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#1 ·
Hey guys (and girls :p)

I'm about to leave on a camp, and at that camp, there's a talent show. My friend and I have decided to play Mission Impossible for the show. It's an easy song, very recognizible, sounds awesome.

I don't want our performance to be like other bands, plain and boring. sitting there playing. i want it to be energetic, exciting fun. that's the only way we'll win (money involved:p).

One of the things i want to do to spice the show up, is to do the flingy thign with my guitar. I've never done it before, but i'll learn last minute, and it looks AWESOME live.

Do u guys have ANY other suggestions? Of course we'll walk around the stage, take turns walking to the front of the stage head banging at the crowd. but i want something unique.

I have NO IDEAS, so PLEASE tell me anything, i'm open! :)

thanks
yoyo

ps - does anyone have any tips in doing the flingy thingy? :p
 
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#6 ·

Play an old beat up guitar and at the end take it off and bash it on the stage until it breaks apart. Then light it on fire. Throw the remains, while still on fire, into the audience. Take the high E string and strangle the closest person to you. Then run like hell!

How's that? :wink:
 
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#9 ·
haha, that would be funny, but it would be ummmm, to wild for the audience...

i was thking about doing the megadeth stripping thing, but i figured since it is a christian camp i better not :wink: jk, i never even thought about doing it.
 
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#8 ·
Dont try the flingythingy unless yer 100% sure you wont hit/main/kill anything around you.
And have straplocks.
But if your wanting to do something interesting, have the drummer take a solo mid song, go for a piss, come back and go back into the song.
Not as awesome as the flingy thingy, but its still memorable...
 
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#11 ·
i don't thk i'll do that... lol, and i don't have strap locks, but my friend used to do it on a squier that didn't have locks either, i thk for one time i'll be fine....

plus, my strap is reasonably new, so it's as hard as anything to put the strap over the buttons, i don't thk the strap is gonna come off
 
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#13 ·
lol, can we be reasonable here? seriously guys, i'm trying to get good info here.... if u wana post something funny like that /\ it's fine, just post som,ething useful at the same time, so i get some laughs and advice.... thanks guys ;)
 
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#19 ·
Practice some Joe Walsh facial expressions.....

Tommy and Phil Emmanuel used to do this incredibly impressive little trick where Phil would lean over Tommy's left shoulder and they'd play harmonising guitar lines on one guitar - Tommy also has an endless supply of lame jokes for when the going gets tough ("...... we've had a number of requests, but we're going to keep playing.....")
 
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#24 ·
C.Thep said:
Do a face-melting solo. If you can't, i dunno, jump off the stage or something.

Since it's a Christian camp, playing some Deicide or Vital Remains would certainly spice things up. :p JK
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lol, that would be SO FUNNY. but we're doing a no vocalist song, we're playing mission impossible, hard rock version. i was thinking of jumping and stuff. doing starts and stops. i'm gonna give the lighting a guy a hard job :p
 
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#35 ·
This is proven (winner of 98' HS talent show)

While playing, take a thin handkerchief, unfolded, and throw it over your fretboard hand while you continue to play. You can't see your hand but don't need to if you just stay in a box. Playability will not be lost one bit, just a little sustain but they will NEVER be able to tell. After 30 seconds or so, just fling your left hand off the neck while diving the trem with your right hand. Handkerchief goes flying, dive bomb going on. Crowd loves it ; v )
 
#37 ·
Can you get some low energy flash pots?
We knew a guy that set up some small pyrotechnics for ours when I was 16 and it helped keep things moving.

Get a 2 buckets, One full of water, the other full of confetti. Have the water one full and sloshing around when you bring it out, keep the confetti one hidden behing your amp, or the drummer or whatever else doesn't move. Make a production out of filling the bucket of water on stage. When you decide to , obviously, throw the confetti bucket instead of the water. (Ozzy routine)

Fog machines are cool.

Do a nunchuck solo ala Buckethead.

Wait, I've got it!
Flaming Gerbils launched from a potato cannon ! ! !
You'll get the attention of P.E.T.A. and then think of all the free pub you'll get! Any publicity is good publicity.
 
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#40 ·
If you use the edge of your pick to tap on the high E string, you get this "beeping" like tone. As you move towards the bridge, it gets higher in pitch, farther from the bridge lower. If you tap slower at the lower pitches, and faster at the higher pitches, it sounds like your guitar is some sort of "detector". If you imagine the guitar's headstock is the sensitive part of this "detector" and move it around, walking around, pointing it at things, whatever, while tapping on the E-string in this way. Well, you can make it appear that your guitar is "detecting" whatever you want, just by tapping more towards the bridge, and faster, whenever you want the guitar to be "detecting" whatever it is that you're "detecting." Like... oh, I don't know... maybe hot girls in the front row?
 
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