Any norteño music fans here? Specifically, fans of Los Tigres del Norte?
My question has nothing to do with the music itself. I just want to know what’s up with the way this band’s bassist stands while he’s singing the lead on “Mi Buena Suerte”:
He sort of stands to one side of the microphone stand and then leans backward to get his mouth in front of the mic. I’ve looked at several different videos of the band performing this song, and he does it in all of them. As a bassist/vocalist myself, I can’t see any possible mechanical benefit to that posture; in fact it looks as though it would be extremely painful. I’ve just never seen anybody, bassist or guitarist, stand like that.
I would guess - and it’s only a guess - that it’s just a style thing. I saw an opening band one time where one of the singers was a little short guy. He had his mic stand raised all the way up and the mic curved back down towards him so that he was looking straight up and singing. I just figured he thought it looked cool.
…he’s probably used to sharing a mic - that posture has a bit of “Beatles back in the day” in it, when Paul and George shared a mic for backing vocals while John sang lead…
But lots of folks approach mics weird, for whatever reason. Look at Lemmy from Motorhead, who sings up to a mic on a stand way above him and pointed down. Now while I would only call what Lemmy does “singing” in the general sense, but that positioning is just awful for your throat…
And my kids named our group of tiger barbs in our fish tank after them. They are the only fish in the tank that only have a group name, no individual names like the other fish.