Sit down or stand up (was: bitrman (ineko)/sound in the good ole days...)

["Rainer Straschill" <moinsound@googlemail.com>]

Michael,

you asked:
"i now watch all these wonderful videos with just about everyone
sitting down.....SIT or STAND, what's the deal?",

to which I'm gonna answer using a video as reference:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgPgTW-qmXQ

Two guitarists, one standing, one sitting down. Who looks cooler?

If you're not already convinced, take the example of rock singers doing 
ballads:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljzGgrl4njA
against
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRB4f26pNJ0

Standing up gives you more possibilities for audience interaction, and
doesn't make you look stupid.

(not wanting to musically discredit the first example - and the guitar
solo is outstanding and demonstrates that yes, you can play a
superchops guitar solo to a ballad and at the same time be musical.
The entire DVD that concert is taken from is available as a download
here: 
http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=-130153110827656830&ei=eAA8SZioKI-o2wKZ8fzaCg&q=dream+theater+live+at+budokan&hl=de&dur=3

Keep up Rock 'n' Roll! And go out and attach that Bitrman to your
guitar, so you can play it standing up.

             Rainer