RE: Open Mic: March 29 2024
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I hear you, but I don't find it takes much effort to sing along to a backing track. Yes, the audience decides, but all it is is a DJ singing along to the music they put on.
If they were to organise a guitarist or other instrumentalist to go with them, then that's a different thing, but with the noise they make they make it hard for us raw players.
There are some venues with specific rules, be on time and tuned up, don't give a lengthy introduction to your songs and such like and some don't allow backing tracks.
I found some of these "acts" funny where they take longer setting up than us, because their tablet wouldn't work with the system or they had no internet to get the lyrics..
I mean, honestly, that is just not on.. right?
I remember some instances at the social club where they had ads on the backing tracks from Youtube, but that is an informal setting where people are not paying to be there. Non-musicians may be less picky about things we might complain about. I think there are a fair few performers who work with backing tracks as they just won't get paid enough to cover live musicians.