Now this is how to find your lead singer...

#46
rtslinger said:
Ahhh who is the whining B? Really any wonder why the singer left them in the first place. Very unprofessional approach if this guy calls himself a BL. Crying you got all these great gigs lined up and you think insults on a public forum his the way to get someone to help you keep them.
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#47
farace said:
I never understood why more vocalists don't buy their own damned mic. My partner is an amazing singer, and she spent a lot of time going through different mics until she found the one that works best for her voice (which is a Sennheiser). (Not unlike what we go through with our bass gear, really.) She keeps it clean and insists on using it whenever she gigs. Compare that to using whatever beat-to-hell SM58 the club owns along with whatever food, beer, and what-have-you has been sprayed all over the never-cleaned windscreen. And with all that crap sprayed out of other people's mouths, they'll still go and put their mouths right up against it and then wonder why they've come down with typhus or the plague two days later and can't sing the next gig.
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Why don't singers buy mics, why don't guitarists use strap locks, why don't drummers play to metronomes, why don't women buy their own drinks, why did my puppy run away, why didn't the kids in 3rd grade pick me for their kickball team? Why why why!? :crying:
 
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#55
They need to go through a professional orientation. All my musicians do that when I bring them on, and I think singers should be no different. Mine is a youtube powerpoint talkover video about 13 minutes long.

In the orientation is that they may have to sing songs that men sang, and other things you expect from them. The sweet spot is before they join the band -- get them to agree to all that stuff, and then they won't balk, or if they do, you can tell them you're not sure why this is a problem as you were very clear this was expected up front.

Also good to have two or three singers on your call list to make sure you can play as many gigs as possible, regardless of schedules, and to make sure the band survives if one moves on for some reason.
 
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#59
Ugh, lead singer syndrome. I've been playing with the same core group of guys since 2001. The 4 of us (2 guitars, drums and bass) are absolutely locked in with one another. We can go a couple months without playing together and not miss a single beat, and we can read each other like a book. But my God, we've had horrible luck with lead singers. Lately we've taken to myself and the rhythm guitarist sharing lead. But we'd really like to have a good lead singer who isn't just singing karaoke, and knows how to front a band and sing WITH a band, not alongside it. It's so hard to find! I honestly have always felt like I'd be pretty good at being a frontman, but then we'd have to find a bassist! Plus, while I'm not morbidly obese or anything, I don't have a "frontman's physique"... i belong with my belly hidden behind a bass guitar! The RG who sings sometimes is a good enough singer, but is not at all an "entertainer". Kind of a shy man. I do all of the crowd interacting, etc. I'm beginning to think we really will not ever find the right person.
 
#60
If you really want to cull the treasure from the trash, present the following criteria before the audition / open mic / whatever:

"Hey...we'll play whatever you want provided it's not Me & Bobby McGee or anything by Patsy Cline". 9 time out of 10, they'll walk away with a dejected, slack-jawed expression.

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