 2009 in 1Tags: band slang, busker, fan, gig, groupie, hit, recording, rehearsing
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