Intro of your own gig

[Freak out]

Hello,

I have a general question to all band players.

When you guys start a gig, what do you do as Intro..?
We used to do a synth intro with pads and piano, and then rolling into "Let me entertain you" by Robbie W.
Now we wanna do a new Intro, more spectaculair.

Someone have some ideas, or what do you guys use?

Regards,
Bart

[Fabian]

Well it's not very specteculair but a band I play in starts with Green Unions. First just me on organ, then the bass and drums comes in, later guitar. Just to get the attention of the audience. While the band is doing that at the end the singers come on stage, we stop playing, lights fade and then we start our first song. Works very well!

[Mr_-G-]

Onions?

[shark]

We recorded a 3 minutes intro (pink floyd-like sound effects: low saw E, mumbling voices, screams, helicopters, repeating synth riffs, telephones ringing, all in a dramatic crescendo), our lights man kills all the lights and the sound man plays the intro while the band finds its place on stage. The intro ends abruptly, the lights come on and we start the first song. Quite an effect but I guess it can only work with our kind of music (progressive rock).

[Freak out]

Yeah, i know many bands play with an allready recorded Intro,
but we want to play an intro ourselfs...

At the moment i'm going with an Idea.. Axel F, or Ghostbusters!

[gringle]

We've done a few good intro tracks over the years.

Favourites include:

Time is Tight
Proud Mary
Green Onions
A fifth of Beethoven

And my favourites:

Starsky & Hutch theme (look up the James Taylor Quartet version on Youtube)
Sylvia (Focus) - great hammond lines for both of them.

Hope that helps!

Cheers,
Rob.

[JiminWales]

If you have a fairly heavy number at the start of the set, you could start with a cheezy easy listening version of the riff with lots of fast tremulant organ, cowbell and maybe a tango or cha-cha-cha rhythm then once everyone is thinking WTF you kick in to the full on real version :_

[Nordfan]

Child's anthem of Toto is fun to begin with.


With my new band we play a live version of Joss Stone, Super Duper Love.

[Petrounic]

We recorded a 3 minutes intro (pink floyd-like sound effects: low saw E, mumbling voices, screams, helicopters, repeating synth riffs, telephones ringing, all in a dramatic crescendo), our lights man kills all the lights and the sound man plays the intro while the band finds its place on stage. The intro ends abruptly, the lights come on and we start the first song. Quite an effect but I guess it can only work with our kind of music (progressive rock).

Very nice! Can you put some demo mp3 of this to listen!

[Petrounic]

Here it is. Yes, a Nord (Electro 3) was used on this mp3.
It's quite dark and scary, at some concerts I've seen kids quitting the hall crying....(hope it wasn't our playing!)

• intro set.mp3