No Gimmicks – Just Good Live Music

I just spent a long weekend up in Daytona Beach for Bike Week.  I remember being inspired up there last year for a blog that I wrote.  Again that was the case this time around.

A venue that I stopped in to see a friend (bartending) at was the same place I’d walked into a year ago because I’d heard live music playing and wanted to see how it was and how they were.  I know that I liked what I saw/heard, although I only stayed five or ten minutes.  And thus the point of this week’s blog.

Four nights ago when I was in there it was the same band.  Yup, even though I’d only seen them do a couple songs last year, they’d made that much of an impression on me.  They were memorable for all the right reasons.

When I was in there a few nights ago I had actually walked in while they were on a break and I asked my friend, “No live music?”  And then she informed me that they’d be back.  I was wondering if they’d have many people to play to since at the time she and I were talking there wasn’t much of a crowd in there – at all.

But, lo and behold, when they started back up, the place filled up.  It was almost as if everyone had stepped outside for a smoke.  Heck, there was another band playing on the outside stage, so maybe folks had gone to see that group during the intermission.  The bottom line is, either way, they came back in when the music started back up, which means that, like me last year, they too were entertained/attracted enough that they knew where they wanted to be when the six performers came back on stage.

While it’s true that I found one criticism, that being that they didn’t have any signage or any, “Hey everybody, we’re (band name),” so that I could look them up further, the point is that they were memorable – to me and to a LOT of others.

You’re doing something right when people are remembering, liking, following you for your performance and your music.  It’s not unlike when I look at Facebook Live comments and see fans who compliment the performer on their voice and their sound as opposed to their looks.

For the record, I did end up asking my friend what that band’s name is and then looked them up online.  What a shame.  For a band so talented and getting lots of work, their website is what I call a paint-by-numbers site, and while they have good numbers on Facebook, they are sorely lacking in their Twitter and Instagram activity (and thus in their following on both of those).  Imagine if they worked as hard at those two platforms (and their website) as they obviously do their live show!  They could almost lure me back up to that part of the state without it being Bike Week!

Who have you seen live recently (not a nationally known act) that made a similar great impression on you with their performance?  Talk about this blog in our Facebook group!